Andy Stanley - Leaders

"Leaders who don't listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say." ~Andy Stanley

Quotes From Civil Relations Service AFP PHILIPPINES

“The sacrifices of our Marines as an individual, and their gallantry as a fighting unit will never be forgotten.” ~Colonel Edgard A. Arevalo PN(M), Chief, Public Affairs Office AFP

"They gave their tomorrow for our today" ~from the famous Kohima Epitaph (Civil Relations Service AFP)

"We practically have everything as a soldier what we need literally is just a 'tap on the back'." -MGen Ronnie S Evangelista, Commander of Civil Relations Service AFP, 28 June 2017

“We walk a lonely road. One of valor. One of sacrifices. You pay our salaries with taxes but we repay it with our lives.” ~Filipino Soldier

PILIPINO

"Ang isang sundalo , habang nasusugatan, lalong tumatapang." ~Col. Edgard A. Arevalo (PN)M, Chief, Public Affairs Office, AFP

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Stephen Sackur Quotes

"Duterte is a man who is extraordinarily effective." ~Stephen Sackur, BBC's HARDTALK, June 2018 on Interview with Maria Lourdes Sereno

“Duterte represents a movement in the Philippines to change the way politics works.” ~Stephen Sackur, BBC HARDTalk

"Hunger, determination, and motivation are vital ingredients." ~Stephen Sackur, his personal recipe for happiness (from My Stroll with SS, Huffington Post, Interview with Ebenezar Wikina)

"... if I really want to relax I mess about in my garden (it’s the farmer in me." ~Stephen Sackur, BBC, Journalist, HARDtalk Anchor, My Stroll with SS, Huffington Post, Interview with Ebenezar Wikina

"If you have your health, if your family are happy, and you have a job that fulfills you, then you are truly blessed." ~Stephen Sackur, (from My Stroll with SS, Huffington Post, Interview with Ebenezar Wikina)

"I’ve lived long enough and traveled widely enough to know that love and friendship count for more than a mountain of money and material possessions." ~Stephen Sackur, (from My Stroll with SS, Huffington Post, Interview with Ebenezar Wikina)

"Journalism isn’t a career where you pass exams and follow a set path. You need curiosity, courage and confidence." ~Stephen Sackur, (from My Stroll with SS, Huffington Post, Interview with Ebenezar Wikina)

"Love and friendship count for more than a mountain of money and material possessions." ~Stephen Sackur

"Majority of the country in the world believe that the Philippines is heading in the right direction." ~Stephen Sackur, Hardtalk interview with Lourdes Sereno, June 2018

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Pedro Kiamko - HISTORY

"History has something to TEACH those who want to learn from the mistakes and tragedies of the past." ~Pedro Kiamko

Jose Alejandrino Quotes

"Duterte is his own battering ram. This is fine against the corrupt, druglords, oligarchs, terrorists because he has to show firmness in leadership. But after he has demolished all of them, he will have to transform his image to something softer to unite the nation. He will have to become a statesman. That is when he has to find another battering ram to play the bad cop, good cop game." ~Jose Alejandrino, A BATTERING RAM

"He has a relentless hatred of corruption and drugs. His enemies hate him because he is different. Big business cannot buy him. Crooked politicians cannot penetrate him. Crooked government officials cannot fool him. Oligarchs fear him." ~Jose Alejandrino on PRRD

"How can democracy be in danger when there was no democracy to begin with? Democracy died long ago with electoral fraud." ~Jose Alejandrino

"I say let the people decide by themselves in the exercise of their sovereign will, which is supreme in a democracy." ~Jose Alejandrino

"It takes courage to make a hard choice. Without courage, all other virtues are meaningless." ~Jose Alejandrino

"Let us not forget those who fought and died for our independence that their sacrifice may not be in vain. The Duterte Revolution for change is a continuation of the unfinished revolution in 1898. We owe it to those who came before us and those who will come after us to finish it." ~Jose Alejandrino, June 12, 2020

