"You canâ€™t be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You canâ€™t serve until you have stepped out of your comfort zone. And you canâ€™t step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word."

-- Bill Courtney

#Character Quotes #Successful Quotes #Leader Quotes

“I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.”

Source : "Taiye Selasi on discovering her pride in her African roots". www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.
“Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Jun 25, 2010
“Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.”
“Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in, of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.”
“Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.”
“In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.”
“We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe.... If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal.”
“So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that's not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered. I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren't constantly berating yourself for being sad.”

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