To stumble is not to fall but to move

forward more quickly.

African Proverb

We need to articulate common values and meanings if we are to survive and flourish. In intellectual terms, we

need to recover an underlying “conceptual architecture” so that we can talk to each other. If we don’t, we will inhabit smaller and smaller

private worlds.

Alan Jones

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose

sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

Work for what you truly

believe is right. But most of all, do not let anything or anyone tell you that the

possible is impossible. For even though we’re children, we

are the leaders of the future. April Chacon

The very least you can do in life is to figure out what you hope for and the

most you can do is live inside that hope. What I want is simple, I almost can’t say it:

Elementary kindness; enough to eat; enough to go around; the possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither

the destroyers nor the destroyed.

Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Unless we change our direction, we are

likely to end up where we are headed.

Chinese Proverb

Young people frequently forget what you say and do, but

they rarely forget how you make them feel.

Dr. Michael Carrera

Be Yourself.

Who else is better qualified?

Frank J. Giblin, Jr.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

We live not for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and

they come back to us as effects.

Herman Melville

Human history is the sad

result of each one looking

out for himself.

Julio Cortazar

Tell me and I might remember.

Show me and I might believe.

But let me experience and I will understand.

Koinonia Southern Africa

That’s the risk you take if

you change; that people you’ve been

involved with won’t like the new you.

But other people who do

will come along.

Lisa Alther

There can be no vulnerability

without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability;

there can be no peace, and ultimately no life without

community.

M. Scott Peck

Society will succeed or fail in direct proportion to the way it

enhances or impedes the development of its children.

Nosphitz

The human mind, once stretched to a new

idea, never goes back to its original

dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Perhaps none of us knows OUR TRUE STRENGTH

Until challenged to bring it forth.

Kouzes and Posner, The Leadership Challenge

Our minds are like parachutes.

They function only when open.

Transformation is

essential for all of us, that’s what I’ve learned…to change the world we have to change ourselves. You must become the change you want to see in the

world.

Reg Birch

Somewhere, sometime,

the leader within Each of us

May get THE CALL to step forward.

Kouzes and Posner, The Leadership Challenge

The UNIQUE role of

LEADERS is to take us

to places we’ve never been

before.

Kouzes and Posner, The Leadership Challenge

Failure is an event, not a person.

William D. Brown

Wanting to LEAD and

believing that you can lead are the

departure points on the path to leadership.

Leadership is an art –

A performing art and the instrument is the SELF.

Kouzes and Posner, The Leadership Challenge