History

Edmund Hillary: Conquer…

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist

Edmund Hillary (1919-2008), New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (erroneously affixed rosette by President Kwaśniewski! {full distinction or rosette, miniature}) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Sir Edmund Hillary (pavloskapralos.wordpress.com)
Day 7 (Part II) – Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Museum, Aoraki Mount Cook, New Zealand. (alwaystravelicious.com)
“The greatest mountain we need to climb lies in our our own minds”. It’s not the highest mountain that we conquer, but ourselves, our own mentality. Overcoming perceived limits to reach (attain) the pinnacle of our own minds.” (grandprixchampion.wordpress.com)
“The greatest mountain we need to climb lies in our our own minds”. It’s not the highest mountain that we conquer, but ourselves, our own mentality. Overcoming perceived limits to reach (attain) the pinnacle of our own minds.” (sharefaith.wordpress.com)
“The greatest mountain we need to climb lies in our our own minds”. It’s not the highest mountain that we conquer, but ourselves, our own mentality. Overcoming perceived limits to reach (attain) the pinnacle of our own minds.” (grandprixchampion.wordpress.com)
Thought of the Day 7.20.12 (ritalovestowrite.com)
The Devastating Cost of Everest Tourism (channelvoyager.com)

Peter Munk: Not Einstein?

Albert Einstein during a lecture in Vienna in 1921 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“I’m not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused. ”

—Peter Munk

Quotes by Albert Einstein on Creative Thinking, Innovation, Problem-solving and Entrepreneurship (compassioninpolitics.wordpress.com)
Einstein – The Smallest Horse, Guinness World Records (oddstuffmagazine.com)
Einstein’s slippers (boingboing.net)

Augustus William Hare: Two pieces of dead wood

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

—Augustus William Hare

Abraham Lincoln: Cowards

English: Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States. Latviešu: Abrahams Linkolns, sešpadsmitais ASV prezidents. Српски / Srpski: Абрахам Линколн, шеснаести председник Сједињених Америчких Држава. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”
—Abraham Lincoln

Cheers to Abraham Lincoln(authenticwinecountry.wordpress.com)
Lincoln, Reconstruction in Oxford scholar’s Tuesday talk at Samford University(youralabamagenealogy.wordpress.com)
Abraham Lincoln(chasepage.net)
How Abraham Lincoln lost his birthday holiday(constitutioncenter.org)
Honest Abe’s Birthday(jhcesi.wordpress.com)
Minutehound Celebrates Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday(prweb.com)
50 sentences about Abraham Lincoln’s life(constitutioncenter.org)

Martin Luther King Jr: Directly, indirectly

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. ”

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Charles de Gaulle: Initiative

“Never relinquish the initiative. ”

Charles de Gaulle

WWII French General Charles De Gaulle A WWII photo portrait of General Charles de Gaulle of the Free French Forces and first president of the Fifth Republic serving from 1959 to 1969. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Abraham Lincoln: Tact

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. –Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the US (1809-1865)

George Bernard Shaw: Respectability

English: Anglo-Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw writing in notebook at time of first production of his play “Pygmalion.” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.”

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw on communication (kipsthoughts.wordpress.com)
Quote For The Day (thekindnesskronicles.wordpress.com)

Eleanor Roosevelt: Work

English: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum ID #65732 Eleanor Roosevelt at United Nations (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. ”

–—Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt’s hands (timpanogos.wordpress.com)

Isaac Mizrahi: When you can and when you can't

Isaac Mizrahi arrives! (Photo credit: Ron Hogan)

“When someone says you can’t do what you know you can do, then you can’t do anything. ”
—Isaac Mizrahi

Great leadership

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

Colin Powell

Accomplishing great deeds

English: US Army (USA) General (GEN) Colin Powell, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, waves from his motorcade during the Persian Gulf War, Welcome Home Parade, held in New York City, New York (NY). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Organization doesn’t really accomplish anything. Plans don’t accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don’t much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.”

