Pursuing Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
Next month, we will be releasing a collection of inspirational and motivational quotes, verses and touching scripts. In the final edits of our book, we’ve re-discovered the moving power behind some very remarkable quotes, said by some very remarkable people. It’s not whether you get knocked down; It’s whether you get back up. – Vince…
He would have been 101 today… Here is renown basketball coach John Wooden’s twelve lessons in leadership: Good values attract good people Love is the most powerful four-letter word Call yourself a teacher Emotion is your enemy It takes 10 hands to make a basket Little things make big things happen Make each day your masterpiece…
The maple leaves are changing to a reddish-brown and there is a biting crispness in the morning air. This can only mean one thing in Canada: the puck is about to be dropped! To help us focus on rinks, sweat and sticks, here is a dozen unforgettable quotes on the greatest game on ice. He shoots! He scores! – Foster…
Ontario voters to to the polls this week. Here are some favourite “elections” quotes as we consider our choices: The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old. – (American) roverb Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody….
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. – Napoleon Bonaparte Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. – Chester Bowles Nearly all men can withstand adversity; If you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln Politicians are people who, when they see light at…
We have published a wonderful resource for all those politicos mastering the game of politics as well as those armchair critics who are avid fans of the sport. 1001 Quotes on Politics, Elections, Democracy and Government is now available – and you can obtain your book on-line with a payment via PayPal. Here is an introductory blurb…
Ten striking quotes of U.S. President George W. Bush from that dark moment in American history. Today, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. These acts shattered steel but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. Freedom itself has been attacked this morning by…
With our loss this week of a great political figure – Jack Layton – Canadians have been mindful of life and death and the challenges a diagnosis of cancer brings to a person, their family and loved ones. It is with these sober reflections that we offer bons mots of hope, promise and caring. What seems…
Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine. – Jay Baer Social Media is about sociology and psychology more than technology. – Brain Solis Principal of FutureWorks The difference between PR and social media is that PR is about positioning, and social media is about becoming, being and improving. – Chris Brogan, author…
What’s required is a kind of social media sherpa, who can find you the audience you seek, who can reach to them on the platforms where they are already congregating, and who can help promote in tasteful ways that fit the sensitivities of the networks where your audiences are found. – Chris Brogan, author of…
Here are our top 50 favourite tweets of the first 500 @byGeorgeJournal tweets (this is the second of a two-part post): Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. – Maria Robinson Insist on yourself. Never imitate. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Success is the…
Yesterday, By George Journal tweeted its 500th tweet. Our core mission on Twitter is to provide memorable quotes to motivate and inspire – and provoke. (We also offer views on Canada, public relations, the world of politics and business.) You can follow us: http://twitter.com/#!/ByGeorgeJournal Here are our top 50 favourite tweets of the first 500…
Here are 10 beautiful quotes respecting motherhood (some wonderful thoughts to inscribe in your cards). Happy Mothers Day: When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. – Sophia Loren The mother’s heart is the child’s…
As regular readers of the By George Journal know, we are on Twitter, tweeting favourite quotes and observations about leadership, success, a healthy attitude and life. Here are our current Favourite 25: Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. – Aristotle A ship is safe…
Recently, By George Journal has begun tweeting a few poignant motivational and inspirational quotes each day. Here are ten of our favourite from the past two weeks… Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. – Thoreau Happiness comes of the capacity to feel…
In December 2005, CG&A COMM published their research on uncovering the most significant quotes through the ages. Here is an annotated list (in no particular order) of the ‘Top-Ten-Quotes-of-All-Time.’ Do onto others as you would have others do onto you. The Bible – This is known as the ‘Golden Rule’. It captures the…
On this Friday, the By George Journal will release its “Top Ten Love Quotes” to contribute to the romance of St. Valentine’s Day. Through the years, it has been customary for CG&A COMM to circulate romantic verse and bons mots. In that tradition, we reflect back on a selection of some of…
There are more votes on Main Street than Bay Street. – John G. Diefenbaker In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. – Brian Mulroney In some ways, a vote is a little bit like falling in love. People do not fall in love with the best-qualified candidate. – David…
There are no lost causes in politics because there are no won causes. – Margaret Thatcher If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. – Margaret Thatcher The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. – George Bernard…
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. – Benjamin Franklin Honesty is the best policy. – Benjamin Franklin Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. – Benjamin Franklin The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. – Benjamin Franklin Words…