Leadership
“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” ~John Maxwell
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Daring Greatly
Photo Credit: TED.com “Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.” The title, Daring Greatly, is from Theodore Roosevelt’s famous speech, “Citizen in a Republic.” Considering the focus of this book is on the courage to live vulnerably, the title’s source is hugely appropriate. “It… Continue reading
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The Man In The Arena ~Theodore Roosevelt
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who… Continue reading
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Ben Franklin’s Maxims on Industry
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man heathy, wealthy and wise. Diligence is the mother of good luck. God helps them that help themselves. At the working man’s house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. For industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them. By diligence and patience the mouse ate in… Continue reading
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Dead Work
From Self-Culture Through the Vocation, 1914 By Edward Howard Griggs There is an almost universal optical illusion with reference to work: each of us is fully conscious of the dead work in his own calling, because he must fulfill It; with the tasks of others, he sees only the finished product. Thus each is inclined… Continue reading
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Opportunity
This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:– There spread a cloud of dust along a plain; And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords Shocked upon swords and shields. A prince’s banner Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes. A craven hung along the battle’s edge,… Continue reading
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Possibilities In Spare Moments
Editor’s Note: This excerpt is from Orison Swett Marden’s 1894, Pushing To The Front, but inspired from an amazing AOM post based on the same chapter. On the floor of the gold-working room, in the United States Mint at Philadelphia, there is a wooden lattice-work which is taken up when the floor is swept, and the… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~E.M. Bounds
“What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use – men of prayer.” ~E.M. Bounds Continue reading
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