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It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Nelson Mandela

Leadership, Nice, Others

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
Aaron Burr

Today, Tomorrow, May

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Great, Human

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw

Failure, Him, Son

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Bill Gates

Change, Yourself, Two

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
Henry Miller

Faith, Nothing, Miracles

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good, United, Seems

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Long, Him, Rather

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy

Life, True, Changes

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
William James

Truth, Thoughts, Whether

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
Paul Harvey

Government, Why, Suffering

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.
Chuck Palahniuk

Hope, Dark, Start

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.
Chuck Palahniuk

Best, Happen, Free

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
Marianne Williamson

Love, Real, Everything

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
Saul Alinsky

Change, Means, Movement

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
George Santayana

Nature, Power, Him

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'
Paul Watzlawick

Made, Result, Cause

Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
Donald Rumsfeld

Best, Help, Give

Freedom can occur only through education.
Friedrich Schiller

Education, Freedom, Through

Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.
Rick Perry

Education, Child, Public

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.
Michael J. Fox

Time, Great, Science

I gotta take notes when things occur to me.
Jeff Bridges

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
Edward de Bono

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Force, Advantage, Crises

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
Shirley MacLaine

Life, Change, Times

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
Dan Quayle

May, Ready, Event

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
Ralph Fiennes

Unexpected, Within, Process

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Life, Possible, Breathe

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
Denis Diderot

Age, Men, Genius

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
David Byrne

Music, Person, Play

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