Quotes from Great People-7

Friday, February 25, 2011

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles one has overcome trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupery

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
Edward B. Butler

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara ever turned light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
Henrik Ibsen

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Norwegian proverb

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know… One who doesn't try cannot fail and become wise.
William Saroyan

No man or woman is uniformly successful… we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.
Barnaby Keeney

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.
Mark Twain

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu

There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
Cyrus Curtis

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln

A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.
Mencius

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Japanese Proverb

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher

Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
Joseph Conrad

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
Saint Francis De Sales

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie

People fail forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi

Our first and last love is - self-love.
Bovee

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
William Dean Howells

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Moliere

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles du Bois

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.
Francis C. Kelley

Quotes from Great People-6

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.
Thomas Crum

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
Seneca

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.
John F. Kennedy

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you have was once among the things only hoped for.
Epicurus

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Dale Carnegie

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Dale Carnegie

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Helen Keller

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash

Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov

No individual raindrop considers itself responsible for the flood.
Author Unknown

Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.
Leo Buscaglia

Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you're already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance.
Gill Atkinson

Never frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.
Justine Milton

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
Bill Cosby

When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.
Sam Lefkowitz

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!
Anne Frank

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson

Bad times, hard times - this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
St. Augustine

The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels is your heart. So fill your heart with good things and good things will follow you for the rest of your life.
Scott Murray

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
Charles Buxton

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it - so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Frank Scully

Success is never wondering what if.
Karrie Huffman

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop W.C. Magee

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Quotes from Great People-5

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new
Brian Tracy

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz

I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.
William DeMille

Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If a man does his best, what else is there?
General George S. Patton

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

If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help with man with the wrong mental attitude.
W.W. Ziege

The big shots are only the little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley

You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let if consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star.
Jean Church

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
Abraham Lincoln

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.
Leo F. Buscaglia

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand

Life unexamined, is not worth living.
Democritus

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.
Pablo Casals

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.
Cicero

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
Julius Caesar

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.
Ayn Rand

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.
Henry Ford

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Percy Shelley

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser

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

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
Robert L. Stevenson

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
Blaise Pascal

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
John Milton

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
Henry Ward Beecher

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.
Helen Keller

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott

Quotes from Great People-4

The greatest pleasure in life is in doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.
Dr. Denis Waitley

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce Lee

The only lack or limitation is in your own mind.
N. H. Moos

Your altitude is determined by your attitude.
Author Unknown

If you are aware of your weaknesses and are constantly learning, your potential is virtually limitless.
Jay Sidhu

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles
Claude M. Bristol

There are only two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandria

Faith will move mountains.
Proverb

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, but you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Integrity has no need of rules.
Albert Camus

Those who follow the crowd are quickly lost in it.
Author Unknown

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
John Ruskin

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Plutarch

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.
Thomas Huxley

The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
Helen Keller

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner

What you become is more important than what you accomplish.
Author Unknown

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Abraham Lincoln

Nothing worthwhile ever happens quickly and easily. You achieve only as you are determined to achieve... and as you keep at it until you have achieved.
Robert H. Lauer

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
John Greenleaf Whittier

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise -- it makes you stretch.
Mary Kay Ash

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land amongst the stars.
Jill McLemore

We are new every day.
Irene Claremont de Castillego

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
Ayn Rand

Quotes from Great People-3

Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house, the prestige - we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing.
Marianne Williamson

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.
Theodore T. Hunger

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Loyd Wright

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard

There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.
Henry W. Longfellow

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
Michel de Montaigne

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
Plutarch

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William James

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Mark Twain

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
Nelson DeMille

Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.
Zacharty Bercovitz

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph... You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.
Charles Lynch

Worry is a think stream of fear which, if encouraged, becomes a wide channel into which all other thoughts flow. Assume an attitude of positive expectancy!
Author Unknown

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison

Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.
Emile Coue

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.
Taisen Deshimaru

Champions in any field have made a habit of doing what others find boring or uncomfortable.
Author Unknown

The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill

It's easy to make a buck. It's tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw

Opportunity... often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere

Quotes from Great People-2

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.
Tim Duncan

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain

Things that hurt, instruct.
Benjamin Franklin

To lose patience is to lose the battle.
Mahatma Gandhi

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

It is the trouble that never comes that causes the loss of sleep.
Charles Austin Bates

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
Swedish Proverb

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it
Thomas Jefferson

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't have any seeds
Norman Vincent Peale

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
Henry Ford

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

Ask yourself this question: "Will this matter a year from now?"
Richard Carlson
Writing in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff.

It's not the situation…… it's your reaction to the situation.
Bob Conklin

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine

Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill

If at first an idea isn't absurd there is no hope for it.
Albert Einstein

Life is just a blank slate, what matters most is what you write on it.
Christine Frankland

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give!
Winston Churchill

Knowledge itself is power.
Francis Bacon

What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Seneca

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau

To avoid criticism , do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Green Hubbard

I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain

Follow your bliss.
Joseph Campbell

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action
David Seabury

Believe that you have it, and you have it.
Latin Proverb

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore
Rocky Marciano

When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top
Author Unknown

Quotes from Great People

Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Dr. Robert Schuller

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
Tommy Lasorda

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.
Doris Lessing

They can because they think they can.
Virgil

I am the greatest!
Muhammad Ali

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson

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

We are what we think.
Buddha

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

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain

It's never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

We tend to get what we expect.
Norman Vincent Peale

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
Henry David Thoreau

No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Jackson

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Vince Lombardi

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right.
Henry Ford

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

We become what we think about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.
Confucius

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns
Intimate Connections.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! (Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow)
Horace/Quintus Hortius Flaccus

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard

Do not wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it
Author Unknown

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
Colin Powell

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

Goals and Goal Setting Quotes

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.
Lee Iacocca

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Victor Cousins

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi

Failures do what is tension relieving,
while winners do what is goal achieving.
Dennis Waitley
(as quoted in Brian Tracy's book, Eat That Frog)

