Inspirational Quotations #245

It was much later that I realized Dad’s secret.
He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened
to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes
the same way he talked and listened to a bishop or a
college president. He was seriously interested
in who you were and what you had to say.
* Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for
getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others
to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else,
sacrifice to get there.
* John Kotter

Before you can inspire with emotion,
you must be swamped with it yourself.
Before you can move their tears, your own must flow.
To convince them, you must yourself believe.
* Winston Churchill

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests.
* Oliver Wendell Holmes

Meditation consists in conducting consciousness beyond the point
where it is the consciousness of a finite body or a finite mind,
transferring the focus from level to level without losing its continuity or form.
* Pir Vilayat Khan

Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
* Alexander Pope

To be yourself is an achievement in itself.
* Anonymous

Difficulties are meant to rouse not discourage.
The human spirit is grown strong from conflict.
* Willam Ellery Channing

The tragedy of life is not that man loses,
but that he almost wins.
* Heywood Broun

Concern over criticism clogs creativity.
* Duane Alan Hahn

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