There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but we must do it because our conscience tells us it is right
– Martin Luther King
Tag Archives: conviction
Trail blazing…
Trail blazing is an art-form. It is how we find paths through what before was wilderness. We push aside branches or cut them back, we tramp down nettles and long grasses, ford rivers and streams, through the inner and outer landscapes.
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Leaders…
Leaders must pick causes they won’t abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.
– Rosabeth Moss Kanter
You have…
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.
– Steve Jobs
There has to be…
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage and the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile; especially when it is new and different.
– Alfred P. Sloan
Who…
Who succeeds in forming and leading a great group? They are almost always a pragmatic dreamers. They are people who get things done and they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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We must…
We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there
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To exist…
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly
– Henri Bergson
Time….
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things
– Jesse Jackson
Strength….
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will
– Mahatma Gandhi
