Leadership

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”

 

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Gratitude

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

 

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Positivity

“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”

 

Mother Teresa

Health

“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.”

 

Herophilus

Courage

“Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens.”

 

Tony DeLiso, Legacy: The Power Within

Teaching

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”

 

Benjamin Franklin

Character

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

 

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

Communication

“Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”

 

Paulo Coelho

Teaching

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Anon

Happiness

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”

 

Seneca