Your first duty in life is towards your afterself. So live that your afterself - the man you ought to be - may in his time be possible and actual. Far away in the years he is waiting his turn. His body, his brain, his soul, are in your boyish hands. He cannot help himself. … Continue reading For Sunday: The Hour of Your Decision is the Crisis in Your Destiny
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On Greatness: Sparring with Adversity
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. ~ Golda Meir
George Washington on Failure
To err is nature - to rectify error is glory. ~ George Washington
Muhammad Ali on Perspective
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ~ Muhammad Ali
On Leadership: The Essentials of Trust
Having spent many years trying to define the essentials of trust, I arrived at the position that if two people could say two things to each other and mean them, then there was the basis for real trust. The two things were "I mean you no harm" and "I seek your greatest good." ~ Jim … Continue reading On Leadership: The Essentials of Trust
On Leadership: People Can Spot a Phony
The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time. They know he doesn't care about them, and worse, his act insults their intelligence. ~ Jimmy Johnson, Former Coach, Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins
On Leadership: Four Qualities of a Successful Leader
As the individual in the large corporation becomes increasingly nameless and faceless, leadership traits and the ability to distinguish them grow more important. The successful leader combines these four qualities: He has faith in himself and his followers, but this faith is never dogmatic. He is direct but not tactless, neither self-conscious nor oversensitive. He … Continue reading On Leadership: Four Qualities of a Successful Leader
On Greatness: The Will to Meet the Trials
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - have the will to meet the trials that these times impose. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
On Greatness: Never Underestimate the Power of Dreams
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion. The potential for greatness lives within each of us. ~ Wilma Rudolph
On Innovation: Changing Reality
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress. ~ Anwar Sadat
Steven Lee Elder 