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Samuel Butler

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog

The great and glorious masterpiece of
man is to know how to live to purpose.
Michel de Montaigne

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Kahlil Gibran

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Aldous Huxley

If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.
Yogi Berra

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.
Polybius

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Viktor Frankl

The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.
Richard Monckton Milnes

To reach a port, we must sail—Sail, not tie at anchor—Sail, not drift.
Franklin Roosevelt

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca

It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it.
Burmese Saying

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Author Unknown

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
David Ogilvy

There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith

Happiness Quotes

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 that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Aristotle



Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus

People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
George Matthew Allen

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns, Intimate Connections

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.
John M. Good

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb Colton

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realising that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
from How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Epictetus

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mills

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Robert F. Kennedy

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

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
William Ellery Channing

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Ghandi

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Henry W. Longfellow

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
J. Petit Senn

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Thomas Fuller

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana

No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus

Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination; --happiness; but few are going by the same road.
Charles Caleb Colton

Follow Your Dreams Quotes Collection

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. Yeats

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Pamela Vaull Starr

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Patrick Henry

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Lanston Hughes

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.
Henry D. Thoreau

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
Marcia Wieder

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.
Hamilton Wright Mabie

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery

A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary.
Anonymous

Hope is the dream of the waking man.
French Proverb

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
William Shakepeare

Too much TV increases heart risk

Every hour spent in front of television increases the risk of dying from heart disease by 7 percent, a study has revealed.
Those looking at their favourite progammes for four hours a day face a 28 percent rise in the risk. The research led by Medical Research Council shows that changes in lifestyle could stem the toll from heart disease.

For almost a decade, researchers from the MRC Epidemiology Unit studied 13,197 middle-aged, healthy men and women in Norfolk. It showed that 373 of the participants died from heart disease.

It was found that the amount of time spent watching television was a significant marker of the likelihood of death from heart disease.

Scientists estimated that deaths can be avoided if TV viewing times had been reduced from four hours a day to just one hour, reports dailymail.co.uk.

Study co-author Dr Katrien Wijndaele warned: "Our bodies are not designed to sit for long periods and we should be aware that, as we put in the TV hours watching the World Cup, our risk of heart disease is probably increasing".

Source:www.sify.com

Sleep deprivation linked to chronic migraine

Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep deprivation leads to changes in the levels of key proteins that facilitate events involved in the underlying pathology of migraine, a new study has found.
Paul L. Dunham and his team at Missouri State University`s Center for Biomedical & Life Sciences sought to understand the mechanisms by which sleep disturbance increases the risk of migraine and may even trigger migraine.

"Previous clinical data support a relationship between sleep quality and migraine, so we used an established model of sleep deprivation to measure levels of proteins that lower the activation threshold of peripheral and central nerves involved in pain transmission during migraine,” said Dr. Durham.

`We found that REM sleep deprivation caused increased expression of the proteins p38, PKA, and P2X3, which are known to play an important role in initiating and sustaining chronic pain,` Dr. Durham added.

The study has been reported at the American Headache Society`s 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting in Los Angeles this week.

Source:www.sify.com

Breakfast key to good health

Good breakfast is the key to a healthy lifestyle determining the quality of your whole day`s nutrition, according to research.
And the best way to start the morning is with a simple bowl of a healthy cereal, as it makes people less likely to turn to fatty, sugary food through the rest of the day, reports express.co.uk.

The study, by nutritionist Sigrid Gibson revealed the healthiest breakfast choice is cereal with milk because it is a good source of calcium and numerous other key nutrients, such as fibre, protein and carbohydrate.

The research team analysed 12,068 food records from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey, which interviewed Britons aged from 19 to 64.

The results showed that one in five adults ate no solid food for breakfast; one third chose cereal and 45 percent enjoyed a non-cereal breakfast. The most popular item was tea or coffee, taken on 84 percent of breakfast occasions.

Milk was consumed with 82 percent of breakfasts, followed by cereal (39 percent), bread (33 percent) and fruit (14 percent).

The healthiest breakfast choice is cereal with milk.

Women were less likely than men to choose bread, sausage, bacon or eggs and more likely to have fruit instead.

The study found that eating breakfast was associated with a lower fat and higher carbohydrate intake over 24 hours compared with skipping breakfast.

But this was mainly attributable to cereal-based breakfasts as non-cereal meals were associated with a higher intake of saturated fatty acid and lower protein intakes.

Source:www.sify.com

Higher vitamin D intake needed to cut cancer risk

Scientists have reported that markedly higher intake of vitamin D is needed to reach blood levels that can prevent or markedly cut the incidence of breast cancer and several other major diseases than had been originally thought.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha conducted a study to reach that conclusion.

`We found that daily intakes of vitamin D by adults in the range of 4000-8000 IU are needed to maintain blood levels of vitamin D metabolites in the range needed to reduce by about half the risk of several diseases - breast cancer, colon cancer, multiple sclerosis, and type 1 diabetes,` said Cedric Garland, professor of family and preventive medicine at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.

`I was surprised to find that the intakes required to maintain vitamin D status for disease prevention were so high - much higher than the minimal intake of vitamin D of 400 IU/day that was needed to defeat rickets in the 20th century.`

`I was not surprised by this,` said Robert P. Heaney, of Creighton University, a distinguished biomedical scientist who has studied vitamin D need for several decades. This result was what our dose-response studies predicted, but it took a study such as this, of people leading their everyday lives, to confirm it.` Obesity can cause cancer

The study reports on a survey of several thousand volunteers who were taking vitamin D supplements in the dosage range from 1000 to 10,000 IU/day. Blood studies were conducted to determine the level of 25-vitamin D - the form in which almost all vitamin D circulates in the blood.

`Most scientists who are actively working with vitamin D now believe that 40 to 60 ng/ml is the appropriate target concentration of 25-vitamin D in the blood for preventing the major vitamin D-deficiency related diseases, and have joined in a letter on this topic,` said Garland.

