Quotes for Learning and Leadership

1. Quotes for Learning and Leadership

3. 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

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

5. What the seeker seeks, the prover provesRobert Anton Wilson

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7. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. Albert Einstein

8. 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

9. 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

10. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge Albert Einstein

11. Education is freedom No-one can take it away from you Professor Emeritus Colin Adamson-Macedo 1922 - 2005

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

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

14. It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Mabel Newcomber

15. 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

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

17. You can’t stop the waves…but you can learn how to surfZinn, Jon Kabat

18. Don’t look where you fell look where you slippedAfrican proverb

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

20. You cannot control the length of your life.But you can control its breadth and its depth.Evan Esar

21. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different resultsAlbert Einstein

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

23. Happiness is a journey not a destinationBen Sweetland

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

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

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

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

28. 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

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

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

31. A powerful goal is a dream with a deadline.Napolean Hill

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

33. 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

34. 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

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

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

37. “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)

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

39. Be sure you put your feet in the right place – then stand firmAbraham Lincoln

40. “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.”Antionede Saint-Exupery

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

42. A mind stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension.Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

44. 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

45. “The ball doesn’t know how old I am.”Martina Navritalova47, after winning her singles match at Wimbledon in 2004)

46. There’s nothing left in my right brain, and there’s nothing right in my left brainCharlie Brown

47. What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

50. 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