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Thought-of-the-Day
March 2017 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
03/01/17"Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, and that you know how to listen." - Robert K. Greenleaf
03/02/17"Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
03/03/17"If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out." - Warren G. Bennis
03/04/17"The free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual." - John Steinbeck
03/05/17"We hold these truths to be evident, that all men and women are created equal." - Elizabeth Staton
03/06/17"I must study politics and war that my son may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy." - John Adams
03/07/17"The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." - Chinese proverb
03/08/17"One person with courage is a majority." - Thomas Jefferson
03/09/17"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." - Albert Einstein
03/10/17"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' " - Ronald Reagan
03/11/17"Most people overestimate others' talents and underestimate their own." - Orrin Woodward
03/12/17"The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there." - Henri J.M. Nouwen
03/13/17"When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter." - Winston S. Churchill
03/14/17"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary." - Reinhold Niebuhr
03/15/17"Law is order, and good law is good order." - Aristotle
03/16/17"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men." - Plato
03/17/17"Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves." - Rollo May
03/18/17"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other." - Eric Hoffer
03/19/17"The united voice of millions cannot lend the smallest foundation of falsehood." - Oliver Goldsmith
03/20/17"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought." - Graham Greene
03/21/17"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality." - Dante Alighieri
03/22/17"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln
03/23/17"No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet." - William Safire
03/24/17"A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." - Dutch proverb
03/25/17"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy." - Norman Schwarzkopf
03/26/17"Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities when directing one's course by it, one must still try to follow its direction." - Vincent van Gogh
03/27/17"Leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves." - Stephen R. Covey
03/28/17"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius
03/29/17"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." - Eleanor Roosevelt
03/30/17"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." - Robert Louis Stevenson
03/31/17"One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master." - Joseph Addison


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