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 Anthony

I don’t know…

… what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

– Albert Schweitzer

Everything…

…. that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves

– Carl Jung

Leadership consists…

… not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint

– Lewis H. Lapham

In 1893….

…. a young man was re-sitting the entrance examination to become an officer in the British Army for the third time. His name was Winston Churchill….

One of…

… the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others

– Frank Tyger

If you…

… believe lack of authority prevents you from leading effectively, it is time to rethink your understanding of leadership

– Mike Bonem and Roger Patterson

Courage is…

…. the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others

– Winston Churchill

It always….

…seems impossible until it is done

– Nelson Mandela

The price…

… of excellence is discipline; the cost of mediocrity is disappointment

– William Arthur Ward