`Unfortunately, according a recent National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, only 10 percent of the US population has levels in this range, mainly people who work outdoors.`

Interest in larger doses was spurred in December of last year, when a National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine committee identified 4000 IU/day of vitamin D as safe for every day use by adults and children nine years and older, with intakes in the range of 1000-3000 IU/day for infants and children through age eight years old.

While the IOM committee states that 4000 IU/day is a safe dosage, the recommended minimum daily intake is only 600 IU/day.

`Now that the results of this study are in, it will become common for almost every adult to take 4000 IU/day,` Garland said. `This is comfortably under the 10,000 IU/day that the IOM Committee Report considers as the lower limit of risk, and the benefits are substantial.` He added that people who may have contraindications should discuss their vitamin D needs with their family doctor.

`Now is the time for virtually everyone to take more vitamin D to help prevent some major types of cancer, several other serious illnesses, and fractures,` said Heaney.

The findings are published February 21 in the journal Anticancer Research.

Source:www.sify.com

Men in noisy jobs likelier to suffer hearing problems, heart diseases

A new study has found that being male and having a noisy job could increase the risk of hearing impairment and cardiovascular diseases in middle-aged adults.

`The severity of this condition has been shown to be associated with a poorer quality of life, communication difficulties, impaired activities of daily living, dementia, and cognitive dysfunction,` write the authors from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison.

Scott D. Nash and colleagues studied 3,285 participants ranging in age from 21 to 84 years, with an average age of 49. The researchers evaluated hearing impairment as a pure-tone average greater than 25 decibels hearing level in either ear, and also measured word recognition at different sound levels and with male and female voices.

Results showed prevalence of hearing impairment was 14.1 percent and the average word recognition in quiet was 89.6 percent, but 63.5 percent in competing message environment.


Source:www.sify.com(25-02-2011)

Beware of 'lifestyle disease'!(Source:The Times of India,25th February-2011)

Your medical report says you're on the verge of a lifestyle disease. Don't panic. You can arrest deteriorating health before it gets too bad. Our experts tell you how

It's the lifestyle hazard of our times — eat what you can, drink to relax, sleep on the commute and dial a pizza when deadlines loom. And the annual medical report shows cholesterol bordering on dangerous, sugar levels higher than average and raised blood pressure. You're on the borderline and need to pull back before things turn fatal. Nutritionist Neha Gehi tells what you need to know:

Diabetes
You have it if: Your fasting glucose level is between 110 and 126. Full-fledged diabetes invites more serious problems such as sight, kidney and heart problems.
Symptoms: Fatigue, increased thirst, hunger, mood swings, blurred vision, increased urination, wounds take longer to heal and yeast infections.
Arrest warrant
- Start light exercises such as walking to lower blood sugar normally.
- Fibre aids digestion of fats and sugar. Eat green vegetables, lentils and beans.
- Eat more natural food and less processed foods. Fresh fruits and veggies should make up 50 per cent of your diet.
- Stick to white meat instead of red. Eat it fresh, grilled or baked rather than fried.
- Switch from white sugar to brown and from white flour to mixed grain and brown rice. Carbohydrates should make up only 25 per cent of your diet.
- Dump aerated drinks, packaged juices.
- Check your blood sugar regularly.
- Cut sweets to once or twice a week.

Blood pressure
You have it if: Your blood pressure is between 125 and 140 mmHg (considered borderline). It can shorten your life by as much as 16 years. If escalated to high blood pressure, it can cause blindness, heart attack, kidney disease, and stroke. Reasons can be genetic, lack of exercise or overuse of salt.
Symptoms: High blood pressure is called a silent killer because it occurs without any symptoms. It can go unnoticed until it leads to fatal complications such as heart attacks or strokes. However, some people experience hot flushes, dizziness, shortness of breath and blurred vision.
Arrest warrant:
- Eat low-fat dairy foods and veggies.
- Cut down on salt.
- Increase intake of calcium (low fat dairy), magnesium (green leafy vegetables), omega-3 fatty acids (oily fish/ omega-3 supplements) and potassium (fruits and vegetables).
- Work out (moderate intensity) for at least 30 mins a day. It improves blood circulation and reduces stress. Don't jump into a high intensity workout if you lead a sedentary lifestyle.
- Stop drinking and smoking.

Cholesterol
You have it if: Your lipo-protein profile says your total cholesterol level is between 200-239 mg/dL. Cholesterol builds up on arterial walls, hardening them. Eventually, they become narrower, constrict blood flow and put you at risk of heart diseases. Cholesterol levels are also determined by age, gender and heredity factors. As we get older, blood cholesterol levels rise.
Symptoms: There are no outward symptoms of high cholesterol. If you are overweight, eat a fat-rich diet or are genetically disposed towards it, you should get checked regularly to catch it early.
Arrest warrant
- Go on a low fat diet. Avoid fried and food items rich in margarine and butter such as biscuits, cakes, etc.
- Switch from coconut oil to groundnut or rice bran oil for daily cooking.
- Don't put ghee or oil on rotis or dal.
- Switch to low-fat milk and cheese.
- Being overweight increases risk of high blood cholesterol greatly. Lose weight to lower LDL and total cholesterol levels and increase HDL. Just one hour of physical activity will do it.

Three steps to health
Nutritionist Rujuta Diwekar suggests these steps to get a grip on your condition.

Sleep an hour early: Lack of sleep or irregular sleep can have a visible impact on health. Get into bed an hour earlier than usual to get more time to calm frazzled nerves and repair the cells.

Close gaps between meals: Fasting and feasting — where you skip meals and gorge when you get the chance — makes blood sugar unstable. It also makes you crave starchy, oily and salty foods. Small meals provide a constant stream of sugar to keep you energised. Increase the number of times you eat by cutting a meal in half. Instead of having two chappatis at 2 pm, have one at 2 pm and another at 3. Stop picking from your colleagues' dabbas. When you are satiated, you won't give in to urges.

Do the homework: There is conflicting advice on everything but talking to your doctor or reading medical sites will make you aware of whether borderline diabetes could expose you to another lifestyle hazard. You will recognise symptoms, e.g. fluctuating blood sugar can make you cranky, and know when to take remedial measures. Also read up on the side-effects of the medication you need to take. This may egg you on to get a handle on your health. Be vigilant; don't miss check-ups.

