Leadership, Relationships, Devotion

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . . The
leader works in the open, and the boss is covert. The leader leads,
and the boss drives.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

In organizations, real power and energy is generated through
relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to
form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and
positions.
~ Margaret Wheatly

The world has yet to see what one man or woman fully devoted to God
can accomplish.
~ Henry Varley, as spoken to Dwight L. Moody

Sound body and mind, History

The sound body is the product of a sound mind.
~ George Bernard Shaw

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my
body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
~ Emo Phillips

History is the science of things which are not repeated.
~ Paul Valery

Topless, Light the darkness, Play

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.
~ Jascha Heifetz

I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.
~ John Keith Falconer

It's not so much what children learn through play, but what they won't learn if we don't give them the chance to play. Many functional skills like literacy and arithmetic can be learned either through play or through instruction-the issue is the amount of stress on the child. However, many coping skills like compassion, self-regulation, self-confidence, the habit of active engagement, and the motivation to learn and be literate cannot be instructed. They can only be learned through self-directed experience (i.e. play).
~ Susan J. Oliver, Playing for Keeps

Beginners, Care, Condensed words

In a beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in an expert's mind there are few.
~ Shunryu Suzuki

The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
~ Billie Jean King

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
~ Robert Southey

Hard, Crossing Bridges, Impossible

Life is hard. It’s even harder if you’re stupid.
~ Anonymous

When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.
~ Rick Pitino, American basketball coach

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
~ Doug Larson
(English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, 1902-1981)

Retirement, Truth, Courage

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
~ Thomas Arnold, educator

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
~ W. Clement Stone

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
~ John Wayne

Failure, Leadership, Anxiety

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
~ Chinese Proverb

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of
leadership.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care.
Either case is a failure of leadership.
~Colin Powell