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EDUCATIONAL QUOTES

Acceptance

Confidence

Future

Knowledge

Praise

Silence

Action

Cooperation

Greatness

Laughter

Privileges

Success

Adversity

Courage

Habit

Leadership

Problem Solving

Teaching

Advice

Creativity

Happiness

Learning

Purpose

Thinking

Assessment

Cynicism

High Expectations

Learning Community

Questioning

Time

Attitude

Decision Making

Hiring

Life

Raising Children

Trust

Beliefs

Dreaming

Honesty

Listening

Research

Values

Bravery

Education

Hope

Measurement

Respect

Very Best

Challenge

Effort

Idealism

Opportunity

Responsibility

Virtue

Change

Enemies

Imagination

Optimism

Risk taking

Vision

Character

EQ

Initiative

Patience

Role Model

Wisdom

Choice

Experience

Inspiration

Perseverance

Self Esteem

Work Ethic

Commitment

Facts

Integrity

Personality

Self Reflection

7 Habits

Communication

Failure

Intelligence

Potential

Self Worth

Competence

Friendship

Kindness

Power

Service


Author

Topic

Quote

William James

Acceptance

"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any
misfortunes."

Johann Van Goethe

Action

"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do!!"

Benjamin Disraeli

Action

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

Horace

Adversity

"In adversity remember to keep an even mind."

Walt Disney

Adversity

"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles have strengthened me. . . . You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

Mason Cooley

Advice

"Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear."

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield  

Advice

"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."

Turkish Proverb

Assessment

"Measure a thousand times and cut once."

Dolly Parton

Attitude

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

Herm Albright  

Attitude

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."

Norman Vincent Peale

Attitude

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure."

Vince Lombardi

Attitude

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.”

William James

Attitude

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which more than anything else, will determine its outcome."

Kenneth Tynan

Attitude

"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car."

Alex Hamilton

Beliefs

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Bravery

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

Franklin P. Jones

Bravery

"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."

Anonymous

Challenge

"Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks, It's just a matter of how you view them."

Michael F.  Stately

Challenge

"There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself."

Stephen Hall

Challenge

"Life at its best is a series of challenges. A big enough challenge will bring out strengths and abilities you never knew you had. Take on your challenges and you will bring yourself to life."

Henry Ford

Chance

"There is no such things as no chance."

Albert Einstein

Change

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

Albert Einstein

Change

"Insanity is continuing to do the same thing over and over, but expecting different results."

Anonymous

Change

"Nothing is ever achieved that stays in a dream. Take Action Now!"

Charles Baudelaire

Change

"There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself."

Confucius

Change

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

Eugene V. Debs  

Change

"Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization."

Frank Herbert  

Change

"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."

Harold Wilson

Change

"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery."

Henry Ward Beecher

Change

"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow,
we cannot afford to build on shifting sands."

Herman Hupfeld  

Change

"The fundamental things apply/As time goes by."

Isaac Newton

Change

"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."

James Belasco and Ralph Stayer

Change

"Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have—and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up."

John F. Kennedy

Change

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Change

"Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life."

Leo Tolstoy

Change

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing him/herself.” 

Lesley Poles Hartley

Change

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

Lowell

Change

"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin."

Mahatma Ghandi

Change

Be the change you want to see happen.

Marcel Proust

Change

"The real voyage in discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

Margaret Mead

Change

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

Mark Twain

Change

"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 the first one."

Michael Fullan

Change

"It is so easy to underestimate the complexities of the change process…Change is difficult because it is riddled with dilemmas, ambivalences, and paradoxes. It combines steps that do not seem to go together: to have a clear vision and be open-minded; to take the imitative and empower others; to provide support and pressure; to start small and think big; to expect results and be patient and persistent; to have a plan and be flexible; to use top-down and bottom-up strategies; to experience uncertainty and satisfaction."

Niccolo Machiavelli

Change

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."

Peter Senge

Change

"People don't resist change. They resist being changed!"

Pope John XXIII

Change

"Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."

Samuel Johnson

Change

"What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence."

Samuel Johnson

Change

"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must
first be overcome."

Shakespeare

Change

"Nothing will come of nothing. Dare mighty things."