Very interesting article on JRD Tata by Sudha Murthy

It was probably the April of 1974. Bangalore was getting warm and gulmohars were blooming at the IISc campus. I was the only girl in my postgraduate department and was staying at the ladies' hostel. Other girls were pursuing research in different departments of Science.

I was looking forward to going abroad to complete a doctorate in computer science. I had been offered scholarships from Universities in the US . I had not thought of taking up a job in India .

One day, while on the way to my hostel from our lecture-hall complex, I saw an advertisement on the notice board. It was a standard job-requirement notice from the famous automobile company Telco (now Tata Motors). It stated that the company required young, bright engineers, hardworking and with an excellent academic background, etc. At the bottom was a small line: "Lady candidates need not apply." I read it and was very upset. For the first time in my life I was up against gender discrimination. Though I was not keen on taking up the job, I saw it as a challenge. I had done extremely well in academics, better than most of my male peers. Little did I know then that in real life academic excellence is not enough to be successful.

After reading the notice I went fuming to my room. I decided to inform the topmost person in Telco's management about the injustice the company was perpetrating. I got a postcard and started to write, but there was a problem: I did not know who headed Telco. I thought it must be one of the Tatas. I knew JRD Tata was the head of the Tata Group; I had seen his pictures in newspapers (actually, Sumant Moolgaokar was the company's chairman then). I took the card, addressed it to JRD and started writing. To this day I remember clearly what I wrote.

"The great Tatas have always been pioneers. They are the people who started the basic infrastructure industries in India , such as iron and steel, chemicals, textiles and locomotives. They have cared for higher education in India since 1900 and they were responsible for the establishment of the Indian Institute of Science. Fortunately, I study there. But I am surprised how a company such as Telco is discriminating on the basis of gender."

I posted the letter and forgot about it. Less than 10 days later, I received a telegram stating that I had to appear for an interview at Telco's Pune facility at the company's expense. I was taken aback by the telegram. My hostel mate told me I should use the opportunity to go to Pune free of cost and buy them the famous Pune saris for cheap! I collected Rs 30 each from everyone who wanted a sari. When I look back, I feel like laughing at the reasons for my going, but back then they seemed good enough to make the trip. It was my first visit to Pune and I immediately fell in love with the city. To this day it remains dear to me. I feel as much at home in Pune as I do in Hubli, my hometown. The place changed my life in so many ways. As directed, I went to Telco's Pimpri office for the interview.

There were six people on the panel and I realised then that this was serious business.

"This is the girl who wrote to JRD," I heard somebody whisper as soon as I entered the room. By then I knew for sure that I would not get the job. The realisation abolished all fear from my mind, so I was rather cool while the interview was being conducted. Even before the interview started, I reckoned the panel was biased, so I told them, rather impolitely, "I hope this is only a technical interview."

They were taken aback by my rudeness, and even today I am ashamed about my attitude. The panel asked me technical questions and I answered all of them. Then an elderly gentleman with an affectionate voice told me, "Do you know why we said lady candidates need not apply? The reason is that we have never employed any ladies on the shop floor. This is not a co-ed college; this is a factory. When it comes to academics, you are a first ranker throughout. We appreciate that, but people like you should work in research laboratories. "

I was a young girl from small-town Hubli. My world had been a limited place. I did not know the ways of large corporate houses and their difficulties, so I answered, "But you must start somewhere, otherwise no woman will ever be able to work in your factories."

Finally, after a long interview, I was told I had been successful. So this was what the future had in store for me. Never had I thought I would take up a job in Pune. I met a shy young man from Karnataka there, we became good friends and we got married.

It was only after joining Telco that I realized who JRD was: the uncrowned king of Indian industry. Now I was scared, but I did not get to meet him till I was transferred to Bombay . One day I had to show some reports to Mr Moolgaokar, our chairman, who we all knew as SM. I was in his office on the first floor of Bombay House (the Tata headquarters) when, suddenly JRD walked in. That was the first time I saw "appro JRD". Appro means "our" in Gujarati. This was the affectionate term by which people at Bombay House called him. I was feeling very nervous, remembering my postcard episode. SM introduced me nicely, "Jeh (that's what his close associates called him), this young woman is an engineer and that too a postgraduate.

She is the first woman to work on the Telco shop floor." JRD looked at me. I was praying he would not ask me any questions about my interview (or the postcard that preceded it). Thankfully, he didn't. Instead, he remarked. "It is nice that girls are getting into engineering in our country. By the way, what is your name?". "When I joined Telco I was Sudha Kulkarni, Sir," I replied. "Now I am Sudha Murthy." He smiled kindly and started a discussion with SM. As for me, I almost ran out of the room.

After that I used to see JRD on and off. He was the Tata Group chairman and I was merely an engineer. There was nothing that we had in common. I was in awe of him.

One day I was waiting for Murthy, my husband, to pick me up after office hours. To my surprise I saw JRD standing next to me. I did not know how to react. Yet again I started worrying about that postcard. Looking back, I realise JRD had forgotten about it. It must have been a small incident for him, but not so for me. "Young lady, why are you here?" he asked. "Office time is over." I said, "Sir, I'm waiting for my husband to come and pick me up." JRD said, "It is getting dark and there's no one in the corridor. I'll wait with you till your husband comes."

I was quite used to waiting for Murthy, but having JRD waiting alongside made me extremely uncomfortable. I was nervous. Out of the corner of my eye I looked at him. He wore a simple white pant and shirt. He was old, yet his face was glowing. There wasn't any air of superiority about him. I was thinking, "Look at this person. He is a chairman, a well-respected man in our country and he is waiting for the sake of an ordinary employee."

Then I saw Murthy and I rushed out. JRD called and said, "Young lady, tell your husband never to make his wife wait again." In 1982 I had to resign from my job at Telco. I was reluctant to go, but I really did not have a choice. I was coming down the steps of Bombay House after wrapping up my final settlement when I saw JRD coming up. He was absorbed in thought. I wanted to say goodbye to him, so I stopped. He saw me and paused.

