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

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“People who run away from challenges are cowards and no coward deserves a reward.”

“People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success; that’s the job of vision.”

“The most difficult step ever is the first step. It comes with doubts, uncertainties, and all sort of fears. If you defy all odd and take it, your confidence will replicate very fast and you'll become a master!”

“The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around.”

“I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.”

“Every talent God has hidden in you is not for your own consumption; they are for other people’s liberation.”

“The height of your success will be measured with reference to the depth from which you started.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Keep to active learning. You must learn, research and be so passionate about new ways and methods of doing things to be and remain relevant.”

“The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style. Reinvent yourself always: You must create a new you”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Sometimes the only things preventing your dreams from becoming realities is the long time it is taking you to start.”

“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.”

“Until you step in the game and influence the skills, you will never change the score line.”

“Most people who were educated have become the "problems" instead of problem solvers.”

“A self-leader looks around for problems, and then thinks deep to device solutions to them.”

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

“People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.”

“Ensure you have done each day’s portion of the heavy responsibilities resting on you. Never delay your success!”

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

“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.”

“Be passionate about your dreams and never give sleep to your eyes until your good becomes better and your better becomes the best.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Calamities reveal your capabilities. Take note of this and when times get odd, prepare and shine.”

“This fact is that the heaviest and more burdensome load ever is neither the cement bag nor the iron rod. It is hatred.”

“You can’t afford to limit your joy. It has been proven several times that angry people are never happy people.”

“Stick to love; it is heavy and it will carry you. Avoid hatred; it is heavy and you have to carry it. It is left to you to make your choice.”

“Never let hatred give you an escort. It will drag your attention from all fortunes along the way.”