Ed Martin Quotes
Leadership is about taking people from a good place to a better place where they would not regret to be.
When the leader grows, the organization grows.
When the leader goes wayward, the organization goes wayward.
This is an everyday question and you must take note of it always. When you wake up, it should be among your number one thoughts. What are you doing for others?
Don’t wait for someone else to do it so you enjoy. You can’t do it yourself. Just try it.
No one has the right to pee on your dreams!
Whatever you want is behind the mountain of struggles. Nothing great comes with ease.
Don’t reduce your impacts to match what you earn.
The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority.
You don’t need a huge number of people with little passions to get a good job done. You rather need few people with huge passion.
You missed it when you pay more attention to the damaged car in the mechanic shop than the sick human being in the hospital.
Leaders know how to set priorities. They focus on the task that requires the most rapid attention.
Whatever comes to you in a cheap way will vanish in a cheap way. Be patient and earn it the hard way.
Avoid trying to win tough battles on the silver platter. If the struggle is tough the success is sweet.
Develop the muscles for hard work and never be an early quitter.
Leaders face battles. They don’t run away from troubles.
If you’re going to give up after few attempts, bear it in mind that your struggles are going to be wasted.
Most times, the way isn’t clear, but you want to start anyway. It is in starting with the first step that other steps become clearer.
When you are silent on the truth, you have given a transport fare for the lie to travel and spread fast.
A dream without an action is like a fish without gills. It can’t survive.
Until you step in the game and influence the skills, you will never change the score line.
It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.
A leader is a thorn in the flesh of oppressive people. They never feel comfortable when a leader stands up.
Hiding the truth is as evil as feedingthe lie grow tough muscles.
Promised yourself never to keep quiet on the truth. Speak it out and let the lie die
If you are going to hide yourself and you will not stand against the work of the bad people, you have given them an endorsement.
Silence is very dangerous, especially when your words can be the only source of healing at a moment.
A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways.
If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.
A leader’s goal is to improve on upon the past and if your goal is to remain where you are, doing the same things you have done times and times again, you can’t lead.
Never reject the opportunity to take the first step. The first step is the key to obtaining the experience you have longed for.
The most risky day in the world will be the day the bird will decide to swim and the fish will decide to fly. Stay glued to what you can do.
It is not just about what you can do that will make you a leader. It is about how well you can do it.
The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will be while doing it.
This fact is that the heaviest and more burdensome load ever is neither the cement bag nor the iron rod. It is hatred.
Harbour no hatred in your heart against anyone. People who do this have placed their influence on the risky line.
If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it.
A self-leader looks around for problems, and then thinks deep to device solutions to them.
And don’t forget, if you are very intelligent but load yourself with bad characters, nobody will follow you.
Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age.
You can’t be a self-leader if you are an enemy to yourself. Stop the hatred and love yourself.
Since you can’t be influence by people who hate you, you cannot influence people you hate also.
Not money, not fame and not positions can transform an enemy into a friend but rather, it is love that can do such a job.
Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark.
You don’t influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.
Just as you won’t enjoy the fruits of the tree you dislike, so you won’t even wait to learn from people you hate.
You can decide to refuse to allow people who aim at hating you to achieve their aims.
The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.
No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.