{"id":2473,"date":"2015-09-24T03:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2015-09-30T13:04:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T17:04:39","slug":"three-minute-leadership-never-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2015\/09\/three-minute-leadership-never-give-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: Never Give Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/p>\n<p>There comes times in the lives of all great leaders when they are pushed to their physical, emotional, mental or spiritual limits. Fatigued, exhausted and drained by their experiences, they still relentlessly pursue their journey. They never give up.\u00a0 It is their attitude and mindset to hold on to their hopes, dreams, determination and life\u2019s purpose.\u00a0 Pause and reflect a moment on the words of other great leaders who shared their counsel and learning about giving up.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen you exhausted all possibilities, remember this: You haven\u2019t.\u201d<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Edison\">Thomas Edison<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNever give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.\u201d<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Einstein\">Albert Einstein<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019ve miss more than 9000 shots in my career. I\u2019ve lost almost 30 games. 26 time, I\u2019ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed; I\u2019ve failed over and over and over again in my life.\u00a0 And that is why I succeed.\u201d<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Jordan\">Michael Jordan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHaving a rough morning? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? That\u2019s called purpose\u2026 you\u2019re alive for a reason. Don\u2019t give up.\u201d<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/melissajoykong.tumblr.com\/\">Melissa Joy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s not whether you get knocked down, it\u2019s whether you get up.\u201d<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vince_Lombardi\">Vince Lombardi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.\u201d <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilma_Rudolph\">Wilma Rudolph <\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to beat a person who never gives up.\u201d<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Babe_Ruth\">Babe Ruth<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFalling down is how we grow. Staying down is how we die.\u201d<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intenseexperiences.com\/brian-vaszily.html\">Brian Vaszily<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNever give up. Go over, go under, go around, or go through. But never give up.\u201d<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodybuilding.com\/fun\/venuto.htm\">Tom Venuto<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In those solitary moments when life\u2019s challenges are pushing your limits, may you feel your power and purpose remembering the words of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bevan_Lee\">Bevan Lee<\/a>:<em> \u201c\u2019I am\u2019\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 two of the most powerful words; for what you put after them shapes your reality.\u201d <\/em>Be more than you ever dreamed you could be.\u00a0 Be also that one person in someone\u2019s life who would say to you: <em>\u201cBecause of you, I didn\u2019t give up.\u201d<\/em> Be that servant leader of love, caring and hope. Life is so very good.<\/p>\n<p>Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/p>\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2476 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE.jpg\" alt=\"MIKE\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE.jpg 188w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE-88x88.jpg 88w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning There comes times in the lives of all great leaders when they are pushed to their physical, emotional, mental&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-minute-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}