Tag Archives: self awareness

Becoming a leader….

…is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult

– Warren G Bennis

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

We are at…

…. our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves

–  Earl Nightingale

It is absurd….

… that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself

– Latin Proverb

Out of suffering….

… have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars

– Khalil Gibran

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

When you look…

… at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about

– Albert Einstein

The best people…

…. possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed

– Ernest Hemingway

The ability to…

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

— David Heenan and Warren Bennis

 

Let him who…

… would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.

– Thomas Carlyle