Thich Nhat Hanh

Change

"...if we do not change our daily lives, we cannot change the world."

Thomas Henry Huxley

Change

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."

Unknown

Change

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”

Vincent Van Gogh

Change

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

William Blake

Change

"The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."

William James

Change

“The greatest discovery of this generation:  Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.”

Steven Stein

Change

For change to happen  Px(C+A)>R  Purpose x (Commitment + Accountability) > Resistance

Steven Stein

Change

For effective change DxDxM>S Discontent X Direction x Movement > Status Quo (Current state of affairs x vision x steps to get you there > Staying the same

Heraclitus

Change

"There is nothing permanent except change."

Fridtjof Nansen

Change, Fear

"Never stop because you are afraid -- you are never so likely to be wrong."

Abraham Lincoln  

Character

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

James A. Michener

Character

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

John Locke

Character

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."

Martin Luther King JR

Character

"The true measure of a person is not how they behave in moments of comfort and convenience, but how they stand at times of controversy and challenge."

Samuel Johnson

Character

"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble."

Viscount Morley John

Character

"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character."

Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant

Character

"Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning will take care of itself."

Abraham Lincoln

Choice

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

John Wooden

Choice

"Don't let what you cannot do, interfere with what you can."

Pat Riley

Choice

"Look for your choices, Pick the best one, and then go with it."

Ralph Waldo Trine

Choice

"To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy... Is to set our own condition to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them."

Shakespeare

Choice

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

Confucius

Choice

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

Josh Billings

Choice

"Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Choice

"Always do what you are afraid to do."

Seneca

Choice

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

Napoleon Hill

Choice

"Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit."

Dale Carnegie

Choice

"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about."

William Jennings Bryant

Choice

"Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be achieved."

Dr. Joseph M. Juran  

Commitment

"Commitment is the daily triumph of integrity over scepticism."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Commitment

“You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.”

Alexandre Dumas  

Communication

"All generalizations are dangerous, even this one."

Andre Maurois

Communication

"The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: “I do not know.”"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Communication

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."

Edward de Bono

Communication

"Useful communication must always be in the language of the receiver."

James Thurber

Communication

"A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn’t make sense."

Rudyard Kipling

Communication

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

Walter Lippmann

Communication

"Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much."

John Powell S.J.

Communication

"You can't walk a mile in someone else's shoes until you take off your own shoes . Communication works for those who work at it.
A good listener truly wants to know the speaker."

Turkish Proverb

Communication

"If speaking is silver, then listening is gold."

Laurence J. Peter

Competence

"Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."

Vince Lombardi

Confidence

"Confidence is contagious...So is lack of confidence."

William Adams

Confidence

"You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."

Brooker T. Washington

Cooperation

"A sure way to lift oneself up is by helping to lift someone else."

J. Martin Kohe

Cooperation

"Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable."

Andrew Jackson

Courage

"One man with courage makes a majority."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."

Maxwell Maltz

Courage

“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk—and to act.”

Walt Disney

Courage

"All of our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them."

Winston Churchill

Courage

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Earl Nightingale

Courage

"Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped."

Carl. R. Rogers  

Creativity

"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."

Norman H. Mackworth

Creativity

"The real mark of the creative person is that the unforeseen problem is a joy and not a curse."

Alfred Adler

Credibility

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."

H.L. Mencken  

Cynicism

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

Theodore Roosevelt

Decision Making

"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing
to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing."

Benjamin Franklin

Decision Making

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

Cinderella

Dreaming

"Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come shining through.
No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep believing
The dream that you wish will come true."

Amos Bronson Alcott

Education

"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
He inspires self-trust.
He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him.
He will have no disciple."

Marian Wright Edelman

Education

"It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone."

Pablo Veruda

Education

"All paths lead to the same goal, to convey to others what we are."

Peter Ustinov

Education

"Parents [teachers] are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth."

Publilius Syrus

Education

"It is only the ignorant who despise education."

Mahatma Gandhi

Effort

"Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment. Full effort is full victory."

Graham Greene,

Enemies

"Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt."

Antoine de Saint-Expuery

EQ

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

Confucius

EQ

"Wherever you go, Go with all of your heart."

Dale Carnegie

EQ

"You make more friends by becoming interested in other people than by trying to interest other people in yourself."

