Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

Quoting an experienced school counselor: “You can’t change a bully into a flower child, but you can change him into a knight.

At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by...

The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.

Pessimistic thoughts will only yield trees unwilling to bear edible fruit. Optimistic thinking will always feed those who are willing to sit at your table”.

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem.

You can’t teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

What I’ve found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you’re blue in the face–they’re never going to get it and they’re never going to change. But every once...

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn’t go to hell if you take a day off.

While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting any superiority over him; and so, though more humble than at the most disastrous period of his...

—Help these boys build a nation their own. Ransack the histories for clues to their past. Plunder the literatures for words they can speak. And should you encounter an ancient tribe whose customs, however dimly,...

Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging...

Leaders..should influence others..in such a way that it builds people up, encourages and edifies them so they can duplicate this attitude in others.

Share your skills, inspire a change.

Leadership: Converting dreams into goals and goals into success.

personal influence,” and gave his junior hints on the setting of kindly traps, in which the boy does give himself away and reveals his shy delicate thoughts, while the master, intact, commends or corrects them.Originally...

In what is known as the 70/20/10 learning concept, Robert Eichinger and Michael Lombardo, in collaboration with Morgan McCall of the Center for Creative Leadership, explain that 70 percent of learning and development takes place...

A student was given a mentoring opportunity, “in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.

The author charted the importance of human examples on his spiritual journey, confessing that when harsh and domineering people based their bullying on Christ’s authority, he rebelled. But when his wife represented the gracefulness of...

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

A great majority of people have got really a good capacity and capability to forgive, but only and solely to own self and that too quite readily, rapidly, regularly and repeatedly.

Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.

Leadership is giving out far more than one expects in direct return. The rewards are intangible, yet priceless.

Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with you forever.

Your child may be under more stress than you realize. Remember that situations around to past experiences. Just because you do not see something as a big deal does not mean it is not for...

That is the Proctor. He is our Cerberus; he has to keep all undergraduates in good order.” “What a task! He ought to have three heads.

Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don’t feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she...

If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before.

Shanahan (the head coach) doesn’t allow failure to take root.

It’s difficult to find a person who can accept the truth consistently and more when it is related to him only and that’s what keeps the difference between the real talk and the negative talk...

Kids don’t always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.

Great mentors don’t solve your problems, they guide you to make your best decision and encourage you to take personal ownership of the next steps for success.

The true tragedy in most people’s lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end up being much less than they might be.

Thus far and no farther.

We listened, as all boys in their better moods will listen (ay, and men too for the matter of that), to a man whom we felt to be, with all his heart and soul and...

If there is a single factor that spells out the difference between the cafeteria fringe headed for greatness and those doomed for low self-worth, even more than a caring teacher or a group of friends,...

I can’t say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach ’em that way.

Jesus’ simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking down to His followers, patiently letting the words soak in until they understand them fully.

Speaking and doing are two different actions springing up the two completely different results. But, the best result arrives when a man’s speaking of good words matches with his corresponding and timely action to benefit...

We were motivated by our mentors to go an extra mile.

A boy, if he’s lucky, discovers his limitations across a leisurely passage of years, with a self-awareness arriving slowly. That way, at least he has plenty of time to heroically imagine himself first. Most boys...

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you’re 15, you tend to never lose it.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

Sometimes Eli believed his mother was embarrassed by him. “I swear, my mom thinks if I do one thing differently than the average person, I’m weird,” Eli said later. “It’s like she thinks I’m a...

Part of the genius of (Nick) Sabin’s system was that he understood that no matter the skill set, he was inheriting vulnerable kids from various backgrounds. For those times when they made poor decisions, as...

Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: “This is a how other people have written about this subject. Read it; study it; think...

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.