Ralph J. Cordiner quotes

“We need from every man who aspires to leadership-for himself and his company-a determination to undertake a personal program of self-development. Nobody is going to order a man to develop .... Whether a man lags behind or moves ahead in his specialty is a matter of his own personal application. This is something which takes time, work, and sacrifice. Nobody can do it for you.”
-- Ralph J. Cordiner

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“Nobody can do it for you.”
-- Ralph J. Cordiner

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“When it's over it should be over. When a man is no longer at risk, he loses touch. I think these fellows who think they have some long-term right to dignity and salary and expense accounts and company planes are all wrong. On December 21, 1963 I walked out of there and said that's it: no office, no secretaries. Nothing.”
-- Ralph J. Cordiner

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“Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.”

“We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I want to declare emphatically: Such a world is possible. To create this new society, we must present outstretched and friendly hands, without hatred and rancor, even as we show great determination and never waver in the defense of truth and justice. Because we know that we cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.”

Source : Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (1983). “Christ in a Poncho: Testimonials of the Nonviolent Struggles in Latin America”

“Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.”

Source : Albert Goodwill Spalding, Samm Coombs (1991). “America's national game: historic facts concerning the beginning evolution, development, and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories, and its votaries”

“Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.”

“I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.”

“The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?”

“Everything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice.”

“Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is mans right to have the earth to till with his own hands, the most sacred sacrifice the blood that a man sheds for this earth.”

“The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.”

“This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture... The basic attitude from which such activity arises, we call-to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness-idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.”