"Look what is happening in America and China today. Covid raging, civil unrest in America, demoralized police quitting, civilian vigilante groups forming, jobless numbers rising now at 46-million, deep divisions in US society. In China, floods and mudslides, Beijing 20-million inhabitants due to Covid return now on lockdown, border conflict with India, growing economic boycott, Western companies leaving China, US-Sino tension in South China Sea with both countries beefing up their naval armada, more US sanctions. This is only the beginning of more horrendous things to come. Pray, my friends, pray." ~Jose Alejandrino, A WORLD GONE CRAZY 2020

"The art of governing is a matter of calibrated response. When people are undisciplined and abusive, you need a rod. What I call the Davidean approach. Once people learn discipline and are no longer abusive, you relax the use of the rod. What I call the Solomonic approach. But the rod must always be there to remind people of their responsibility." ~Jose Alejandrino on ART OF GOVERNING

"The Days of the Empire are over. The days of the oligarchy are over. The Filipinos have finally woken up thanks to the social media. There is no turning back and we will not turn back. We will finish the unfinished revolution with the help of God. We will crush the Satanic forces and build a new nation dedicated to the Lord's glory." ~Jose Alejandrino, July 27, 2017

"The LP is full of empty talk. It is full of hypocrisy. The plain truth is it fears change because it would clip the powers of the oligarchy which the Cojuangcos-Aquinos form a part. That is the reason why the Opposition won't stop until it gets Duterte out. Their members like the old system because they enriched themselves by it." ~Jose Alejandrino

"They give out crumbs like the ₱5,000 to 3,000 Dabawyenos while they pocket tens of millions for themselves and expect the recipients to be grateful and love them." 

~Jose Alejandrino, 23 September 2024

"Those locked by prejudices will be incapable of rising above themselves." ~Jose Alejandrino, 15 August 2017

“Those who hate Duterte cannot bear to see his success because they themselves had failed in their endeavours. Typical crab mentality.” ~JOSE ALEJANDRINO (2019)

"What we have in Duterte is a man completely different from the average politician. What you see in Duterte is what you get. He is not perfect. He can be a joker. He loves to play tricks. But Duterte is an honest man, despite all the black propaganda thrown against him. He is also a compassionate man who cares for the poor and downtrodden." ~Jose Alejandrino (2018)

"You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs." ~Jose Alejandrino

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Megan Follows - makes the world understand

"I think we grow up as girls having to deal with a lot of oppressive beauty myths. And Anne is a girl who fails by all standards of what is acceptable and beautiful. She's not pretty. She's not rich. She has no parents. But through sheer exercise of will she makes the world understand how beautiful she is. It's her specialness, her ability to transform how people perceive her, that audiences, particularly girls, want to believe in." ~Megan Follows on her character, Anne Shirley of Green Gables movie

"There was a vibrant beauty to the way Megan Follows played that role. Beauty flows from the sparks inside of you, Ms. Follows. It may be the role of a lifetime." ~A. Hasuly

Coe Leta Stafford - get curious

"I use observation not to judge or draw conclusions but to get curious." ~Coe Leta Stafford, Design Director, IDEO

‪Luis Fernando Terceros V‬ - mirror of the soul

"The labyrinth of wisdom in the eyes is perhaps the eternal mirror of the soul." ~‪Luis Fernando Terceros V‬ on Audrey Hepburn

Gary Z. McGee Quotes

"If the garden should ever be threatened by forces of evil, or even force of good, those forces will be thwarted. Because the garden is life defying entropy, and the warrior in the garden is precisely the same self-similar thing." ~Gary Z McGee, Warrior in the Garden

"The path is not soft and sweet, but jagged and elusive. It is not artificially blissful but authentically painful." ~Gary Z. McGee

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Minot J. Savage - living men

