
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- Topic: Leadership, Possibility, Vision
- Location: Wrights Lake
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way?
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
This is the thing that I was born to do.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.
Man is a universe in little.
Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.
There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.
Impossible is just an opinion.
The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
