Some of my favorite quotes on Courage, Love, Change and essentially becoming a better person.... |
“Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.” ― Aristotle
Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking. (Alfred Adler on the importance of Encouragement)
Because life constantly poses challenges, living demands courage (Neuer, 1936).
Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking. (Alfred Adler on the importance of Encouragement)
Because life constantly poses challenges, living demands courage (Neuer, 1936).
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“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.” ― Albert Einstein
"The question we must each answer is whether we have the courage to live despite the knowledge of our imperfections." (Lazarsfeld, 1966).
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that your love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. – Erich Fromm from The Art of Loving
Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.
“Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.” ― Tony Robbins
"Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness." - Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980) The Art of Loving (p. 21-22)
Change comes occurs through the process of reworking old patterns so that you can become freer to act in new (more adaptive or meaningful) ways! - Unknown
“When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.”
― Patrick Overton
"Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments." - Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
"As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself." - Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Fritz Perls (1970) l“so if you find out how you prevent yourself from growing, from using your potential, you have away of increasing this, making life richer, making you more and more capable of mobilizing yourself. And our potential is based upon a very peculiar attitude: to live and review every fresh second” (p. 29).
“If one is authentically immersed in the river of life, then the question of meaning drifts away,” (Corsini & Wedding, 2011, p. 313)
“We strive to find meaning in the context of our existential aloneness, and take responsibility for the choices we make within our freedom to choose, yet one day we will all cease to be,” •(Corsini & Wedding, 2011, p. 314).
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers. - Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Fritz Perls called “the task of really great therapy is the great awakening, the coming to one’s senses… a ‘peak experience’ that causes one to start to see, feel, to experience one’s needs and satisfactions instead of playing roles.”
“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” ― Wayne Dyer
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980), Man for Himself
“Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.”
― Leo Buscaglia
“Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.” ―Norman Vincent Peale
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
- Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” ― Booker T. Washington
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life. Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life. -Eric Fromm (1900 - 1980)
“As authentic beings, we recognize our individuality. Further, we recognize that this individuality is not a static quality but is, rather a set of (possibly infinite) potentialities. As such, while in authentic mode, we maintain an independence of thought and action, and subsequently feel ‘in charge’ of the way our life is experienced. Rather than reacting as victims to the vicissitudes of being, we as authentic beings, acknowledge our role in determining our actions, thought and beliefs, and thereby experience a stronger, fuller, sense of integration, acceptance, openness, and aliveness to the potentialities of being-in-the-world,” (Spinelli, 1989, p. 109).
“I’m sure that you are very familiar with this game. One part of you talks to the other part and says, “You should be better, you should not be this way, you should not do that, you shouldn’t be what you are, you should be what you are not.” - l(Fritz Perls, 1970, p.17)
Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius
“You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.” ― Zig Ziglar
“Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love” - Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve… Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.” - Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
“If they're holding onto their pride, their ego and their excuses instead of holding onto you, it's time to let go.” ― Unknown
If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy in his word his fellow man will entrust him with responsibility. If he is quick he will achieve results. if he is generous he will be good enough to be put in a position over his fellow men. - Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
“The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.” - Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980) from The Art of Loving (p. 8)
“Just as a child can never return to the mother's womb physically, so it can never reverse, psychically, the process of individuation. Attempts to do so necessarily assume the character of submission, in which the basic contradiction between authority and the child who submits to it is never eliminated. Submission is not the only way of avoiding aloneness and anxiety. The other way, the only one which is productive and does not end in an insoluble conflict, is that of spontaneous relationship to man and nature, a relationship that connects the individual with the world without eliminating his individuality. This kind of relationship - the foremost expressions of which are love and productive work - are rooted in the integration and strength of the total personality and are therefore subject to the very limits that exist for the growth of the self.”
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980) from Escape from Freedom
Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity. - Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you." The psychic task a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. - Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
“One of the most revolutionary concepts to grow out of our clinical experience is the growing recognition that innermost core of man’s nature – the deepest layers of his personality, the base of his ‘animal nature’ – is basically socialized, forward-moving, rational and realistic… He is realistically able to control himself, and he is incorrigibly socialized in his desires. There is no beast in man, there is only man in man.” - (Carl Rogers, On Becoming A Person, 1961, p. 90 -105).
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. - Unknown
“No one can separate themselves from one’s social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.” - Rollo May
Fritz Perls argues, “humans don’t really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.”
