Quotes by Ethiopian Authors

Life without making progress is dead. What is life if you don't embrace new truths that scare you, meet people who intimidate you, and so on.
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You can only manage your thoughts, not your emotions. What are the emotions you're experiencing right now? What are the associated thoughts? Can you alter your thoughts? Practice! It's possible...
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Carefully guard your true self. Let no mistake or error you commit create doubt in you and who you truly are.
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Smile and be happy because there is no one in this whole world like you. You're lucky because you're alive and breathing. Show gratitude and show it genuinely.
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An unceasingly grateful life can easily heal from the wounds of hurt and setback. It can also easily shed resentment, hate, and bitterness…
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Many of the confusions, conflicts, and disarrays that are rampant in today’s organizations, communities, and nations could have been avoided if leaders have solid self-awareness...
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Leading a grateful life should be more than a feeling and a habit. It should be our core value, which we should respect no matter what.
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When you become self aware, you know your uniqueness, strengths, and limitations too. You become easy to work with others. You also avoid competing with others unhealthily.
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With increased self-awareness comes focus... We become selective. We refrain from jumping to grab every opportunity that comes on our way...
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We all have sweet spots when triggered, we unleash our potential. Best motivation is when it comes from within. Find your sweet spots and get motivated to accomplish extraordinary things!!!
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If one door closes, another opens. As far as you're growing and updating yourself, the world craves to have a piece of you.
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You live in this world once. Let your true and authentic YOU get unleashed. The world is desperately waiting your unique brand unchained.
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Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned...Everything is war. Me say war.That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation...Until the color of a man's skin is ofno more significa...nce than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war!
Haile Selassie
In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.
Dinaw Mengestu
Serving in the best country in the world demands becoming the best in what you do. To become the best, learn from & hangout with the best...
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When people undermine your values, they've strong reasons. For example, they mistaken your passion for excellence as perfectionism...
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Blaming our past for not taking action to change our destiny for good is taken from a weak man’s playbook...
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There should not be any excuse. If we don’t like our heritages, we've the power to change them for good. Let’s go beyond using lame excuses...
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We don't need to win all the time. We should embrace losing. Losing weight, bad employees, disloyal friends...These aren't bad things @ all!
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Don't allow people to define you based on reading the abstract of your story without even reading chapter 1. Continue to write the remaining chapters.
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If s/he is intimidated by your achievements so far, s/he shouldn't be in your future because s/he cannot handle what is coming...
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Whenever someone 'pretends' as perfect, never made a mistake, error, sin in his life, I know that he has never been in the field...
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Every new self-discovery leads you to more wholeness, opens your heart, makes you humble, and a better person to serve and love others." Page 8
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Building trust takes long- years, sometimes decades. It takes a second, a word, or a misstep to lose it. Regaining trust takes even longer.
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No one deserves to rent your heart, especially those who hurt you. Your heart is precious and deserves to store your great memories!
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Desire is the foundation of our greatness. Without it, we are stranded; we cannot go anywhere. You won't get, what you don't eagerly desire.
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Until the ego dissolves or evolves to become one with our true self, we remain slaves of our own egos.
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I may not like everyone but love all. No one is worthy of occupying my heart. You scored a point, so what? Congratulations. You're forgiven!
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Serious people make a decision to read your fully story before they write you off. Don't worry about those who don't have time to know you.
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Your haters may stage fake games that they know you cannot win so that you may fail and put that blame on you and in turn doubt yourself.
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Having unceasingly grateful life requires demonstrating gratitude daily whether our daily life treats us kindly or not.
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Keep on smiling, treat people with respect, be cool even if some may not treat you the same. How people treat you doesn't change who you're.
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True determination is betting on your solemn decision regardless of the gloomy realities surrounding the thing you resolved to pursue.
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When you are genuinely preoccupied in serving others using your talent and experience, doors that you have never knocked start to open up...
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Don't go for knockout in one punch, if your desire is to stay longer in the fight and thrive; go for outlasting them. Take the higher road.
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You can't beat your own expectations. The latter set the tone, and shape who you've become, and who you would end up becoming...
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It never stops to amaze me how God sends the right people at the right stage of your life as a confirmation to let you know that you're not crazy.
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The best revenge to get on your distractors is taking the high road. Avoid playing their game, following their murky rules.
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