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Most ailing organizations
have developed a functional blindness to their own defects. They are not
suffering because they cannot resolve their problems,
but because they cannot see their problems.
John Gardner - from Greg
Smith's Navigator Newsletter
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If
you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following,
then you are just out taking a walk.
Benjamin
Hooke - submitted by Joan Donogh
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For
every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking the
root.
Thoreau - submitted by Dan Venables
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Asking
a question is only embarrassing just for that moment. Not asking is embarrassing
and it will haunt you for the rest of your life.
Japanese
Proverb - from Kathy Gill
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Your life will always be filled
with challenges. It's best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy
anyway.
Richard Carlson |
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The kind of person I would follow;
it’s like there is a stick down through the centre of them that’s rooted
in the ground. I can tell when someone has that. When they’re not defensive,
not egotistical. They’re open-minded, able to joke and laugh at themselves.
They can take a volatile situation and stay focused. They bring out the
best in me by making me want to handle myself in the same way. I want to
be part of their world.
When someone comes into the room with those attributes, it makes everyone
in the room feel like we’re all contributing.
Jean Kvasnica |
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The cultivation of talent is the
route to independence and maturity.
Abraham Zaleznink - submitted by Ian Bullock |
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Far better is it
to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by
failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much
nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory
or defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
- submitted by Jerry Bodman
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Destiny is not
a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice; it's not a thing to be waited
for, but a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings
Bryan - from Azriela Jaffe's "Create
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I'll work where my own nature would
be leading;
it vexes me to choose another guide.
Emily Bronte
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Children today are tyrants. They
contradict their parents, gobble their food,
and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates
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As someone who has faced as much
disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always
unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine
either way. I trust that the challenges we face in life are always lessons
that serve our soul's growth.
Marianne Williamson - from Azriela Jaffe's
"Create Your Own Luck" Newsletter |
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Some people see things as they
are and ask - why? I dream of things
that have never been done and ask - why not?
George Bernard Shaw - from J. F. Clemente |
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No student ever attains very eminent
success by simply doing what is required of him;
it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required,
that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
Charles Kendall Adams |
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Ability may get you to the top,
but it takes character to keep you there.
John Wooden |
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Character is much easier kept than
recovered.
Thomas Paine |
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You have vision, fortitude and
character. Who needs hair?
Hallmark Cards |
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No pessimist ever discovered the
secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller - from Bettina Grahek |
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We hold these
truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and
independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent
and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
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If not now, when?
The Talmud - from Oprah's favorite quotes |
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Each time a man
stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes
out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing
each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those
ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of
oppression and resistance ...Few
are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure
of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a
more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet
it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change
a world that yields most painfully to change.
Robert F. Kennedy - from Bettina Grahek
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