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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - March 12, 2026
The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.
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Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009  
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Be contented when you have got all you want.
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Holbrook Jackson  
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
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Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005  
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Sometimes you feel other people's pain worse than your own. We're armored against our own troubles. We can't afford to give in to despair. Then you see someone else struggling, and it breaks your... heart.
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Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004  
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