HRD - workplace skills
Quotes
QUOTES
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it.
- Bruce Lee
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
- Douglas Adams
What counts is not the size of the dog in the fight—it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures your soul.
- Rabbi Harold Kushner
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
- Oprah Winfrey
The scars you acquire by exercising your courage will never make you feel inferior.
- D.A. Battista
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
-Goethe
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-Sir Winston Churchill
We want people to love us or like us, not for the wrapping but for the gift we have inside.
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
-Benjamin Franklin
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
-Plato
The most important job you'll ever have is to live your life fully.
It only gets better when you get better.
Life is like a circle; what seems like the end might just be a new beginning.
Change your thoughts, and you can change the world.
-Norman Vincent Peale
In order to see the rainbow, you must first endure some rain.
We all have the capacity for greatness. All we need to do is take responsibility for our lives, learn to dream again, set worthwhile goals, have faith and take action. We will be shown the next step as our lives unfold.
-Jim Donovan
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else, but what you are will be yours forever.
-Henry Van Dyke
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
If you want to be respected by people, treat them the way you would like to treated.
The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you
allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is
taking the first step, making the first decision.
-Robyn Davidson
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's
determination.
-Tommy Lasorda
Most people give up just when they're about to acheive success. They quit on
the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from
a winning touchdown.
-H. Ross Perot
Don't worry about doing great things...just do little things with great heart.
Opportunity is often missed, because it wears overalls and looks like work.
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
-Henry Van Dyke
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
-Oscar Wilde
