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Friday Filosophy #2015-1

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Aristotle

 

When a man feels throbbing in him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
Orison Swett Marden

 

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Henry Ellis

 

The time is now…

 

This month I want to highlight Orison Marden

 

  1. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

 

  1. Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

 

  1. Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

 

  1. All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

 

  1. We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

 

  1. If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

 

  1. There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

 

  1. Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

 

  1. The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others, it is in yourself alone.

 

  1. What keeps so many people back is simply the unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

 

 

May 2015 be everything that each of you desires and deserves.

Happy New Year…

 

Friday Filosophy #2014-50

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

Henry Mintzberg

 

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Lord Byron

 

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell
Last month I highlighted the great teacher as being a person who inspired. I want to suggest that each of you read about John Wooden, UCLA Basketball Coach extraordinaire.

He was one who was clear on expectations – Clarity

The expectations were divorced from outcomes – which you don’t control and all about process – which you do control.

 

Like many people he had some “foundations pillars.” (My words not his)

 

They were in two sets of three

First:

  • Never Lie
  • Never Cheat
  • Never Steal

Pretty simple and straightforward.

Second:

  • Don’t Whine
  • Don’t Complain
  • Don’t Make Excuses

 

Coach Wooden defined SUCCESS as follows:

 

Peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best you are capable of becoming.

 

May YOU each have peace of mind.

The time is now…

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Friday Filosophy #2014-49

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

 

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Samuel Johnson

 

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward

 

The time is now…

Friday Filosophy #2014-48

Reliving Friday on Monday!

 

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

 

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

 

To lead, one must follow.

Lao Tzu

 

The time is now…

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Friday Filosophy #2014-47

Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude toward us.

Earl Nightingale

 

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to do something you are convinced should be done.

Vance Packard

 

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

 

The time is now…

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Friday Filosophy #2014-46

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for the opportunity when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

 

There’s no limit to what a man can achieve, if he doesn’t care who gets the credit.

Lang Burns Jr.

 

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

 

It is hard to soar with the eagles if you stay up with the turkeys at night.

Man is like the turtle; in order to get ahead you must stick your neck out.

 

The time is now…

Friday Filosophy #2014-45

I failed my way to success.

Thomas Edison

 

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Theresa

 

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Gagehot

 

Don’t forget rule #6:

Don’t take yourself so darned seriously

 

The time is now…

Friday Filosophy #2014-44

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Max Lucado

 

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

 

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

 

The time is now…

Friday Filosophy #2014-43

A little tardy. Please excuse me.

 

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

St. Clement of Alexandra

 

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.

Jim Rohn

 

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

 

The time is now…

Friday Filosophy #2014-42

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

Kurt Vonnegut

 

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to be better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

Paulo Coelho

 

The time is now…