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Quotes: Appreciation

July 10, 2008

Appreciation Seeing the good in life. Freely expressing gratitude.

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

Booker T. Washington:
Any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.

Sam Walton:
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune.

Voltaire:
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Albert Schweitzer:
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Henry Clay:
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.

Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.

William Arthur:
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Cicero:

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
Frederick Keonig quotes

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
Ashley Smith

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
Oscar Wilde

“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”
Winnie the Pooh

“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”
Alexander Smith

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.”
Theodore Isaac Rubin

“Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.”
St. Teresa of Avila

“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”
Dalai Lama

“By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.”
Voltaire

“When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have”
Stephen Hawking

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Quotes: Accountability

July 10, 2008

Accountability The willingness to take full responsibility for our choices.

Accountability breeds response-ability.”
Stephen R. Covey

“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”
Moliere

“Employers today are looking to their leaders to think more strategically. No longer is it acceptable to focus on the day to day issues. The team is accountable for the day to day decisions.”
Catherine Pulsifer

“Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.”
Denis Waitley

“We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.”
Mildred Newman

“I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”
Walter Anderson

“A good coach will hold the team accountable for both their actions and their results.”
Catherine Pulsifer

“Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can’t solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.”
Robert Townsend

“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.”
Oprah Winfrey

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.”
Spinoza

“The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.”
John Stuart Mill

“If we want unity, we must all be unifiers. If we want accountability, each of us must be accountable for all we do.”
Christine Gregoire

Don’t get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.”
W. R. Inge

“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.”
Anita Septimus

“My belief is that personal freedom cannot grow beyond personal responsibility. The more people that learn to be fully accountable for their lives, the more freedom each of us can enjoy and the more fulfilling all of our lives will be.”
Reed Konsler

“God does not want us to do extraordinary things; He wants us to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
Bishop Gore

“Remember that you are unique. If that has not been fulfilled, then something wonderful has been lost.”
Martha Graham

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
Benjamin Franklin

“The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.”
Michael Armstrong

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