Inspiring Hero Quotes to Ignite the Fire Within You - page 70
History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.
Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
Tim Ferriss
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A leader's attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions.
Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.
Maurice Strong
[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.
The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.
Garry Wills
I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.
I represent boxing. I represent the old school. That's me.
James Toney
The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.
Duffy Daugherty
Me and Sandra are thoroughly satisfied customers as parents of kids who came through this Orange model.
Andy Stanley
If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
A thousand glorious actions that might claim
Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame,
Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie,
And troops of heroes undistinguished die.
A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.
Two voices struggled inside me. One that wanted to be good and brave, and one that told the good one to keep her mouth shut.
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Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.
D. A. Carson