Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
This is true. What a man is survives him. It can.
More than anything else, what keeps a person going in the midst of adversity is having a sense of purpose. It is the fuel that powers persistence.
You may have a million reasons not to get started now. In a month or a year or five years from now, you may have only one regret – that you didn’t start now.
If you’re proactive, you focus on preparing. If you’re reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.
And you will have greater credibility with your leader if you admit your shortcomings and refrain from making excuses.
Charlie Brower said, “A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.” Negative environments kill thousands of great ideas every minute.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an invasion of ideas.” – Victor Hugo.
The happiest day of your life will be the day when you realize “we” really is the most important word in the English language.
The first law of holes says, “When you are in one, stop digging.
May thinking become your greatest tool for creating the world you desire.
When an archer misses the mark he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull’s-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.
Asking and hearing people’s opinions has a greater effect on them than telling them, ‘Good job.’ ” – Sam Walton.
One of the reasons that problem solving is so difficult is that we are often too close to the problems to truly understand them.
A deaf ear is the first indication of a closed mind.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for someone else. – BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
Napoleon Hill said, “It’s not what you are going to do, but it’s what you are doing right now that counts.
Failure isn’t failure if you do better the next time.
As Michel de Montaigne observed, “No wind favors him who has no destined port.
If you want people to remember what you say, you need to say the right thing at the right moment in the right way!
Learning to pause and ask questions turns experience into insight.