Bernadette's Favorite Quotes

"Action is the antidote to despair."
— Joan Baez

"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas."
— Dr. Linus Pauling

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

“You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, and at the same time have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be…”
— Admiral Jim Stockdale

“You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.”
— Joan Baez

 “Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.” 
— Kurt Vonnegut

"You can not dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”
— James A. Froude

“Great necessities call out great virtues.”
— Abigail Adams

“If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct.”
— Dee Hock, Founder and CEO Emeritus, Visa

“Leaders who make it a practice to draw out the thoughts and ideas of their subordinates and who are receptive even to bad news will be properly informed.”
— L. B. Belker

“Communicate downward to subordinates with at least the same care and attention as you communicate upward to superiors."
— L. B. Belker

"It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."
— Maya Angelou

“The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
— Maria Montessori

"In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you." 
— Warren Buffet, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway.

“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”
— Helen Keller

“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."
— Dag Hammarskjold, Statesman

“There are two types of people – those who come into a room and say, “Well, here I am,” and those who come in and say, “Ah, there you are.”
— Frederick Collins

“The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches, but to reveal theirs.”
— Benjamin Disraeli

"To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!'"
— Lao-tsu

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." — Dwight Eisenhower

“Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past” . Deepak Chopra

“Life is a field of unlimited possibilities”
Deepak Chopra

"Guilt is the gift that keeps on giving."
— Erma Bombeck

“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
— Grandma Moses

“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain”
— Maya Angelou

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