On courage
If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
—Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.
—Dr. Jonas Salk
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
—E.M. Forster
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Consider the flea!—incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.
—Mark Twain
Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination…and a little dough.
—Charlie Chaplin
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
—C.S. Lewis
On leadership
Leadership is about disappointing your people at a rate they can absorb.
—Martin Linsky
In honor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Nothing pains people more than having to think.
—Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty. We are free at last.
—Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
—Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
—Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
On communication
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
Louis Kronenberger
On aging
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
-Madeleine L’Engle
On happiness
Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember.
—Oscar Levant
On purpose
When you don’t know where you are going, it is hard to tell when you get there.
—Yogi Berra
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
—Robert H. Schuller
You’ve got to think about “big things” while you’re doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction.
—Alvin Toffler
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
—Montaigne
Real learning occurs after you think you know it all.
—Earl Nightingale
Hone your skills for work and family and you hone them for living life to the fullest
