by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms, Team Manager Skills
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, if he wins,knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
—John F. Kennedy
on Theodore Roosevelt
New York City, December 5, 1961
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms, Team Manager Skills
Fun happens when you are intellectually excited. It’s people interacting with each other – with one idea leading to another. It’s the struggle, and even the failures that go with the struggle, that make work fun.
—Roger Sant
Founder & Chairman of AES
market capitalization: $6 billion
in FastCompany
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms, Recommended Books, Stress Management
This child — he thought — 
has this child heroically persevered under all doubts and dangers, struggled with poverty and suffering, upheld and sustained by strong affection and the consciousness of rectitude alone! And yet the world is full of such heroism. Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!
—Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, How to Set Goals, Quotes and Aphorisms
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
—Michel de Montaigne
French humanist essayist 1533-92
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, How to Set Goals, Quotes and Aphorisms
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
—Henry Ford, 1863-1947
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, For Executive Coaches, Quotes and Aphorisms
I am an artist…It’s self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full.
It is the opposite of saying, “I know all about it. I’ve already found it.”
As far as I’m concerned, the word means, “I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.”
–Vincent van Gogh
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, How to Set Goals, Quotes and Aphorisms, Recommended Books, Stress Management
To live is to suffer.
–The Buddha
But not only creativeness and enjoyment are meaningful. If there is a meaning in life at all, there must be a in meaning in suffering. … Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
— Viktor Emil Frankl
Man’s Search for Meaning
One always finds one’s burden again. … The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
–Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus
by Tony Mayo | Leadership Development, Quotes and Aphorisms
Life is mainly froth and bubble.
Two things stand like stone:
Kindness in another’s trouble.
Courage in your own.
—Adam Lindsay Gordon
See also on this blog, Be Kind.
by Tony Mayo | How to Set Goals, Quotes and Aphorisms
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
—Abraham Maslow, psychologist
See also The Way of Transformation on this blog.
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms
To be totally engaged with all my functions, all my faculties, all my capacities in life.
To me that would be success.
–Philosopher Jacob Needleman in
Money And The Meaning Of Life
Fast Company
See also on this blog, Thoroughly Used Up When I Die
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