"If you ask to much of your team members, they lose respect and confidence in you as their leader, plus experience a loss of moral."

"Leaders must be honest with themselves as well as others."

"...there is a difference between being popular and being respected."

" The habit of being ethical on little things tends to
carry over to the big things"
--Pat McCourt

Without passion man is a mere latent force and
possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel

The nearest way to glory -- a shortcut, as it were -- is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
-- Socrates, quoted in Cicero, 44 BC

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
-- The Reverend Jesse Jackson

Straighten your problems out before you go to bed.
That way you will wake up smiling.
-- Louis Fromm

There was no such thing as half-trying. Whether it was running a race or catching a football, competing in school -- we were to try. And we were to try harder than anyone else. We might not
be the best, and none of us were, but we were to make the effort to be the best.
-- Senator Robert F. Kennedy, in a tribute to his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, at his funeral, 1969

If, working harder, faster, smarter,
won't solve it, what will?
--Covey, First Things First

Treat your friends as you do your pictures,
and place them in their best light.
-- Jennie Jerome Churchill

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
-- Bertrand Russell

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to
contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
-- T.S. Eliot

It all comes down to one very simple choice....
Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'.
-- Tim Robbins as Andy Dufrain in "The Shawshank Redemption"

For every finish-line tape a runner breaks --
complete with the cheers of the crowd and the
clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are
the hours of hard and often lonely work that
rarely gets talked about.
-- Grete Waitz

Winners Are People Like You

Winners take chances. Like everyone else, they fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them.
Winners don't give up. When life gets rough, they hang in until the going gets better.
Winners are flexible. They realize there is more than one way and are willing to try others.
Winners know they are not perfect. They respect their weaknesses while making the most of their strengths.
Winners fall, but they don't stay down. They stubbornly refuse to let a fall keep them from climbing...
Winners don't blame fate for their failures nor luck for their successes.
Winners accept responsibility for their lives.
Winners are positive thinkers who see good in all things.
From the ordinary, they make the extraordinary.
Winners believe in the path they have chosen even when it's hard, even when others can't see where they are going,
Winners are patient. They know a goal is only as worthy
as the effort that's required to achieve it.
Winners are people like you. They make this world a better place to be.
-- Nancye Sims

Anything Is Possible

If there was ever a time to dare,to make a difference,
to embark on something worth doing, IT IS NOW.
Not for any grand cause, necessarily...
but for something that tugs at your heart,
something that's your inspiration, something that's your dream.
You owe it to yourself to make your days here count.
HAVE FUN,DIG DEEP, STRETCH.

DREAM BIG.
Know, though, that things worth doing seldom come easy.
There will be good days, And there will be bad days.
There will be times when you want to turn around,
pack it up, and call it quits.
Those times tell you that you are pushing yourself,
that you are not afraid to learn by trying.

PERSIST.
Because with an idea, determination, and the right tools,
you can do great things.
Let your instincts, your intellect, and your heart,
guide you.

TRUST.
Believe in the incredible power of the human mind.
Of doing something that makes a difference.
Of working hard. Of laughing and hoping.
Of lazy afternoons. Of lasting friends.
Of all the things that will cross your path this year.
The start of something new brings the hope of something great,
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.

Life is

Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a gift - accept it.
Life is an adventure - dare it.
Life is a sorrow - overcome it.
Life is a tragedy - face it.
Life is a duty - perform it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a mystery - unfold it.
Life is a song - sing it.
Life is an opportunity - take it.
Life is a journey - complete it.
Life is a promise - fulfill it.
Life is a beauty - praise it.
Life is a struggle - fight it.
Life is a goal - achieve it.
Life is a puzzle - solve it.
Life is eternal - believe it.

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind
me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend."
-- Albert Camus

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is hard to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.
-- W. L. Shirer

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better.
 -- Harry S. Truman

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.
-- Unknown

"If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real
opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation."
-- Vaclav Havel

Always hold your head up,
but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
-- Max L. Forman

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it. 
-- William James

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
-- Alexander Pope, "Epilogue to the Satires," 1738

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
-- Ann Landers

For that which does not come
from the heart will surely not reach the heart."
-- J.J. Quantz
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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
 --Vauvenargues

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
-- Malcom Forbes

"It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now  becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning."
-- Albert Camus

Things We Can Learn from a Dog

1. Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joy ride.
2. Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face to be pure ecstasy.
3. When loved ones come home, always run to greet them. 
4. When it’s in your best interest, always practice obedience.
5. Let others know when they’ve invaded your territory. 
6. Take naps and always stretch before rising.
7. Run, romp, and play daily.
8. Eat with gusto and enthusiasm.
9. Be loyal.
10. Never pretend to be something you’re not.
11. If what you want lies buried, dig until you find it.
12. When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by and nuzzle them gently. 
13. Delight in the simple joy of a long walk.
14. Thrive on attention and let people touch you.
15. Avoid biting when a simple growl will do.
16. On hot days, drink lots of water and lie under a shady tree.
17. When you are happy, dance around and wag your entire body.
18. No matter how often you are criticized, don’t buy into the guilt ting and pout. Run right back and make friends.

