“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Man does not weave this web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”
Chief Seattle, chief of the Suquamis
“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their views, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, Even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and bow to none. When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and nothing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.”
Tecumseh-Shawnee
“Real Education consists of drawing the best out of yourself.”
Mohatma Mohandas Ghandi
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, while in the expert’s mind there are few.”
Suzuki Roshi
“Keep me from the wisdom that does not weep, and the philosophy that does not laugh, and the pride that does not bow its head before a child.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Nothing happens without personal transformation.”
W.Edward Deming
“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it is amazing what they can accomplish.”
Sam Walton
“No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.”
Albert Einstein
“If you want to be a leader, you have to be a real human being. You must recognize the true meaning of life before you can become a great leader. You must understand yourself first.”
Master Nan
“The true nature of anything is the highest it can become.”
Aristotle
“O’ GREAT SPIRIT, help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.”
Cherokee Prayer
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”
John F. Kennedy
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
Helen Keller
“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle.”
Albert Einstein
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.”
Buddha
“Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, there you long to return.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
“I want to know God’s thoughts. The rest are details.”
Albert Einstein
“And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”
Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“From the space between compassion and courage emerges freedom.”
Marti Foster
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
Jimi Hendrix
“A clever man commits no minor blunders.”
Goethe
“Never mistake motion for action.”
Ernest Hemingway
“We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.”
Mark Twain
“If you think you can or you think you can’t, you are right.”
Henry Ford
“In becoming a champion, you learn a lot more from your losses than from your wins.”
Chuck McKinley
“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”
George Burns
“Turn what has been done into a better path. Think about the impact of your decision on seven generations into the future.”
Wilma Mankiller
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.”
Vince Lombardi
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Walt Disney
“Life doesn’t require that we be the best—only that we try our best.”
Jackson Brown Jr.
“Don’t compromise yourself, you’re all you’ve got.”
Janice Joplin
“When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you begin to enjoy what is.”
Cheri Huber
“You can observe a lot just by watching.”
Yogi Berra
“Answers make us wise. Questions make us human.”
Unknown
“The only thing that exists is the present. It has no beginning and no end. The future is… Now!”
Unknown
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
Herbert Spencer
“You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.”
Unknown
“Without Vision, the people perish.”
Proverbs 29:18
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is, an idea whose time has come.”
Victor Hugo
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”
John D. Rockefeller
“Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say, ‘why not?’”
Robert F. Kennedy
“There is not heavier burden than great potential.”
Charlie Brown
“Man cannot discover new oceans until he has courage to lose sight of the shore.”
Unknown
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their mind.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Tell me, I may listen. Teach me, I may remember. Involve me, I will do it.”
Chinese proverb
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
Schuller
“The key to growing up is to have one’s eyes opened without having one’s heart hardened.”
Olivier Guisan
“An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.”
Unknown
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Prepare now for death so as to intensify and fulfill your life.”
Stephen Levine
“Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do.”
Buddha
“Life is what is happening while you are busy making other plans.”
John Lennon
“A happy life begins with tranquility of mind.”
Cicero
“If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.”
Unknown
“And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
T.S. Elliot