Adlai Stevenson Quote – Principles
“It is often easier to fight for a principle than to live up to it.” – Adlai Stevenson
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Maya Angelou Quote – Courage
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” – Maya Angelou
Read moreGladwell Quote – Satisfying Work
“These three things – autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward – are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.” – Gladwell
Read moreLao Tzu Quote – Pure Nature of Humanity
“Humanity grows more and more intelligent, yet there is dearly more trouble and less happiness daily. How can this be so? It is because intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom. When a society misuses partial intelligence and ignores holistic wisdom, its people forget the benefits of a plain and natural life. Seduced by their desires, emotions, and egos, […]
Read moreJodi Picoult Quote – Heroes
“Heroes didn’t leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn’t wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else’s. And maybe that one act could lead […]
Read moreSteve Prefontaine Quote – Give Your Best
“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” – Steve Prefontaine
Read moreParker J. Palmer Quote – Stand In The Gap For The Long Haul
“No one who has stood for high values — love, truth, justice — has died being able to declare victory, once and for all. If we embrace values like those, we need to find ways to stand in the gap for the long haul, and be prepared to die without having achieved our goals.” – Parker J. Palmer
Read moreFranklin D. Roosevelt Quote – Confidence
“Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Read moreGandhi Quote – The Future Depends on the Present
“The future depends on what we do in the present.” – Gandhi
Read moreDaniel Berrigan Quote – The Look On His Face
“Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have bought it or baked it or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a […]
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