Quote of the day

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

Winston Churchill,
former British prime minister

 

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”

― Kathleen Winsor
Author

 

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Jim Rohn,
entrepreneur and motivational speaker

 

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Thomas Carlyle,
historian and philosopher

 

Valor withers without adversity.

Seneca,
philosopher

 

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.

Bob Hope

 

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
writer and statesman

 

Got home late last night and then again this morning my wife was discussing her boss, today I stumbled on this quote and it is so applicable to her situation.

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists. ... When his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, 'We did this ourselves.'

Lao Tzu,
philosopher

 

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel,
writer and activist

 

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates,
entrepreneur and philanthropist

 

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius

 

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

Annie Leibovitz

 

If you are not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Vince Lombardi,
coach

 

"To build may have to be the slow laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."

Winston Churchill

 

"Instead of diminishing evil, violence multiplies it!"

Martin Luther King

 

"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."

Francis Hutcheson,
Scot Philosopher

 

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Adams,
historian

 

There is no education like adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli,
political leader and writer

 

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Nelson Mandela,
activist and political leader