Morning Briefings

And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.

– Hebrews 4:4

Being a man means emphasizing relationships and having a cause bigger than yourself. It means accepting responsibility and leading courageously. It means that empathy, integrity and living a life of service to others are more important than points on a scoreboard.

– Jeffrey Marx
Season of Life: A Football Star, a Boy, a Journey to Manhood

PGA Tour Begins to Pay a Price for Tiger Woods’ Transgressions: The troubles facing the professional-golf tour without Tiger Woods will be on display when the annual tournament tees off at the Torrey Pines course in San Diego this week. Ticket sales are down, fewer hospitality tents have been sold, and the title sponsor had to be lured with a cut-rate price.

– Matthew Futterman and Douglas A. Blackmon
The Wall Street Journal

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

– Vernon Sanders Law, 1960 Cy Young Award Winner

All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

– Proverbs 14:23 as referenced in
God’s Words of Life

I’ve been in football all my life, gentlemen, and I don’t know whether I’m particularly qualified to be a part of anything else, except I consider it a great game, a game of many assets, by the way, and I think a symbol of what this country’s best attributes are: courage and stamina and a coordinated efficiency or teamwork.

– Vince Lombardi
What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership

Winter is a season of some very real losses. The flowers of springtime are gone; leaves fall. Trees stand bare and revealed. But from these losses are gifts to be had.

– Kathleen R. Fischer
Winter Grace: Spirituality and Aging

The three basic elements of a healthy nutritional program are: know thyself–and listen to thy body; satisfy your senses, and visualize an energetic, healthy body.

– Pamela Ammondson
Clarity Quest: How to Take a Sabbatical Without Taking More Than a Week Off

Only dead people have a past. Rest of us living have a future. I find it more worthwhile to talk about the future, which we can change, than the past.

– Ravi Srivastava on his 20-year journey to become an American citizen, which he will achieve this month
A Bend in the River

For while skills are essential, what sets apart the true leader is the heart. The aspirations. The dreams. The definition of success and the passion that drives him forward.

– Richard D. Phillips
The Heart of an Executive: Lessons on Leadership from the Life of King David