“The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.” RealLeadershipDifferencesLeaderPrinciplesRegardEndureImmortalityLive ByExpediencyPretender Author:Edmund Burke
“Gifford Pinchot points out that in colonial and pioneer days the forest was a foe and an obstacle to the settler. It had to be cleared away... But [now] as a nation we have not yet come to have a proper respect for the forest and to regard it as an indispensable part of our resources-one which is easily destroyed but difficult to replace; one which confers great benefits while it endures, but whose disappearance is accompanied by a train of evil consequences not readily foreseen and positively irreparable.” EvilNationsDifficultBenefitsConsequenceResourcesRegardTrainEndureObstaclesForestsDestroyedIndispensableFoePositivelyPioneersDisappearanceSettlersForeseenIrreparable Author:Richard E. Blackwelder
“No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount of experience or insight is going to rectify our deficiencies, our self-regard, or our cupidity. We have to learn that our desires do not find any real echo in the world. We have to accept that the people we love do not love us, or not in the way we hope. We have to accept betrayal and disloyalty, and, hardest of all, that someone is finer than we are in character or intelligence.” PeopleWorldWayRealSelfCharacterDesireSecretAcceptingAmountRegardRewardsEndureInsightBetrayalHardestEchoesDeficiencyDisloyaltyRectify Author:Sándor Márai
“If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''” IfsEndsChallengesNumbersQualityFieldsPersonalityPicksDeterminationRegardAdversityEndurePerseveranceGet UpPersistenceCharacteristicsTraitsPersistSeventiesSelectPerserveranceKnocked DownDetermination And SuccessDetermination MotivationalDetermination PerseverancePerseverance And DeterminationInspirational PerseveranceDetermination And PersistenceGreat DeterminationPerseverencePersistence InspirationalPerseverance Motivational Author:Richard DeVos
“Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and crosses, strains and pains that we must endure on earth if we are going to follow Christ faithfully. Regard preparedness to die as the first step in learning to live.” IfsFirstsEarthPainJoyDiesHeavenTermChristLossStepsCrossesRegardEndureJudgementFirst StepsStrainPuritanPreparednessAmends Author:Joel Beeke