Unassuming Leadership Quotes & Sayings

We have this idea that everyone should be totally independent, totally whole, totally together spiritually, totally fulfilled. That is a myth. In reality, our lack of fulfillment is the most precious gift we have. It is the source of our passion, our creativity, our search for God. All the best of life comes out of our human yearning, our not being satisfied. — Gerald May

Are you an angel or a devil, sir? I need to know. Are you taking me up or down? — Eoin Colfer

There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book. — Joe Haldeman

Whereas there are lots of good novels out there; there are a few good movies out there. People have been writing great poems for years, but there aren't a lot of good comics. I like trying to write them. — Neil Gaiman

It warms the very sickness in my heart, That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, "Thus diddest thou;" — William Shakespeare

We lose more women to marriage than war, famine, and disease. — Smith Dodie

The thing Alex Kamal liked most about the long haul was how it changed the experience of time. The weeks - sometimes months - spent on the burn were like stepping out of history into some small, separate universe. — James S.A. Corey

I have very, very few friends. I live in a very tight circle and emotionally I'm probably not as generous as I once was. In an average week I probably meet 150 new people and that's uncomfortable sometimes. — Veronica Webb

We all have some version of a fantasy that's easy to escape to, and we all want a real relationship where there's a common give-and-take and you're seen for who you are, and appreciated for that. — Keri Russell

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences. — Samuel Smiles

Trust yourself, and remember you are a miracle. — Debasish Mridha

The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to. — Malcolm Bradbury

Everyone praises the views you get from mountain tops, but no one talks about the views that they block. — Nils Kjaer