Quotes by Authors - Page 306

If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.
Israelmore Ayivor
Silence is very dangerous, especially when your words can be the only source of healing at a moment.
Israelmore Ayivor
If you are going to hide yourself and you will not stand against the work of the bad people, you have given them an endorsement.
Israelmore Ayivor
A leader is a thorn in the flesh of oppressive people. They never feel comfortable when a leader stands up.
Israelmore Ayivor
Until you step in the game and influence the skills, you will never change the score line.
Israelmore Ayivor
A dream without an action is like a fish without gills. It can’t survive.
Israelmore Ayivor
When you are silent on the truth, you have given a transport fare for the lie to travel and spread fast.
Israelmore Ayivor
Most times, the way isn’t clear, but you want to start anyway. It is in starting with the first step that other steps become clearer.
Israelmore Ayivor
If you’re going to give up after few attempts, bear it in mind that your struggles are going to be wasted.
Israelmore Ayivor
Avoid trying to win tough battles on the silver platter. If the struggle is tough the success is sweet.
Israelmore Ayivor
Leaders know how to set priorities. They focus on the task that requires the most rapid attention.
Israelmore Ayivor
You missed it when you pay more attention to the damaged car in the mechanic shop than the sick human being in the hospital.
Israelmore Ayivor
You don’t need a huge number of people with little passions to get a good job done. You rather need few people with huge passion.
Israelmore Ayivor
No one has the right to pee on your dreams!
Israelmore Ayivor
Don’t complain of terrible circumstances. It has been proven several times that they are the sources of celebrated trophies.
Israelmore Ayivor
People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.
Israelmore Ayivor
I was taught that the most hardworking nurse is found at the dirtiest part of the clinical ward.
Israelmore Ayivor
Compassion makes you strong, caring and creative. It creates a different attitude, a level of maturity and understanding, where you do something which makes you stand out of crowd.
Amit Ray
If you are an aspiring leader and you have not yet gone through any trouble, prepare for one. It is by going through the hard times that you become harder against the storms of life.
Israelmore Ayivor
Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?
Israelmore Ayivor
When dark situations arise, it is opportunity for you to reveal the leader in you. Rise and deal with them.
Israelmore Ayivor
You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.
Israelmore Ayivor
Never let hatred give you an escort. It will drag your attention from all fortunes along the way.
Israelmore Ayivor
Most times, the leader’s ornament isn’t the smiles you see on their faces during the time of victory. It is the sweats we don’t see when they were struggling behind the scenes.
Israelmore Ayivor
You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The truth is that God knows love will be needed in volumes, this is why he made his grace abundant. Leaders are lovers. Misleaders are haters!
Israelmore Ayivor
There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X’s} spirit that they became warriors and the powers that be understood them as warriors. They knew that a lot of these other middle-class [black] leaders were not warriors; they were professionals; they were careerists. But these warriors had callings, and they have paid an incalculable and immeasurable price in those cells.
Cornel West
The Shoes Should fit! you can't build a business that is not yours.
Hockson Floin
Money Can make things better but a perfect relationship makes your life complete.
Hockson Floin
While a mission statement speaks to why a company exists, a vision statement communicates what you want to accomplishin the future.
Amber Hurdle
Neither mislead nor misguide.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Be your self at your personal best
John Paul Warren
If you don’t know what you value in life, then you won’t be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future.
Shannon L. Alder
Contrary to popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained or enthroned. Leadership is self-made, self-retained, self-inculcated and then exposed through a faithful, sincere and examplary life.
Israelmore Ayivor
Point me in the right direction, and shut the fuck up. I'm the one calling the shots now. Fall in line or fall down a fucking well.
Robert Kirkman
[T]hese leaders must not believe they are actually being watched, for their behavior in no way reflects the possible existence of a set of values or ethical laws that supersedes their own dominion.
Arthur C. Clarke
Great leaders have three things; inner light, inner vision and inner strength.
Amit Ray
Great leader knows that under the turmoil of chaos and change, there is a beauty of patterns and designs.
Amit Ray
Leadership is not just some empty formulas but establishing deep connection at soul levels through service, integrity, passion, perseverance and equanimity.
Amit Ray
A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations.
Suzy Kassem
You are not alone in the struggles of life. Entire cosmos is with you. It evolves through the way you face and overcome challenges of life. Use everything in your advantage.
Amit Ray
Compassionate leaders know their stakeholders and address their concerns, their hopes, dreams and fears.
Amit Ray
In essence, leadership is the sense of calling to a higher purpose.
Amit Ray
Compassionate leaders honor the complexity of human relationships, nurture authenticity and create common grounds for blooming great ideas of individuals.
Amit Ray
You can’t move up in the staircase of leadership unless you are emotionally intelligent.
Amit Ray
Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Together we are better
John Paul Warren
A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.
Criss Jami
...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, 'The sky is blue,' and people indignantly rush up trying to refute him saying, 'No, the sky is light blue,' then, whether they realize it or not, he has become an authority figure even to such adversaries.
Criss Jami
May your soul be sparked by the glorious light.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You will find rest on Sabbath day for your soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The sea may catch fire, the planets may collide in space, the sun may quench off its heat, but what we understand is that our peace is like a river in our souls; it's surface may wave about in turbulence, but it's bottom is cool and gently calm!
Israelmore Ayivor
Positive thought is healthy to the soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
What the fertilizer does to the germinating plant is what happiness does for a depressed soul... What anger does to a person is what an acid does to its container!
Israelmore Ayivor
My soul is exceedingly joyful.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Death has only one hand glove... so it takes away the body, but leaves behind the impacts. Difference makers live twice; in body and in impacts... The former is temporal but the later lasts long!
Israelmore Ayivor
Sacred signs always come when your soul calls out in pain or joy.
Lawren Leo
May my soul radiate light and love.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You don't need an entire garden bed, to notice the beauty of a flower.
Nikki Rowe
I breathe in... The sights and smells Of this city I’ve come to know... So well I gaze... Across the turquoise ocean Where the waves Liberate my spirit... From its shell I breathe in... The brilliant sky line Where the birds Emerge shyly From the dappled sunshine I breathe in... The gently... Blowing winds That soothe me Like a mother, around her child I breathe in... The sounds of laughter Pure and pretty Like the golden-green butterfly I’m always after I breathe in... The closeness, I have always shared With people, Who almost knew me, Almost cared I breathe in... The comfort Of my home, The safe walls, The scents of childhood On the pillows I breathe in...the silence Of my own heart Aching with tenderness... With memories.. Of home I breathe... in... The fragrance Of love, and moist sand The one... His roses left... On both my hands And I just keep on breathing Every moment As much as I can Preserving it, in my body For the day It can’t So I breathe in.. Once again.. Feeling life's energy Fizzing through my cells Never knowing What awaits me Or what's going to happen to me.. Next I breathe in This moment... Knowing it's either life Or it's death I close my eyes, And breathe in Just believing in myself.
Sanober Khan
Jagged needle, wicked liesFrom under the skin, pluck evil eyes.Destiny change from pain and coldNow that you pay in blood and soul.
Lawren Leo