"The brave die never, though they sleep in dust:
Their courage nerves a thousand living men.”
~Minot J. Savage

Heinrich Suso - ancient law

“Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.” ~Heinrich Suso
on Suffering

Ibn Battuta - travel

"Travelling, it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a story teller." ~Ibn Battuta

Jean Ingelow - moon

"The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon." ~Jean Ingelow

U.G. Krishnamurti - Nature/culture

“Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque." ~U.G. Krishnamurti

Amy Cuddy - trustworthy

“A warm, trustworthy person who is also strong elicits admiration, but only after you’ve established trust does your strength become a gift rather than a threat.” ~Amy Cuddy, from her book "Presence", Harvard Business School professor

Pierre de Coubertin - triumph

"The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle." ~Pierre de Coubertin

Vladimir Lenin Quotes

"Learning is never done without errors and defeat." ~Vladimir Lenin

"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." ~Vladimir Quote

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Theodore Roszak - beyond

"Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge." ~Theodore Roszak

Upton Sinclair Quotes

"All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis." Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it!" ~Upton Sinclair 

"It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence." ~Upton Sinclair 

BIO

Novelist,  journalist,  politician,  social critic, and political activist.

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Tom Selleck - marriage

"It's important to nurture your marriage. I think wanting time away from work has been good for that." ~Tom Selleck

Garth Henrichs - on waiting

"The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves." ~Garth Henrichs

Amir Assadollahi Quotes

“If you don’t want the Philippines to turn into another Syria, please support martial law and cooperate with the government to find the terrorists and criminals. Be advised that some corporate media outlets are not reporting the real important news facts, and manipulating the news for their own agenda and for increasing their sales and popularity.” ~Amir Assadollahi, Canadian Political Analyst

"Terrorism, criminality, drug syndicates, narco-politics, corruptions are real facts but the media was playing it and manipulate it to fabricate news or create a different viewpoint about the situation in the Philippines." ~Amir Assadollahi, Canadian Political Analyst

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Artemus Ward - statesman

“Why don't you show us a statesman who can rise up to the emergency, and cave in the emergency's head.”
Artemus Ward (pseudonym of Charles Farrar Browne)

Antoine Rivarol - Familiarity

“Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds." ~Antoine Rivarol

‪Jessie Savilla‬ - fulcrum in power

‪"You are the fulcrum in a seesawing power, maintaining balance in a constantly changing drops and lifts. You refuse to be tempted to rest comfortably on either side of the opposing weights and remained loyal to the center where God and His People rest." ~Jessie Savilla, On Rafael Alunan III‬

Marc Ian Barasch - Dreams

"Dreams uphold the soul’s values. They tell us that we — our ego selves — are not who we think we are. They encourage us to live truthfully, right now and always. Of course these messages might not be what we want to hear. Sometimes dreams may advocate for life changes that are challenging, to say the least. Dreams really have no time for niceties or for the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. In dreams our narrow selfhood is expanded — the dreams will not allow us to be so small." ~Marc Ian Barasch

THOUGHT FOR TODAY: ancient limits

"The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits." ~Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Wentworth Dillon - decency of sense

“Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.” ~Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon

Charlotte Perkins Gilman - reason

"But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter." ~Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

Romeo Falcon Mondejar - leader

"A leader is someone who can move mountains. " ~Romeo Falcon Mondejar

Peter Tiu Lavina - Vigilance

"Vigilance is the price for our freedom!" ~Peter Tiu Lavina

Imee R. Marcos Quotes

"If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay."~Imee R. Marcos, Governor of Ilocos Norte

"Shame on you … , give the Filipino farmer some credit. When supported by sound government policy and defended against rampant importation, we can feed ourselves. Give the Filipino farmer a chance." ~Sen. Imee R. Marcos (to Finance Sec. Carlos Dominguez who contradicted her claims about her father's Masagana 99 program in the 1970. May 21, 2020)

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