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Quotes on ATTITUDE

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their

lives by altering their attitude of mind."

William JamesPsychologist

"The most positive men are the most credulous." Alexander Pope

"No one ever finds life worth livinghe has to make it worth living."

Unknown

"Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity ispossibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional diseasethat severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves itsaddicts wasted and derelict."

Eugene H. PetersonAuthor of Earth and Altar

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;noting on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." W. W. Ziege

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks othershave thrown at him."

David BrinkleyTelevision Journalist

"We can not tell what may happen to you in the strange medley of life. But wecan decide what happens to ushow we take it, what we do with itand that iswhat really counts in the end."

Joseph F. Newton

"You can not always control circumstances, but you can control your ownthoughts."


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Charles Popplestown

"If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astoundourselves."

Thomas Edison

"Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure,whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious ... think about these things."

Philippians 4:8

"Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last ofhuman freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, tochoose one's own way."

Victor FranklMan's Search For Meaning

"If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experiencedevelops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy,however adverse your circumstances may seem to be."

John R. Miller

"Cultivate optimism by committing yourself to a cause, a plan or a value system.You'll feel that you are growing in a meaningful direction which will help you riseabove day-to-day setbacks."

Dr. Robert Conroyin Bottom Line-Personal

"The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner'sedge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success."

Dennis Waitley

"Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive." George Washington

Rules of Civility

"If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croakingabout society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief."

Benjamin Disraeli


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"What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what youearn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more thanwhat anyone else may think about you."

George Matthew AdamsAuthor

"[Sprezzatura ("unstudied nonchalance"):] Employ in everything a certaincasualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done andsaid is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It is fromthis, in my opinion, that grace largely derives."

Baldassare CastiglioneThe Book of the Courtier, 1528

"Change your thoughts and you change the world." Norman Vincent Peale

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right." Henry Ford

"Up is never where you are now." Belasco & Stayer

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enoughpeople to make it worth the effort."

Herm Albright

General Colin Powell's Rules:

1. It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.2. Get mad, then get over it.3. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your

position falls, your ego goes with it.4. It can be done!5. Be careful what you choose. You may get it.6. Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.7. You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone

else make yours.8. Check small things.


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9. Share credit.10. Remain calm. Be kind.11. Have a vision. Be demanding.12. Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers.13. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier

Quotes on CHANGE

"Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able totruly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't giveup."

Andy LawCreative Company

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

Confucius

"One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personalchange is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment."

Robert E. Quinn

"Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they haveandunderestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up."

James Belasco and Ralph Stayer

Flight of the Buffalo(1994)

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or moreuncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order ofthings."

Niccolo MachiavelliThe Prince (1532)

"The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything,

competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next fewdecades." John P. KotterLeading Change

"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as Ihave found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it often a


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comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place." Washington Irving

Tales of a Traveler (1824)

"We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with aneasy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it." Mark Twain

"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times." Niccolo Machiavelli

"People don't resist change. They resist being changed!" Peter Senge

"Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against otherkinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way."

Louis L'AmourThe Lonely Men

"All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself." Paul Hawken

"Natural Capitalism, Yoga JournalOctober 1994

We would rather be ruined than changed,We would rather die in our dreadThan climb the cross of the momentAnd let our illusions die.

W. H. Auden

"Your success in life isn't based on your ability to simply change. It is based onyour ability to change faster than your competition, customers and business."

Mark Sanborn

"When a mature and able manager feels bored, he should seriously considerchanging jobs, changing companiesor simply retiring. It is not fair to anyone forhalf a leader to hold a full-time leadership job."

James L. Hayes


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"Change has a bad reputation in our society. But it isn't all bad not by anymeans. In fact, change is necessary in life to keep us moving ... to keep usgrowing ... to keep us interested . ... Imagine life without change. It would be

static ... boring ... dull." Dr. Dennis O'Gradyin Bottom Line - Personal

"Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that stillimplies that change is like death and taxes it should be postponed as long aspossible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval,such as the one we are living in, change is the norm."

Peter DruckerManagement Challenges for the 21st Century (1999)

"Culture does not change because we desire to change it. Culture changes whenthe organization is transformed; the culture reflects the realities of people workingtogether every day."

Frances HesselbeinThe Key to Cultural Transformation, Leader to Leader (Spring 1999)

"It is a bad plan that admits of no modification." Publilius Syrus

First Century BC

"The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just aslong as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better."

