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Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
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Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust.
Service brings satisfaction.
Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- James Cash Penney
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart,
cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion
to his commitment to excellence,
regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
It is the quality of the moment,
not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zen says that if you drop knowledge -
and within knowledge everything is included;
your name, your identity, everything,
because this has been given to you by others -
if you drop all that has been given by others,
you will have a totally different quality to your being: innocence.
This will be a crucifixion of the persona, the personality,
and there will be a resurrection of your innocence.
You will become a child again, reborn.
- Osho
Honor your past, and all the consequences of that past.
Receive insight into relieving the pain
caused by past experiences and current attitudes toward life.
Observe life as it currently appears,
and then train yourself to observe life
from other perspectives that support a higher quality of living.
Re-consider your priorities.
Chart your Course.
Set Sail with Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard
I think one of the finest gifts I can give
my friends in the holiday season is to pause
with a long enough quality to actually SEE them.
My calm, unhurried presence communicates
this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you.
I remember our times of together
and am contributing right now to another quality memory.
I value you and honor and take the time,
right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There is more difference in the quality
of our pleasures than in the amount.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered.
He consists only of one quality: witnessing.
This small word witnessing contains the whole of spirituality.
Witness that you are not the body.
Witness that you are not the mind.
Witness that you are only a witness.
As the witnessing deepens,
you start becoming drunk with the divine.
That is what is called ecstasy.
- Osho
Creativity is the quality that you bring
to the activity that you are doing.
It is an attitude, an inner approach -
how you look at things.
- Osho
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...
because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill
Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen.
Then what will be the quality?
Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated,
centered, loving, flowing, one walks.
And the walking is sauntering.
Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated -
not sitting for anything in particular,
just enjoying how beautiful
just sitting doing nothing is,
how relaxing, how restful.
- Osho
It is the quality of our work which will please God
and not the quantity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
You are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
Honor diversity in all seasons.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- 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.
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
I grant myself the Honor of being ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Today is my day to honor my being,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ability without honor is useless.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
I Honor Diversity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
Honor True Self
Forgive with Compassion
Receive ALL of life with Thanksgiving
CHOOSE with Thoughtful Consideration
Dream with Powerful Vision
Act with Bold Courage
Dance with a Light Heart
Relax in the Arms of Spirit
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Honor My True Self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
I honor all people and cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pride comes in two flavors -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world.
To be effective it demands the sacrifice
of the bravest and the most spotless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
Honor your being,
Release each and every struggle,
Gather strength from life's storms,
Relax into the arms of spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honor, Choose, Celebrate, Dream, Act, Relax
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end,
contain within themselves the seeds of their own corruption.
- Theodore H. White
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
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