Hugh McCloskey Evans III
If we trust only when trust is warranted, love only when love is returned, learn only when learning is valuable, we abandon an essential feature of our own humanness-our willingness to act from our conception of who we are, regardless of the consequences.
Content: Quotation | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Life, Wisdom
Albert Schweitzer
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Content: Quotation | Subject: Life
Ortega y Gasset
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Future, Life
General Omar Nelson Bradley
We are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Content: Quotation | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Decision Making, Life
Lance Armstrong
…personal comfort is not the only thing worth seeking…comfort only takes us to a point that’s known. Since when did sheets with the right thread-count, a coffee maker, and an electric toothbrush become the only things worth having or working toward? Too often, comfort gets in the way of inner reckonings.
Content: Quotation | Source: Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins | Subjects: Life, Perception
Lance Armstrong
If you lead a largely unexamined life, you will eventually hit a wall. Some barriers can be invisible until you smack into them. The key, then, is to investigate the wall inside yourself, so you can go beyond it. The only way to do that is to ask yourself painful questions…
Content: Quotation | Source: Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins | Subjects: Learning, Life
Keith H. Hammonds, Laura Nash
The [work-life balance] problem…is that while success at work is largely rooted in achievement, success outside of work mostly isn’t. The things most of us say we value in our nonwork lives — simply caring and being there for others — aren’t a function of accomplishing anything per se. Contentedness in that realm is less a matter of doing more than of cutting back.
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Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Life
Soren Kierkegaard
Life can only be understood by looking back, but can only be lived by looking forward.
Content: Quotation | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: History, Life
Jim Barksdale
You spend the first third of your life learning, the second third earning, and the final third giving back. And if there’s anything left over, well, I guess we didn’t plan well.
Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Life
Robert Louis Stevenson
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Content: Quotation | Source: The Abraham Group | Subjects: Achievement, Life
George Bernard Shaw
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. Life is no ‘brief candle’ for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Life, Social Responsibility (ESG)
Unknown
What gives something meaning, besides the meaning we give it?
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Life, Philosophy
Dr. Dennis R. Deaton
We think, and with those thoughts, we create. We create the world we live in … We harvest in life, only and exactly, what we sow in our minds.
Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Life, Personality / Behavior
Mark Kingwell
All inquiry, whatever its subject, has as its final object the matter of how to go about living.
Content: Quotation | Sources: The Wilson Quarterly, What Does It All Mean? | Subjects: Life, Strategy
Steven B. Sample
Anything worth doing at all is worth doing poorly. It may be worth more if it’s done well, but it’s worth something if it’s done poorly.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Life, Miscellaneous
W.E.B. Du Bois
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world’s need of work. With it, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this – with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need – this life is hell.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Life, Work
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Show me a hero and I’ll tell you a tragedy.
Content: Quotation | Author: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Life, Success / Failure
Unknown
People forget what you said.
People forget what you did.
But people never forget how you made them feel.With wealth you can live in comfort.
With drive you can make a comfortable living.
With peace of mind, you can be comfortable in living
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Life, Wisdom