“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” ― Khalil Gibran
When we are really in touch with ourselves and our experiences, change will take place by itself, without excessive effort and planning (Beisser, 1972)
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” ― Helen Keller
“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” ― Johnny Cash
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
―Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.” ― Muhammad Ali
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on that first one.” ― Mark Twain
“Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.”
― Mike Norton
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
― Nelson Mandela
“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.” ― Gary Ryan Blair
“As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.” - Emmanuel Teney
“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” ― Theodore Isaac Rubin
“Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.” ― W. Clement Stone
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Forget what hurt you in the past. But never forget what it taught you.” ― Unknown
“You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.” ― Norman Schwarzkopf
“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” ― Winston Churchill
“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.” ― Unknown
“Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.” ― Sai Baba
“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.” ― Henry Ward Beecher
“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”
― Unknown
“If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair with them, it is like expecting a lion not to eat you because you don't eat lion...” ―Unknown
“Family isn't always blood. It's the people in your life who want you in theirs; The ones who accept you for what you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile; And who love you no matter what.” ― Unknown
“For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.” ― Bo Bennett
“We are builders of our own characters. We have different positions, spheres, capacities, privileges, different work to do in the world, different temporal fabrics to raise; but we are all alike in this, -- all are architects of fate.” ― John Fothergill Waterhouse Ware
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” ― John Quincy Adams
“Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.” ― Baron Alexander von Humboldt
“Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.” ― Winston Churchill
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.” ― Henri Nouwen
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” ― Unknown
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.” ― Audrey Hepburn
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” ― John F. Kennedy
“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.” ― Brian Tracy
“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.” ― Aldous Huxley
“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.” ― Henry Ford
“When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.” ― Viktor E. Frankl
“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” ― Michael Jordan
"Although the world is full of suffering, the world is also full of the overcoming of it." - Helen Keller
On Responsibility
“Your beliefs don't make you a better person, your behavior does.” ― Unknown
“While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about taking on reclamation projects regardless of the talent they may possess. Have the courage to make character count among the qualities you seek in others.” ― John Wooden
“Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.” ― Kathleen Casey Theisen
“You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.” ― Adlin Sinclair
Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known. - Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
“To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.” -ee cummings
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” -ee cummings
On Education
Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes. - Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today." - Malcolm X
I tell you and you forget, I show you and you remember, I involve you and you understand. - Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
"The question we must each answer is whether we have the courage to live despite the knowledge of our imperfections." (Lazarsfeld, 1966).
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that your love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. – Erich Fromm from The Art of Loving
Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.
“Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.” ― Tony Robbins
"Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness." - Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980) The Art of Loving (p. 21-22)
Change comes occurs through the process of reworking old patterns so that you can become freer to act in new (more adaptive or meaningful) ways! - Unknown
“When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.”
― Patrick Overton
"Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments." - Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
- “Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” ― Thomas Jefferson
- "Between stimulus and response there is space. In that space lies our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." – Viktor Frankl
"As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself." - Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Fritz Perls (1970) l“so if you find out how you prevent yourself from growing, from using your potential, you have away of increasing this, making life richer, making you more and more capable of mobilizing yourself. And our potential is based upon a very peculiar attitude: to live and review every fresh second” (p. 29).
“If one is authentically immersed in the river of life, then the question of meaning drifts away,” (Corsini & Wedding, 2011, p. 313)
“We strive to find meaning in the context of our existential aloneness, and take responsibility for the choices we make within our freedom to choose, yet one day we will all cease to be,” •(Corsini & Wedding, 2011, p. 314).
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers. - Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Fritz Perls called “the task of really great therapy is the great awakening, the coming to one’s senses… a ‘peak experience’ that causes one to start to see, feel, to experience one’s needs and satisfactions instead of playing roles.”
- By three methods we may learn wisdom:
- First, by reflection, which is the noblest;
- Second, by imitation, which is the easiest;
- And third, by experience, which is the bitterest - Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” ― Wayne Dyer
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980), Man for Himself
“Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.”
― Leo Buscaglia
“Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.” ―Norman Vincent Peale
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
- Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” ― Booker T. Washington
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life. Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life. -Eric Fromm (1900 - 1980)
“As authentic beings, we recognize our individuality. Further, we recognize that this individuality is not a static quality but is, rather a set of (possibly infinite) potentialities. As such, while in authentic mode, we maintain an independence of thought and action, and subsequently feel ‘in charge’ of the way our life is experienced. Rather than reacting as victims to the vicissitudes of being, we as authentic beings, acknowledge our role in determining our actions, thought and beliefs, and thereby experience a stronger, fuller, sense of integration, acceptance, openness, and aliveness to the potentialities of being-in-the-world,” (Spinelli, 1989, p. 109).
