"I was very privileged and really blessed with so many material and spiritual gifts that I should give back, ... I should do something for my people, but ... it's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways."

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Source : "Then & Now: Corazon Aquino", www.cnn.com. September 19, 2005.

Corazon Aquino

#Spiritual Quotes #Blessed Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The way of success is not run with seven league boots but step by step, little by little, bit by bit ... with no exceptions allowed.”
“Favor composition over inheritance,”
“I always say that you could publish trading rules in the newspaper and no one would follow them. The key is consistency and discipline. Almost anybody can make up a list of rules that are 80 percent as good as what we taught people. What they couldnâ€™t do is give them the confidence to stick to those rules even when things are going bad.”
“The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.”
“I would have shared with the banks my long-term vision and got them involved instead of just going to them when I needed money. I should have got them on my team right from the start.”
“If I ever get married myself, itâ€™ll be in jeans.”
“If you wait for someone else's hand, you will surely fall down.”
“Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are part of man's natural endowment, get full play there. The man who has grown great sees from the top of his tower what he can make, if he so wills, of the swarming masses below him.”

Source : Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”

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