Positive Quote Of The Day July 2018

"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it."- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) English art critic

Jeff;2516311 wrote: :thumbsup:
With a name like that how could he not be brilliant?

Thought you would like that one. A relative of yours?

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"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." --Galileo

Clearly Galileo was never a High School football coach!

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."- Bishop W.C. Magee (1821 - 1891) Irish clergyman

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"Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the imagination by storm; and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that idea into action."- Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975)

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"Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment."- Tom Morris (1821 - 1908) Scottish golfer

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good to know it was endangered then too and still survived

"The true rewards of leadership come from striving to look up to a higher moral standard..Good leaders sometimes, in fact, quite often, lose in the material world. They go right ahead anyway, knowing that they are going to lose. Are they tilting at windmills? Do they have a 'can't do' attitude instead of a 'can-do' attitude? Of course not. They are committed to defending the right values. And the right values are seldom safe, easy, or advantageous."- H. Norman Schwarzkopf

pjbs35a;2516453 wrote: "The true rewards of leadership come from striving to look up to a higher moral standard..Good leaders sometimes, in fact, quite often, lose in the material world. They go right ahead anyway, knowing that they are going to lose. Are they tilting at windmills? Do they have a 'can't do' attitude instead of a 'can-do' attitude? Of course not. They are committed to defending the right values. And the right values are seldom safe, easy, or advantageous."- H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Love it

"They never talked in reactionary terms and never defined their strategies principally in response to what others were doing. They talked in terms of what they were trying to create and how they were trying to improve relative to an absolute standard of excellence."- Jim Collins, About what makes a great leader (1917 - 1985) American business consultant