Quotes for Learning and Leadership
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Quotes for Learning and Leadership
Everything can be taken from a man but ...the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Viktor E. Frankl
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Ghandi
What the seeker seeks, the prover proves
Robert Anton Wilson
O lny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.
It deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currentlyknow and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.
Albert Einstein
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge
Albert Einstein
Education is freedomNo-one can take it away from you
Professor Emeritus Colin Adamson-Macedo1922 - 2005
Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.
Peace Pilgrim
It isn't where you come from, it's where you're going that counts.
Ella Fitzgerald
It is more important to know where you aregoing than to get there quickly.
Do not mistake activity for achievement.
Mabel Newcomber
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo
Before you put yourself in someone else’s shoes, you first have to take off your own.
Anon
You can’t stop the waves…but you can learn how to surf
Zinn, Jon Kabat
Don’t look where you fell look where you slipped
African proverb
“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot
You cannot control the length of your life.
But you can control its breadth and its depth.
Evan Esar
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
Albert Einstein
I have choices in my lifeOne of which isTo have choices in my life
Happiness is a journey not a destination
Ben Sweetland
Success is not forever, and failure isn’t fatal.
Winston Churchill
Don’t ask for a task to be easy ask for it to be worth it.
There are those who believe they can, and there are those who believe they can’t:they are both right.
Henry Ford
Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Proust
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
Opportunities are missed by most people because they are dressed in overalls and look like work.
Thomas Edison
Opportunities are never lost. Somebody else will eventually take them.
A powerful goal is a dream with a deadline.
Napolean Hill
It’s hard to fight an enemy who has an outpostin your head.
Sally Kempton
To listen, we need to open our earsTo see, we need to open our eyesTo think, we need to open our mindsTo love, we need to open our hearts
We want the facts to fit our preconceptions.
When they don’t, it’s easier to ignore the facts than change our preconceptions.
Jessamyn West
If your only tool is a hammer, every obstacle looks like a nail.
Abraham Maslow
If you’re in the wrong hole – stop digging.
“I never ran 1000 miles – I could never have done that. I ran one mile 1000 times.”
Stu Mittleman (world record holder for ultra-distance running)
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Emerson
Be sure you put your feet in the right place – then stand firm
Abraham Lincoln
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to go the forest to gather wood, saw it, and nail the planks together.
Instead, teach them a desire for the sea.”
Antione de Saint-Exupery
In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Unknown
A mind stretched to a new idea never returns to its
original dimension.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
Picasso
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.
Claude T. Bissell
“The ball doesn’t know how old I am.”
Martina Navritalova 47, after winning her singles match at Wimbledon in 2004)
There’s nothing left in my right brain, and there’s nothing right in my left brain
Charlie Brown
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
Arthur Koestler
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others
Bill Gates
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Peter Drucker
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy