What can we learn about building trust from the world’s greatest leaders, teachers, writers and philosophers?
JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING
We recently highlighted:
- John Wooden’s greatest quotes on building trust
- John Maxwell’s greatest quotes on building trust
- Zig Ziglar’s greatest quotes on building trust and
- Mahtma Gandhi’s greatest quotes on building trust.
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day so this week we turn our attention to Theodor Seuss Geisel (affectionately known as Dr. Seuss) an American writer and cartoonist. Dr. Seuss published 46 children’s books and for many mothers, including myself, hours were spent reading these books to our children and conveying many life lessons along the way. This article pulls together twenty of his most inspiring quotes. Regardless of your role in life- a parent, teacher, business or religious leader, our beloved Dr. Seuss has a message about character, competency and consistency, the key ingredients for building trust.
If you are a Mom, buy yourself a Dr. Seuss book for Mother’s Day and share it with your kids. It may just be a gift of a lifetime.
- “Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.”
- “It is better to know how to learn than to know.”
- “With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street.”
- “You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. but mostly they’re darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?”
- “Nothing is going to change, unless someone does something soon”
- “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
- “You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”
- “I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful one-hundred percent!”
- “I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ’cause you’ll play against you.”
- “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
- “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
- “Only you can control your future.”
- “You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”
- “I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.”
- “It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.”
- “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
- “Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
- “ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, ‘Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!”
- “Oh, the things you can find if you don’t stay behind!”
- “You’ll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You’ll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.”
My favorites are #5, #6 and #20. How about yours?
Barbara Brooks Kimmel is the Executive Director of Trust Across America-Trust Around the World whose mission is to help organizations build trust, and runs the world’s largest membership program for those interested in the subject. She is also the editor of the award winning TRUST INC. book series and the Executive Editor of TRUST! Magazine. In 2012 Barbara was named “One of 25 Women Changing the World” by Good Business International.
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