Take time…

…. to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

– Andrew Jackson

The good will…

…of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.

– Benjamin Franklin

Leadership is…

… the ability to establish standards and manage a creative climate where people are self-motivated toward the mastery of long term constructive goals, in a participatory environment of mutual respect, compatible with personal values.

– Mike Vance

Every change…

…. looks like a failure in the middle

– Rosabeth M. Kanter

There are….

… no working hours for leaders

– James Cardinal Gibbons

It is…

… the men behind who make the man ahead

– Merle Crowell

Change will not…

… come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek

– Barack Obama

Try not…

…to become a man of success but a man of value

– Albert Einstein

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

One of…

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

– Frank Tyger