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I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
-Madam C. J. Walker

Always Be Different

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A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Always Be Different – As iconic fashion designer Coco Chanel said, “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”

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As a consumption-based society, we are used to acquiring external things versus inquiring within. We are not very comfortable with the unknown.
- Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy
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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.
- Bob Marley

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller