… a trait which characterises leaders it is opportunism. Successful people are very often those who steadfastly refuse to be daunted by disadvantage and have the ability to turn disadvantage to good effect. They are people who seize opportunity and take risks. Leadership then seems to be a matter of personality and character
– John Viney
… As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear;
and the next, the people hate …
When the best leader’s work is done the people say,
“We did it ourselves!”
– Lao-tsu
… wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person
– Mother Teresa
…. 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
…mark where others can only dream of going
– Anon
…seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving; they make mistakes but they never quit
– Conrad Hilton
… no passion to be found playing small –
in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
– Nelson Mandela
… is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
– Steve Jobs
… that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
– Albert Einstein
… see things as they are and say, “Why?” I dream of things that never were and say, ‘Why not?’”
– George Bernard Shaw
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