Gently, he said, "So what are you doing, Mrs Kulkarni?" (That was the way he always addressed me.) "Sir, I am leaving Telco."

"Where are you going?" he asked. "Pune, Sir. My husband is starting a company called Infosys and I'm shifting to Pune."

"Oh! And what will you do when you are successful."

"Sir, I don't know whether we will be successful." "Never start with diffidence," he advised me. "Always start with confidence. When you are successful you must give back to society. Society gives us so much; we must reciprocate. I wish you all the best."

Then JRD continued walking up the stairs. I stood there for what seemed like a millennium. That was the last time I saw him alive. Many years later I met Ratan Tata in the same Bombay House, occupying the chair JRD once did. I told him of my many sweet memories of working with Telco. Later, he wrote to me, "It was nice hearing about Jeh from you. The sad part is that he's not alive to see you today."

I consider JRD a great man because, despite being an extremely busy person, he valued one postcard written by a young girl seeking justice. He must have received thousands of letters everyday. He could have thrown mine away, but he didn't do that. He respected the intentions of that unknown girl, who had neither influence nor money, and gave her an opportunity in his company. He did not merely give her a job; he changed her life and mindset forever.

Close to 50 per cent of the students in today's engineering colleges are girls. And there are women on the shop floor in many industry segments. I see these changes and I think of JRD. If at all time stops and asks me what I want from life, I would say I wish JRD were alive today to see how the company we started has grown. He would have enjoyed it wholeheartedly.

My love and respect for the House of Tata remains undiminished by the passage of time. I always looked up to JRD. I saw him as a role model for his simplicity, his generosity, his kindness and the care he took of his employees. Those blue eyes always reminded me of the sky; they had the same vastness and magnificence.


*(Sudha Murthy is a widely published writer and chairperson of the Infosys Foundation involved in a number of social development initiatives. Infosys chairman Narayan Murthy is her husband.) *

Ten Rules for Staying Young

1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her.

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down. If you really need a grouch, there are probably a few dozen of your relatives to do the job.

3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Just never let the brain stay idle.

4. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. Laugh so much that you can be tracked in the store by your distinctive laughter.

5. Do not worry about situations beyond your control. God is still on His throne!

6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire lives, is ourselves.

7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it is family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health. If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don't take guilt trips. Shoulder only your own responsibilities. Then go to the mall, the next county, a foreign country, but not to guilt. God forgives and forgets. Go to Him.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity. Remember, life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

I thought I knew

I Thought I Knew
I did not know His love before,
The way I know it now.
I could not see my need for Him,
My pride would not allow.

I had it all, without a care,
The "Self-sufficient" lie.
My path was smooth, my sea was still,
Not a cloud was in my sky.

I thought I knew His love for me,
I thought I'd seen His grace,
I thought I did not need to grow,
I thought I'd found my place.

But then the way grew rough and dark,
The storm clouds quickly rolled;
The waves began to rock my ship,
My anchor would not hold.

The ship that I had built myself
Was made of foolish pride.
It fell apart and left me bare,
With nowhere else to hide.

I had no strength or faith
To face the trials that lay ahead,
And so I simply prayed to Him
And bowed my weary head.

His loving arms enveloped me,
And then He helped me stand.
He said, "You still must face this storm,
But I will hold your hand."

So through the dark and lonely night
He guided me through pain.
I could not see the light of day
Or when the storm might wane.

Yet through the aches and endless tears,
My faith began to grow.
I could not see it at the time,
But my light began to glow.

I saw God's love in brand new light,
His grace and mercy, too.
For only when all self was gone
Could Jesus' love shine through.

It was not easy in the storm,
I sometimes wondered, "Why?"
At times I thought, "I can't go on."
I'd hurt, and doubt, and cry.

But Jesus never left my side,
He guided me each day.
Through pain and strife, through fire and flood,
He helped me all the way.

And now I see as never before
How great His love can be.
How in my weakness He is strong,
How Jesus cares for me!

He worked it all out for my good,
Although the way was rough.
He only sent what I could bear,
And then He cried, "Enough!"

He raised His hand and said, "Be still!"
He made the storm clouds cease.
He opened up the gates of joy
And flooded me with peace.

I saw His face now clearer still,
I felt His presence strong,
I found anew His faithfulness,
He never did me wrong.

Now I know more storms will come,
But only for my good,
For pain and tears have helped me grow
As naught else ever could.

I still have so much more to learn
As Jesus works in me;
If in the storm I'll love Him more,
That's where I want to be!

God's Light Shines in You

God said:
You feel your greatness only when you feel Mine.
My greatness is My gift to you.
My greatness is your nourishment.
My greatness keeps you from groping in the dark.
My greatness shines from your eyes.
My greatness beats in your heart.
Your life is an exposition of My light.
Your life is not menial.

Whatever your menial activities — that is not your life. If that were your existence, indeed, what would be the point of it?

Fortunately, there is something more, and I am the Something More.
Without Me, life is colorless.
Without Me, life would not even be.
But you have life, and you have Me.
Consider Me the light that lights you.
Consider Me your greatest desire and your greatest fulfillment.

Consider Me yours, for that is what I am. I am yours. I gave Myself to you when I fashioned you from My hands. Of course, it was not My hands that fashioned you. It was My eyes. I dreamed of you, and then I beheld you. You are My vision on earth. I do not know how to separate My vision and My thought of you. You were My desire, and there you were, My gift to Myself.

You are My blessing to Myself.
You are My blessing.
Blessed are you, for you are Mine.

Love comes in many colors. Gratefulness is one. Do you feel the stream of gratefulness pouring through you right now? What color is it? I think it is silver.

Gratitude is not obligation. It is joy. It is a silver streak of joy.

It is awareness.
There are many shades of love and names for it. Gratefulness is one name. Mother love is another. Yet the love of a mother for her child cannot be separated from the love of the child for the mother. Each is grateful for the other.

Golden light shines from on high.

