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Quotes July 12, 2024

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States, and former Captain in the Army Reserves
 
 
 
 
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
Harry S Truman, 33rd President of the United States, and former Colonel in the U.S. Army
 
 
 
 
“Always do everything you ask of those you command.”
“All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army play a vital role. Don’t ever let up. Don’t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.”
General George S. Patton, U.S. Army
 
 
 
 
“Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.”
Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader
 
 
 
 
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, and former U.S. Army Colonel
 
 
 
 
“To get the best out of your men, they must feel that you are their real leader and must know that they can depend upon you.”
General of the Armies John J. Pershing, U.S. Army
 
 
 
 
“Because the crew was convinced that I was “on their team” there were never any issues with negative criticism… You as a mentor have to establish that you are sincerely interested in the problems of the person you are mentoring.”
Ret. Capt L. David Marquet, US Navy and author, Turn the Ship Around!
 
 
 
 
Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down.
Respect for one’s superiors; care for one’s crew.
Admiral Grace Hopper
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 11, 2024

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
William Blake – 1757-1827 – Poet-Painter-Printmaker
 
 
 
 
Did you know this was coming and hide that you knew, or did it ambush you from behind?
Jennifer Egan,
writer, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction recipient
 
 
 
 
“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result … His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.”
Nikola Tesla
 
 
 
 
“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
 
 
 
 
“Change, by its very nature, is threatening but it is also often productive.”
Betty Ford
 
 
 
 
“The environment is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest… It is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become.”
Lady Bird Johnson
 
 
 
 
“We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?”
Tom Hanks
 
 

Quotes July 10, 2024

You are the End and I am / what follows. Who should have mercy / on what follows if not the End?

I sing this morning: Hello, hello. / I proclaim the bright day of the soul.
Stanley Moss,
poet, publisher, art dealer
1925-2024
 
 
 
 
Cooking is one of the great gifts you can give to those you love. It says, ‘you’re important enough to me to spend the time and effort to cook for you.’
Ina Garten,
cook, cookbook writer, entrepreneur
 
 
 
 
“Love the people around you. Love the life you have. I can’t think of a more powerful response to life’s sorrows than loving.”
SULEIKA JAOUAD
 
 
 
 
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
Alexander Graham Bell
 
 
 
 
“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”
Walter Anderson
 
 
 
 
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau – 1817-1862 – Essayist
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 09, 2024

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

Boundaries allowed me to reclaim my sense of self. They became a way for me to define what was acceptable and what was not, to express my limits, and to protect my emotional and mental health. This process also taught me the difference between passion and obsession.
Charnita Arora
 
 
 
 
“We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one.”
Confucius
 
 
 
 
“Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity, and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.”
Gary Zukav
 
 
 
 
“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.”
John Allen Paulos
 
 
 
 
“To stay with that shakiness—to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness—that is the path of true awakening. Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic—that is the spiritual path.”
Pema Chödrön
 
 
 
 
“Have a little faith in your ability to handle whatever’s coming down the road. Believe that you have the strength and resourcefulness required to tackle whatever challenges come your way.” “Know that you always have the capacity to make the best of anything. Even if you didn’t want it or ask for it, even if it seems scary or hard or unfair, you can make something good out of any loss or hardship. You can learn from it, grow from it, help others through it, and maybe even thrive because of it. The future is unknown, but you can know this for sure: Whatever’s coming, you got this.”
Lori Deschene
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 08, 2024

You want to become a master at overcoming hard moments. That to me is the sign of a champion.
Roger Federer,
professional tennis player
 
 
 
 
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 
 
 
 
The most organizing conversation starter is “What do we want to create together?”
Peter Block
 
 
 
 
But I know a greater reality and a greater awareness exists. I know there is a truth that cannot be thought, only received.
Tracy Cochran
 
 
 
 
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
 
 
 
 
It’s not what you do, but who you become by what you do.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
Vince Lombardi
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 06 – 07, 2024

“I guess what everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.”
Ella Fitzgerald
 
 
 
 
“You have to train your mind as much as your body.”
Venus Williams
 
 
 
