Sometimes…

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Excellence is….

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. – Warren G. Bennis

 

If each…

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

– David Ogilvy

Whatever….

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

– Napoleon Hill

Solve someone’s…

Solve someone’s problems and you produce a follower. Teach someone to solve their own problems and you produce a leader.

– Alexander Den Heijer

 

Life is…

Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

– Charles M. Shulz

The adventure…

The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.

– William Arthur Ward

It is…

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

– Noam Chomsky

If you…

If you don’t value yourself why should others?

– Anon

When…

When I’m getting ready to persuade a man, I spend one-third of the time thinking about myself, what I’m going to say and two-thirds of the time thinking about him and what he is going to say.

– Abraham Lincoln