Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning.
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
Every thoughtful pin on pinterest has beauty. But not everyone can see.
Leadership is more doing than dash.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, because the road's last turn will be the best.
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere.
When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we all eventually find in each of these pursuits a dead end.
Every house where love abidesAnd friendship is a guest,Is surely home, and home sweet homeFor there the heart can rest.
Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and replace it with 'contribution'.
It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.
For there to be true maturity, people must be given room to grow, which includes room to fail.
To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.
He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.
Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.
You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where performance is more important than reality. Fake your faith. Sneak around and pretend your spirituality. Train your children to do the same. Embrace a long list of do's and don'ts publicly but hypocritically practice them privately... yet never own up to the fact that its hypocrisy. Act one way but live another. And you can count on it - emotional and spiritual damage will occur.
The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.
Only grace-large doses, frequently displayed, released-will restore the wounded.
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.
I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family.
A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.
The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.
The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person's day, week, or life.
One who can move mountains start with the little stones.
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.
Friends make life a lot more fun.
The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers
Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.
Favorite People, Favorite Places,Favorite Memories of the past ...These are the joys of a lifetimeThose are the things that last
It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.
There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .
One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.
The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever.
He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail
Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.
Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!
As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.
The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
Big head, target for enemy; big heart, target for friend.
Future generation is the most important thing.
Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.
To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.
Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.
One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit - boom! - and I'm down and out. What a way to die!
The strength of the computer lies in its being a logic machine. It does precisely what it is programed to do. This makes it fast and precise. It also makes it a total moron; for logic is essentially stupid.
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
To love a thing means wanting it to live.
The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong solution to the right problem.
Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.
