"Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat youâ€¦ You are made by the struggles you choose."

-- C. T. Vivian

#Struggle Quotes #Action Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.”
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

Source : "Leadership 101: 3 Key Lessons on Advancing Racial Equity" by Dr. Artika R. Tyner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.
“I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do.”
“God is love, generosity and forgiveness; if we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyse us.”
“The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.”
“You don't have to do a lot of quantity. It's the quality that counts.”
“In a couple of years I think it [sequel to What We Do] will come out as a script and we'll shoot that. Or maybe it will just come out as some t-shirts.”
“You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.”

Source : J. P. Donleavy (2007). “A Fairy Tale of New York”, p.214, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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