"Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow."
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"Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them"
"Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise."
"The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein."
"When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God."
"No path of flowers leads to glory."
"If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know one thing . . . it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly."
"Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's. Each of us has to find his own way."
"The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys."
"one cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance."
"Too often, we decide to follow a path that is not really our own, one that others have set for us. We forget that...in both cases we will pass through both difficult and happy moments. But when we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense."
"The spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love."
"It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life."
"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."
"Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path."
"Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice."
"Willingness to take risks is the path to success."
"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."
"On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight."
"If you start getting yourself into just doing stuff for the money, even if it's a desperate situation, I just firmly believe that if you stick it out through that, then something right will come down the path."