"We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns."

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Source : "Lamont launches Scottish Labour Party leader bid". www.bbc.com. November 7, 2011.

Johann Lamont

#Ambition Quotes #Humility Quotes #People Quotes

“The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one thing, to one single thing--I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself. I was seeking Atman, I was seeking Brahman, I was determined to dismember myself and tear away its layers of husk in order to find in its unknown innermost recess the kernel at the heart of those layers, the Atman, life, the divine principle, the ultimate. But in so doing, I was losing myself.”
“I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.”
“Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there.”
“There's no better feeling, even if I've won a race, than recording a personal best. It's setting yourself personal goals, but also realistic goals.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning.”
“Um,i'm going shopping for a dress for the Homecoming Dance with Miranda,Wyatt and Leif." Dank chuckled."So,Leif's wearing a dress?”
“It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.380
“The most important thing for us is to save lives.”

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