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes  

EQ

"To measure the man, measure his heart."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

EQ

"We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove,  a tough mind and a tender heart."

Mother Teresa

EQ

"The most important medicine is tender love and care."

Pope John Paul II

EQ

"We began by imagining that we are giving to them; we end by realizing that they have enriched us."

Zelda Fitzgerald  

EQ

"Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold."

George Carlin  

Experience

"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

Josh Billings  

Experience

"There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply."

Aldous Huxley

Experience

"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you."

Sigmund Freud

Experience

"Experience includes experiencing what we do not want to experience."

Aaron Levenstein

Facts

"Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital."

Mort Crim

Facts

"It's impossible to reach good conclusions with bad information. . . .We're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts."

Howard Gardner

Failure of Education

"The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all children as if they were variants of the same individual, and thus to feel justified in teaching them the same subjects in the same ways.

H.L. Mencken

Failure, Success

"Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again next time."

Michael Jordan

Failure, Success

Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be…It doesn't matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart.  I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something.  But I can't accept not trying.

Truman Capote

Failure, Success

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

Eric Hoffer

Failure

"Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others."

Charles Caleb Colton  

Friendship

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

Samuel Butler

Friendship

"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."

William Ewart Gladstone  

Future

"You cannot fight against the future. Time is on your side."

Mencius

Greatness

"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart."

Aristotle

Habit

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

Thomas A Kempis

Habit

"Habit is overcome by habit."

Helen Keller

Happiness

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

William Saroyan

Happiness

"Happiness is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness."

Anonymous

Happiness

"For every sixty seconds of anger, You lose one minute of happiness."

Anonymous

High Expectations

"The difference between ordinary & extraordinary is that little Extra!"

Anonymous

High Expectations

"Learn how to achieve the impossible."

W. Somerset Maughbam

High Expectations

"It's funny thing about life; If you refuse to accept anything but the best (including from your self) You will often get it."

Advises Hock

Hiring

Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous, without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with the other qualities.

Francis Bacon  

Honesty

"Be true to thyself as thou be not false to others."

William Shakespeare  

Honesty

"This above all: To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Honesty

'Truth is the only safe ground to stand on."

Benedict Spinoza

Hope

"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

Anonymous

Hope

"Hope works in these ways: It looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; It discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; It regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; It pushes ahead when it would be easiest to quit; It lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness."

Bernie S. Siegel, M.D

Hope

"Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it."

George Weinberg

Hope

"Hope never abandons you, you abandon hope."

H.L. Mencken  

Idealism

"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make a better soup."

Albert Einstein

Imagination

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

George Bernard Shaw

Initiative

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

Edward Gibbon

Inspiration

"The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."

Stephen Leacock

Inspiration

"It may be those who do most, dream most."

Quintilian

Integrity

"A liar needs a good memory."

Robert Cooper

Integrity

Integrity in business means accepting full responsibility, communicating clearly and openly, keeping promises, avoiding hidden agendas, and having the courage to lead yourself and your team or enterprise with honor, which includes knowing and being consistently honest with yourself, not only in mind but heart.

Carl Sagan

Intelligence

"We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure."

Don Herold

Intelligence

"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have."

Dalai Lama

Kindness

"My religion is very simple, my religion is kindness."

Mark Twain

Kindness

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

George Bernard Shaw  

Knowledge

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."

Henry Ford Sr.

Knowledge

"None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible." 

James Northcote  

Knowledge

"Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountain-heads."

John Ruskin  

Knowledge

"To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance."

Leonardo da Vinci

Knowledge

"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."

Robert S. Lynd  

Knowledge

"Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead."

Lord Chesterfield

Knowledge

"Knowledge of the world is only to be acquired out in the world, and cannot be attained in a closet."

Arnold Glasow  

Laughter

"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects."

Victor Borge

Laughter

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

Anatole France  

Leadership

"It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."

Ancient Chinese Proverb

Leadership

“The wicked leader is he who the people despise.  The great leader is he whose people say ‘We did it ourselves.’”

Benjamin Franklin

Leadership

"Necessity never made a good bargain."

