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Bruce Cockburn: Justice
Everybody likes to see justice done—to someone else. —Bruce Cockburn
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Serbian proverb: Be humble, be noble
“Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.” Serbian Proverb
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Seneca: Time heals
“Time heals what reason cannot.” —Seneca.
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Aristotle: Repentance
“Bad men are full of repentance. ” —Aristotle
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Laws
“To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. ” —Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Jean Lacordaire: Kindness
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. —Jean Lacordaire
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Richard Kriegbaum: Leadership Prayers—Identity
Identity It’s not really me, God. It’s just what I do. I lead as an expression of who I am, yet I must always be more than the leadership role I play. People may see me in terms of the visible leadership role which God has entrusted to me, but God knows who I really…
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Unknown: Doggy power
Any time you think you have power and influence, try ordering around someone else’s dog. —Unknown Related articles Doggy body language(wepets.wordpress.com) Happy Halloween from Doggies.com(doggies.com)
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John Frusciante: Balance
“For me it’s important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time. ” —John Frusciante
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Sydney Smith: Do what you can
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little — do what you can.” —Sydney Smith.
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Lucius Anneus Seneca: It takes two to quarrel
“A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. ”—Lucius Anneus Seneca.
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Norman Vincent Peale: Enthusiasm
“Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.” Norman Vincent Peale
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William Shakespeare: Heavenly thoughts
“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.” —William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616).
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Bodhidharma: Walking the way
All know the way; few actually walk it. —Bodhidharma
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Marie Curie: Curiosity
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. —Marie Curie
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James Bryce: Book's worth
“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ” —James Bryce
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Anton Peck: Reliable creativity
Creativity isn’t worth a thing if it isn’t served with an equal amount of reliability. —Anton Peck.
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Proverbs 35: Trust the Lord
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.” —Proverbs 35.
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Jawaharlal Nehru: Acting subconsciously
“A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.” —Jawaharlal Nehru.
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Johnson: No hope, no endeavour
“Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.” —Johnson
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Kahlil Gibran: Mayhap
‘When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, “Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison.” And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, “Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.”‘ —Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist (1883-1931).
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Wendell Wilkie: Liberty
“Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. ” —Wendell L Wilkie.
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Ronald Reagan: Church and state
“We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.” —Ronald Reagan, 40th US President.
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Friendship
“Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. ” —Francis Bacon
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Demosthenes: Censure
“The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. ” —Demosthenes
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Count…
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” -John Lennon
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Temporary experiment
“If you want to experiment, do something temporary. ” —-Andy Garcia
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Realization
“It’s a horrible thing to realize what you’ve done. ” —-Mark David Chapman
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Following the Leader? Stop, Notice How It Makes You Feel
There is much we can learn from following. We all find ourselves in positions to follow both great and horrible leaders from time to time. It helps to stop and really pay attention to how we feel during the process. Pay Attention to Emotions As leaders, we lead and follow with much intensity. Because…
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Maya Angelou: History
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. ” —Maya Angelou. Related articles Maya Angelou – But Still I Rise! (poshabilities.wordpress.com) Still I rise by Maya Angelou (isysdrain.wordpress.com) The Story of Human Rights (cynicmeetshope.wordpress.com)
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Heraclitus: Man,being himself—seriously!
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. –Heraclitus, philosopher (500 BCE)
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Thomas Carlyle: Judgment
“Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. ” –—Thomas Carlyle Related articles Quotes…
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James Madison: You cannot be both judge and party
“No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.” —James Madison
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Henry David Thoreau: Justice and injustice
“Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant. ” —Henry David Thoreau
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Toba Beta: Common sense
“There are places on planet earth, where common sense doesn’t apply.” ― Toba Beta, BetelgeuseIncident
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Phyllis Theroux: Letter writing
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. —Phyllis Theroux
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Alden Nowlan: Adolescence, adulthood and wisdom
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. –Alden Nowlan, poet, novelist, and playwright (1933-1983)
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Morality
“Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. ” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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William Hazlitt: "The rule for travelling…
“The rule for travelling abroad is to take your common sense with you, and leave your prejudices behind.” —William Hazlitt
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John Tyler: Never consent
“I can never consent to being dictated to. ” —John Tyler
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Bruce Lee: Limits
“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it, will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” —Bruce Lee.
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Henry Ford: Learning
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”—Henry Ford.
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George Bernard Shaw: Respectability
“The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.” —George Bernard Shaw.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Informative portraits
“The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers. ” – —Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Franklin D Roosevelt: Confidence
“Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. ” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Words
“Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (1804-1864).
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Henry David Thoreau: Blunderer
A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862). Embed from Getty Images
