It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. —Lena Horne

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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

LENA HORNE

Singer, actress, civil rights activist

COMMENTS

Dorothy Lubin from Los Angeles SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
So very True!!
Evelyn from NV SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
I've seen this said a lot of ways - I like this one...
Emma Danku from Accra SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
this explains that your choice of initiative makes you great or less

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The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. —Phil Jackson
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. —Sir Frances Bacon
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. —Oprah Winfrey
It's faith that will take you through, and determination that will drive you. —Jonathan Anthony Burkett
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. —Frank Lloyd Wright
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. —John R. Wooden
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Never mistake activity for achievement. —John R. Wooden
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. —George Washington Carver

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