Noble

"There is nothing noble about being superior to another person. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."
"Robin S Sharma "The Monk Who Sold His Ferari"

I Can

"Your 'I Can' is more important than your IQ."
Robin Sharma "The Monk Who Sold His Ferari"

Mind-Management

"Mind management is the essence of life management."
Robin S Sharma "The Monk Who Sold His Ferari"

Unlived Life

"... nothing has a stronger influence on children than the unlived life of a parent."
Jung quoted by Steven K Baum "Growing Up at Any Age." p82

Singular - Universal

"That which seems the most singular is often the most universal."
James Christensen - Fantasy painter (artist)

Get Good

"You got to put in your 10,000 hours - that's how you get good."
Scott Usher

Pounce

"You have to be able to pounce on the luck when it shows up."
David Burnett - photographer interviewed by John du Pre on "In Sight" BYU Television

Join a Club

"Joining a club that makes you show up just once a month has the same impact on your happiness as doubling your income."
Dan Beuttner

Me and My Mouse

"As for me and my mouse, we will serve the Lord.
Keep it up! Don't screw up!
Being a husband and a father is hard because they happen every day.
Go home - be men of nobility in our homes."
Dan Seaborn "Winning at Home" www.winningathome.com

Greatness

"Everybody can be great because everybody can serve."
Dr Martin Luther King Jr

Intelligence + Character

"Intelligence + character: that is the true goal of character."
Dr Martin Luther King Jr

Cordial...

"...one cannot be cordial to a man whose eyes regard you as a detective looks at a criminal... or rather as one criminal looks at another."
Donn Byrne

Avoid; Beware; Help; Seek

Avoid the pitfalls, the detours.
Beware of the flashy start and the fading finish.
Help others in the race of life.
Seek and Find the Saviour.
Thomas S Monson

Powerful...

"I'm a powerful advocate... and I am a powerful adversary."
Dr Phil

Fears

"Through training one learns to overcome ones fears. If you can have a sense of your true self, you've got something."
John van Zijl - Kaicho Master

A Man...

"A Man is more than his wallet.
Providing is more than providing dollars and cents.
We are learning to see the more in the less.
"In not having a radio in our car - the less, we had a seven hour conversation with our children - the more..."
Identify what it is you want to accomplish as a family.
Look at the different areas of your life - "How can we accomplish what we want?"
Begin the process of making counter-cultural decisions.
Let go of peer-pressure.
Make daily decisions along your way to what your family wants.
Let God call the shots - ask Him "What is it You want me to do?"
Invite conversations with your spouse.
Don't drive your decision on the others.
Have the attitude... "Here's what I am willing to do... How can you join me?"

"Living with Less so Your Family Has More"
Mark and Jill Savage

Stiffen Our Spines

"One thing that tends to immobalise us is our doom and gloom...
We need to stiffen our spines and acknowledge our rich heritage."
Archbishop Ndungane

Gifts and Talents

"Your gifts and talents can get you "up" there - but only character will keep you there."
Quoted by Vincent Peter

Manage the Risk

"Manage the risk you are exposed to every day."
LDS Family Services Symposium

Peace, Prosperity, Security

"Work towards a peace of virtual equals: not of power, but a balance of mutual benefit: peace, prosperity and security.
Play a constructive role.
Be a responsible stakeholder.
Create a new identity politically, culturally, economically - one of co-operation.
Be more interconnected.
Balance competition and co-operation in order to prosper.
Govern your competetive impulse to dominate for the sake of the people and those who come after you.
Shake hands. Embrace each other. Attain peace.
We're all on the same ship; so, if you see a hole, plug it.
Be respectiful of the universal norms of co-operation and competition.
Create a positive trend. Continue to push it.
It will take hard work: caring, sharing, daring.
Be people oriented, far looking.
Win the battle - win the peace.
It was not the military, it was Mrs Ramos that changed my life.
After the devastation done by friends and enemies, I decided to become an engineer - I decided to build up.
Maybe I could do better by becoming an engineer using dialogue, diplomacy, courage and daring.
Forget confrontation.
Fortify yourselves to survive the threats from outside.
Become effective, influential, peaceful, relatively united as a social, economic, cultural unit.
Resolve differences diplomatically.
Be not a bad example.
Help build a better future.
Make one plus one equal more than two - it can be three, five, ten, eleven or more.
Encourage the synergy of the participants.
One plus one can equal zero - or minus five, minus ten.
We can do it!
Have a "Yes we can" attitude.
Assess, calculate, influence difficult, multi-faith relationships.
Create a regional block.
The cost of one supercarrier could finance ten universities.
Invest in education.
Transfer more budget to development, outreaching.
Defend through aliances.
Agree as virtual equals.
Act as partners instead of as enemies.
Join together to defend against natural enemies.
Say "I will try again."
Use economic and intellectual rather than military influence.
Keep the balance between the powers - neither of whom you want to antagonise.
Let cooler solutions predominate."
- Fidel V Ramos (Former Philipines President)
Wheatley Institute Lecture.