You may delay, but time will not. --Benjamin Franklin
Change
Things do not change; we change. --Henry David Thoreau
Management and Leadership
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. --Peter Drucker
Hard to Fail
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. --Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing Permanent
There is nothing permanent except change. --Heraclitus
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
Capacity for Good and Evil
I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil. ― Jordan B. Peterson
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
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.
Mind Over Matter
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. --Mark Twain
Change Your World
Change your thoughts and you change your world. --Norman Vincent Peale
Fear and Love
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. --Niccolo Machiavelli
Motive or Ignorance
Never ascribe to motive what is likely better ascribed to ignorance. —Allen Estrin
No Regrets
People who say, “I have no regrets,” are not telling the truth. They should truthfully say either, “I avoid thinking about my regrets,” or, “I am content with the regrets I have chosen.” Every choice made in life excludes the opportunity for another experience, given the limits of time and resources. If I choose to go to the mountains this weekend, I cannot at the same time go to the beach. While I may prefer the benefits of going to the mountains, I am still missing out on the benefits of going to the beach. I may choose benefits of self employment, but I miss out on the opportunity to have the relative stability of being an employee of someone else. I may choose the benefits of not marrying, but I miss out on the opportunity of experiencing the depth of committed relationships of a spouse and children in a cohesive family. There is a price to be paid for every choice, an opportunity missed for every opportunity taken, a regret to be had for every regret avoided. The best we can do is to choose our regrets wisely. --Steven R. Hobbs
The Life We Have Planned
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” --E.M. Forster
Great Man
“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.” --Chanakya
Significance and Fame
“The famous are rarely significant, and the significant are rarely famous.” —Dennis Prager