Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights From 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts Quotes
If you’re going to give up after few attempts, bear it in mind that your struggles are going to be wasted.
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.
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.
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.
You can decide to refuse to allow people who aim at hating you to achieve their aims.
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 don’t influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.
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.
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.
Since you can’t be influence by people who hate you, you cannot influence people you hate also.
You can’t be a self-leader if you are an enemy to yourself. Stop the hatred and love yourself.
Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age.
And don’t forget, if you are very intelligent but load yourself with bad characters, nobody will follow you.
A self-leader looks around for problems, and then thinks deep to device solutions to them.
If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it.
Harbour no hatred in your heart against anyone. People who do this have placed their influence on the risky line.
This fact is that the heaviest and more burdensome load ever is neither the cement bag nor the iron rod. It is hatred.
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.
It is not just about what you can do that will make you a leader. It is about how well you can do it.
A leader is a thorn in the flesh of oppressive people. They never feel comfortable when a leader stands up.
It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.
Until you step in the game and influence the skills, you will never change the score line.