Bill Lowe

Leadership

The real emphasis of jazz is that you don't really need a leader. And you do. The best leader disappears when the music is happening because he or she has demonstrated to the group that the leadership can take place anywhere. For example, the fourth trombone might have to be the leader in a particular part of the tune. Later on it'll be the lead trumpet…It goes from person to person. The good conductor understands that's happening and encourages that to happen . . .

Bronson Alcott

Leadership

"The true leader inspires in others self trust, guiding their eyes to the spirit, the goal."

David Seabury

Leadership

"Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation.
Wholeheartedness is contagious.
Give yourself, if you wish to get others."

Elizabeth Charles

Leadership

"To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers—or both."

Franklin P. Adams

Leadership

"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."

Fullan and Hargreaves

Leadership

"Lost causes are the only causes worth fighting for."

Harry S Truman

Leadership

“I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don’t want to do and like it.”

Henri Bergson  

Leadership

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."

Henry Ford

Leadership

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

J. K. Galbraith

Leadership

"The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved."

James Russell Lowell  

Leadership

 "A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic." 

James Russell Lowell  

Leadership

"Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient."

Johann W. von Goethe  

Leadership

"It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel."

Lao Tzu

Leadership

If you keep to one corner and neglect the myriad of the totality, if you take one thing and discard the rest, then what you attain will be little and what you master will be shallow.

Lise Hand

Leadership

"That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end."

Lord Chandos  

Leadership

"Flattery is the infantry of negotiation."

Louis Nizer

Leadership

"When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself."

Mary Kay Ash

Leadership

“Help other people get what they want, and you’ll get what you want.”

Michel Eyquem

Leadership

"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

Mother Maribel  

Leadership

"So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do."

Peter Marshall

Leadership

“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”

Ralph Nader

Leadership

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

Richard Fuller

Leadership

"Don't fight forces; use them."

Robert Kennedy

Leadership

"Some men see things as they are and say 'Why?' I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?'"

Sir Winston Churchill

Leadership

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Stephen Covey

Leadership

“Management…. is clearly different from leadership.  Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brained activity.  It’s more of an art; it’s based on a philosophy.  You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you’re dealing with personal leadership issues.  But once you have dealt with those issues, once you have resolved them, you then have to manage yourself effectively to create a life congruent with your answers.”

Stephen R. Covey

Leadership

“People who are truly effective have the humility and reverence to recognize their own personal limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings.”

Thomas Jefferson

Leadership

"When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred."

Unknown

Leadership

“Leaders know what they don’t know.”

Unknown

Leadership

“Leading is simply getting to the future before someone else.  It is also connected to when you get there and who followed you.”

William James

Leadership

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

William Penn

Leadership

"Sense shines with a double lustre when it is set in humility.
An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom."

 Unknown

Leadership

"Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you."

Mark Twain

Leadership

"Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great."

Edward S. Finkelstein

Leadership

"Bigness comes from doing many small things well.. Individually, they are not very dramatic transactions. Together, though, they add up!"

Homer

Leadership

"Leadership is to be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds."

Lord Acton

Leadership

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Leadership

"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target."

Old Chinese Proverb

Leadership

"If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain.
If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees.
If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people."

Anonymous

Learning

"With willing hearts and skilful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer."

Bernard M. Baruch  

Learning

"Millions say the apple fell, but Newton was the first to ask why."

Don Herold  

Learning

"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn."

Dr. W. Edwards Deming

Learning

"You don't just learn knowledge; you have to create it. Get in the driver's seat, don't just be a passenger. You have to contribute to it or you don't understand it."

Dr. W. Edwards Deming  

Learning

"Experience by itself teaches nothing. You must have a theory and you must take action."

Gayle L. Freidson

Learning

"Learn not only from your mistakes, but learn from your success."

Grace Yohannan  

Learning

"We change what students do by changing what students know."

Henry David Thoreau  

Learning

"New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody's castle-roof perforated."

John F. Kennedy  

Learning

"A child miseducated is a child lost."

John Wooden  

Learning

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."

Joseph Joubert

Learning

"Children need models rather than critics."

Milton Erikson

Learning

"Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never become wider, bigger or deeper."

Socrates

Learning

"One man's knowledge does not lend wings to another's learning."

