roderickordonez’s most recent Quotables

Do not go where the path may lead: go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.

Remember that time is money.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power but absolute power is corrupt only in the hands of the absolutely faithful.

Would you believe in what you believed in if no one else believed in it?

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

How is important for new practitioners focused on avoiding mistakes. Why is for those who wish to push, are not risk-averse and seek to improve. How is coulda, Why is shoulda. How is finishing tasks, Why is fulfilling objectives. How usually results in more. Why usually results in better.

You can find your identity in the damage that's been done to you. You find your identity in your wounds, in your scars, in the places where you've been beat up and you turn them into a medal. We all wear the things we've survived with some honor, but the real honor is in also transcending them.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.