The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.

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"People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency."

- Malcolm Gladwell

Transformation

"Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig."

- Malcolm Gladwell

Hard Work

"Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good."

- Malcolm Gladwell

Hard Work

"Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good."

- Malcolm Gladwell

Hard Work

"The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication."

- Malcolm Gladwell

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"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."

- Beauty and the Beast

Courage

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

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"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

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"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Courage

"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

Courage