Theodore Sizer

Learning

"Students at work create various kinds of noise. They talk and measure and puzzle out and make the audible messes that an assistant principal is supposed to abhor. Their activity also exposes the inconvenient truth that some kids do the work faster than others. The neat march over material that is possible when only the teacher sets the pace of the journey is no longer possible."

Unknown

Learning

"The child will never forget what he discovers for himself. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning

"Every man I meet is in some way my superior."

Clifton Fadiman

Learning

"When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."

Anonymous

Learning

"Life is learning - from our mistakes as well as our successes.
The only real mistake in life one said,
Is the mistake not learned from."

 C.R. Lawton

Learning

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, You will never grow."

Samuel Johnson

Learning

"The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it."

Henrik Ibsen

Learning Community

"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm."

Saint Francis of Assisi

Learning Community

"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation."

Thomas Jefferson  

Learning Community

"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."

Alexis de Tocqueville

Life

"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."

Anonymous

Life

"If you do what you have always done, you’ll get what you have always gotten."

Confucius

Life

"To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue .... [They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness."

Erma Bombeck

Life

"If you can laugh at it, you can live with it."

Frank Lloyd Wright  

Life

"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; One cannot fly into flying."

Heroclitus

Life

"You can never step into the river of time twice."

J. R. R. Tolkien

Life

"Not all who wander are lost."

Jerry Gillies

Life

"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need."

John Lennon

Life

"Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans."

John, Viscount Morley

Life

"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart."

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Life

"The little things? The little moments? They aren't little."

Jules Renard  

Life

"As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more."

Miguel de Cervantes

Life

"When one door is shut, another one opens." 

Orson Welles  

Life

"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life

"Life is a succession of lessons which we must lived to be understood."

Russell Lynes  

Life

"The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved."

Seneca

Life

"It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it."

Sören Kierkegaard  

Life

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

Srully D. Blotnick  

Life

"What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life."

Tommy John

Life

"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

Unknown

Life

My mother once remarked to me, "I'm getting older, and I can't walk so fast anymore. But you can walk more slowly."

Thomas Carlyle

Life

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

Unknown

Life

"A smile is a curve that sets a lot of things straight."

Voltair

Life

"If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others like?"

Wallace Stevens  

Life

"Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore."

Walt Whitman

Life

"Not I - not anyone else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself."

William Shedd

Life

"A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."

Mahatma Gandhi

Life

"There is a soul force in the universe which if we permit it, will flow through us and produce
miraculous results."

Martial

Life

"Tomorrow's life is too late... Live Today."

Saint Francis

Life

"Life is lived in the present. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow is yet be. Today Is The Miracle
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Life

"Life Is A Challenge - Meet It!
Life Is A Song - Sing It!
Life Is A Dream - Realize It!
Life Is A Game - Play It!
Life Is Love - Enjoy It!"

Oprah Winfrey

Life

"If you look at what you have in life,
You'll always have more.
If you look at what you don't have in life,
You'll never have enough."

Will Rogers

Life

"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."

Anonymous

Life

"The past is history, The future is a mystery, Today is a gift, that's why we call it the Present."

Grandmaster Wonik Yi

Life

"Life is like water. Cow drinks water and makes milk. Snake drinks water and makes poison."

Edward Hersey Richards

Listening

"A wise old owl sat upon an oak;
The more he saw the less he spoke;
The less he spoke the more he heard;
Why aren't we like that wise old bird?"

Ernest Hemingway  

Listening

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

Henry Ford

Listening

"If there is any secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from his angle as well as from your own."

Native American Proverb

Listening

"Listen, or your tongues will keep you deaf."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Listening

"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

Robert Frost

Listening

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

Wilson Mizner

Listening

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something."

Epictetus

Listening

"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."

Ernest Hemingway

Listening

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

Dean Rusk

Listening

"The best way to persuade people is with your ears — by listening to them."

Diane Sawyer

Listening

"I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."

Witch in Into the Woods (1990)

Listening

"Careful the things you say, children will listen. Careful the things you do, children will see. And learn. Children may not obey, but children will listen. Children will look to you for which way to turn, to learn what to be. Careful before you say, "Listen to me." Children will listen."

Mowgli in The Jungle Book (1994)

Listening

"The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen."

Henry David Thoreau

Listening

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer."

