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Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust.
Service brings satisfaction.
Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- James Cash Penney
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)
Self confident independent thinker -
sounds like the makings of a hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
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You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Honor your being,
Release each and every struggle,
Gather strength from life's storms,
Relax into the arms of spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
Honor diversity in all seasons.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I grant myself the Honor of being ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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.
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
The glue that holds all relationships together -
including the relationship between; the leader and the led
is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
- Brian Tracy
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens,
you can never regain their respect and esteem.
- Abraham Lincoln
When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield
If money is your hope for independence,
you will never have it.
The only real security that
a man can have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability.
- Henry Ford
When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar,
and the lightnings blaze around us
it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.
- Luther Martin
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
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
You are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Today is a day to honor other cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
- Henry David Thoreau
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Smiling away your troubles requires
a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts;
even so, the greater is the goodness, the less it covets praise;
yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
- Lao Tzu
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end,
contain within themselves the seeds of their own corruption.
- Theodore H. White
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
- Michel de Montaigne
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
- Epictetus
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
The most important promises are
the ones we make to ourselves.
The promises we makes to ourselves
are the things that assure us
we have the capacity
to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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