Becoming a leader….

…is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult

– Warren G Bennis

Watch your….

thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny

– Lao-Tzu

You can never…

cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore

– Christopher Columbus

You are not here…

… merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

– Woodrow Wilson

We are at…

…. our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves

–  Earl Nightingale

Education makes…

… a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

– Henry Peter Brougham,

The Present State of Law, 1828

Leadership…

cannot really be taught. It can only be learned

— Harold Geneen

Don’t waste your…

energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it

– Tina Fey

It is absurd….

… that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself

– Latin Proverb

Out of suffering….

… have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars

– Khalil Gibran