Anonymous

Listening

"Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening."

Wilson Mizner

Listening

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something."

Albert Einstein  

Measurement

"Everything that can be counted isn't worth counting, and everything that is worth counting isn't always countable."

Peter F. Drucker  

Measurement

"We need to measure, not count."

General Douglas MacArthur

Opportunity

"There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity."

Rick Irving, Texas

Opportunity

"Like the number of apples
Contained within a single apple seed
Each opportunity that we seize
Contains an untold number of benefits."

Helen Keller  

Opportunity

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

Nicholas Murray Butler

Optimism

"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."

Les Brown

Optimism

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

William Arthur Ward

Optimism

"If you can imagine it, You can achieve it. If you can dream it, You can become it."

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi

Patience

"The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience."

Abraham Lincoln

Perseverance

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more
important than any one thing."

Anonymous

Perseverance

"Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery & triumph;
a beginning, a struggle & a victory."

Benjamin Disraeli

Perseverance

"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."

Charles Dickens  

Perseverance

"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time."

Edgar A. Guest

Perseverance

"The timid and fearful first failures dismay,
but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day.
He values his failures as lessons that teach
The one way to get to the goal he would reach."

George S. Clason  

Perseverance

"Where the determination is, the way can be found."

Honore de Balzac

Perseverance

"There is no such thing as a great talent without great
will-power."

I Ching  

Perseverance

"Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none."

Longfellow

Perseverance

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long
enough and loud enough at the gate , you are sure to wake up
somebody."

Margaret Carty

Perseverance

"Be like a postage stamp: Stick to one thing until you get here."

Mary Wollstonecraft

Perseverance

"Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world."

Mark Twain

Perseverance

"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application & perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined Spirit."

Confucius

Perseverance

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

George Claude Lorimer

Perseverance

"Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible."

J. Willard Marriott

Perseverance

"Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees."

Og Mandino

Perseverance

"I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking."

Pearl S. Buck

Perseverance

"All things are possible until they are proved impossible.
And even the impossible may only be so, as of now."

Anonymous

Perseverance

"A winner never quits and a quitter never wins!"

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Perseverance

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

George Herbert Allen

Perseverance

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit."

Ralph W. Sockman  

Personality

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength."

Pope John XXIII

Potential

"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, 
but with what it is still possible for you to do."

Leonardo da Vinci

Power

"Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory."

Roger Ascham  

Praise

"There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Privileges

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

Abraham Maslow  

Problem Solving

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

Shantideva

Problem Solving

"If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?"

Nelson Mandela

Problem Solving

"True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past."

 John F. Kennedy

Purpose

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

Albert Einstein

Questioning

"The important thing is to not stop questioning."

Albert Einstein

Questioning

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."

Bill Cosby

Raising Children

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made."

Albert Szent-Györgyi  

Research

"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought."

T.S. Eliot

Research

"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."

Tibet Man

Respect

"We greet all people this way." I felt my chest tighten, remembering my experiences with the elder who, fifteen years before, had lost his entire family for saying such a greeting, a prayer, aloud.  The man brought his palms together in front of his chest and his wife and children repeated the gesture. "It means," he said, "I honor the greatness in you. I honor the place in your heart where lives your courage, honor, love, hope, and dreams.  I honor the place in you where, if you are at that place in you and I am at that place in me, there is only one of us. Tashi deley."

Confucius

Respect

"Respect yourself and others will respect you."

Socrates

Respect

"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be."

John J. McCloy

Respect

"It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Responsibility

"Life always gets harder toward the summit- the cold increases- responsibility increases."

Henry Ward Beecher  

Responsibility

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."

Anonymous

Risk Taking

""Go to the edge" they said, "We Can't" we replied "We are afraid"
"Go to the edge" they said again
We went - They pushed - And We flew"

Helen Keller

Risk Taking

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

John F. Kennedy

Risk Taking

"There are risks and costs to action.  But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction."

T.S.Eliot

Risk Taking

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

Herodotus

Risk Taking

"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."

John Goodwin

Risk Taking

"The impossible is often the untried."

Robert E. Lee

Role Model

"You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set."

Helen Keller

Self Esteem

"Self pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in this world."

