R.K. King Quotes

Until you let go of that bitterness in your heart, it will find a comfortable place to destroy your dreams, your sight and most times, your sleep.

Don’t only think of which job to get and live on. Think about which problem to solve and the jobs will keep suggesting themselves.

Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself.

I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.

Dreams are a simple psychological emetic, and people who have them are more blessed than cursed

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools

In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it.

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.

He’s my cat! He’s not God’s cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor are grossly cruel.

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.

She can't help it, ' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

Proper deformity shows not in the fiendSo horrid as in woman.

People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places.

Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.

Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.

A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.

What it takes is the passion to lead and the commitment to that passion through a lifetime. A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.

Be the initiator of things you wish to see, but can’t see. Be the originator of things you wish you feel but can’t feel.

The leader’s joy is the success of change, the evidence of progress and the actualization of a better life.

the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...

All too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows

Isn't bravery always sort of beautiful?

Never undermine the power of passion. You have a very high chance of achieving anything you are passionate about.

Try not to leave your work for someone else to do. If possible, carry the work of someone and add it to yours. That's a trait of leaders!

Most times, the leader’s ornament isn’t the smiles you see on their faces during the time of victory. It is the sweats we don’t see when they were struggling behind the scenes.

Ensure you have done each day’s portion of the heavy responsibilities resting on you. Never delay your success!

When you give up because challenges arise, you are just too ignorant about the power of the gifts you carry within you.

Never let hatred give you an escort. It will drag your attention from all fortunes along the way.

You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.

Everyone appears to be courageous until bad weathers arrive, and then we know the true leaders.

Love people who hate you and their hatred won’t get grounds to gain roots.

Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?

The leader’s commandment is made up of pledges to solve local and global problems, and not to create more problems to add to the existing ones.

A leader’s cross is the temporal pain they go through and his crown is the permanent gain when at last victory is achieved.

Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.

If you are an aspiring leader and you have not yet gone through any trouble, prepare for one. It is by going through the hard times that you become harder against the storms of life.

I was taught that the most hardworking nurse is found at the dirtiest part of the clinical ward.

People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.

People who run away from challenges are cowards and no coward deserves a reward.

Don’t complain of terrible circumstances. It has been proven several times that they are the sources of celebrated trophies.

The strongest storms make the best sailors. The strongest games make the best players. Tougher challenges make the best leaders.

Leadership is about taking people from a good place to a better place where they would not regret to be.

When the leader grows, the organization grows.

When the leader goes wayward, the organization goes wayward.

This is an everyday question and you must take note of it always. When you wake up, it should be among your number one thoughts. What are you doing for others?

Don’t wait for someone else to do it so you enjoy. You can’t do it yourself. Just try it.