A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of
having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and
bless the lives of others.
~Hans Selye, endocrinologist
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The greatest way
to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
~Socrates
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Things which matter most must never be
at the mercy of things which matter
least.
~Goethe
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It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence
is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head --
it is the unique intersection of both.
~David Caruso
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As human beings, our greatness lays not so much in being able to remake the
world ... as in being able to remake ourselves.
~Mahatma Gandhi
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Leaders we admire do not place themselves at the center, they place others
there. They do not seek the attention of people, they give it to others…they
focus on the constituent.
~Kouzes and Posner, 1993
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When the gift I
give to the other is integral to my own nature, when it comes from a place of
organic reality within me, it will renew itself - and me - even as I give it
away.
~Parker Palmer |
Purpose is that deepest dimension
within us - our central core or essence - where we have a profound sense of who
we are, where we came from, and where we’re going. Purpose is the quality we
choose to shape our lives around. Purpose is a source of energy and direction.
~Richard Leider
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Though no one can go back
and make a brand new start, anyone can start now and make a brand new ending.
~ Carl Bard
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The challenges that I keep waiting for
to pass so that I can begin living are in fact the real substance of my life.
As I encounter each of these challenges, I have a choice.
~Charles Manz |
Life is a place of service. Joy can be real only if
people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life
outside themselves and their personal happiness.
~Leo
Tolstoy
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do
more, and become more, you are a leader.
~John Quincy Adams
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It could be argued that all leadership is appreciative
leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around
us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to
lead...It's the capacity to see with an appreciative eye the true
and the good, the better, and the possible.
~David L. Cooperrider
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t
let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most
important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow
already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
~ Steve Jobs
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It is good to have an
end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
~Ursula K. Le Guin
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In the end, it is important to remember that we
cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
~Max
DePree |
Leadership is always from the inside out. It is the tone and
quality of your heart that determines the tone and quality of your leadership.
~Robert E. Staub, II
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The signs of outstanding leadership
appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their
potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results?
Do they change with grace? Manage conflict? Try to think about a leader as one
who serves.
~Max DePree
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Not everything
that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
(Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton) Do or not. There is
no try.
~Yoda |
In circumstances had the power to bless or harm, they
would bless and harm all men alike, but the fact that the same circumstances
will be alike good and bad to different souls proves that the good or bad is not
in the circumstance, but only in the mind of him that encounters it.
~James Allen
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When you were born, you cried
and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the
world cries and you rejoice.”
~Old Native American
Saying
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