Leadership Quote
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.- Steve Jobs
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be.- Rosalynn Carter
In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.- Max De Pree
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.- Brandon Sanderson
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.- Albert Schweitzer
We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.- Whoopi Goldberg
No guts, no story.- Chris Brady
If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.- Tom Rath
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.- William Arthur Ward
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.- Max Lucado
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.- Adlai E. Stevenson II
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things.- Ronald Reagan
Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are.- Thomas John Carlisle
Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.- Peter F. Drucker
Mantra of all the great masters:
I have mastered nothing
I am still a student in all things
There is so much more to learn
Let me begin again.
Today is all I have.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.- Albert Einstein
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.- Steve Jobs
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.- Chinese proverb
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.- Confucius
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.- Steve Jobs
Fall seven times and stand up eight.- Japanese proverb
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.- Alan Kay
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.- Alice Walker
Eighty percent of success is showing up.- Woody Allen
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.- Robert Frost
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.- Henry Ford
You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.- Unknown
Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.- Jimmy Spithill