Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights From 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts Quotes
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.
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.
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.
