“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) ― President of the United States, 1963 to 1969
Read Story“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) ― President of the United States, 1963 to 1969
This helps me to recover from a lot of failures. Learning from the mistakes and keeping moving is the main point here. We cannot do anything about the past, but we could learn from it...
“The angels are crying, wondering where I went.”
Byron Borden ― Social entrepreneur
Byron went to church one Sunday and a friend said, “The angels are rejoicing today!” Byron never went to Sunday service, rather spending it on his porch with his Bible. As a child of southern...
“Thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.”
Bible verse, Psalm 23
I am not the most religious person, as I think some people use it as a crutch, but this Psalm was on the back of my grandfather’s prayer card, who I was very close with....
“You can never plan the future by the past.”
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) ― Anglo-Irish politician/Philosopher
I tend to analyze all of my actions to know where they took me. However, if I continue to do that, I will never get out of my comfort zone. I need to forget the...
“By your stumbling, the world is perfected.”
Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) ― Indian philosopher
Making mistakes is how we learn. Out of every perceived failure or weakness I come across in life there lies lessons that I can use to improve, and achieve bigger and better things. Sometimes I...
“Trust the ‘Process’. The process is about staying in the present and laying siege to the obstacle in front of you. It’s about not getting distracted by anything else that comes your way.”
Nick Saban ― Alabama football coach
In life you will constantly have challenges right in front of you. While you may have a long-term game-plan look at each individual task at hand and focus on doing your best at that time...
“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”
Attributed to Maimonides Moses (1135-1204) ― Sephardic scholar
This saying didn’t mean a whole lot to me until Project Pyramid, but now it is a nice summation of what I hope to accomplish through social enterprise.
“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.”
Rabbi A.Y. Kook (1865-1935) ― Orthodox rabbi/Scholar
This quote means that I am connected to others simply by our shared humanity and it is my responsibility to speak of for the rights of others.
“Focus on improving the decision-making process instead of the results.”
Brian McCann ― Baseball catcher
We often decide whether we made a good decision or not based on the results. However, we could have made the best decision possible given the information available, but still end up with an unfortunate...
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
John Wooden ― Basketball player
Get out of your own way! No one person is good at everything. Acknowledging personal weaknesses is beneficial to charting one’s path (way-finding), but anything beyond that is underserved. Always let your strengths light your...