Posted: 1 year ago

This is one that we should all remember when things each tough in our eClub (from Ernest Thompson's On Golder Pond- the play):

"Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't forget it. You're going to get back on that horse and I'm going to be right behind you."

Posted: 1 year ago

"There are prople who will always come up with reasons why you can't do what you want to do. IGNORE THEM."

Carol Anderson

Posted: 1 year ago

Simple yet often omitted success strategy: deliver more value than you are paid to deliver.

Posted: 1 year ago

Paul Guguin the 19th century romantic painter who went to Tahiti to paint said: "If nature tells me no, I listen; if man tells me no, I paint!"

Posted: 1 year ago

My father once told me:  "It is better to be the wind that blows the leaves than to be the leaves being blown by the wind."

Posted: 1 year ago

One of the book's title is a good quote. I often use it when I go for my presentations in colleges. It says "When going gets tough, tough gets going".

Posted: 1 year ago

Got two that I had forgotten until Frank mentioned what his father told him:

"Quality is cheap at any price."

"Only dead fish drift with the tide."

Posted: 1 year ago

This quote really inspires me a lot.

"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities".

Posted: 1 year ago

One my father says; I have no idea where he got it.

"I feel a lot more like I do now than I did when I got here."

Funny in a quirky sort of way.  Like my dad. 

Posted: 1 year ago

"It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it."

Usually comes to me when I'm considering taking an umbrella.  No clue who first said that.

Here is one that might be original, though the more likely scenario is that it is adapated from something better I happen to hear before.

"There is no difference between being bored and being boring."

Always a good one for generating discussion with my high school students. 

Posted: 1 year ago

Give till it hurts.

Posted: 1 year ago

Camarón que se duerme, se lo lleva la corriente. (A shrimp that goes to sleep is swept away by the current).

Posted: 1 year ago

Time, indeed, is a sacred gift, and each day is a little life.
 

~John Lubbock

Posted: 1 year ago

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

--Eleanor Roosevelt

Posted: 1 year ago

Oh What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.

--- Sir Walter Scott, author also of Ave Maria

Jack M. B. Selway, RGHF CEO & Founder