Monday Quotes - Page 6

• You will never have enough time to do everything you need to do, so what you need is a crystal clear understanding of the important things you have to do.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Understanding

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• For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

  John Sununu

  Friday, Weekend, Government

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• You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'

  Calvin Trillin

  Writing, Sunday, Night

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• Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.

  Yani Tseng

  Morning, Mean, Player

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• When it comes to leading people, there is no problem that is unique to you.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Unique

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.19, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• When you accepted your job, you were not chosen solely to fill a position on the organization chart; you were chosen to fill a responsibility.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Jobs

  David Cottrell (2009). “Monday Morning Mentoring: Ten Lessons to Guide You Up the Ladder”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• You may be living under the illusion that when God ignites great things in your life, He'll announce it with a big bang. He might. It's more likely that He won't. So stop waiting around for the big bang. Pay attention to the subtle clues and the still, small voice. God lives in that place too.

  Steven Furtick

  Waiting Around, Voice, Bangs

  Steven Furtick (2010). “Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible”, p.45, Multnomah

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• What if you are just one bend in the road away from achieving your God-ordained purpose? If you give up on your faith now, could you live with knowing that your chance of a lifetime was only one act of faith away?

  DeVon Franklin

  Giving Up, Knowing, What If

  DeVon Franklin (2011). “Produced by Faith: Enjoy Real Success without Losing Your True Self”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• You can help determine your team's enthusiasm for the change by focusing on the entrance of potential while you are working through the exit of the past.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Team

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• The worst type of employee you can have is one who has mentally quit and is still physically coming to work every day.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Quitting

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• It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Reality

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• Doing the right thing isn't always easy - in fact, sometimes it's real hard - but just remember that doing the right thing is always right.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Real

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.47, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• The most important thing you do as a leader is to hire the right people.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, People

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.57, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• What you see in the interview will not get significantly better when the individual is hired.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Interviews

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• Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest times are before us and the world is yet to see the noblest work of this old earth in the men that are to be.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Men, Age, World

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• The success of any change depends, in large measure, on your attitude about that change.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Attitude

  David Cottrell (2016). “The First Two Rules of Leadership: Don't be Stupid, Don't be a Jerk”, p.109, John Wiley & Sons

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• Tell me why...... I don't like Mondays.

  Bob Geldof

  Song: I Don't Like Mondays

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• If we show the Lord's death at Communion, we must show the Lord's life in the world. If it is a Eucharist on Sunday, it must prove on Monday that it was also a Sacrament.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Sunday, World, Lord

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• I fight, knock them out, have some sex and Monday I'm back to hitting bags and kicking ass.

  Adrien Broner

  Sex, Motivation, Fighting

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• Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you where to run, you missed the starting gun.

  David Gilmour

  Running, Lying, Rain

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• If you want to be around people who are positive and enthusiastic and eager to live life, your attitude has to be the same.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Attitude

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• To fulfill you potential, you need to move out of your comfort zone and into the legacy zone.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Moving

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• I don't know why this is, but I really believe that things don't happen when we're trying to will them into being. They don't happen when we're waiting for the phone to ring, or the email to pop up in our in box. They don't happen when we're gripping too tightly. They happen - if they happen at all - when we've fully let go of the results. And, perhaps, when we're ready.

  Dani Shapiro

  Letting Go, Believe, Phones

  "The Manifest-Station Q&A Series: Best-Selling Author Dani Shapiro". Interview with Jennifer Pastiloff, www.themanifeststation.net. September 29, 2013.

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• I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.

  Bobby Bowden

  Morning, Mistake, Good Things

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• Face your potential. It's been staring at you for far too long.

  Clifton Anderson

  Long, Faces, Staring

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