“A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.”

Progress is more important than perfection.

We fall in love with someone when they show us, consistently, that they’re willing to put our needs ahead of their own.

If you sell what you do, you’re a vendor. If you sell why you do it, you’re a brand.

As the Zen Buddhist saying goes, how you do anything is how you do everything.

Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle.

Time really does remind us the value and importance of human touch.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

We last longer if we compete against ourselves for the good of others instead of competing against others for the good of ourselves.

Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank.

Optimism is the light at the end of a dark tunnel.

Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

Humans are social animals. We seek belonging. We feel safer in a tribe than alone. But not all tribes are healthy.

The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people.

When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.

Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet.

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.

What are we doing here, that is the question.

Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

Men should not petition for rights, but take them.

Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man’s muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.