“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”

Leading well is not about enriching yourself – it’s about empowering others

If you focus on goals, you may hit goals – but that doesn’t guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.

Pay now, play later; play now, pay later.

The first person you lead is you.

Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.

Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it – in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.

To succeed in life, we must stay within our strength zone but continually move outside our comfort zone.

Giving is the highest level of living.

If you don’t have peace, it isn’t because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

The difference between where we are and where we want to be is created by the changes we are willing to make in our lives. When you want something you’ve never had, you must do something you’ve never done to get it.

When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.

The person who insists on using yesterday’s methods in today’s world won’t be in business tomorrow.

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.

God doesn’t move until we move first.

You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.

Ultimately, we’ll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.

I will walk where my own nature would be leading.

In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.

If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; yours is the earth and everything that’s in it.