Words and deeds

Words that do not match deeds are not important.

~ Che Guevara

Your story

"Child," said the Lion, "I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own."

~ C.S. Lewis

Waste no time

Waste no time debating what a good person should be. Be one. 

~ Marcus Aurelius

A good anvil

A good anvil does not fear the hammer. 

~ Italian proverb

I was different

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different. 

~ Donna Brazile

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.

~ Helen Keller

You have not converted a man just because you have silenced him.

~ John Morley

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.

~ Albert Einstein

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

~ Gandhi

Here is the very heart and soul of the matter. If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself — your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. Use the remainder to induce those you “work for” to understand and practice the theory. I use the terms “work for” advisedly, for if you don’t understand that you should be working for your mislabeled “subordinates,” you haven’t understood anything. Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

~ Dee Hock

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality. As Napoleon observed, “No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.”

~ Dee Hock

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

~ William Shakespeare

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

~ Julius Charles Hare

God has made the back to the burden.

~ William Cobbett

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There’s a vanity to candor that isn’t really worth it. Be kind.

~ Richard Greenberg

Self Reliance.
I will gladly listen to the advice of older and wiser people; I will reverence the wishes of those who love and care for me; but I will learn to think for myself. I will not be afraid of being laughed at. I will not be afraid of doing right when the crowd does wrong.

~ William J. Hutchins, The National Institution of Moral Instructions, 1913

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience asks the question “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

~ Henry Ford