…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
Tag Archives: Courage
The secret of…
… leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.
– Seth Godin
Leaders are not…
… as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. “Leadership qualities” are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders.
– John Holt
You…
Our chief want…
… is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
We will remember…
… not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
– Martin Luther King Jr
Of all sad…
… words of mouth or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been
– John Greenleaf Whittier
In the end…
… it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away
– Shing Xiong
There is….
… no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can
– Henry Ford
Impossible is just…
… a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than believe in the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact; It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration; It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing
– Muhammed Ali
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