Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. --H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Experience
Experience teaches only the teachable. --Aldous Huxley
Change
Things do not change; we change. --Henry David Thoreau
Two Types of People
There are two types of people, those who are victims and those who are empowered. The victim focuses on the wrongs he has endured. The empowered focuses on not being a victim. --Steven R. Hobbs
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
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
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
Mind Over Matter
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. --Mark Twain
Causing Happiness
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. --Oscar Wilde
Change Your World
Change your thoughts and you change your world. --Norman Vincent Peale
Greatest Wealth
The greatest wealth is to live content with little. --Plato
Failure will never overtake me...
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. --Og Mandino
The Good Wolf
Characteristics of a good wolf:
He prioritizes and protects his own pack.
His stated values are in alignment with those in his pack.
He acts according to his values, with rare exception.
He takes immediate responsibility and makes amends for mistakes.
—Steven R. Hobbs
Motive or Ignorance
Never ascribe to motive what is likely better ascribed to ignorance. —Allen Estrin