Esther Peterson famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A leader moves ahead but not so fast that the others can't keep up.
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If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.
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I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'
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Listen to the extremists - changes come from them.
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Women's place is where they can do the most good.
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You don't do things because of the rewards or because someone may remember you after you are gone. The satisfaction is in the doing. Whether or not someone remembers does not really matter.
-- Esther Peterson
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When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."
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God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants everyone to have an opportunity to hear. Then He would have us move on to other areas. The mistake of the church has been that she sits down to convert all the people in one country to the neglect of the great masses who have never had the chance to hear the gospel - not even once!
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We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days--our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.
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I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
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The duty of universities is toward their nation, for which they must prepare leaders in all fields and these must be necessarily ethnically native. For it is intolerable that a nation educate for itself alien leaders in its universities.
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Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
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To be a leader means to be able to move masses
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How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).
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In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
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Moving ahead, so life won’t pass me by.
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