I alone…

… cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples

– Mother Teresa

You cannot…

… be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too

–  Sam Rayburn

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

The goal toward…

.. which all history tends is peace, not peace through the medium of war, not peace through a process of universal intimidation, not peace through a program of mutual impoverishment, not peace by any means that leaves the world too weak or too frightened to go on fighting, but peace pure and simple based on that will to peace which has animated the overwhelming majority of mankind through countless ages. This will to peace does not arise out of a cowardly desire to preserve one’s life and property, but out of conviction that the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.

– Robert Maynard Hutchins

Without leadership….

… command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance

– Eric Shinseki

All presssure…

… is self-inflicted. It’s what you make of it, or how you let it rub off on you

– Lord Coe

The people…

… who are lifting the world onward and upward are those who encourage more than they criticize

– Elizabeth Harrison

The most successful men…

… in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step with his mind becoming wider and wider and progressively better, able to grasp any theme or situation – persevering in what he knows to be practical and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree

– Alexander Graham Bell

Leaders transform…

… the quality of their lives’ by becoming aware of authentic choices and living courageously towards a new more empowering future

– Grant Wattie

Leadership…

… is about taking responsibility, not making excuses

– Mitt Romney