"I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a 'witch', okay."
--Madonna

"If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself."
--Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can."
--Yiddish proverb

At work, especially, be discrete:

"Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, keep the door of my lips."
--Bible (Psalms, 141:3)

"It does not always pay to have a golden tongue unless one has the ability to hold it."
--Paul Johnson

"A closed mouth gathers no feet."
--Anon.

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