Mt. San Antonio College - Nov 6 | Status: Completed | 4:02 PM Pacific
1. It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein
2. Nature does nothing in vain. - Aristotle
3. “If you can't convince them, scare them.” - — the government
1. If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way. - Seamus Heaney
2. Banish the word struggle from our attitude and vocabulary. - Except from “To My Fellow Swimmers” by the Elders of the Hopi Nation
3. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be! - Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote)
1. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think
2. “A person who is demoralized is unable to accept true information.” - — Yuri Bezmenov
3. At this age, I should be leading a quiet life. - Aung San Suu Kyi
1. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. - Maya Angelou
2. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
3. The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. - Abraham Lincoln
1. Walk away from it until you’re stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you’ll be better able to cope. - Lady Bird Johnson
2. I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy - Finding Nemo
3. There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. - Alexander Hamilton
1. Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. - Benjamin Franklin
2. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
3. Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
1. Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts. - Erskine Bowles
2. You don’t know what you can miss before you try. - Franklin Pierce
3. Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt. - Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five)
1. Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. - Alice Walker
2. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter
3. Being an activist is about getting things done. It’s not about standing around shaking your fist in anger. - Christine Quinn
1. Those who are not interested in politics will be forever ruled by those who are. - G. Edward Griffin
2. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
3. The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. - Aristotle
1. Protesting is never a disturbance of the peace. Corruption, injustice, war and intimidation are disturbances of the peace. - Bryant McGill
2. Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding. - Albert Einstein
3. A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength but by the strength of his heart - Hercules
1. Remember who you are
2. “I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.
3. “History is a set of lies agreed upon” - — Napoleon Bonaparte
1. Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.
2. There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth. - Fred Rogers
3. The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. - Antisthenes
1. We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right. - Aretha Franklin
2. Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. - Auguste Rodin
3. I have approximate knowledge of many things. - Adventure Time
1. Strike me down in anger and I’ll always be with you. Just like your father. - Luke Skywalker, Star Wars: Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
2. “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” - — Friedrich Nietzsche
3. The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. - Jackie Kennedy
1. The question isn’t whether you’re a leader if people are following you. The question is, are you a leader worth following? - Sheryl Sandberg
2. “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” - — Albert Camus
3. Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. - Benjamin Franklin
1. Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. - Benjamin Franklin
2. Adventure is out there
3. “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” - — Thomas Jefferson
1. Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. - Anne Frank
2. My courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?' - Lady Gaga
3. Honest people don't hide their deeds. - Emily Bronte
1. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. - Abraham Lincoln
2. What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. - Andy Warhol
3. “The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.” - — Frank Zappa
1. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
2. Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. - Billy Graham
3. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
1. “Investing should be like watching paint dry or grass grow. If you want excitement … go to Las Vegas.” - — Nobel Prize economist Paul Samuelson
2. Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one. - John Lennon
3. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. - Lao Tzu
1. “If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you’re Rembrandt or not.” - — Adam Carolla
2. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. - Albert Einstein
3. Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live. - Anne Sweeney
1. Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top. - Joseph Smith, Jr.
2. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. - Eleanor Roosevelt
3. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. - Albert Einstein
1. A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
2. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. - Andrew Carnegie
3. “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.” - — Noam Chomsky
1. Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars. - Anwar Sadat
2. You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. - Albert Einstein
3. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. - Benjamin Franklin
1. A great man is always willing to be little.
2. He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. - Aristotle
3. “Stand in as many pairs of shoes as you can manage, even ones you consider reprehensible or repulsive- even if it's just for a moment.” - — Ben Folds
1. Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
2. It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. - George Washington
3. Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business. - Ben Horowitz
1. “Once is a mistake, twice is jazz.” - — Attributed to Miles Davis
2. It is best for the wise man not to seem wise. - Aeschylus
3. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. - Albert Einstein
1. He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas. - Benjamin Franklin
2. Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
3. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.