Louis L' Amour

Self Esteem

"I am somebody, I am me, I like being me, and I need nobody to make me somebody."

Maxwell Maltz

Self Esteem

"If you make friends with yourself, you'll never have to be alone."

Doris Mortman

Self Esteem

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."

Robert Schuller

Self Esteem

"Every achiever I have ever met says, "My life turned around when I began to believe in me."

Confucius

Self Reflection

"In the archer there is a resemblance to the mature person. When he misses the mark,
he turns and seeks the reason for his failure in himself."

Lao Tse

Self Reflection

"I observe myself and so I come to know others."

Muhammad

Self Worth

"A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world."

Muhammad Ali

Service

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."

Alexander Theroux

Silence

"Silence [is] the unbearable repartee."

Unknown

Silence

"Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted."

Winston Churchill

Success

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm

Alex Noble

Success

"Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life."

Ben Sweetland  

Success

"Success is a journey, not a destination."

Charles Luckman  

Success

"Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage."

Elizabeth Taylor  

Success

"Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells."

George Burns

Success

"I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate."

Igor Stravinsky

Success

"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge." 

Jim Goodwin  

Success

"The impossible is often the untried."

John Foster Dulles  

Success

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year."

Robert F. Kennedy

Success

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

S.J. Rosenholz  

Success

"Clear, measurable goals are the center to the mystery of a school's success, mediocrity or failure."

Swami Sivananda

Success

"Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."

Sylvester Stallone

Success

"I believe there is an inner power that makes winners or losers, and the winners are the ones who really listen to the truths of their hearts."

Wayne Gretsky

Success

"You will miss 100% of the shots you never take."

Plutarch

Success

"To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."

Anonymous

Success

"Celebrate the success of others. Bring people up, not down."

Anonymous

Success

"If you think you are beaten, you are
 If you think you dare not, you don't
"If you like to win, but you think you can't
It is almost certain you won't
If you think you'll lose, you're lost
For out of the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will
It's all in the state of mind
If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize
Life's battle don't always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late, the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can!

Stephen Kaggwa

Success

" Try and fail, but don't fail to try."

Woody Allen

Success

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

Vincent T. Lombardi

Success

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."

 Leo Aguila

Success

"Those who want to succeed will find a way, Those who don`t will find an excuse!"

Anonymous

Success

"The only place you find success before work, is in a dictionary."

Comment from a course evaluation written by a 7th Grader

Teaching

"I like this class because there's something different going on all the time.  My other classes, it's like peanut butter for lunch every single day.  This class, it's like my teacher really knows how to cook. It's like she runs a really good restaurant with a big menu and all."

Krista (Age 17)
Jane Bluestein, Ed.
Mentors, Masters and Mrs. MacGregor: Stories of Teachers Making a Difference

Teaching

"A really good teacher is someone who: knows that a student can teach and a teacher can learn, integrates himself or herself into the learning environment, literally taking a seat among the conglomerate of desks, proving that he or she enjoys associating with the minds made of sponges, ready to absorb, appreciates that what one thinks and says is more important than what one uses fill in the blanks."

Mark Van Doren

Teaching

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

Anonymous

Thinking

"Your mind is like a parachute, it only works when it is open."

Eugene Ionesco  

Thinking

"It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think."

Gustave Flaubert  

Thinking

"What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!"

Horace Walpole, Lord Orford  

Thinking

"When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun with nettles."

Martin Heiddeger, What Do We Mean

Thinking

"Thinking is an engagement of the mind that changes the mind."

Winston Churchill  

Thinking

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

Will Rogers  

Time

"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."

Andre Gide

Trust

"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it."

Latin proverb

Trust

"The dog that fetches will also carry. (Translation: If someone reveals another's secrets to you, the same person will reveal your secrets to the world.)"

Marvin Weisbord

Values

"We make our future dreams come true by acting on our own values today."

W. Somerset Maugham

Very Best

"It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it."

Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese philosopher

Virtue

"To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."

William Shakespeare

Virtue

"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

Albert Einstein

Vision

"Insanity is continuing to do the same thing and expecting different results."

Ancient Buddhist Proverb

Vision

"If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on
walking."

Anonymous

Vision

"In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore
for a very long time."

Benjamin Franklin

Vision

"It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follows."

