"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least." –
Goethe.
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." –
Theodore Hesburgh.
"Vanity and pride are
different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more
to our opinion of ourselves; vanity to what we would have others think of us." – Jane Austen.
"People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less." – Norman Vincent
Peale.
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." – Lily Tomlin.
"If something goes wrong, it is my fault. If something turns out all right, we did it. If something turns out great,
you did it." – Anonymous.
"When you begin with the end in mind, you gain a different perspective. One man asked another on the death of a mutual
friend, 'How much did he leave?' His friend responded, 'He left it all.'" – Stephen Covey.
"Efficient management
without effective leadership is, as one individual has phrased it, 'like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.' No management
success can compensate for failure in leadership. But leadership is hard because we're often caught in a management paradigm."
– Stephen Covey.
"The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers
in the modern world, but we don't want a world of engineers." – Winston Churchill (1950).
"The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits.
His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs." – Confucius.
"What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say." – Emerson.
"Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character;
sow a character, reap a destiny." – A maxim.
"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone. It has to be made, like bread; remade all the
time, made new." – Ursula K. LeGuin
"There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living."
– David Starr Jordan.
"Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil – the
silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he
pretends to be." – William George Jordan.
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at
when we created them." – Albert Einstein.
"We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where
we began and to know the place for the first time." – T.S. Eliot.
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." – Aristotle.
"No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be
opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal." – Marilyn
Ferguson.
"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything
its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods." – Thomas Paine.
"How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge
all the time?" – Henry David Thoreau.
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his
life by conscious endeavor." – Henry David Thoreau.
"No one can hurt you without your consent." – Eleanor Roosevelt.
"They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them." – Gandhi.
"Success is on the far side of failure." – IBM founder T.J. Watson.
"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of
human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and
multiply the grief he proposes to remove." – Samuel Johnson.
"Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity
to accept the things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference." – Alcoholics Anonymous prayer.
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within
us." – Oliver Wendell Holmes.
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of." – Pascal.
"We are all angels with only one wing, we can only fly while embracing each other." –
Luciano De Crescenzo.
"Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths, generic common denominators. They
are tightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life." –
Stephen Covey.
"Management, remember, is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered,
right brain activity. It's more of an art; it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when
you're dealing with personal leadership issues. … Management is the breaking down, the analysis, the sequencing, the
specific application, the time-bound left-brain aspect of effective self-government. My own maxim of personal effectiveness
is this: Manage from the left; lead from the right." – Stephen Covey.
"It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course,
things can hurt us physically or economically and can cause sorrow. But our character, our basic identity, does not have to
be hurt at all. In fact, our most difficult experiences become the crucibles that forge our character and develop the internal
powers, the freedom to handle difficult circumstances in the future and to inspire others to do so as well." – Stephen
Covey.
"Anytime we think the problem is "out there," that thought is the problem. We empower what's
out there to control us. The change paradigm is "outside-in" - what's out there has to change before we can change. The proactive
approach is to change from the inside-out: to be different, and by being different, to effect positive change in what's out
there - I can be more resourceful, I can be more diligent, I can be more creative, I can be more cooperative." – Stephen
Covey.
"It is here that we find two ways to put ourselves in control of our lives immediately. We
can make a promise - and keep it. Or we can set a goal - and work to achieve it. As we make and keep commitments, even small
commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength
to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by
little, our honour becomes greater than our moods." – Stephen Covey.
"Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not
doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing.
If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem." – Stephen Covey.
"Management is a bottom line focus: How can I best accomplish certain things? Leadership deals
with the top line: What are the things I want to accomplish?" – Stephen Covey.
"People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the
ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value." – Stephen Covey.
"Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they
would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state." – William James.
"Reality is what I see, not what you see." – Anthony Burgess.
"Civilization is impossible without traditions, and progress impossible without the destruction
of those traditions. The difficulty, and it is an immense difficulty, is to find a proper equilibrium between stability and
variability." – Gustave Le Bon (1895).
