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“Avoid trying to win tough battles on the silver platter. If the struggle is tough the success is sweet.”

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“Get this; without a continuous struggle, your previous struggles will become a waste. Stay on and hold on until the success become evident.”

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“The change the world needs is not in the hand of everyone who is alive. It is in the works of those who deliberately contribute to make it a better place.”

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“If you’re going to give up after few attempts, bear it in mind that your struggles are going to be wasted.”

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“Bear it in mind that people who do not take actions are not and cannot be leaders. Leadership is action.”

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“The essence of adversity is to show us the real brave people who can withstand it.”

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“Everyone appears to be courageous until bad weathers arrive, and then we know the true leaders.”

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“People who run away from challenges are cowards and no coward deserves a reward.”

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“People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success; that’s the job of vision.”

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“Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark.”

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“The most difficult step ever is the first step. It comes with doubts, uncertainties, and all sort of fears. If you defy all odd and take it, your confidence will replicate very fast and you'll become a master!”

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“The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around.”

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“I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.”

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“Every talent God has hidden in you is not for your own consumption; they are for other people’s liberation.”

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“The height of your success will be measured with reference to the depth from which you started.”

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“You don’t need a huge number of people with little passions to get a good job done. You rather need few people with huge passion.”

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“What it takes is the passion to lead and the commitment to that passion through a lifetime. A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.”

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“If you are an aspiring leader and you have not yet gone through any trouble, prepare for one. It is by going through the hard times that you become harder against the storms of life.”

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“This morning Reverend [Martin Luther] King invited me to attend a meeting of the protest committee. The committee decided not to hold any more mass meetings but only prayer meetings. This was to emphasize the moral nature of the struggle. The meetings will center around five prayers: A prayer for the success of the meeting. A prayer for strength of spirit to carry on nonviolently. A prayer for strength of body to walk for freedom. A prayer for those who oppose us. A prayer that all men may become brothers to live in justice and equality.”

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“Keep to active learning. You must learn, research and be so passionate about new ways and methods of doing things to be and remain relevant.”

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“The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style.”

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“The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style. Reinvent yourself always: You must create a new you”

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“If you are going to hide yourself and you will not stand against the work of the bad people, you have given them an endorsement.”

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“Don’t complain of terrible circumstances. It has been proven several times that they are the sources of celebrated trophies.”

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“The strongest storms make the best sailors. The strongest games make the best players. Tougher challenges make the best leaders.”

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“The leader’s commandment is made up of pledges to solve local and global problems, and not to create more problems to add to the existing ones.”

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“Sometimes the only things preventing your dreams from becoming realities is the long time it is taking you to start.”

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“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”

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“A leader’s goal is to improve on upon the past and if your goal is to remain where you are, doing the same things you have done times and times again, you can’t lead.”

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