There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
It is time for a new general of leadership, to cope with the new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.
- Topic: Leadership, Opportunity, Time
- Location: Glacier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
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When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.
Limitations are merely opportunities to grow. I use them as stepping stones to success.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.
History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we made today.
Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
Follow your desire as long as you live and do not perform more than ordered; do not lessen the time following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.