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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\u00a0<\/em>\u201cNuggets of Wisdom.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cShow me a man that gets rich by being a politician and I will show you a crook.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN<\/a><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it\u2014but all that had gone before.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014JACOB RIIS, Social Reformer<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014JOHN ADAMS (1756)<\/a><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe most important things are almost never urgent.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014JIM ROHN<\/a><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will eventually burn out from work that draws income but fails to capture or exercise our gifts.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014KEN BOA<\/a><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMoney has become a playing field where we measure our competence and worth as people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014LYNNE TWIST<\/a><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cPrinciples are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014STEPHEN COVEY<\/a><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOf all the awkward people in your house or job there is only one you can improve very much.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014C.S. LEWIS<\/a><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople don\u2019t change with time. They change by understanding reality.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014PETER DRUCKER<\/a><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy goal for growing older, for preparing to die, is to care less about how others view me and more about how God views me. We\u2019ll have much longer together, after all.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014PHILIP YANCEY<\/a><\/p>\n
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Richard\u00a0E Simmons III<\/a>\u00a0is the founder and Executive Director of\u00a0The Center for Executive Leadership<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0best-selling author<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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