Better Lives building block quotes!
We hope you enjoy these quotes for each of the Better Lives building blocks. The quotations are just as they we received them, so there will be some opportunities to think “people” when you read simply “men”!
FOUNDATION
SECURITY
“My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my family and friends.” Anonymous
“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.” Lao Tzu
HEALTH
“The greatest wealth is health.” Virgil
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” Hippocrates
RESPONSIBILITY
“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.” Dalai Lama
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” Winston Churchill
“Your silence gives consent.” Plato
MOTIVATION
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” Langston Hughes
“People like to be on a moving train.” Anonymous
EMPATHY
SPIRIT
“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.” Plato
“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” Dalai Lama
COMPASSION
“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.” Mother Teresa
“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” John C. Maxwell
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” Dalai Lama
TRUST
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“A good name is more desirable than great wealth. The respect of others is better than silver or gold.” Proverbs 22:1
TEAMWORK
“If you want to walk fast, walk alone; but if you want to walk far, walk together.” African proverb
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” Plato
ABILITY
KNOWLEDGE
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” Plato
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin
“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.” Mahatma Ghandi
“I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” Albert Einstein
“What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I understand.” Confucius
“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.” W. Edwards Deming
“It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.” W. Edwards Deming
PRODUCTIVITY
“Quality combines people power and process power.” Subir Chowdhury
“You can expect what you inspect.” W. Edwards Deming
“Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for.” Peter Drucker
“All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.” W. Edwards Deming
“That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” Steve Jobs
“The way to improve productivity is not to bring in experts to talk about inputs – seed, equipment and materials, pesticides or water supply. The way to start is to provide an assured market, a fair price, and a system through which rural producers can market their produce which is reasonably efficient and can transfer to them the maximum share of the consumers’ money. If such a structure is erected, the producers will then seek the inputs and materials they need to increase their production and productivity.” Dr Verghese Kurien, winner of the World Food Prize
“Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.” Muhammad Yunus
INCOME
“The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.” Jeffrey D. Sachs
“Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.” W. Edwards Deming
“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.” Leonardo da Vinci
GUIDANCE
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” Gandi
“Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say ‘We have done this ourselves.” Lao Tzu
MOMENTUM
CONFIDENCE
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
RESILIENCE
“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” Winston Churchill
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill
SERVICE
“If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.” Dalai Lama
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” Mother Teresa
CELEBRATION
“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?” Albert Camus
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
“If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing, love what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing.” Will Rogers