And My love is pure, and yet it is golden. Pure love is not colorless. It is golden. You feel that golden stream of love within you now. It is like a gasp of joy. But the gasp is repeated so it becomes a pulse of joy, a surge of joy. The joy contracts and expands. It pulls in and it goes out, and you are filled with the golden joy of God's love.

From the goldenness of My love come rubies and emeralds of love, and sapphires and garnets and opals of My love, come seashells and mother of pearl of My love, and sunlight on green leaves. My love makes an imprint on you. You are stamped: "God's love."

That is what you want to remember.

God's love streams through you. And My love is light, and light is color. And light emanates from Me. My Kingdom is a Kingdom of light, and so a rainbow is made.

How lovely of you to shine My light on earth.
I look at My light on earth in you, and I capture your heart.
My light magnetizes you to Me.
I am your Lodestone.
There is nothing but the light of My love.

What if you could believe that?
Then you would be seeing with My vision, and you would be seeing Truth.

Do you agree that a brick is made of light, moving light? Science says so. You believe diagrams.

I say you are made of My light. I say so. You are My diagram. I wrote Me into your eyes. I drew Me in your heart. You are an embodiment of Me, no other.

You are not Creatorless. You are Creatorful.
You who are made of My light shine it. You might as well know that.
You are a pool of My light.
You radiate Me.
A Moon shines on you, and you reflect the Moon in your waters.

You came from the Sea. I made you and I made the Sea. I granted you Being. You rose from the Ocean and went onto land and there you be, bathed in My light. You do not carry My light — you are My light. You are It. On land or sea. On earth or in Heaven...

You are Mine!

LOVE Thoughts

"Love is not what makes the world go round. Love is what makes the trip
worthwhile." -Franklin Jones

"When two people are at one in their innermost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze, and when two people understand each other in their innermost hearts, their words are sweet and strong like the fragrance of orchids." -I Ching

"Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven." - Bertrand Russell

"Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternative lies in loneliness, destruction, and despair." -Anonymous

"Loving people are happy, and happy people are loving." - Ken Keyes

"Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law." -
Boethius

"Love is the only gold." -Tennyson

Man may try to understand love and all its effects, but unless he knows the love of God, one can never fully know love, for God IS love, and the gift He gives to us, its foundation, is constructed in love.

It is nice to show our affection to those we love by sending them flowers and candy, or doing kind deeds for them, but true love is not about fleshly desires, or emotions that make our physical bodies feel good, but it feeds the spirit as only God and His son, Jesus Christ can do. Love has one source and this source is God.

The Top 60 Ways To Show Kids You Care

1. Notice them and acknowledge them frequently.
2. Smile a lot when around them.
3. Kneel down, squat, or sit at their eye level when talking to young children.
4. Acknowledge their efforts more then their results.
5. Seek them out but also allow them space.
6. Always remember and make a big deal about their birthdays and special days (don't need to spend a lot, just make a big deal about it to let them know they are important).
7. Ask them about and talk to them about themselves and what they like.
8. Look in their eyes when you talk to them but allow them to look away if the subject is difficult.
9. Listen to them and repeat back to them what you heard them say.
10. Play with them and let them lead the play frequently, choose the toys, choose the games a lot.
11. Read aloud together.
12. Laugh, giggle, dance, sing act goofy together as much as possible.
13. Be nice and model good kind behaviors.
14. Say "yes" a lot. In fact, for each "no" find two or three things that are "yes".
15. Word things in positive terms ("Billy, use walking feet" instead of "don't run Billy")
16. Tell them their feelings are okay.
17. Set boundaries that keep them safe.
18. Allow the feelings but redirect any dangerous, destructive, or abusive actions.
19. Be honest, but keep adult information with adults.
20. Listen to their stories they are usually telling you a little something about themselves.
21. Hug them frequently but don't force a hug if they don't want one.
22. Forget your worries sometimes and concentrate only on them.
23. Notice when they're acting differently or seem to be having a lot of problems.
24. Seek professional help when they need it.
25. Present options when they seek your counsel (limit options for younger children).
26. Play outside together as much as possible.
27. Surprise them with good things or fun ideas every once in a while.
28. Stay with them when they're afraid.
29. When giving choices try to give two choices that will both accomplish what needs to be done. (Billy, we can do your homework and then watch your show or do your homework and then go outside, which would you like better)
30. When they act out make sure you have supplied plenty of other ideas of ways to behave that still allow them to feel their feelings.
31. Delight in their discoveries, share their excitement.
32. Send them a letter or postcard whenever you get a chance.
33. When you have to be away on a trip, call them a lot and bring them something small when you return.
34. Let them over hear you bragging about them or saying something good about them when they think you don't know they are there.
35. Find good things about them that are actually true and let them know often.
36. Hide surprises for them to find.
37. Give them space when they need it.
38. Contribute to their collections.
39. Discuss their dreams and nightmares.
40. Laugh at their jokes.
41. Be relaxed, calm, loving, and nurturing as much as possible.
42. Answer their questions, or even better, help them answer them.
43. Help them do things for themselves when ever possible.
44. Create a tradition with them and keep it.
45. Learn what they have to teach.
46. Use your ears more than your mouth.
47. Make yourself available.
48. Show up at their concerts, games, and events.
49. Find a common interest.
50. Hold hands during a walk.
51. Apologize when you've done something wrong.
52. Listen to their favorite music with them.
53. Keep the promises you make.
54. Take lots of pictures of them.
55. Display their artwork in your home.
56. Thank them when they do nice things for you.
57. Point out what you like about them or their work.
58. Clip magazine pictures or articles that interest them.
59. Ask them to help you do things, ask for their input.
60. Adapted from the Healthy Communities Healthy Youth

Before(By:-William Arthur Ward)

Before you speak, listen.
Before you write, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you invest, investigate.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.
Before you retire, save.
Before you die, give.

Simple Friends and Real Friends

Anyone can stand by you when you are right,
but a real friend will stand by you even when you are wrong...

A simple friend identifies himself when he calls.
A real friend doesn't have to.

