What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
–Goethe
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
–Goethe
The rose in the garden slipped her bud,
And she laughed in the pride of her youthful blood,
As she thought of the Gardener standing by—
“He is old—so old! And he soon must die!”
The full Rose waxed in the warm June air,
And she spread and spread till her heart lay bare;
And she laughed once more as she heard his tread—
“He is older now! He will soon be dead!”
But the breeze of the morning blew, and found
That the leaves of the blown Rose strewed the ground;
And he came at noon, that Gardener old,
And he raked them gently under the mold.
And I wove the thing to a random rhyme:
For the Rose is Beauty; the Gardener, Time.
-Austin Henry Dobson (1840–1921)
Change can come in either of two important ways:
Start behaving positively or
Stop behaving negatively.
-Dr. Phil, TV host
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat, then you know he never will.
-John D. MacDonald (Novelist, 1916-1986)
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but in building the new.
-Socrates