"Getting kicked in the rear is a sure sign you're in the front." - Kenneth E. Reed #MondayMotivation #quotes #m
"Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance!"
-- Fritz Reiner, conductor
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"I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy, and mutual valuing."
- Rollo May #quotes
"To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination."
- Bell Hooks
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"It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible."
- Thomas Robert Gaines #quotes
"When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change. But they cannot rest on just that change. It has to continue."
- Rosa Parks #quotes
"If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."
- Shirley Chisholm #quotes
"To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation."
- Chinese Proverb
"A 'no' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."
- Mahatma Gandhi #quotes
"If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive."
- BrenΓ© Brown
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"It's easier to say what we believe than to be what we believe."
- Robert Anthony
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"Don't lose faith in humanity. Think of all the people in the world who have never played you a single nasty trick."
- Elbert Hubbard
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"Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional."
- H. Witte
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"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy, and mutual valuing."
- Rollo May
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"Understanding is a two-way street."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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