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NELSON HENDERSON Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.
NELSON BOSWELL The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...
NELSON BOSWELL What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really ...
NELSON BOSWELL I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
LORD NELSON I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.
LORD NELSON The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as ...
NELSON ALGREN Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in...
NELSON ALGREN The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar respo...
NELSON ALGREN Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman ...
NELSON ALGREN The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, p...
NELSON ALGREN It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exc...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.
NELSON ALGREN We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed ...
NELSON MANDELA It always seems impossible until its done.
NELSON MANDELA As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had ...
NELSON MANDELA The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye c...
NELSON MANDELA I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to s...
NELSON MANDELA I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I...
NELSON MANDELA How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so...
NELSON MANDELA Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.
BOB NELSON