Worth Repeating
Category: Personal Responsibility
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words; they become your actions.
Watch your actions; they become your habits.
Watch your habits; they become your character.
Watch your character for it will become your destiny.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am only for myself, what am I?
And if not now, when?
– Hillel
“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing; no one to blame." – Erica
Jong
“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."
– George Bernard Shaw
WANTED!!
More to improve and fewer to disapprove.
More doers and fewer talkers.
More to say "it can be done" and fewer to
say "it's impossible".
More to inspire others and fewer to throw cold water
on them.
More to get into the thick of things and fewer to sit
on the sidelines.
More to point out what's right and fewer to show what's
wrong.
More to light a candle and fewer to curse the darkness.
– Author unknown
"Too many people overvalue what they are not and
undervalue what they are." – Malcolm Forbes
“Not realizing what you want is a problem of
knowledge.
Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation.
Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.”
– John C. Maxwell
Category: Life
“Life is a grindstone. But whether it grinds
you down or polishes you up depends on what you are
made of.” – Robert E. Johnson, Founder B.E.T.
"We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying
what we do have - and not worrying about what we don't
have." – Ken Keyes, Jr.
Category: Future
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty
of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry
David Thoreau
Category: Goals
“People who reach their potential spend more
time asking, ‘what am I doing well?’ rather
than ‘what am I doing wrong?” – John
Maxwell
“The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching
your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled,
but it is certainly a calamity not to dream. It is not
a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it
is a disaster to have no ideal to capture." –
Benjamin E. Mays
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see
when you take your eyes off the goal.” –
Hannah More
Category: Change
“Change before you have to." – Jack
Welch
“When you are finished changing, you’re
finished.” – Benjamin Franklin
“It is not the strongest of the species that
survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most
responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin
“You must be the change you wish to see in this
world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Category: Leadership
"Managers are people who do things right, and leaders
are people who do the right thing." – Warren
Bennis
A good leader inspires others with confidence in him;
a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves.
– Author Unknown
“True leadership must be for the benefit of the
followers, not the enrichment of the leaders."
– Robert Townsend
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