If you can start the day without caffeine
If you can get going without pep pills
If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains
If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles
If you can eat the same food everyday & be grateful for it
If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time
If you can overlook it when those you love take it out on you when, through no fault of yours, something goes wrong
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment
If you can ignore a friend's limited education and never correct him
If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a
poor friend
If you can face the world without lies and deceit
If you can conquer tension without medical help
If you can relax without liquor
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs
If you can say honestly that deep in your heart you have no prejudice against creed, color, religion or politics
Then, my friend, you are almost as good as your dog
--Richard M Cross

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
-- Agatha Christie

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in 
awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."
-- Albert Einstein

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
-- Aristotle

"Let the beauty you love, be what you do."
-- Rumi
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We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.
-- Brooks Atkinson

A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.
-- Maltbie Babcock
 

"Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to."
-- Howard Mumford Jones

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
--Mark Twain

"Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority  of government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual  life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put on this world 
has been put there for a reason and has something to offer."
-- Ronald Reagan

Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing -- and does it well.
-- E. Merrill Root

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal, but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there.
--Max Leaner

"You know, we can talk sometimes about managing our own evolution. About cloning people. About deciding how with genetic engineering  we're going to improve ourselves. But how do we improve
ourselves? We don't know. We've improved domestic animals a great way. We've  got cows that give milk by the hundreds of gallons. We've got
sheep that are wool...all the way through.  We've got turkeys that are all breast."
--Isaac Asimov

"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety."
-- Aesop

"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized.  I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation in life by re-organizing. A wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion 
of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization." 
-- Petronius Arbiter, 1st Century A. D.

"People are like teabags... you never know how strong they are until you drop them in hot water."
-- Unknown

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
-- Charles Kingsley

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
-- Charles Dickens

Many a friendship -- long, loyal, and self-sacrificing -- rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word. 
-- Frederick W. Faber

"I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, And this
becomes men's nature in the end."
-- Aristotle, "Nicomachean Ethics"

There is nothing so comfortable as money, - but nothing so defiling if it be come by unworthily; nothing so comfortable, but nothing so noxious if the mind be allowed to dwell upon it constantly.
If a man have enough, let him spend it freely. If he wants it, let him earn it honestly. Let him do something for it, so that the man who pays it to him may get its value.
-- The Duke of Omnium explaining money to his son, Lord Silverbridge. From the novel "The Duke's Children", by Anthony Trollope, 1880.

Most of us miss out on life's big prizes. The Pulitzer. The Nobel. Oscars. Tonys. Emmys. But we're all eligible for life's small pleasures. A pat on the back. A kiss behind the ear. A four-pound bass. A full moon. An empty parking space. A crackling
fire. A great meal. A glorious sunset. Hot soup. Cold beer.
Don't fret about copping life's grand awards. Enjoy its tiny delights. There are plenty for all of us.
-- Anonymous

"Though my soul may sit in darkness, it will arise in perfect light. I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
-- Colleen Henry

"Man drives, but the Creator holds the reigns."
-- Jewish saying

"To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish."
-- Euripides

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
-- Arland Gilbert

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
-- Helen Keller

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that
all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, 
person to person.
-- Mother Teresa

If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-- Mary Pickford

The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
-- Chinese proverb

When nothing is sure, everything is possible. 
-- Margaret Drabble 

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. 
-- Helen Keller

Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far. 
-- Euripides

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. 
-- George Bernard Shaw

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.
-- Janet Erskine Stuart

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. 
-- Isaac Newton

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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. 
-- Henry J. Kaiser

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has. 
-- Epictetus

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana, "The Life of Reason: Reason in Society", 1906

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk,...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single
courageous step would carry us clear through them.
-- Brendan Francis

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillips Brooks

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. 
-- Louis Nizer

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
-- Booker T. Washington

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
-- Cicero

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
-- David Starr Jordan

Courage isn't the absence of fear; 
it's the dealing with it. 
-- Randall "Tex" Cobb, boxer and actor

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate.  It is, after all, to matter:
to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
-- Leo C. Rosten

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
-- Thomas Jefferson

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. 
-- Arnold H. Glasow

Courage is grace under pressure. 
-- Ernest Hemingway

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
-- Dale Carnegie

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves. 
-- Ovid

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.
-- "Barnaby Rudge", page 607, by Charles Dickens, 1841.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. 
-- James L. Allen

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm, that after they have lost all they are sure to lose in mixing with the world, enough
may still remain to prompt and support them through great actions.
-- Julius C. Hare

He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made.
-- Henry B. Wilson

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. 
-- William Feather

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
-- Unknown

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying. 
--  Christian Furchtegott Gellert

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope. 
-- Sir Winston Churchill

"This child - he thought - has this child heroically persevered under all doubts and dangers, struggled with poverty and suffering, upheld and sustained by strong affection and the consciousness of rectitude alone! And yet the world is full of such heroism. Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne
trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!
-- The good schoolmaster reflecting on the quiet heroism of Little Nell in "The Old Curiosity Shop," by Charles Dickens, 1841

You see things; and you say, "Why?"
But I dream things that never were;
and I say "Why not?"
-- George Bernard Shaw

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
-- Aldous Huxley

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities, and to make the most of one's resources. 
-- Vauvenargues

It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost.  The noble soul has reverence for itself. 
-- Friedreich Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil"

"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."
-- Orlando A. Battista

"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."
-- Laurence J. Peter

"When a man faces his Maker, he will have to account for the pleasures  of life he failed to experience."
-- Talmud

"Heaven never helps the men who will not act."
-- Sophocles

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
-- Ann Landers

"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."
-- Ralph W. Sockman

"The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a  way that will allow a solution."
-- Bertrand Russell

"Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible.  Not to have run away."
-- Dag Hammarskjold

"No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back."
-- Turkish proverb

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not  using his intelligence he is just using his memory."
-- Leonardo Da Vinci 

"Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways  you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can."
-- John Wesley

"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory."
-- Blaise Pascal

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
-- Alex Hamilton

"There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."
-- Norman Vincent Peale

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself."
-- Ethel Barrymoore 

"Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach."
-- Roger von Oech

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
-- Herm Albright

"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be."
-- Voltaire

"Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place  to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip."
-- "The Station" by Robert J. Hastings

"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born."
-- Dr. Dale Turner