“A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.”
James Baldwin
Inspire
December 3, 2014 by
“I’m convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It’s a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.”
— Stephen Covey
Good to Great
December 2, 2014 by
“Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.”
— Samuel Johnson
Teaching
December 1, 2014 by
“The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspire
November 30, 2014 by
“It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.”
— Oprah Winfrey
Courage
November 29, 2014 by
“Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.”
— Anthony Robbins
Forgiveness
November 28, 2014 by
“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.”
― Voltaire
Patience
November 27, 2014 by
“The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.”
― Ralph Marston
Empathy
November 26, 2014 by
“Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.”
― Barbara Kingsolver
Enthusiasm
November 25, 2014 by
“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”
― Samuel Ullman
“Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”
― Napoleon Hill