In one class this week we looked at motivation in the work place and at home with friends and family….
we discussed some of these quotes which are indeed really relevant to us all !
„We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.“ (Albert Einstein)
„It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.“ (President Harry S Truman)
„In the midst of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.“ (Albert Camus, 1913 – 1960, French author & philosopher)
„If you’re not part of the solution you must be part of the problem.“ (the commonly paraphrased version of the original quote: „What we’re saying today is that you’re either part of the solution, or you’re part of the problem“ by Eldridge Cleaver 1935-98, founder member and information minister of the Black Panthers, American political activist group, in a speech in 1968 –
„A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.“ (Harvey Mackay -)
„I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed.“ (Booker T Washington, 1856-1915, American Educator and African-American spokesman,)
„Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.“ (William James, American Philosopher, 1842-1910 -)
„A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than the giant himself.“ (Didacus Stella, circa AD60 – )
„If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.“ (Sir Isaac Newton, 1676.)
„The most important thing in life is not to capitalise on your successes – any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.“ (William Bolitho, from ‘Twelve against the Gods’)
„Management means helping people to get the best out of themselves, not organising things.“ (Lauren Appley)
„The world is divided into people who do things, and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition.“ (Dwight Morrow, 1935.)
„What does not kill us makes us stronger.“ (attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, probably based on his words: „Out of life’s school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.“ from The Twilight of the Idols, 1899)
„A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.“ (George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950.)
„I praise loudly. I blame softly.“ (Catherine the Great, 1729-1796.)