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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Handbook.
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
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Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause
for which I am prepared to kill.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Although prepared for martyrdom,
I preferred that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill
I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill
a president of the United States, he can do it.
All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
- John F. Kennedy
I am trying to own my own opinions
and offer what I know as an option,
just as I would present a tray of appetizers for my guests.
Here are several choices that I have created -
if one looks good you are welcome to take it.
In other words, I am training myself to say,
"May I tell you how it is for me?"
When I ask the question, it means waiting
for the invitation to share.
It also means being prepared for my friend to say,
"No." They don't want to know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Forgiveness of all people and all acts -
is a sure path to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Affirmation:
All people are my heart-felt brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
All successful people men and women are big dreamers.
They imagine what their future could be,
ideal in every respect,
and then they work every day toward
their distant vision,
that goal or purpose.
- Brian Tracy
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
The ability to direct individual accomplishments
toward organizational objectives.
It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
- Andrew Carnegie
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
As we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
Remember that the happiest people
are not those getting more, but those giving more.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
A great gift requires two people,
the giver and the receiver.
Think of a football pass -
skillfully catching the pass, the gift,
is fully as important, and difficult, as throwing it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure about you.
We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
- Marianne Williamson
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals,
because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out.
Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Most people are more skilled at begging God than at thanking God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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