Thoughts 24DEC2010

Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence - Barnard Montgomery
Our life's a stage, a comedy : either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently - Palladas
A leader is a dealer in hope - Napoleon Bonaparte

Thoughts 20DEC2010

I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best - John Keats
We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do - Samuel Smiles
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings - William Shakespeare

Thoughts 17DEC2010

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says : "Leave no stone unturned" - Edward Bulwer Lytton
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value - Albert Einstein
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius - Jospeph Addison

Thoughts 16DEC2010

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership - Faye Wattleton
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable - Seneca
Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoughts 13DEC2010

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure - Kal Menninger
The great blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it - Seneca (7 B.C. - 65 A.D)

Thoughts 10DEC2010

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience - Elbert Hubbard
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them - Henry David Thoreau

Thoughts 09DEC2010

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action - Benjamin Disraeli
It is the trouble that never comes that causes the loss of sleep - Chas. Austin Bates
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each - Henry David Thoreau

Thoughts 06DEC2010

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true - Leon J. Suenes
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving - Dennis Waitley
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself - Georges Clemenceau

Thoughts 03DEC2010

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself - Theodore T. Hunger
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it - W.C. Fields
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be - Horace Bushnell

Thoughts 02DEC2010

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance - Owen Feltham
If you would create something, you must be something - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe