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What is something you were told by a parent, teacher, or mentor that you still repeat to yourself?

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I thought often during my years in the White House of an admonition that we received in our small school in Plains, Georgia, from a beloved teacher, Miss Julia Coleman. She often said: "We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles."

Recorded Oslo City Hall, The Nobel Foundation, 10 December 2002 source

Mine has been a long journey, a lifetime journey to Oslo. It was shaped by the values of my parents and by my two grandmothers – indigenous Liberians, farmers and market traders – neither of whom could read or write. They taught me that only through service is one's life truly blessed.

Recorded Oslo City Hall, The Nobel Foundation, 10 December 2011 source

He gave me freedom at the age of 11, and told me that [I should] chase my dreams, but make sure you do not find short cuts. The path might be difficult, but don't give up, and I have simply followed his instructions. […] Every time I have done something special [and] showed my bat, it was [for] my father.

Recorded Farewell address, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, The Hindu, 16 November 2013 source

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