#peak

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease. ↗

— John Witherspoon

#never #rise #said #say #something

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#angry #best #ever #make #regret

IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES. ↗

— Nadia Sahari

#circumstances #courage #freedom-of-choice #hope #inspire

Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices. ↗

— Brené Brown

#voice #women #women-s-strength #courage

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#death #falling #featureless #labyrinth #nothing

Growth or stagnation? There is no in-between. Life always seeks more of itself and death picks up the slack. ↗

— Christopher Babson

#inspirational-speaker #motivational-quotes #motivational-speaker #personal-development #personal-growth

The silence lingers and we soak it up like a good steam. Men like silence. We believe in it. We crave it. To us, silence is equal to peace and synonymous with quiet. Thus the common gender-specific phrase uttered by men in homes throughout the world, usually in the evening and on weekends: “Can I please get some peace and quiet, please? ↗

— Alan Eisenstock

#manspeak #equality

The question is not how to get managers’ emotional commitment but why manager’s don’t give it even if they like their company. ↗

— Stan Slap

#branding #branding-culture #keynote-speaker #keynote-speech #leadership-quotes

When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say "I will shut up", I can't. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#doom #judgement #prophecy #rebellion #speaking-up

It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#cowardice #defend #fake-friends #friends #friendship