If you are called to be a leader you must leave the comfort of the crowd. It may be more comfortable to blend in, but the conviction of your calling demands that you STAND OUT!
Danita Harris
Television News Anchor
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
President Barack Obama
It’s better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee – Athlete
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
Wilma Rudolph, U.S. track and field athlete & Triple Gold Medal Winner
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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
Coretta Scott King - 1927 – 2006
Civil Rights Activist
The time is always right to do what is right.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do keep moving forward.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt - 1858-1919, 26th U.S. President
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino - 1923-1996, Author
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
William Sloane Coffin, Jr
Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Sam Levenson - 1911-1980, Humorist
Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Bishop Desmond Tutu - Social Activist
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Helen Hayes - 1900-1993, Actress
Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. And if you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and lots of time with them.
Unknown
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else.
John Burroughs
Money is a “way of keeping score in life,” says T. Boone Pickens. But that is just for those who like playing the game. The real goal is to live with grace and dignity. You can do that with a small amount of money...or not do it with a fortune.
Bill Bonner, financial journalist
A “doable” New Year’s Resolution.
Do at least one thing better today, than you did yesterday.
Henry Ford
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