Robert P. Vanderpoel

"As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations,which are the births of time."

Francis BaconEssays, II, On Innovation

"Every generation needs a new revolution." Thomas Jefferson


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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change theworld. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead

"I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward." David Livingstone

"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way rapidly winning over andconverting its opponents; it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What doeshappen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation isfamiliarized with the idea from the beginning."

Max PlanckThe Philosophy of Physics, 1936

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present arecertain to miss the future."

John F. Kennedy

"Ten years ago, Peter Senge introduced the idea of the 'learning organization'Now he says that for big companies to change, we need to stop thinking likemechanics and to start acting like gardeners."

Alan M. WebberLearning for a Change

"Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try,instead, to work with what you've got. "

Peter Drucker

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is thegreatest innovator."

Francis BaconEssays, II, On Innovation

"Everything is in a process of change, nothing endures; we do not seekpermanence."

Masatoshi Naito

"Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness."


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Marshall McLuhan

"Keep in mind that you cannot control your own future. Your destiny is not in yourhands; it is in the hands of the irrational consumer and society. The changes in

their needs, desires, and demands will tell you where you must go. All this meansthat managers must themselves feel the pulse of change on a daily, continuousbasis.... They should have intense curiosity, observe events, analyze trends,seek the clues of change, and translate those clues into opportunities."

Michael J. Kami

"When we see the need for deep change, we usually see it as something thatneeds to take place in someone else. In our roles of authority, such as parent,teacher, or boss, we are particularly quick to direct others to change. Suchdirectives often fail, and we respond to the resistance by increasing our efforts.

The power struggle that follows seldom results in change or brings aboutexcellence. One of the most important insights about the need to bring aboutdeep change in others has to do with where deep change actually starts."

Robert E. Quinn

Quotes on CHARACTER

"Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a commonpurpose and the character which inspires confidence."

Bernard MontgomeryBritish Field Marshall

"The respect that leadership must have requires that one's ethics be withoutquestion. A leader not only stays above the line between right and wrong, hestays well clear of the gray areas."

G. Alan BernardPresident, Mid Park, Inc.

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,give him power." Abraham Lincoln

"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience orconvictions."


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Dag HammarskjoldStatesman

"We aim to develop physique, mentality and character in our students; but

because the first two are menaces without the third, the greatest of these ischaracter." Joseph Dana Allen, Headmaster

Poly Prep MagazineFall 1989

"Character is destiny." Heraclitus

"Character is power."

Booker T. Washington

"You can not dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forgeyourself one."

James A. Froude

"God grant that men of principle shall be our principle men." Thomas Jefferson

"The force of character is cummulative." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all peopleand all their work."

Orison Sweet Marden

"Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opensthe way to wealth, honor and happiness."

J. Howe

"Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, butabout a set of attributes. First and foremost is character"

Warren Bennis


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"Dreams are the touchstones of our character" Henry David Thoreau

"Character is the firm foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect.Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lastingreputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character."

R. C. Samsel

"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character." John Morley

"Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents areto some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have tobuild it piece by pieceby thought, choice, courage and determination."

John Luther

"While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily toadults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about taking on reclamationprojectsregardless of the talent they may possess. Have the courage to makecharacter count among the qualities you seek in others."

John Wooden

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." Alfred Adler

"Every man has three charactersthat which he exhibits, that which he has, andthat which he thinks he has."

Alphonse Karr

"In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently thananything we say or do."

Stephen Covey

"The forbearing use of power does not only form a touchstone; but the manner inwhich an individual enjoys certain advantages over others is a test of a truegentleman. The power which the strong have over the weak, the magistrate over


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the employed, the educated over the unlettered, the experienced over theconfiding, even the clever over the silly; the forbearing and inoffensive use of allthis power and authority, or the total abstinence from it, when the case admits it,will show the gentleman in a plain light. The gentleman does not needlessly andunnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against

him. He can only forgive; he can forget; and he strives for that nobleness of selfand mildness of character which imparts sufficient strength to let the past be putthe past."

General Robert E. Lee

Quotes on CHARISMA

"I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better

work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit ofcriticism." Charles Schwab

Industrialist

"When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he wasthe cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I wasthe cleverest woman in England." A women when asked her impression of the two English statesmen Benjamin

Disraeli and William Gladstone after dining with them.

"Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common qualityamong these Representative Men who have been most successful as ourleaders? I call it the need to be authenticor, as our dictionaries tell us,conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While thecharismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strongbecause he is what he seems to be."

Daniel J. Boorstin

"Throw away those books and cassettes on inspirational leadership. Send thoseconsultants packing. Know your job, set a good example for the people underyou and put results over politics. That's all the charisma you'll really need tosucceed."

Dyan Machan


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"Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around." Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus

Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge

"In The Edge of the Sword de Gaulle wrote that a leader 'must be able to createa spirit of confidence in those under him. He must be able to assert his authority.'Authority, de Gaulle argued, de rives from prestige, and prestige 'is largely amatter of feeling, suggestion and impression, and it depends primarily on thepossession of an elementary gift, a natural attitude' ... lately gone by thefashionable term charisma. ... To this ineffable quality, de Gaulle wrote, a leadermust add three concrete ones: mystery, character, and grandeur. 'First andforemost,' he declared, 'there can be no prestige without mystery, for familiaritybreeds contempt. All religions have their tabernacles, and no man is a hero to his

valet.' " Richard Nixon

"There can be no power without mystery. There must always be a 'something'which others cannot altogether fathom, which puzzles them, stirs them, andrivets their attention.... Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is thecrowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud,the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools."

Charles de Gaulle

"The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through amask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form aswill mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need."

John Keegan

"Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve sothat people are never quite sure if they really know you."

Michael Korda

"Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration." Baltasar Gracin

"The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious." Marshal Ferdinand Foch


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"Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible." General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Quotes on COMMITMENT

"People do not follow uncommitted leaders. Commitment can be displayed in afull range of matters to include the work hours you choose to maintain, how youwork to improve your abilities, or what you do for your fellow workers at personalsacrifice."

Stephen Gregg

Chairman and CEO of Ethix Corp.

"Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on,to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down."

David McNally

"Just remember that if you're not working at your game to the utmost of yourability, there will be someone out there somewhere with equal ability who is. Andone day you'll play each other, and he'll have the advantage."

"Easy" Ed Macauleyas told by Bill Bradley

"He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times." JohannVon Schiller

Playwright

"Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them day afterday."

Arthur Gordon

"The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. Allsorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise occurred. A wholestream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner ofunforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could


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have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream youcan, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."

Attributed to Goethe

"I am easily satisfied with the very best." Winston Churchill

"Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows." Dante

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to anunrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enableyou to attain the success you seek."

Mario Andretti

"You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient convictionand act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive andbelieve, the mind can achieve."

Napoleon Hill

Quotes on PERSEVERANCE

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the rewardfor what he gave."

Calvin Coolidge30th president of the United States

"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who cannever repay you."

John Bunyon

"If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knockeddown. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. Aman flattened by conformity stays down for good."

Thomas J. Watson, Jr.


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"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go tobed with satisfaction."

George Horace Lorimer

"The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency. All men havewandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved tobe great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with theworld. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the sureststepping stones to success."

Dale Carnegie

"Persistence and determinationalone are omnipotent. The slogan press onhassolved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

Calvin Coolidge30th president of the United States

"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always dothat, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Mark Twain

"Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawningof the day of success."

Leigh Mitchell Hodges

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose." Benjamin Disraeli

"Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightnessbut perseverance all can have."

Woodrow Wilson

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encounteredheartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refusedto become discouraged by their defeats."

B.C. Forbes


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"Well begun is half done." Aristotle

"Nois a word on your path to Yes. Don't give up too soon. Not even if well-meaning parents, relatives, friends, and colleagues tell you to get a real job. Yourdreams are your real job"

Joyce SpizerAuthor

"Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It'shard to stay on top."

Paul Coffey

NHL star

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and thedetermination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselvesto the task at hand."

Vince Lombardi

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to anunrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enableyou to attain the success you seek."

Mario Andretti

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man'sdetermination."

Tommy Lasorda

"Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head andkeeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts."

Coleman Cox

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit onthe one-yard line. They give up a the last minute of the game, one foot from awinning touchdown."

H. Ross Perot


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"It's always too soon to quit!" Norman Vincent Peale

Quotes on COMMUNICATION

"Developing excellent communication skills is absolutely essential to effectiveleadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit asense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can't get a messageacross clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn'teven matter."

Gilbert AmelioPresident and CEO of National Semiconductor Corp.