“I’m sure that you are very familiar with this game. One part of you talks to the other part and says, “You should be better, you should not be this way, you should not do that, you shouldn’t be what you are, you should be what you are not.” - l(Fritz Perls, 1970, p.17)
Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius
“You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.” ― Zig Ziglar
“Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love” - Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve… Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.” - Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
“If they're holding onto their pride, their ego and their excuses instead of holding onto you, it's time to let go.” ― Unknown
If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy in his word his fellow man will entrust him with responsibility. If he is quick he will achieve results. if he is generous he will be good enough to be put in a position over his fellow men. - Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
“The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.” - Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980) from The Art of Loving (p. 8)
“Just as a child can never return to the mother's womb physically, so it can never reverse, psychically, the process of individuation. Attempts to do so necessarily assume the character of submission, in which the basic contradiction between authority and the child who submits to it is never eliminated. Submission is not the only way of avoiding aloneness and anxiety. The other way, the only one which is productive and does not end in an insoluble conflict, is that of spontaneous relationship to man and nature, a relationship that connects the individual with the world without eliminating his individuality. This kind of relationship - the foremost expressions of which are love and productive work - are rooted in the integration and strength of the total personality and are therefore subject to the very limits that exist for the growth of the self.”
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980) from Escape from Freedom
Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity. - Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you." The psychic task a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. - Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
“One of the most revolutionary concepts to grow out of our clinical experience is the growing recognition that innermost core of man’s nature – the deepest layers of his personality, the base of his ‘animal nature’ – is basically socialized, forward-moving, rational and realistic… He is realistically able to control himself, and he is incorrigibly socialized in his desires. There is no beast in man, there is only man in man.” - (Carl Rogers, On Becoming A Person, 1961, p. 90 -105).
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. - Unknown
“No one can separate themselves from one’s social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.” - Rollo May
Fritz Perls argues, “humans don’t really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.”
“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” ― Khalil Gibran
When we are really in touch with ourselves and our experiences, change will take place by itself, without excessive effort and planning (Beisser, 1972)
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” ― Helen Keller
“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” ― Johnny Cash
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
―Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.” ― Muhammad Ali
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on that first one.” ― Mark Twain
“Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.”
― Mike Norton
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
― Nelson Mandela
“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.” ― Gary Ryan Blair
“As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.” - Emmanuel Teney
“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” ― Theodore Isaac Rubin
“Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.” ― W. Clement Stone
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Forget what hurt you in the past. But never forget what it taught you.” ― Unknown
“You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.” ― Norman Schwarzkopf
“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” ― Winston Churchill
“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.” ― Unknown
“Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.” ― Sai Baba
“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.” ― Henry Ward Beecher
“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”
― Unknown
“If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair with them, it is like expecting a lion not to eat you because you don't eat lion...” ―Unknown
“Family isn't always blood. It's the people in your life who want you in theirs; The ones who accept you for what you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile; And who love you no matter what.” ― Unknown
“For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.” ― Bo Bennett
“We are builders of our own characters. We have different positions, spheres, capacities, privileges, different work to do in the world, different temporal fabrics to raise; but we are all alike in this, -- all are architects of fate.” ― John Fothergill Waterhouse Ware
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” ― John Quincy Adams
“Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.” ― Baron Alexander von Humboldt
“Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.” ― Winston Churchill
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.” ― Henri Nouwen
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” ― Unknown
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.” ― Audrey Hepburn
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” ― John F. Kennedy
“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.” ― Brian Tracy
“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.” ― Aldous Huxley
“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.” ― Henry Ford
“When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.” ― Viktor E. Frankl
“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” ― Michael Jordan
"Although the world is full of suffering, the world is also full of the overcoming of it." - Helen Keller
On Responsibility
“Your beliefs don't make you a better person, your behavior does.” ― Unknown
“While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about taking on reclamation projects regardless of the talent they may possess. Have the courage to make character count among the qualities you seek in others.” ― John Wooden
“Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.” ― Kathleen Casey Theisen
“You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.” ― Adlin Sinclair
Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known. - Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
“To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.” -ee cummings
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” -ee cummings
On Education
Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes. - Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today." - Malcolm X
I tell you and you forget, I show you and you remember, I involve you and you understand. - Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)