Ed Martin Quotes
Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival.
If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.
Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent people who lack good characters.
We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
Keep your promises and never be late in acting. Act right and do the right things at the right time.
The only person to influence the direction and purpose of your life is the one who gave it. God!
Leadership is self-made. People who have deliberately decided to become problems solver lead better.
Sometimes, people don’t need our homes to live in or our bodies to lean on. All they need are our hands to lift them up.
People who achieve marvelously in critical challenges are commended than people who achieve same things on the silver platter.
Bear it in mind that people who do not take actions are not and cannot be leaders. Leadership is action.
Good people who are always silent for bad people to gain freedom and do their worsts are the most dangerous wastes the world ever has.
If you create an environment of conflicts, I don’t think you will enjoy peace yourself.
If you promote peace and progress for others, I don’t think you will have sleepless nights.
Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris
Sometimes the only things preventing your dreams from becoming realities is the long time it is taking you to start.
Don’t just have dreams. Take actions too. To make it possible, begin every dream with a simple action and your interest will beam out.
Be passionate about your dreams and never give sleep to your eyes until your good becomes better and your better becomes the best.
You will never be rewarded for the dreams you slept over day in day out. You will be rewarded for dreams you stay awake and achieved.
Until you let go of that bitterness in your heart, it will find a comfortable place to destroy your dreams, your sight and most times, your sleep.
Don’t only think of which job to get and live on. Think about which problem to solve and the jobs will keep suggesting themselves.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor are grossly cruel.
People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places.
Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.
Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.
A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.
What it takes is the passion to lead and the commitment to that passion through a lifetime. A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.
Be the initiator of things you wish to see, but can’t see. Be the originator of things you wish you feel but can’t feel.
The leader’s joy is the success of change, the evidence of progress and the actualization of a better life.
All too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows
Never undermine the power of passion. You have a very high chance of achieving anything you are passionate about.
Try not to leave your work for someone else to do. If possible, carry the work of someone and add it to yours. That's a trait of leaders!
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.
Ensure you have done each day’s portion of the heavy responsibilities resting on you. Never delay your success!
When you give up because challenges arise, you are just too ignorant about the power of the gifts you carry within you.
Never let hatred give you an escort. It will drag your attention from all fortunes along the way.
You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.
Everyone appears to be courageous until bad weathers arrive, and then we know the true leaders.
Love people who hate you and their hatred won’t get grounds to gain roots.
Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?
The leader’s commandment is made up of pledges to solve local and global problems, and not to create more problems to add to the existing ones.
A leader’s cross is the temporal pain they go through and his crown is the permanent gain when at last victory is achieved.
Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.
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.
I was taught that the most hardworking nurse is found at the dirtiest part of the clinical ward.
People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.
People who run away from challenges are cowards and no coward deserves a reward.
Don’t complain of terrible circumstances. It has been proven several times that they are the sources of celebrated trophies.
The strongest storms make the best sailors. The strongest games make the best players. Tougher challenges make the best leaders.