"You are never too young to lead and you should never doubt your capacity to triumph where others have not."

-- Kofi Annan

#Doubt Quotes #Triumph Quotes #Should Quotes

“At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.”
“You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.”
“If I ran a retail store, which I have done in my life, I would go into it from a place of "I am thrilled to be here, and I am honored to be able to serve other people."”
“If you donâ€™t use your voice, thereâ€™s someone waiting behind you who will.”
“I like the feeling that anything, anything, could happen.”

Source : Marsha Qualey (2007). “Just Like That”, Puffin
“Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.”
“The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.”
“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”

Source : 1963 A Summer Birdcage, ch.7.

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