"Leaders who make it a practice to draw out the thoughts and ideas of theirsubordinates and who are receptive even to bad news will be properly informed.Communicate downward to subordinates with at least the same care andattention as you communicate upward to superiors."

L. B. Belker

"Frown on lapses of information. When people admit that they didn't keep youinformed, let them know that you don't want this kind of protection. A couple ofstrong reactions by the manager, and a subordinate learns to make sure theboss gets the wordall of it.

Thomas L. Quick

"Regardless of the changes in technology, the market for well-crafted messageswill always have an audience."

Steve BurnettThe Burnett Group

"Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era ofhair trigger balances, when a false or misunderstood word may create as much

disaster as a sudden thoughtless act." James Thurber

"Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to jointhem."

Bruce BartonCongressman and Author


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"The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that everyhuman being is unique and of value."

Unknown

"The day soldiers stop bring you their problems is the day you have stoppedleading them."

General Colin Powell

"Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea or two. No martinis."

T. Boone Pickens

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won'tget you anywhere.

Lee Iacocca

" . . . ;a sense of humor can be a great helpparticularly a sense of humor about(oneself). William Howard Taft joked about his own corpulence and people lovedit; took nothing from his inherent dignity. Lincoln eased tense moments withbawdy stories, and often poked fun at himselfand history honors him for thishuman quality. A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting alongwith people, of getting things done."

Dwight D.Eisenhower

"One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect." Mark Twain

"Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones." Benjamin Disraeli

"Communicate unto the other person that which you would want him tocommunicate unto you if your positions were reversed."

Aaron Goldman


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"The commander must be at constant pains to keep his troops abreast of all thelatest tactical experience and developments, and must insist on their practicalapplication. He must see to it that his subordinates are trained in accordance withthe latest requirements. The best form of welfarefor the troops is first-classtraining, for this saves unnecessary casualties."

Field Marchall Erwin Rommel

"The art of communication is the language of leadership." James Humes

Quotes on COMPETENCE

"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humbleactivity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activitywill have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its piped nor itstheories will hold water."

John Gardner

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincereeffort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice ofmany alternatives."

Willa A. Foster

Quotes on COURAGE

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is thequality which guarantees all others."

Winston ChurchillBritish Prime Minister

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which youreally stop to look fear in the face."

Eleanor RooseveltFormer First Lady of the United States


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"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise." Tacitus

Roman historian

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress,and grow brave by reflections."

Thomas Paine

"Only be you strong, and very courageous, then you will make your wayprosperous, and then you will have good success."

Joshua 1:7-8

"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bearunhappiness with courage."

Seneca

"Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long andtwo feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored brightblue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not athing."

Mickey MantleThe Quality of Courage

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unlessyou're scared."

Eddie RickenbackerWorld War I hero

"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the bestof circumstances."

Aristotle

"Fight hard when you are down; die harddetermine at least to doand youwon't die at all."

James H. West


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"Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show yourpluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or atented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despairand postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not tofail."

Henry David Thoreau

"One man with courage makes a majority." Andrew Jackson

"What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each newtwist of fate."

Donald Trump

"Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravelycatching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. Theyare the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduringpain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood."

Charles Swindoll

"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy." Admiral Horatio Nelson

"[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the criticalbattle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more thantwo to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEATATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done, the enemyturned away.All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don't dodgethem, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly,and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongsidehis!"

Admiral William "Bull" Halsey

"Come to the edge, He said.They said: We are afraid.Come to the edge, He said.They came. He pushed them,And they flew . . ."

Guillaume ApollinaireFrench poet


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"Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity." Karl von Clausewitz

"One man with courage makes a majority." Andrew Jackson

"What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power andmagic in it."

Goethe

"Courage is being scared to deathbut saddling up anyway."

John Wayne

"The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. Allsorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise occurred. A wholestream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner ofunforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man couldhave dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream youcan, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."

Attributed to Goethe

"I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened." Mark Twain

Quotes on CREATIVI TY

"When all think alike, then no one is thinking." Walter Lippman

"Capital isn't so important in business. Experience isn't so important. You can getboth these things. What is important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have themain asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with yourbusiness and your life."

Harvey Firestone

"Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart." - Mencius (Meng-Tse), 4th century BCE


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"Doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting different results, is thedefinition of crazy."

