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    “People are much more likely to trust a leader if they know he is compassionate and forgiving of mistakes.” ~ Donald T. Phillips, Lincoln on Leadership

      “If subordinates, or people in general, know that they genuinely have easy access to their leader, they’ll tend to view the leader in a more positive, trustworthy light.” ~ Donald T. Phillips, Lincoln on Leadership

        “The need for devotion to something outside ourselves is even more profound than the need for companionship. If we are not to go to pieces or wither away, we must have some purpose in life; for no man can live for himself alone.” ~ Ross Parmenter

          “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.” ~ Anne Lamott

            “When it comes time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau

              “Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.” ~ Aisha Tyler

                “Each of us can look back upon someone who made a great difference in our lives, someone whose wisdom or simple acts of caring made an impression upon us. In all likelihood it was someone who sought no recognition for their deed other than the joy of knowing that, by their hand, another’s life had been made better.” ~ Stephen M. Wolf

                  “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi

                    “The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.” ~ Socrates

                      “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” ~ Jim Rohn

                        “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ” ~ Buddha

                          “No one can outperform his/her self image.” ~ Gary Mack, Mind Gym

                            “Storms make trees take deeper roots.” ~ Dolly Parton

                              “When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.” ~ Maya Angelou

                                “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” ~ James Baldwin

                                  “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ~ Stephen King

                                    “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

                                      “My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” ~ Malcolm X

                                        “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” ~ Oscar Wilde

                                          “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” ~ Henry David Thoreau