admin — 22 November 2023

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

-Charles Darwin

 

“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”

– Thomas Aquinas 

 

“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you are right.”

– Henry Ford 

 

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

-Winston Churchill

 

“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” 

– Ralph Nader

 

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”

– General Norman Schwarzkopf

 

“It may be that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey.  The mind that is not baffled is not employed.  The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

– Wendell Berry

 

“Don’t ask what the world needs.  Ask what makes you come alive and go out and do it.  Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

– Howard Thurman

 

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

– John Muir

 

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.”

– Dr. Albert Schweitzer

 

“Powerful questions come from pure curiosity.”

– Bob Dabik

 

“Where you stumble, there your treasure lies.” 

– Joseph Campbell

 

“The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating.  The paths are not to be found, but made.  And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination.”

– John Schaar

 

“Every change of mind is first of all a change of heart, and if the heart does not change, new ideas do not last long.”

– Richard Rohr

 

“Gratitude is liberating.  It is subversive.  It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.”

– Joanna Macy

 

“To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying ‘Amen’ to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

 

“The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better. “

– Richard Rohr

 

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

– Lao Tzu

“Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the tides, the waves and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love.  Then, for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire. “

– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

 

“Darkness deserves gratitude.  It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.”

– Joan Chittister

 

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as who you become by achieving your goals.”

– Zig Ziglar

 

“In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision.”

– Peter Drucker