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Nuggets of Wisdom-Summer 2025

Nuggets of Wisdom-Summer 2025

Last updated on: July 3, 2025 at 1:06 pm by Richard E. Simmons III

Nuggets of Wisdom-Summer 2025 2025-07-03T13:06:11-06:00 Richard E. Simmons III

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Every quarter I like to share quotes that I have encountered in my reading and research that have been meaningful to me. I call them “Nuggets of Wisdom.”

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“The clearer you are about your priorities, the easier it is to say no.”

—SHANE PARRISH

“We will never get the freedom and long-term satisfaction we thought self-rule would bring. Ignoring God is never a pathway to blessing.”

—PAUL DAVID TRIPP

“One cannot buy, rent, or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up.”

—PETER DRUCKER

“’I don’t have enough time’ is not a useful phrase when it comes to anything related to your dream. It’s okay to actively choose to do something or not, but don’t blame time.”

—ALEXI PAPPAS

“At the end of our lives, when we come face-to-face with God, it would be childish to blame others for our lack of spiritual progress.”

—WALTER HENRICHSEN

“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little.”

—MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE

“You cannot keep a committed person from success. Place stumbling blocks in his way, and he takes them for stepping-stones, and on them he will climb to greatness.”

—JOE GRIFFITH

“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”

—WALTER CRONKITE

“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”

—EDWARD GIBBON

“Addiction is when we’ve ‘lost the freedom to abstain.’”

—QUOTE FROM THE DAILY STOIC

“Character is the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life—it is the source from which self-respect springs.”

—JOAN DIDION

Richard E Simmons III is the founder and Executive Director of The Center for Executive Leadership and a best-selling author.

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