There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living
– Nelson Mandela
Tag Archives: Courage
Adversity…
Adversity introduces a man to himself
– Albert Einstein
Consensus…
Consensus: The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?’
– Margaret Thatcher
Difficulties….
Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.
– Nelson Mandela
Go…
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.
– J. P. Morgan
The greatest danger…
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
-Michelangelo
It is only when…
It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive a sense of opening, a sense of vision…That is the sort of time we live in now. We…live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our uncertain feet.
– Barbara Ward
Any intelligent man…
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
– E.F. Schumacher
The main characteristics…
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humour, discipline, courage, self-sufficiency and confidence.
– James Fisher
When…
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
– Henry Ford
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