… role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there
– David Gergen
Tag Archives: Action
The people…
… who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstance they want and if they can’t find them, make them
– George Bernard Shaw
Vision….
…without execution is hallucination
– Thomas Edison
Twenty years…
… from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover
– Mark Twain
Great spirits have…
… always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence
– Albert Einstein
A true leader…
… has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent
– Douglas MacArthur
Do not…
… wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person
– Mother Teresa
The secret of…
…. a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests
– Gail Sheehy
Leave your…
…mark where others can only dream of going
– Anon
Who succeeds…
…. in forming and leading a great group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls
– Warren G Bennis
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