A simple friend opens a conversation with a full news bulletin on his life.
A real friend says, "What's new with you?"

A simple friend thinks the problems you whine about are recent.
A real friend says, "You've been whining about the same thing for 14 years. Get off your duff and do something about it."

A simple friend has never seen you cry.
A real friend has shoulders soggy from your tears.

A simple friend doesn't know your parents' first names.
A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book.

A simple friend hates it when you call after he has gone to bed.
A real friend asks you why you took so long to call.

A simple friend seeks to talk with you about your problems.
A real friend seeks to help you with your problems.

A simple friend wonders about your romantic history.
A real friend could blackmail you with it.

A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest
A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps himself.

A simple friend thinks the friendship is over when you have an argument.
A real friend knows that it's not a friendship until after you've had an argument.

A simple friend expects you to always be there for them.
A real friend expects to always be there for you!

Thanks for being my Real Friend!

Leadership Quotations(20-02-2011)

Friday, February 18, 2011

The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, The Leader of the Future, (c) 1996
Leaders grow; they are not made.

Christina Baldwin
To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

Robert K. Greenleaf
The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.

Lance Secretan, Industry Week, 10/12/98
Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration—of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

More than anything else today, followers believe they are part of a system, a process that lacks heart. If there is one thing a leader can do to connect with followers at a human, or better still a spiritual level, it is to become engaged with them fully, to share experiences and emotions, and to set aside the processes of leadership we have learned by rote.

Unknown
Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves.

Peter F. Drucker
Leadership is not magnetic personality—that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"—that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Robert L. Payton
American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people.

Lao Tzu
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did it ourselves.

Chinese proverb
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.

Lao Tzu
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Donald H. McGannon
Leadership is action, not position.

Fred Smith
Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated.

Anon
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

Mary D. Poole
Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.

Marian Anderson
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

James L. Fisher
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

Harold J. Seymour
Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to posterity.

Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Harold J. Seymour
When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow—to the end and at all costs.

Charles deGaulle
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Unkown
A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

Tacitus
Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.

Tom Landry
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

Max DePree
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.

Warren Bennis
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

John F. Kennedy
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Edgar Powell
No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree to which its leadership is representative.

James L. Fisher
Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Manual on military leadership
Good leaders develop through a never-ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience.

Chinese proverb
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Donald H. McGannon
Leadership is action, not position.

Bernd Brecher
There are many elements to a campaign.Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Anthony T. Dadovano
A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the person who finds the right things to do.

Talleyrand
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Walter Lippmann
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Abigail Adams
Great necessities call forth great leaders.

Charles S. Lauer
Leaders don't force people to follow—they invite them on a journey.

Harold S. Hulbert
Children need love especially when they don't deserve it.

Ralph Nader
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Jesse Jackson
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Knute Rockne - Professional Football Coach
I have to get the most energy out of a man and have discovered that it cannot be done if he hates another man. Hate blocks his energy and he isn't up to par until he eliminates it and develops a friendly feeling...(towards all his teammates.)

John Maxwell
The first step to leadership is servanthood.

Max DePree (The Art of Leadership)
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

Leadership Quotations(19-02-2011)

Do not follow where the path may lead.Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold R. McAlindon
(also attributed to Emerson and others)

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

There go the people.I must follow them for I am their leader.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
General Douglas MacArthur

The real leader has no need to lead--he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Lao Tzu

A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice — keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Noah Porter

If your actions inspire others to dream more,learn more, do more and become more,
you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
Aristotle

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(from Christian Leadership World)

Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus

A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George Patton
(from Big Dog's Quotes)

Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29:18

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Horace

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Henry W. Longfellow

I light my candle from their torches.
Robert Burton

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Woodrow Wilson

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Publius Syrus

A bold onset is half the battle.
Giuseppe Garibaldi

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Cornelius Nepos

To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
James Thomas

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Edmund Spenser

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Solon

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Napoleon Bonaparte

No man can stand on top because he is put there.
H. H. Vreeland

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Ovid

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Seneca

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln

What you cannot enforce / Do not command.
Sophocles

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Philip Armour

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
Friedrich Nietzsche


It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.)
Latin Proverb

Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Thomas Carlyle

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
Polybius

Famous Quotes for Training and Development

"I think, therefore I am (Cogito, ergo sum.)" - Descartes

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery." - Mark Van Doren, poet

"It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well." - Henri-Frederic Amiel (1821-81), Swiss philosopher, poet.

"Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is intellectual death." - Confucius

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain

"Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major-perhaps the major-stake in the worldwide competition for power. It is conceivable that the nation-states will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, and afterwards for control over access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor." - Jean Francois Lyotard, French philosopher.

"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul." - Arnold Bennett, British novelist.

"What I hear, I forget.
What I see, I remember.
What I do, I understand."
- Confucius

"When you know something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say that you don't know. That is knowledge." - Confucius

"To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty."
- Lao Tzu

"Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two." - Octavio Paz

"The road to wisdom?-Well, it's plain and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less."
- Piet Hein, Danish inventor and poet

"Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote."
- Edward Young

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." - B. F. Skinner

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." - Mark Twain

"Retention is best when the learner is involved." - Edward Scannell, University Conference Bureau, Arizona

"I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." - Albert Einstein

"It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained."
- Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain

"The only kind of learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered or self-appropriated learning - truth that has been assimilated in experience." - Carl Rogers

"You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself." - Galileo Galilei

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." - John Powell

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough we must do." - Goethe

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Gandhi

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates

"The teacher if he is indeed wise does not teach bid you to enter the house of wisdom but leads you to the threshold of your own mind." - Kahlil Gilbran, poet and painter

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes." - Marcel Proust, French novelist

