Quotes for Learning and Leadership

Everything can be taken from a man but ...the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Viktor E. Frankl

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Ghandi

What the seeker seeks, the prover proves

Robert Anton Wilson

O lny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.

It deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currentlyknow and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

Albert Einstein

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge

Albert Einstein

Education is freedomNo-one can take it away from you

Professor Emeritus Colin Adamson-Macedo1922 - 2005

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

Peace Pilgrim

It isn't where you come from, it's where you're going that counts.

Ella Fitzgerald

It is more important to know where you aregoing than to get there quickly.

Do not mistake activity for achievement.

Mabel Newcomber

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Michelangelo

Before you put yourself in someone else’s shoes, you first have to take off your own.

Anon

You can’t stop the waves…but you can learn how to surf

Zinn, Jon Kabat

Don’t look where you fell look where you slipped

African proverb

“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.”

George Eliot

You cannot control the length of your life.

But you can control its breadth and its depth.

Evan Esar

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

Albert Einstein

I have choices in my lifeOne of which isTo have choices in my life

Happiness is a journey not a destination

Ben Sweetland

Success is not forever, and failure isn’t fatal.

Winston Churchill

Don’t ask for a task to be easy ask for it to be worth it.

There are those who believe they can, and there are those who believe they can’t:they are both right.

Henry Ford

Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Proust

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Opportunities are missed by most people because they are dressed in overalls and look like work.

Thomas Edison

Opportunities are never lost. Somebody else will eventually take them.

A powerful goal is a dream with a deadline.

Napolean Hill

It’s hard to fight an enemy who has an outpostin your head.

Sally Kempton

To listen, we need to open our earsTo see, we need to open our eyesTo think, we need to open our mindsTo love, we need to open our hearts

We want the facts to fit our preconceptions.

When they don’t, it’s easier to ignore the facts than change our preconceptions.

Jessamyn West

If your only tool is a hammer, every obstacle looks like a nail.

Abraham Maslow

If you’re in the wrong hole – stop digging.

“I never ran 1000 miles – I could never have done that. I ran one mile 1000 times.”

Stu Mittleman (world record holder for ultra-distance running)

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

Emerson

Be sure you put your feet in the right place – then stand firm

Abraham Lincoln

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to go the forest to gather wood, saw it, and nail the planks together.

Instead, teach them a desire for the sea.”

Antione de Saint-Exupery

In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Unknown

A mind stretched to a new idea never returns to its

original dimension.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

Picasso

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Claude T. Bissell

“The ball doesn’t know how old I am.”

Martina Navritalova 47, after winning her singles match at Wimbledon in 2004)

There’s nothing left in my right brain, and there’s nothing right in my left brain

Charlie Brown

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Arthur Koestler

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others

Bill Gates

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Peter Drucker

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy