Cesar Chavez Leadership Quotes

#1. As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing.

James McAvoy

#2. When you're an actor in grade school, high school, college, whatever, you start to realize what you're really good at, what you're kinda good at, what you're okay at, and you start to compartmentalize. But if you know yourself and what you're capable of, it's just a matter of opportunity.

Bryan Cranston

#3. Toshaway had been right: you had to love others more than you loved your own body, otherwise you would be destroyed, whether from the inside or out, it didn't matter. You could butcher and pillage but as long as you did it for people you loved, it never mattered.

Philipp Meyer

#4. When poor people get involved in a long conflict, such as a strike or a civil rights drive, and the pressure increases each day, there is a deep need for spiritual advice. Without it, we see families crumble, leadership weaken, and hard workers grow tired.

Cesar Chavez

#5. There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Cesar Chavez

#6. I'm not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they'll ask for it.

Cesar Chavez

#7. I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.

Cesar Chavez

#8. Once the music starts he goes right into the Jimmy-verse, banging against his washboard and letting it all hang out in a piercing falsetto that's surprisingly on key. The thing is, he doesn't sing "I Shot the Sheriff." He sings only one phrase: "How sweet it is!

Ned Vizzini

#9. Shoelaces are the first way society ties up the individual.

Jimmy Breslin

#10. You leave the States, and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you.

Paul Theroux

#11. It's hard to come across someone who can look past an artist who is larger and just see them for the talent they are and have them be willing to invest what's necessary to make them a star.

Kelly Price

#12. When we lift someone else's load, we add color not only to our lives but to the lives of others as well.

Emilie Barnes

#13. When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.

Sandra Bernhard

#14. I don't know or understand any other language except the language of kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Men act badly sometimes without being much worse than others,

Joseph Conrad

#16. What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#17. I kept yelling at them that you were a human being, that you mattered, and it was like they weren't even listening to me. I couldn't do anything to help you and I couldn't make them take care of you the way I wanted, you know?"
I nodded. I did know. And now I knew that Duffy did too.

Leslie Feinberg

#18. One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko