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Thoughts & Quotes

By Mike Smith

It has been said that as we think, so shall we become. Many of us use an inspirational quote each day, week or month to help us grow. The DifferenceMaker Calendar offers you an opportunity to choose quotes and to use them to propel yourself toward good things for your life. So you are looking for a good quote to focus upon for the rest of the month and you need a little help?

Dr. Earl Reum has collected a few thoughts on leadership. See if any of these quotes work for you:

ACTION

"One of life's illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best - most crucial - day in all the year."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Too many people are ready to carry the stool when the piano needs to be moved."
-- Anonymous

ADVERSITY

"We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way."
-- Phillip E. Berstein

ATTITUDE

"Whenever you get there, there's no there there."
-- Gertrude Stein

"You have to learn to live with your chances. It's not easy, but if you are honest, it becomes easy. Then you can laugh at it, and you can hope,
too, because that gives you a hold on life."
-- Christa Freund, cancer patient

COMMUNICATION

"It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated
communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners."
-- Erma Bombeck

"It doesn't pay to say much
when you're mad enough to choke,
for the word that stings the deepest
is the word that's never spoken.
Let the other fellow wrangle
till the storm has blown away.
Then he'll do a heap of thinking
about the things YOU didn't say."
--James Whitcomb Riley

COURAGE

"Are we willing to give up some things we like to do, to move on to those
tings we must do?"
-- Satenig St. Marie

CREATIVITY

"Instead of being one thing or the other, can't something be one thing AND another?"
-- Chrysler commercial

ENTHUSIASM

"We must first continually discipline ourselves to remember how it felt the first moment."
-- Sarah Caldwell

EXAMPLE

"People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if
we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us."
-- Walt Disney

FRIENDSHIP

"Two persons must believe in each other, and feel that it CAN BE done and MUST be done; in that way they are enormously strong. They must keep up each other's courage."
-- Vincent van Gogh

KINDNESS

"It is easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and
gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
-- Jessamyn West

LEADERSHIP

"Leadership is not bestowed - it is only yours for as long as it is
continuously earned."
-- Author unknown

LEARNING

"To look is one thing. To see what you look at is another. To understand
what you see is one thing. To learn from what you understand is still
something else. But to act on what you learn is what really matters."
-- Author unknown

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