Position Quotes

• The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Essence, The End Of The Day, Important

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• I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

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• There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

  "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Speech in Washington, D.C., kinginstitute.stanford.edu. March 31, 1968.

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• Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, Helping Others, People

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• Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

  Colin Powell

  Business, Military, Political

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• You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Play

  Denis Waitley (1988). “Being the best”, Pocket

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• If you are complaining about things in your life, you are on the complaining frequency, and you are not in a position to attract what you want.
  Get on to the frequency of good with your thoughts and words. Firstly you will feel good, and secondly you will be on the frequency of receiving more good.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Feel Good, Receiving, Complaining

  Rhonda Byrne (2016). “How The Secret Changed My Life: Real People. Real Stories.”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Life, Family

  "Nelson Mandela's personal letters reveal guilt, anguish and marital spats". www.news.com.au. December 6, 2013.

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• Leadership is action, not position

  Donald McGannon

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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• Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Life, Leadership, Order

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• If you are in a position to give direction to the masses, check your direction thousand times to be sure that it is the correct one!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Giving, Checks, Mass

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• Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Extremes, Contrary, Moderates

  "The Will to Power".

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• I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Mediocrity, Sanctuary, Honest

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• Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.

  Haruki Murakami

  Strength, Wall, Two Sides

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 27, 2012

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• Leadership is an action, not a position.

  Donald McGannon

  Motivational, Leadership, Television

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• You don't have to get in or out of a position all at once. Avoid the temptation of wanting to be completely right.

  Jack D. Schwager

  Temptation

  Jack D. Schwager (1992). “The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons

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• Lord Bacon has compared those who move in higher spheres to those heavenly bodies in the firmament, which have much admiration, but little rest. And it is not necessary to invest a wise man with power to convince him that it is a garment bedizened with gold, which dazzles the beholder by its splendor, but oppresses the wearer by its weight.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Moving, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.94

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• From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.

  Paul Klee

  Eye, Humble, Artist

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• This wasn't a position she wanted to be in. And yet . . . yet she knew that she was going to do it anyway.

  Maureen Johnson

  Wanted

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• You are in the perfect position to get there from here.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Law Of Attraction, Perfect

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Relationship, Positive, Life Changing

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• Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

  Joyce Meyer

  Encouragement, Appreciation, People

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• A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'

  Bill Dickey

  Baseball, Jobs, Yankees

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.

  Wendell Phillips

  Mind, Littles, Easy

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