“When you touch – don’t take. Touch people only when you are giving something – reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever”

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it’s not about you.

In fact, Jesus is mentioned 75 times in the Koran.

If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.

Catch people in the act of doing something right.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

What we give our attention to, grows.

It never hurts to toot your own horn once in a while.

Perpetual prosperity comes to those who help others.

Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It’s not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.

Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers.

Do your best to succeed and push the limits without violating them.

Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

To me that’s a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears.

The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.

A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.

Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.