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

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. That’s the Law of Consistency. It doesn’t matter how talented you are. It doesn’t matter how many opportunities you receive. If you want to grow, consistency is key.

Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.

To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you’re not failing, you’re probably not really moving forward.

The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word.

You add value to people when you value them.

Your talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks.

People can open doors for you, but you must walk through.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.

So think long and hard about who you’re spending the most time with, for wherever they are headed, so are you.

Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability

There is no one else to blame. The leader must acknowledge mistakes and admit failures, take ownership of them, and develop a plan to win.

I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.

Fascism, most of the students agreed, is an extreme form of authoritarian rule. Citizens are required to do exactly what leaders say they must do, nothing more, nothing less.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God

Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.