Henry Kazula > Henry's Quotes

“To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will--we all do. If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win.”
― Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

“Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“If we develop in-depth knowledge it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.”
― Ben Carson

“When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“Reading activates and exercises the mind.
Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts.
Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
― Frederick Douglass

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address

“The American story has never been about things coming easy. It has been about rising to the moment when the moment is hard. About rejecting panicked division for purposeful unity. About seeing a mountaintop from the deepest valley. That is why we remember that some of the most famous words ever spoken by an American came from a president who took office in a time of turmoil: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
― Barack Obama

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Seven Steps to Success
1) Make a commitment to grow daily.
2) Value the process more than events.
3) Don't wait for inspiration.
4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity.
5) Dream big.
6) Plan your priorities.
7) Give up to go up.”
― John C Maxwell

“We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.”
― John C. Maxwell

“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
― John Maxwell

“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”
― John Maxwell

“Success is...
knowing your purpose in life,
growing to reach your maximum potential, and
sowing seeds that benefit others.”
― John C. Maxwell

“A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.”
― John C. Maxwell

“if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.”
― John C. Maxwell, Be a People Person

“Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.”
― John C. Maxwell

“One is too small a number to achieve greatness.”
― John Maxwell