Jerry Colangelo famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The community owes us nothing. It's up to us to go out and earn their respect.
-- Jerry Colangelo

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Be a sponge. Spend as much time as possible with people who truly know their craft and be a great listener. That is how you learn.
-- Jerry Colangelo

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The bottom line is, you can't be afraid to fail.
-- Jerry Colangelo

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Meadowlark, you are the best!
-- Jerry Colangelo

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In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.
I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability but the mental condition which it induces. The world, I found, has a way of taking a man pretty much at his own rating. If he permits his loss to make him embarrassed and apologetic, he will draw embarrassment from others. But if he gains his own respect, the respect of those around him comes easily.
We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves â€“ in their separate, and individual capacities.
I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.
An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.

Jerry Colangelo famous quotes

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