Too many of our students are lost. They don’t need more talk; they need a start. Leaders in 15 is built for that—five sharp questions, fifteen minutes, zero fluff. Commit first and let momentum catch up; decide who you’re becoming and move like you mean it. The quotations below are the spark and the standard. Begin it now.
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back — concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. ¹
If you're loved by someone, you're never rejected
Decide what to be and go be it ²
I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want. ²
I’m a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything. ²
Modern composite after W. H. Murray (1951) & John Anster (1835, after Goethe). Permission requested for the Murray paragraph.
Lyric from “Head Full of Doubt / Road Full of Promise” — The Avett Brothers. Writers: Scott Avett, Seth Avett, Bob Crawford. © BMG Silver Songs (admin. by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC). Permission requested.
Muhammad Ali, heavyweight boxing champion and civil rights advocate
Malcolm X, Black liberation leader and human-rights advocate