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

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

We may…

..encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated

– Maya Angelou

As human beings…

… our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves

– Mahatma Gandhi

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 harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover

– Mark Twain

A competent leader…

… can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralise the best of troops

– John J Pershing

The ability to…

… make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered

— David Heenan and Warren Bennis

 

Good leadership…

… consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people

– John D. Rockefeller