Mary Kay Ash Quotes

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

You should have certainty in what you do. Anyone who has done anything in this world was hated. If you're not hated, you've done nothing.

Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.

It's easy to walk away from risk, and you don't actually have to face it. Success is based upon overcoming the inherent risk you can't manage your way out of.

We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.

If you stick your head above the parapet and you have an opinion, and you spout family values and morality and all that, you'd be pretty naive to think that everybody would go, 'Oh, he's great, I love him.'

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.

Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.

You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

Most people get scared away from having an opinion. It's not so much my opinions everybody relates to, it's that I don't care about being punished for it.

When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.

As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and generally getting it shot off for pointing out what has always been blindingly obvious to me.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

He that would speak the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.

Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think, And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak.

One should never, ever remain silent for fear of complexity,

I guess coming out against actual evil takes guts.