Showing 42 tag results for "humility"
The Stockdale Paradox
I'm Confident It'll Happen AND… I Know It Will be Challenging
Vice Admiral James Stockdale was shot down during the Vietnam War. He spent seven and a half years in a brutal prison camp. He spent four of those years in solitary confinement and two years in leg irons. He was tortured fifteen times....
+1 inspired by Note: Courage Under Fire
Confidence	& Stoicism
helpless	Humility	Inspiration	Mind	omms	success	yes-and
You Learn by Living
Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
by Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt served as the First Lady for 12 years—through her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's terms as President during the Great Depression and World War II. She went on to play a leading role as a diplomat in the United Nations was one of the most loved and influential women of the 20th century. This book is a beautifully written, inspiring look into "Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life." Big Ideas we cover include how to conquer the great enemy (fear), Eleanor's Top 4 Big Ideas on Time Management 101, holding the tension btwn our dreams of perfection and reality while making all life one big adventure.
Learning	& Purpose
20th Centtury Classic	Character	Female Author	greatness	Humility	Mind	Morality
The Power of Ideals
The Real Story of Moral Choice
by William Damon, Anne Colby
William Damon and Anne Colby are two of the world's leading researchers in the field of moral psychology. They're both Professors at Stanford and have been married for 30+ years. This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book that challenges the "new science of morality"'s view that morality is essentially biologically and socially determined. Damon and Colby argue that we all have the power to cultivate our more noble, moral possibilities. Big Ideas we explore include a quick look at our moral exemplars, moral agency, and the three virtues we want to cultivate: Truth + Humility + Faith.
Leadership	& Positive Psychology
Character	Faith	Humility	Modern Classic	Morality	soul	Spirit	Virtue
by James Kerr
New Zealand's national rugby team The All Blacks are arguably THE greatest team ever. In this book, James Kerr unpacks what makes them so great and how we can lead + create a Legacy. Big Ideas we explore include the fact that Better People Make Better All Blacks, Kiwi Kaizen, embracing expectations and leaning into the power of Loss Aversion (remember: no pressure, no diamonds), hitting the psychological gym and answering a couple questions that will help clarify YOUR legacy.
Leadership	& Peak Performance
greatness	Humility	Kaizen	Modern Classic	Pressure	soul	Spirit	Sports
Anne Colby
Consulting Professor at Stanford and Co-autho...
One of the world's leading scholars of huma...
James Kerr
Bestselling author, speaker and business cons...
Politician, diplomat, activist and was the lo...
"Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, 'It can't be done.'"
Quotes On	20th Centtury Classic	Character	Female Author	greatness	Humility	Morality
"Remember that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this."
"Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive."
"Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world."
"Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt."
"Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."
"I have no illusions that anyone can change the world in a short time... Yet I do believe that even a few people, who want to understand, to help and to do the right thing for great numbers of people instead of for the few can help.'"
Quotes On	Character	Faith	Humility	Modern Classic	Morality	Virtue
"This is a central thread of world wisdom throughout the ages. Fulfillment and peace of mind come not from trying to create the most attractive possible self but from taking the focus off the self: not thinking less of oneself, but thinking of oneself less."
William Damon & Anne Colby
"Benjamin Franklin wrote, 'In reality, there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, it is still alive... For even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my Humility.'"
"When individuals are described as persons of integrity, this generally means that moral values and goals are central to who they are and, at least as important, it means that they don't often rationalize their violations of those values in order to let themselves off the hook. The avoidance of rationalization (which we call inner truthfulness) is widely recognized as a central feature of strong moral character."
"In judging our progress as individuals, we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence, and popularity, wealth and standard of education. ... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others—qualities which are within easy reach of every soul—are the foundations of one's spiritual life."
"Although we recognize the role that gut responses can play, we reject extreme positions of biological determinism that characterize the entire human moral sense as driven by nonconscious responses."
"We are under a moral obligation in choosing our experiences, since the result of those experiences must ultimately determine our understanding of life. We determine our ideals by our daily actions and decisions."
Jane Addams
"I don't know Who—or what—put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone—or Something—and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal."
Dag Hammarskjöld
"Find something you would die for and give your life to it."
Quotes On	greatness	Humility	Kaizen	Modern Classic	Pressure	Sports
"Just as core body exercises are vital for physical conditioning, so core psychological training is essential to develop mental toughness and resilience."
"Bad decisions are not made through a lack of skill or innate judgement: they are made because of an inability to handle the pressure at the pivotal moment."
"Marginal gains: 100 things done 1 per cent better to deliver cumulative competitive advantage."
"It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change."
"'What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments,' said the Greek statesman Pericles, 'but what is woven into the lives of others.' Your legacy is in what you teach."