 
“If you win through bad sportsmanship, that’s no real victory.”
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
 
 
 
 
“The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.”
Salman Rushdie
 
 
 
 
“If there’s not love present, it’s much, much harder to function. When there’s love present, it’s easier to deal with life.”
Brian Wilson
 
 
 
 
“I paint flowers so they will not die.”
Frida Kahlo
 
 
 
 
“Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.”
Meryl Streep
 
 
 
 
“It isn’t up to the painter to define the symbols. The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.”
Pablo Picasso
 
 
 
 
“Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.”
Anthony Bourdain
 
 
 
 
“If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility.”
Pat Summitt
 
 
 
 
“The two of us were on fire every time we sat down to write.”
Paul McCartney on his collaboration with John Lennon
 
 
 
 
“Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe—but to feel the life in you down all the fibers of being, passionately and joyfully.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 
 
 
 
“We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”
Arthur Ashe
 
 
 
 
“Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.”
Thurgood Marshall
 
 
 
 
“I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration.”
John Adams, July 3, 1776
 
 

Quotes July 05, 2024

“Patriotism is not short, frenzied outburts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”
Adlai Stevenson
 
 
 
 
“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”
Charles de Gaulle
 
 
 
 
“Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.”
Christopher Gadsden
 
 
 
 
“I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it’s marked by the blood of those who died defending it.”
John Thune
 
 
 
 
“Over all our happy country over all our Nation spread, is a band of noble heroes–is our Army of the Dead.”
Will Carleton
 
 

Quotes July 04, 2024

“America is another name for opportunity.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
“Independence Day: freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
 
 
 
“It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.”
John Adams
 
 
 
 
“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”
President Harry S. Truman
 
 
 
 
“Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.”
John Dickinson
 
 
 
 
“America is a tune. It must be sung together.”
Gerald Stanley Lee
 
 
 
 
“I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.”
Wendell L. Wilkie
 
 
 
 
“Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.”
Sinclair Lewis
 
 
 
 
“We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.”
Robert J. McCracken
 
 
 
 
“Laughter is America’s most important export.”
Walt Disney
 
 
 
 
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”
George Washington
 
 
 
 
“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.”
Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 02-03, 2024

Why be influenced by a person when you already are one?
If you stay in the business and you reach a certain age, which I have by simply still breathing, you are now a legend — because you made it through.
Martin Mull,
actor, painter musician
1943-2024
 
 
 
 
There are many highly intelligent people who have no answer at all in them.
Isak Dinesen, pseudonym of Karen Blixen,
writer
 
 
 
 
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts – 1915-1973 – Writer
 
 
 
 
We’re strongest when we cheer each other on.
Serena Williams – Professional Tennis Player
 
 
 
 
“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.”
Bruce Lee
 
 
 
 
LOVE THIS ANALOGY
You’re holding a cup of coffee and someone accidentally bumps into you, causing it to spill everywhere.
Why did you spill the coffee?
“Because someone bumped into me.”
Wrong answer.
You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup. If there had been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea.
Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out.
So, when life shakes you up, whatever is inside you will come out.
It’s easy to pretend everything’s fine until you’re shaken.
So, we have to ask ourselves, “What’s in my cup?”
When life gets tough, what spills over? Joy? Gratitude? Peace? Humility? Anger? Bitterness? A victim mentality? A tendency to quit?
Remember LIFE gives you the cup; YOU choose what to fill it with.
Credit Serenity Ravinwolve
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 01, 2024

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz – Football Player and Coach
 
 
 
 
Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
Robert Kiyosaki – Author and Speaker
 
 
 
 
And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they’ll get high / On a bluer ocean against tomorrow’s sky
Van Morrison,
singer, songwriter
 
 
 
 
So the pie isn’t perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.
Martha Stewart,
businessperson, entrepreneur
 
 
 
 
There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
Mahatma Gandh
 
 
 
 
Our hearts are actually designed to empty and fill at the same time, receiving and sending lifeblood with every pulse. If the heart does not empty, it cannot fill.
Cynthia Li
 
 
 
 
Surrender the need to secure approval from others and align to your own sense of self.
AmyAnn Cadwell