Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.
—John Kotter (American Academic)
Always be able to look back and say: “At least I did not lead no humdrum life.”
—Movie: Forrest Gump
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
—Leo Buscaglia (American Motivational Speaker)
That government is best which governs least.
—Henry David Thoreau (American Philosopher)
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.
—David Bly
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
—Henry David Thoreau (American Philosopher)
Our fundamental problems are our ignorance and ego-grasping. We grasp at our identity as being our personality, memories, opinions, judgments, hopes, fears, chattering away—all revolving around this me me me me.
—Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (British Buddhist Teacher, Nun)
As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid?
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
—Socrates (Anceient Greek Philosopher)
I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.
—William C. deMille (American Screenwriter)