“Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.”
–Anonymous,
taken from “Team Player” by John C. Maxwell
Category Archives: Quotations
Don’t judge each day…
“I am an optimist. It doesn’t seem to be much use being anything else.”
–Winston Churchill
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.”
–Robert Louis Stevenson
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.”
–Charles M. Schulz (“Peanuts”)
The foundational principle…
“Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”
“When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.”
–Stephen R. Covey
An uncharted land…
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”
“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
—Helen Keller, who lived her life both blind and deaf.
A new kind of thinking…
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
–Albert Einstein
“You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.”
–Henri J.M. Nouwen, Christian theologian
“If the human race is to survive it will have to change more in its ways of thinking in the next twenty-five years than it has done in the last twenty-five thousand.”
–Kenneth Boulding, former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Christian mystic.
The trial of principle…
“Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.”
–Billy Graham
“Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.”
–Henry Fielding
“These are the times that try men’s souls.”
–Thomas Paine
The Ultimate Freedom…
“Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will, and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.”
–Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
If you just sit there…
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
–Will Rogers
At the crossroads…
“Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.”
–Jeremiah 6:16
The people of this country…
“It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.”
–Alexander Hamilton
Motion and action…
“Never confuse motion with action.”
–Benjamin Franklin
To offer freedom…
“Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.”
–Henri J.M. Nouwen, Christian theologian
Liberty and the American Idea 