Consensus: The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?’
– Margaret Thatcher
Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
– Mark Twain
The first act of leadership is coming to grips with yourself, who you are, where you are, and what is of value to you, and shaping yourself by acts of conscious will into what you want to become.
– Fenwick English
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary
– Warren Bennis
Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.
– Nelson Mandela
If you think that you are too small to make a difference try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito
– African proverb
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.
– Andrew Carnegie
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should, therefore, be a talent for understanding, encouraging and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
– Carl Sagan
I have learned that people are more motivated by what they can give than by what they can get. Yet for years we have engaged people the other way around.
– Jeremy Scrivens,
Make yourself a better person before trying to make others better
– Yao Chen
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