Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don’t take too much advice — keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
– Noah Porter
The greatest leader is not necessarily the person who does the greatest things. He is the one who gets the people to do the greatest things.
– Ronald Reagan
If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all
– Michelangelo
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
– Sandra Carey
Education is the mother of leadership.
– Wendell Willkie
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that an airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
– Henry Ford
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed
– Michael Jordan
When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviours, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
– Margaret Wheatley
Choice of attention—to pay attention to this and ignore that—is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.
–W.H. Auden
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
– Horace
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