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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
― Leon C. Megginson

“Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.”
― Jurgen Moltmann, Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology

“Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.”
― Jurgen Moltmann

“The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers of the church, knowing meant something different: it meant knowing in wonder. By knowing or perceiving one participates in the life of the other. Here knowing does not transform the counterpart into the property of the knower; the knower does not appropriate what he knows. On the contrary, he is transformed through sympathy, becoming a participant in what he perceives.”
― Jurgen Moltmann, The Trinity and the Kingdom

“The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.”
― Jurgen Moltmann

“God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.”
― Jurgen Moltmann

“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
― Vivian Greene

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
― Peter Drucker, Essential Drucker

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”
― Peter Drucker

“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.”
― Peter Drucker

“Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. ”
― Peter Drucker

“Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
― Peter F. Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
― Helen Keller