Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.
Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified it is not criticism, learn from it.
This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.