You may delay, but time will not. --Benjamin Franklin
Our Character
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. --H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Change
Things do not change; we change. --Henry David Thoreau
Patience and Time
Patience and time do more than strength or passion. --Jean de La Fontaine
Management and Leadership
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. --Peter Drucker
Must and Can't
You must do the things you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt
Choosing Joys and Sorrows
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. --Khalil Gibran
Judgement
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. --Will Rogers
Hard to Fail
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. --Theodore Roosevelt
Shortest Answer
The shortest answer is doing the thing. --Ernest Hemingway.
Hard Work Wins
Hard work wins. You get out of life what you put into it. You cannot control the outcome, but you are one hundred percent in control of the effort. And before you complain about what somebody did to you or said to you, go to the nearest mirror, look at it and say, what could I have done to change the outcome? And no matter how good you are, how hard you work, sooner or later, bad things are gonna happen to you. How you deal with those bad things will tell your mother and me if we raised a man. –Randolph Elder in Dear Father, Dear Son by Larry Elder
Trip and Fall
The goal in life isn’t to never trip or fall, but, rather, to trip or fall less often than you used to. --Steven R. Hobbs
Preparation
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. --Elbert Hubbard
Swimming Against the Stream
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. --Woodrow Wilson
Opportunity for Kindness
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I Am Only One
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. --Edward Everett Hale
Genuine Leader
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
Early to Bed
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. --Benjamin Franklin
Causing Happiness
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. --Oscar Wilde
Failure will never overtake me...
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. --Og Mandino