Tag: Quotes

Take Heart And Soar?

Do You?
Do You?

To the person who tries and fails, tries and fails, yet keeps trying, all while spectators judge, take heart….

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make, which over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.  — Marian Wright Edelman

Your effort, over time, makes a huge difference. Today, take heart, take wing, and soar.

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Servant’s Servant

World-Class Clean: All Day, Every Day
World-Class Clean: All Day, Every Day

Who serves mankind as much as our trash collectors and cleaners?

To have a servant’s willingness to help others is among the noblest of qualities.

Don’t believe it. Leave your job and become a garbage collector, or a full-time toilet cleaner.

My guess is, you don’t have the guts. But if you did, consider what Martin Luther King said:

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

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Don’t Shrink, Don’t Boast

What If Flowers Were Worried About Showing Off?
What If Flowers Were Worried About Showing Off?

This is a lesson I still struggle with – From Tony Dungy’s second favorite film, Coach Carter (thanks to Skip for sending it our way):

Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you…as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

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