R.K. King Quotes
Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all.
If you are someone who dislikes, condemns and rejects new ideas, you aren’t fit to lead.
You can’t shower happiness on others without getting few drops back on yourself.
You can’t afford to limit your joy. It has been proven several times that angry people are never happy people.
Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy.
You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people’s happiness suffocate.
Do what you can with all love and passion irrespective of whether it pays you well or not. Joy in the result lives longer than the joy in the reward.
The essence of one life is empowering another life, and so your passion has to be linked to the liberation of other people’s happiness.
Hatred is a burden that can hunt you day by day, robbing you off your personal joy in broad day light.
Haters can never rejoice especially when their enemy wins. The moment you can’t be happy when someone wins, watch yourself. That habit is not good for you.
I don't care so much about what you can stand or what you can manage as I do about what you like and want to have. Those are the kinds of things I want to give you, because I'm crazy about you.
And worse I may be yet: the worst is notSo long as we can say 'This is the worst.
Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.
But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time’s fool, And Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.
He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly.
A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.
No, it’s not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean – hell, I know that.
The rest of it - and perhaps the best of it - is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.
He felt as he always did when he finished a book — queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had paid a toll of absurdity.
It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.
...writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.
There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true.
If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.
I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.
Everybody trusts a guy in a raincoat. I don't know why. It's just one of those mystery facts.
Sometimes, people don’t need our monies and our treasures. All they need is our encouragements to give them hope.
Oh no, praying is great, without it the thumbscrews and the Iron Maiden probably never would have been invented.
The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go
A leader’s meal is that unstoppable desire to stay late to see his dreams achieved. They never give up.
Some bad friends are so crafty in such a way that by the time their mission is reveal, they have already executed portions of it.
Most of the people who attempt to draw back the success of the world are those who don’t care about anything. They live life every day without asking why.
At the end of it all, it is our relationship with people that will determine whether they will share in our pain if we fall into dangers.
A leader’s goal is to remain relevant even when time changes.
The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style. Reinvent yourself always: You must create a new you
The change the world needs is not in the hand of everyone who is alive. It is in the works of those who deliberately contribute to make it a better place.
Watch out success will only arrive when your action are strong enough to attract them.
The height of your success will be measured with reference to the depth from which you started.
Never take tiny dreams for granted. They contain giant success stories.
The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around.
Keep to active learning. You must learn, research and be so passionate about new ways and methods of doing things to be and remain relevant.
I suggest to you, late or not late, the moment you have discovered that the mission of someone is to pee on your dreams, keep him away or keep away from him.
You can’t work with people you hate and succeed. At least, you won’t get the optimum of what you would have obtained when you work with people you love.