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - William Arthur Ward

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

1. The Law of the Lid- Leadership Ability Determines a Person’s Level of
Effectiveness
2. The Law of Influence- The True Measure of Leadership Is Influence- Nothing
More, Nothing Less
3. The Law of Process- Leadership Develops Daily, Not in a Day
4. The Law of Navigation- Anyone Can Steer the Ship, But It Takes a Leader to
Chart the Course
5. The Law of E.F. Hutton- When the Real Leader Speaks, People Listen
6. The Law of Solid Ground- Trust is the Foundation of Leadership
7. The Law of Respect- People Naturally Follow Leaders Stronger Than
Themselves
8. The Law of Intuition- Leaders Evaluate Everything with a Leadership Bias
9. The Law of Magnetism- Who You Are Is Who You Attract
10. The Law of Connection- Leaders Touch a Heart Before They Ask for a Hand
11. The Law of the Inner Circle- A Leader’s Potential Is Determined by Those
Closest to Him
12. The Law of Empowerment- Only Secure Leaders Give Power to Others
13. The Law of Reproduction- It Takes a Leader to Raise Up a Leader
14. The Law of Buy-In- People Buy Into the Leader, Then the Vision
15. The Law of Victory- Leaders Find a Way for the Team to Win
16. The Law of the Big Mo- Momentum Is a Leader’s Best Friend
17. The Law of Priorities- Leaders Understand That Activity Is Not Necessarily
Accomplishment
18. The Law of Sacrifice- A Leader Must Give Up to Go Up
19. The Law of Timing- When to Lead Is As Important As What To Do and Where to Go
20. The Law of Explosive Growth- To Add Growth, Lead Followers- To Multiply
Leaders, Lead Leaders
21. The Law of Legacy- A Leader’s Lasting Value Is Measured by Succession

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.
~ John C. Maxwell

Leadership Quotes(18-02-2011)

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker
Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because
he wants to do it.
Dwight Eisenhower
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
Benjamin Disraeli
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
Elaine Agather
Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
Robert Half
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.
Groucho Marx
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore M. Hesburgh
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
James Crook
People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
H. Ross Perot
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
The Bible
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
St. Augustine
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Lewis Grizzard
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.
Lao-Tzu
It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Sophocles
The question, ‘Who ought to be boss?’, is like asking, ‘Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?’ Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
Henry Ford
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting
things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy
One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you’re perceived to be by others.
Edward L. Flom
Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.
William Arthur Wood
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair
Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves.
Stephen Covey
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading
them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership,
society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S Truman
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
Marian Anderson
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Jesse Jackson
The only real training for leadership is leadership.
Anthony Jay
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.
Theodore H. White
You do not lead by hitting people over the head-that’s assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold Geneen,
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
Elaine Agather
Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller
Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance
to a higher standard.
Peter Drucker
The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.
Spencer W. Kimball
One person’s candle is a light for many. – TALMUD
"To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their
existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next,
the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!'"
— Lao-tsu
"Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to
lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles,
motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading
your peers."
— Dee Hock, Founder and CEO Emeritus, Visa
"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to
confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is
the essence of leadership."
— John Kenneth Galbraith
"If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great
power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever."
— G.K. Chesterton to Alexander Woollcott
Act while you can: While you have the chance, the means, and the strength. – TALMUD
"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."
— Henry Kissinger
"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."
— Peter Drucker
"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is
there already."
— John Buchan
Do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor. – LEVITICUS 19:16
"You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that's assault, not leadership."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But
worthless who call not, heed not, but rest."
— Hesiod, 8th Century BC Greek poet
A nation needs its guides and shepherds, its scouts and leaders of the flock who will carry out
the function of leadership: the ability to feel and the power to think. – RABBI ADIN STEINSALTZ
"Never give an order that can't be obeyed."
— General Douglas MacArthur
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and
doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand."
— General Colin Powell
For the sake of Zion, I will not remain silent. For the sake of Jerusalem, I will not rest. ISAIAH
62:1
"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership,
society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to
change things for the better."
— Harry Truman
"The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ...
Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership."
— Gary Wills, Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders
A person should first put one’s house together, then one’s town, then the world. – RABBI
ISRAEL SALANTER
"A leader is one who influences a specific group of people to move in a God-given direction."
— J. Robert Clinton
"All Leadership is influence." — John C. Maxwell, Injoy, Inc.
We do not know the extent of our own power to change and to effect change. But we must act;
that is in our power. – RABBI BARUCH BOKSER
"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow,
too." — Sam Rayburn
"Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living
your life that others may receive your orders without being humiliated." — Dag Hammarskjöld
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to
carry on." — Walter Lippmann
Lead me to a rock that is too high for me. – PSALM 61:3
"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and
acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work
is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'" — Lao-Tse
"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."
— Theodore Roosevelt
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between,
the leader is a servant."
— Max DePree
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
— Theodore Roosevelt
You need not complete the work but you are not free to desist from it. – MISHNAH
"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the
ladder is leaning against the right wall."
— Stephen R. Covey
"He who has great power should use it lightly."
— Seneca
"How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your
people are visibly growing individually and as a group."
— Sir John Harvey-Jones
"He makes a great mistake ... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it
is founded by force than that which is welded by affection."
— Terence
"The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear
to those around him that he knows."
— Clarence Randall
"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place
and making a case."
— Ken Kesey
"As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good
impression of you when you're not around."
— Patrick Lencioni
"Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following you."
— Henry Gilmer
"Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making
friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher
sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality
beyond its normal limitations."
— Peter F. Drucker
"Leadership is the ability to establish standards and manage a creative climate where people are
self-motivated toward the mastery of long term constructive goals, in a participatory environment
of mutual respect, compatible with personal values."
— Mike Vance
"The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do."
— Andrew Carnegie
"My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a
common purpose and the character which inspires confidence."
— General Montgomery
"High sentiments always win in the end, The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat
always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it
comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic."
— George Orwell
"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader,
success is all about growing others."
— Jack Welch
"I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example. I
want to make sure there is no discrepancy between what we say and what we do. If you preach
accountability and then promote somebody with bad results, it doesn't work. I personally believe
the best training is management by example. Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do."
— Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan
Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person. -- Mother Teresa
Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. -- Mary D. Poole
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group. There is much less
competition. --Indira Gandhi
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. -- Ray Kroc
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. -- Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. -- Rosalynn Carter
Do not separate yourself from the community. – MISHNAH