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Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

Book by Israelmore Ayivor · 19 quotes · Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders, Leadership

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Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts Quotes

“A leader’s meal is that unstoppable desire to stay late to see his dreams achieved. They never give up.”

“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.”

“Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.”

“It is as simple as that. Birds fly because they have wings and so when you can’t grow the wings, you can’t be called a bird. Leaders make impacts because they create new ideas and so if you can’t think of any new innovative ideas, you can’t be a leader.”

“Ballot papers don’t determine who leads; they determine who takes which position. As to whether that person occupying the position will lead or will manipulate, character must come to prove it.”

“Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?”

“Everyone appears to be courageous until bad weathers arrive, and then we know the true leaders.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“The leader’s joy is the success of change, the evidence of progress and the actualization of a better life.”

“Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.”

“To influence people with your leadership gifts, you don’t make them your enemies. When they are your enemies, they won’t take your words seriously; neither will they support your actions.”