Quotes for the Day - Saturday, August 28, 2010

                                                                     


"We don't succeed by doing something right one time; we succeed by doing things right on a regular basis.  Habits are the key to all success." ---Hal Urban in Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter

"The Church of Jesus Christ, with all its blemishes, its divisions, and its failures, remains our best hope of spiritual vitality.  However poor it is, life without it is worse." ---Elton Trueblood in The Company of the Committed, 1961.

"When the bottom falls out people do not need a lecture; they need compassion.  Not pity.  Compassion is that rare gift that inspires people to believe in themselves because someone else believes in them.  Compassion is staying with someone that everyone else has given up on.  Compassion is snatching a friend from the jaws of despair and convincing him to dust himself off and try again." ---Walter Albritton in Life is Short So Laugh Often, Live Fully and Love Deeply







"Clarity is the antidote to anxiety, and therefore clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader.  If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear." ---Marcus Buckingham in
The One Thing You Need to Know









"A common acronym for fear is

                  False
                  Events
                  Appearing
                  Real."

Bart Sayle and Surinder Kumar in Riding the Blue Train