"Being a leader means that you're going..." - Quote by Kamala Harris
Being a leader means that you're going to have to make difficult calls. You have to have the courage to do what's right, even if it's not popular.
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“The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.”
“I am a prosecutor in my bones. When I see something, I immediately go to: how is this going to affect a child?”
“One of the most influential people in my life, in addition to my mother, was my grandfather P.V. Gopalan, who actually held a post in India that was like the secretary of state position in this country.”
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“Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. But generally we are better at wielding the handbag than the bayonet.”
“Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them.”
“Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.”
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“Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born”
“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”
“Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.”