“Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.”

Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more.

When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

What you do is proof of what you believe.

In a society hooked on immediate gratification, it’s hard to remember that each of us is on our own timeline.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Leadership takes work. It takes time and energy. The effects are not always easily measured and they are not always immediate. Leadership is always a commitment to human beings.

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.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.

Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.