… person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person.
– Paul Shane Spear
Author Archives: Paradigms of Leadership
Cautious, careful people…
… always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
– Susan B. Anthony
You can…
please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time.
– Abraham Lincoln
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
Without…
…continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, success and achievement have no meaning.
– Benjamin Franklin
The reason…
…many leaders cannot distinguish the wood from the trees is that they have spent their lives planting forests.
– Paradigms of Leadership
Your job…
… gives you authority. Your behaviour gives you respect.
– Irwin Federman
Change is…
… hard because people overestimate the value of what they have and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.
– James Belasco
Pursuing your potential…
… yields far greater rewards than pursuing goals
– Anon
Leadership rests…
… not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. Leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and willpower in the character.
– Vince Lombardi
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