Beware of…

… those who stand aloof and greet each venture with reproof. The world would stop if things were run by men who say ‘it can’t be done’

– Samuel Glove

Too bad…

…that most people stop rowing when they get to the rudder

– Alfred Polgar

The true…

…. test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do

– Jon Holt

There is…

… nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things while those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders

– Niccolo Machiavelli

Humans…

… are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them

– Albert Bandura

Success is…

peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable

– John Wooden

Consider…

… the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems

– Jim Collins

He who…

… has a why to live for can bear almost any how

– Friedrich Nietzsche

“The older…

…I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do

– Andrew Carnegie

We can…

… practice leadership principles, but the only way to learn them is to lead. Not knowing it all is no excuse not to start

– Judy Columbus