Only if you have been in the ...

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
 Richard M. Nixon

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
 Richard M. Nixon
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
 Richard M. Nixon
The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
 Richard M. Nixon
Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.
 Richard M. Nixon
Government has the responsibility to provide the climate in which Americans, all Americans, have an opportunity for good jobs; and not only for good jobs, but an opportunity if they have the ability and the desire, to be owners and managers, to have a piece of the action, because if they have a piece of the action, then they believe in the system rather than fighting against it.
 Richard M. Nixon