"I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion."
-Ellen DeGeneres, comedian (b. 26 Jan 1958)
Compassion learned...
The power of dreams
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
-Wilma Rudolph
Autobiography of humanity
"Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography."
-Lloyd Alexander, novelist (30 Jan 1924-2007)
Chances you miss
"Don't worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try."
-Unknown
...is to make meaning
"The job of leadership today is not just to make money. It is to make meaning."
– John Hagel
– John Hagel
Fight our own government to...
"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
-Ansel Adams, photographer (1902-1984)
The best step
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
-Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965)
Use it every day
The fun of being alive is realizing that you have a talent and you can use it every day, so it grows stronger.
-Lou Centlivre
Extremely valuable...
"You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise."
-James Newman
Optimism: hope & confidence
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
-Helen Keller
Two ways of spreading light...
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
-Edith Wharton, novelist (24 Jan 1861-1937)
Be Strong
Anything that makes you weak physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject as poison.
-Swami Vivekananda
Hurt & exciting
"If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting."
-Dick Vermeil
Right Stuff
"Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the "right stuff" to turn our dreams into reality."
-James Womack
Less difficult for each other
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
-George Eliot
Come alive
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
-Howard Thurman
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No remaining stationary
"We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life."
-James Freeman Clarke
What he becomes
"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it."
-John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Will not be served until
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
-Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (17 Jan 1706-1790)
Be kind
Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young,
Who loved thee so fondly as he?
He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue,
And joined in thy innocent glee.
-Margaret Courtney, poet (1822-1862)
Possible for those...
"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe."
-Gail Devers
Is it....?
Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?'
Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?"
Vanity asks the question, "Is it popular?"
But, conscience asks the question, "Is it right?"
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.
-Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader (15 Jan 1929-1968)
Positive energy...
"When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple. Everything is possible."
-Paulo Coelho
Habit of success
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.
-Paul J. Meyer
Bidding of the Leaders
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
-Hermann Göring, Nazi military leader (12 Jan 1893-1946)
Shelter under permission
"It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done."
-Bishop Robert South (1634-1716)
We can do...
"We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do."
-Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)
Dare & belief
"Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it."
-Oprah Winfrey
Rewards of truth
"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth -- and truth rewarded me."
-Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (9 Jan 1908-1986)
Great things are possible
"Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring…If you are willing, great things are possible to you."
-Grenville Kleiser
Access to a better...
"Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life."
-Karin Slaughter, novelist (b. 6 Jan 1971)
Obstacles were my....
For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
-Bette Howland
Only YOU can
Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.
-Jeffrey Gitomer
Economic blunder?
"It is our belief that social justice begins at home. We want those who have helped us to produce this great institution and are helping to maintain it to share our prosperity. We want them to have present profits and future prospects. ... Believing as we do, that a division of our earnings between capital and labor is unequal, we have sought a plan of relief suitable for our business."
-James Couzens, Ford Motor Company treasurer, announcing the doubling of wages to $5/day on Jan 5, 1914
[The Wall Street Journal said it is "to apply biblical or spiritual principles into a field where they do not belong ... (Ford has) committed economic blunders, if not crimes." Ford actually doubled its profits in two years.]
ONE...
(read this one 3 times)
"The successful people of today are people of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, people of single and intense purpose."
-Orison Swett Marden
Read again... Repeat
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
-Maxwell Maltz
(read that 3 times)
Take Vs. Make
"It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor."
-Max Eastman, journalist and poet (4 Jan 1883-1969)
Well written idea
"A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written."
-Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (2 Jan 1920-1992)
Absolute sense of...
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission. -Zig Ziglar
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