Minds

Great minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events
Small minds discuss people.

~Admiral Hyman Rickover

What You Find...

If you really want to do something you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse. 


~Author unknown but greatly appreciated

Happiest People

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. 

~Author unknown but greatly appreciated

Motion VS Progress

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

~Alfred A. Montapert

Friendship

Oh, the comfort --
The inexpressible comfort of feeling
safe with a person,
Having neither to weigh thoughts,
Nor measure words -- but pouring them
All right out -- just as they are --
Chaff and grain together --
Certain that a faithful hand will
Take and sift them --
Keep what is worth keeping --
and with the breath of kindness
Blow the rest away.

~Dinah Maria Craik

A Leader Is Best...

A leader is best when people barely know he exists.  Not so good when people obey and acclaim him.  Worse when they despise him.  But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say "We did it ourselves."

~Lao-tzu

Are You A Sheep or a Lion?

I'm more afraid of any army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

~Talleygrand

Leadership and Vision

The very essence of leadership is that you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

~ Theodore Hesburgh

The Mousetrap

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife, who lived in his house, open a package. “What could it possibly hold?” the mouse wondered with excitement.  But soon he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.

He ran out to the farmyard and the mouse yelled out a warning: “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!”

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head saying “Mr.Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it.”

The mouse turned to the pig and cried to him “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!” The pig sympathized, but said “I am so very sorry, Mr.Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers.”

The mouse turned to the cow and said “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!” The cow said “Wow, Mr. Mouse. I’m sorry for you, but it’s no skin off my back.” So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer’s mousetrap alone.

That night a sound was heard throughout the house – like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail had been caught in the trap. The wife bent over and the snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital where she was treated, but returned home with a fever.

Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard and killed the chicken for the soup’s main ingredient. But his wife’s illness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig and made a great meal. The farmer’s wife did not get well; she died. So many  people came to her funeral that the farmer had to slaughter the cow to provide enough meat for all of them.

The mouse watched it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.

The lesson here is that the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and you think it doesn’t concern you, think again.  Remember that when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk. We can work together to help one another and in the process help ourselves.

Wonder

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

~ St. Augustine

Maturity

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob turns to the left.


~Author unknown but greatly appreciated

Heros vs Gentlemen

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

~Luigi Pirandello

Memories

The moment may be temporary but the memory is forever.

~Bud Meyer

What You Give Your Children

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

~Denis Waitley

Work

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

~George Halas