Colin Powell

Colin Powell: Area under the curve

“No matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. To cite calculus, we are the area under the curve.”
― Colin Powell, It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

Preparing for Calculus (mathedconcepts.wordpress.com)
AP Calculus Review (iphonelife.com)
The Land of Calculus… written during my youth (mathedconcepts.wordpress.com)
Stochastic Calculus (slideshare.net)
Learning Calculus and Quantum Physics Through Comics (spottybanana.net)

Theodore Roosevelt: Get busy

President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Deutsch: Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von 1901 bis 1909, Friedensnobelpreisträger des Jahres 1906. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it. ”
—Theodore Roosevelt

On this day in 1900, Theodore Roosevelt nominated for Vice President (grandoldpartisan.typepad.com)
Quotable quotes: Theodore Roosevelt (kedarkarandikar.com)
Theodore Roosevelt – Noble Peace Prize 1906 (thegoodword.me)
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Expanding Thanks to Bank of America Building Donation (buffalorising.com)

Colin Powell: Egoistic position

U.S. Army General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.
Colin Powell.

Kicking it with Egoist….. (macandmae.com)

Edward Everett Hale: Being one

Edward Everett Hale (Photo credit: Mr. Ducke)

I am only one, / But still I am one. / I cannot do everything, / But still I can do something; / And because I cannot do everything, / I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. –Edward Everett Hale, author (1822-1909)

Quotes (livewithlight.wordpress.com)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Strong hearts

Signature of Mahatma Gandhi. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
—Mohandas Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (louisadheen.wordpress.com)
Assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi -1948 (carocks.wordpress.com)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (earthpages.wordpress.com)
Tribute to Mohandas K. Gandhi (2nd Oct 1869 in Porbandar, Gujarat; † 30th Jan 1948 in New-Delhi, Delhi) (imcradiodotnet.wordpress.com)
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (omaymen.wordpress.com)

Albert Einstein: Feeling and longing

Albert Einstein (Photo credit: cliff1066™)

“Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.”
—Albert Einstein.

Albert Einstein (x3everythingchangebutyourname.wordpress.com)
How Albert Einstein Saved A Former Lover From The Nazis (businessinsider.com)
Albert Einstein the scientist‚ dreamer‚ lover (thehimalayantimes.com)
Quotes that change life (bellwort.wordpress.com)
Women in Science: Einstein’s Advice to a Little Girl Who Wants to Be a Scientist (brainpickings.org)
Albert Einstein’s birthday – and gifts (blogs.jta.org)
Hebrew University Launches Albert Einstein Archives Website and Database (teleread.com)
Albert Einstein can make you better at SEO (skyrocketseo.co.uk)
Albert Einstein – What He Really Believed (truelogic.wordpress.com)

Competition and cooperation

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933. Lietuvių: Franklinas Delanas Ruzveltas (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. ”
—Franklin D Roosevelt

President Franklin Roosevelt’s Fourth Inauguration (1945) (ghostsofdc.org)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Those Who Hated Him (usnews.com)
Roosevelt’s Backyard (adoseofrnr.wordpress.com)

Richard M. Nixon: A good Pope

Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President of the United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I would have made a good Pope. –Richard M. Nixon, 37th president of US (1913-1994).

Man and woman

Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself. ”
—Alexander Walker

Men From Mars, Women From Venus (bajan.wordpress.com)

Preparedness

Ovid by Anton von Werner. "Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905), Abriß der Weltliteratur, Seite 51 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow.”
—Ovid

Are You Ready For Anything? Can Anyone Really Be Ready For Anything? (readyforanythingstore.wordpress.com)

Colin Powell: Ego

U.S. Army General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. ”
Colin Powell.

Colin Powell Says Mitt Romney’s Neocon Advisers Are Maybe Dangerous (slog.thestranger.com)
Colin Powell still hasn’t endorsed a candidate for… (shortformblog.com)
Colin Powell works on selling a book (prairieweather.typepad.com)
Colin Powell Goes Rogue (Again), Disses Romney’s Foreign Policy and Supports Gay Marriage [Colin Powell] (jezebel.com)
Colin Powell Not Ready to Endorse a Presidential Nominee: ‘I’ll Take My Time to Decide’ (foxnewsinsider.com)
Colin Powell Supports Marriage Equality (themoderatevoice.com)
Colin Powell trashes Romney’s foreign policy advisors (thegrio.com)

George S Patton: Ingenuity

General George S. Patton’s monument in its original location, facing the old library during autumn when the sugar maples behind it were in full fall color. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ”
—George S Patton.