Charlotte Bronte

Vision

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."

Earl Nightingale

Vision

"We become what we think about."

Francis Bacon

Vision

"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land,
when they can see nothing but sea."

Hannah More

Vision

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal."

Helen Keller

Vision

“Worse than being blind is to see and have no vision.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vision

"Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Thoreau

Vision

"Go confidently in the direction of your Dreams."

Wallace Stegner

Vision

"If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are."

Winston Churchill  

Vision

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."

Anonymous

Vision

"Go as far as you can see, & when you get there you will see farther."

Albert Einstein

Vision

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

Peter Urs Bender

Vision, Passion

“Vision is the stuff of our dreams.  Passion is our energy to make it real.  The two go together like horse and rider.  In the mind of one is the goal.  In the power of the other lives the means to get there.” 

Edward Thorndike  

Wisdom

"Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure."

Henry Peter, Lord Brougham  

Wisdom

"Try to know everything of something, and something of everything."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau  

Wisdom

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"

Lois Lowery
The Giver

Wisdom

"The Giver flicked his hand as if brushing something aside. 'Oh, your instructors are well trained. They know their scientific facts. Everyone is well trained for his job.
It's just that…without the memories it's all meaningless.'
'Why do you and I have to hold these memories?" [the boy asked.]
'It gives us wisdom,' the Giver replied."

Walter Lippman

Wisdom

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: The music is nothing if the audience is deaf."

Elbert Hubbard

Work Ethic

"One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

Fred G. Gosman

Work Ethic

"Our kids will develop a work ethic only if we require them to pay a portion of the cost of some of the things they want."

Marquis de Vauvenargues Luc

Work Ethic

"Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something."

Roger Starr

Work Ethic

"Reality is the best possible cure for dreams."

Steven Covey

7 Habits

"We are not in control, principles control. We control our actions, but the consequences that flow from these actions are controlled by principles."

Steven Covey

7 Habits

"If you want small changes, work on your behavior; if you want quantum-leap changes, work on your paradigms."

Steven Covey

7 Habits

"You can't talk your way out of problems you behaved yourself into."

Samuel Smiles

7 Habits

"Sow a thought, reap an action; Sow an action, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap a character; Sow a character, reap a destiny."

Anonymous

7 Habits

"We first make our habits, then our habits make us."

Henry David Thoreau

7 Habits

"For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root."

Lao-Tzu

7 Habits

"Give a man a fish, you feed him for the day; teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime."

Thomas Kuhn

7 Habits

"All the significant breakthroughs were breaks with old ways of thinking."

Albert Einstein

7 Habits

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

Steven Covey

7 Habits

"If you want to retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent."

Steven Covey

7 Habits

"It is not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us."

Steven Covey

7 Habits

"Any time you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem."

Eleanor Roosevelt

7 Habits

"Nothing can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Mahatma Gandhi

7 Habits

"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."

Steven Covey

7 Habits

"If we live out of our memory, we're tied to the past and that which is finite. When we live out of our imagination, we're tied to that which is infinite."

Steven Covey

7 Habits

"Visualizing something organizes one's ability to accomplish it."

Mahatma Gandhi

7 Habits

"One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied doing wrong in any other part. Life is one indivisible whole."

Anonymous

7 Habits

"What lies behind us is nothing compared to what lies within us and ahead of us."

Steven Covey

7 Habits

"The key is not to prioritize your schedule but to schedule your priorities."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

7 Habits

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."

Eleanor Roosevelt

7 Habits

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it's expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."

Steven Covey

7 Habits

"What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you."

Pareto

7 Habits

"in all fields of human endeavor, 80 percent of the results flow from 20 percent of the activities."

Steven Covey

7 Habits

"The one who listens does most of the work, not the one who speaks."

Steven Covey

7 Habits

"The key to listening is with the eyes and the heart."

Anonymous

7 Habits

"The enemy of the best is the good."

Steven Covey

7 Habits

"People who are truly effective have the humility and reverence to recognize their own perceptual limitations and appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings."

Steven Covey

7 Habits

"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities."

Steven Covey

7 Habits

"I do not see the world as it is, I see the world as I am."

Dag Hammarskjold

7 Habits

"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses."

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