Quotes November 21, 2017

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli,
political philosopher and historian
 
 
 
 
Women are the real architects of society.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
 
 
 
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold,
diplomat
 
 
 
 
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan,
political leader and orator
 
 
 
 
The great isn’t something accidental; it must be willed.
Vincent van Gogh,
artist
 
 
 
 
I am not worried about the future at all. I don’t like to run it down. I don’t like to think of it being too dark, because I expect to spend all the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering,
inventor and business leader
 
 
 
 
The older I get, the more I’m conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn’t it?
Sandra Cisneros,
writer