Thoughts for the day.
Leaders digest
“I don’t think much of people who have it in them to be first, but who finish second.”
Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr. (September 6, 1888, November 18, 1969) was a prominent United States businessman and political figure, the father of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) and Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), and the patriarch of the Kennedy political family.
“The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of new ideas and bold projects. Rather it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals and great enterprises of [American] Society.”
Robert Francis Kennedy ( U.S. attorney general and adviser, and brother to former US President JFK, 1925-1968)
“He that hath knowledge spareth his words.”
Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626), English Philosopher
“Your success as a family – our success as a society – depends not on what happens at the White House, but on what happens inside your house.”
Barbara Pierce Bush (born June 8, 1925) is the wife of the 41st President of the United States, George H. W. Bush, and was First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993.
“In leadership, in standing for principle, there is loneliness. But men and woman of integrity must live with their convictions. Unless they do so, they will be miserable.”
Gordon B. Hinckley