True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up
– Sheri L. Dew
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Most of the…
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
– Dale Carnegie
If …
If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.
– Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
Don’t judge…
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
A new leader…
… has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless … someone’s got to make a wake up call.
– Warren Bennis
Go as far…
… as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.
– J. P. Morgan
Power of…
..the personal mission statement lies in your vision and in a commitment to that vision, that purpose, and those principle-centered values. They will control your decisions, determine your outlook, and provide the direction for your future. The single most important and far-reaching leadership activity that you will ever do is to develop a personal mission statement
– Stephen R. Covey
I alone…
… cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples
– Mother Teresa
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
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