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Power of Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Dan Fredericks
"Education was never meant to eliminate all the questions. The power of education comes in its capacity to point out mystery and wonder, and to keep you coming back to think again in new ways about old ideas."
Best Is Yet To Be! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F.B. Myer,
via The Joyful Noiseletter, Jan. 2004"It is a mistake to be always turning back to recover the past. The law for Christian living is not backward, but forward. Leave the things that are behind, and reach forward to those that are before, for on each new height to which we attain, there are the appropriate joys that befit the new experience. Don’t fret because life’s joys are fled. There are more in front. Look up, press forward; the best is yet to be!"
Stay With It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Earl Nightingale,
INSIGHT, # 77, p. 34"Whenever I became discouraged and things seemed rather hopeless, I would say to myself, ‘Stay with it.’
‘Stay with it’ kept me going many times when it seemed the better part of valor to quit and settle for smaller goals. And it’s nothing more than a personal reminder that persistence can accomplish almost anything."
No Excuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rudyard Kipling
"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."
Doctrine of Human Equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.K. Chesterton
"The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. There is no big man who has not felt small. Some men never feel small; but these are the few who are."
Leadership Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim Rohn, www.JimRohn.com
"Leadership is the great challenge of the 21st century in science, politics, education, and industry. But the greatest challenge in leadership is parenting. We need to do more than just get our enterprises ready for the challenges of the 21st century. We also need to get our children ready for the challenges of the 21st century."
Exercise Integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Josephson, www.charactercounts.org
"We exercise integrity not to get what we want, but to be what we want. Integrity is not essentially about winning; it’s about staying whole and being worthy of self-respect and the esteem of loved ones. It’s about being honorable, not as a success strategy, but a life choice. Though we may suffer for a time because of our moral courage, we will suffer far worse if we betray your own values."
Life’s Urgent Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others.’"
Courage vs. Cowardice . . . . . . . . . . Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, p. 119
"Courage and cowardice are antithetical. Courage is an inner resolution to go forward in spite of obstacles and frightening situations; cowardice is a submissive surrender to circumstance. Courage breeds creative self-affirmation; cowardice produces destructive self-abnegation. Courage faces fear and thereby masters it; cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. Courageous persons never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowards, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
On Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Prairie Rambler, May ‘97, p. 6
"Simply walking at the front of the crowd does not constitute leadership."
New Year Benediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fr. Brian Cavanaugh, TOR
"Grant us, O Lord: the hope to envision new dreams;
the strength to rise above our limitations, our fears and whatever holds us down;
the courage to stand on our own, to stretch our imagination and to experience being fully human, fully alive;
the faith to live our lives in your image and likeness.
Guide us, O Lord, this new year, every way, every day. Amen."
Capacity to Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pablo Casals
"The capacity to care is the thing that gives life its deepest meaning and significance."
Awkward Stages . . . . . . . . . . . Jack Canfield & Mark V. Hanson, The Aladdin Factor, p. 103
"We all have to go through the awkward stage of any newly acquired behavior…There will be more firsts that we will encounter in which we will feel awkward for a while, until we get the hang of it.…So what! Do it anyway!
Any thing you want to learn, you are going to be awkward at first. Give yourself permission to be a beginner, a learner."
An Optimist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . William Arthur Ward
"An optimist is a person who undertakes a seemingly impossible task in a spirit of immeasurable enthusiasm, unbounded determination, unbelievable excitement, indestructible confidence, uncompromising thoroughness, and indefatigable persistence…with understandable success."
Joy of Living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Mason Brown
"No one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for oneself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are. People, ideas, causes—these offer the one possible escape, not merely from selfishness but from the hungers of solitude and the sorrows of aimlessness. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
Opportunity to Live . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Earl Nightingale, INSIGHT, Jan. ‘87, p. 26
"I believe a person should be grateful for his life and his opportunity to live and learn and grow in a climate where he is free to choose what he will do, how much he will do, and how far he’ll go with the time and talents he’s been given."
Hasten Slowly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anonymous
Titus, the emperor of Rome, had the symbol of a dolphin wound around an anchor inscribed on coins during his reign. The anchor represented delay and unchanging conviction. The dolphin was regarded as the swiftest and most mercurial creature of the sea. Together they symbolized the failure that comes from rushing into something, and the failure that is the result of hesitation or undue caution.
Through the years, the dolphin and the anchor have been used as his family crest, with the explanatory motto Festina Lente, "Hasten Slowly." It expresses moderation between two opposing ideas. It means the medium between acting too quickly and waiting too long.
Ray of Hope, or…? . . . . . . . . . . . . Anonymous, Sunday Sermon Masterpiece Collection
"There once was a man so despondent, his spirit was so torn up by cares and worry, that he decided to end it all. He started to walk across the city to a bridge, from which he planned to jump to a certain fate.
However, as he walked, he made another critical decision. He said to himself, "If, on the way, I should meet someone with a friendly disposition, someone whose manner would bring a ray of hope into my life, I will turn back."
~ End of Story ~
We don’t know whether the troubled man jumped to not. But the story begs this question: If, while walking toward the bridge in a cloud of despair, that man had met you, what would he have met—a ray of hope, or…?
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