WAS GENERAL PATTON MURDERED? ~ “…At the end of the war Patton was in fact the highest ranking officer in the US Military. In peacetime the Armed Forces would fall under the authority of Patton…” (gunnyg.wordpress.com)
Patton’s Secret: I Am Going to Resign From the Army (gunnyg.wordpress.com)
Leadership … Define expectations – Lessons from Waffle House … (timesunion.com)
WAS GENERAL PATTON MURDERED? ~ “…At the end of the war Patton was in fact the highest ranking officer in the US Military. In peacetime the Armed Forces would fall under the authority of Patton…” (gunnyg.wordpress.com)
General George S. Patton was assassinated to silence his criticism of allied war leaders claims new book (gunnyg.wordpress.com)

Andrew Carnegie: Eggs in one basket

“Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.”
—Andrew Carnegie.

Enriching others with Andrew Carnegie [Garry Pickles] (ecademy.com)

Albert Einstein: Ideas

Albert Einstein (Photo credit: cliff1066™)

“Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
—Albert Einstein.

This is Cool! Albert Einstein’s Library Online (freetech4teachers.com)
Albert Einstein Archive Now Online (learningwithtechs.wordpress.com)
How Albert Einstein Saved A Former Lover From The Nazis (businessinsider.com)
Albert Einstein archives go online (cbc.ca)
Albert Einstein passionately fought race prejudice, according to new and old docs (thegrio.com)
Einstein’s wisdom (endlesslyrestless.wordpress.com)
The Opposite Of “Play” Is Not “Work” (allyouneedisagoodidea.typepad.com)
Einstein Archives Online of the Day (geeks.thedailywh.at)
Albert Einstein’s complete archives to be posted online (guardian.co.uk)
Einstein’s desire for a lasting peace in the Holy Land revealed (independent.co.uk)

Henry Kissinger: Peace

“If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.”
—Henry Kissinger

MIDDLE EAST: The Kissinger Shuttle: In the End, a Mission Impossible (time.com)
Watch GPS: Kissinger on the GOP, Putin and Iran (globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com)
Kissinger says Putin is a ‘patriot’ (alternet.org)
Kissinger’s Downing Street lunch visit in 1971 revealed to be untrue (guardian.co.uk)

Ronald Reagan: Abortion

“I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born. ”
—Ronald Reagan

Bursting the ‘Ronald Reagan wouldn’t recognize today’s GOP’ media narrative bubble (twitchy.com)
For the Gipper: Ronald Reagan may soon have a highway in N.J. (nj.com)
RonaldReagan.com: Better than you’d think! (examiner.com)

Patriotism

Mick Jagger (Photo credit: MusMs)

“Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts. ”
—Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger has dance-off with Dave Stewart (ctv.ca)
Mick Jagger meets the president (politico.com)
Watch Mick Jagger Turn the White House Loose (wcbsfm.radio.com)
Mick Jagger writes Andy Warhol for album artwork (thezigzagger.com)
Mick Jagger praises Obama for singing (thehill.com)

Constantine Karamanlis: Cult of personality

Konstantinos Karamanlis, Prime Minister of Greece (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him. ”
—Constantine Karamanlis.

Letter: Cult of Personality (nytimes.com)
Danger of the Cult of Personality (mackquigley.wordpress.com)
Cult of Personality Some More? (thepatriotperspective.wordpress.com)
Cult of Personality Much? (thepatriotperspective.wordpress.com)

Quite a Quote!

Quite a Quote!

History

Edmund Hillary: Conquer…

Peter Munk: Not Einstein?

Augustus William Hare: Two pieces of dead wood

Abraham Lincoln: Cowards

Martin Luther King Jr: Directly, indirectly

Charles de Gaulle: Initiative

Abraham Lincoln: Tact

George Bernard Shaw: Respectability

Eleanor Roosevelt: Work

Isaac Mizrahi: When you can and when you can't

Great leadership

Accomplishing great deeds

Colin Powell: Area under the curve

Theodore Roosevelt: Get busy

Colin Powell: Egoistic position

Edward Everett Hale: Being one

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Strong hearts

Albert Einstein: Feeling and longing

Competition and cooperation

Richard M. Nixon: A good Pope

Man and woman

Preparedness

Colin Powell: Ego

George S Patton: Ingenuity

Andrew Carnegie: Eggs in one basket

Albert Einstein: Ideas

Henry Kissinger: Peace

Ronald Reagan: Abortion

Patriotism

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles

Share this:

Like this:

Related articles