Unknown

M. A. Rosanoff: "Mr. Edison, please tell me what laboratory rules you want me toobserve."Edison: "There ain'tno rules around here. We're trying to accomplish somep'n!"

Thomas Edison

"Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know inorder to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must beable to look afresh at what we normally take for granted."

George Kneller

"It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. The incompetent never getin a position to destroy it. It is those who achieved something and want to restupon their achievements who are forever clogging things up."

F. M. Young

"It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what workedfor you two years ago, but will soon be out of date."

Roger von Oech

"We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open andclosed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, moredemocratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter,more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunatelyspend most of their time in the closed mode. Not that the closed mode cannot behelpful. If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time forconsidering alternative strategies. When you charge the enemy machine-gunpost, don't waste energy trying to see the funny side of it. Do it in the "closed"mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the "open" modetoopen your mind again to all the feedback from our action that enables us to tellwhether the action has been successful, or whether further action is need toimprove on what we have done. In other words, we must return to the openmode, because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, mostcreative, and therefore at our most intelligent."

John Cleese


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"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas." Dr. Linus Pauling

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking whatnobody has thought."

Albert von Szent-Gyorgy

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a newangle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."

Albert Einstein

Without the playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. Thedebt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable." Carl Jung

"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could doanything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: Only stand out of my light.Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one ofthe best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of theirlight."

John W. Gardner

"To be creative you have to contribute something different from what you've donebefore. Your results need not be original to the world; few results truly meet thatcriterion. In fact, most results are built on the work of others."

Lynne C. LevesqueBreakthrough Creativity

"We shall not cease from exploration, and at the end of all our exploring will be toarrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

T. S. Eliot

"Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating thefuture."

James Bertrand


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"There's a way to do it betterfind it." Thomas Edison

"The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail." Edwin H. Land

"Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacherand pupil are located in the same individual."

Arthur Koestler

"There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be foreverrepeating the same patterns." Edward de Bono

"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after itis found."

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

"The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kindsof things: ancient history, nineteenth-century mathematics, current manufacturingtechniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows whenthese ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minuteslater or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it willhappen."

Carl Ally

"The things we fear most in organizationsfluctuations, disturbances,imbalancesre the primary sources of creativity."

Margaret J. Wheatley

"Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means towardends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and the left in front ofthe right, moving down narrow corridors toward narrow goals. Play widens thehalls. Work will always be with us, and many works are worthy. But the worthiestworks of all often reflect an artful creativity that looks more like play than work."

James Ogilvy


26/98

"The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes aculture of creative dissatisfaction."

Lawrence Miller

"When the 'weaker' of the two brains (right and left) is stimulated and encouragedto work in cooperation with the stronger side, the end result is a great increase inoverall ability and ... often five to ten times more effectiveness."

Professor Robert Ornstein, University of California

"Innovation any new ideaby definition will not be accepted at first. It takesrepeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals beforeinnovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires

courageous patience." Warren Bennis

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away." Linus Pauling

"The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mindto spot wrong questions."

Anthony Jay

"Success is on the far side of failure." Thomas Watson Sr.

"You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3ways."

M. Minsky

"To have a great idea, have a lot of them." Thomas Edison

"Companies have to nurture [creativity and motivation]and have to do it bybuilding a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In theknowledge economy the traditional softpeople side of our business has becomethe new hardside."

Gay MitchellExecutive VP, HR, Royal Bank


27/98

"That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time." John Stuart Mill

Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learnt. It empowerspeople by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork,productivity and where appropriate profits.

Edward de Bono

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." Albert Einstein

"Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity." Chuck JonesWarner Bros. animator

"An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. Yousee, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates from college hehas to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But aninventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It hesucceeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. Weoften say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how tofail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep ontrying and failing until he learns what will work."

Charles Kettering

"Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creativeexplorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport."

Robert Wieder

"He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the mainroad, by trying the untried."

Frank Tyger

"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." Picasso


28/98

"If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to bereached by search or trail."

Heraclitus

"The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of theirmembers to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is anequal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and theonly rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause."

Warren Bennis

"Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Thomas Edison

"The business world sees a measurable and growing intelligence gap - with needfor intellectual expertise constantly expanding. Available talent is decreasingeven though the population is increasing. Being bombarded with information - beit in Nintendo or shogi - and being able to process it, find patterns etc., is a vitalskill. One way to increase this talent potential is through games."

Leif EdvinsonSkandia at the MindSports Olympiad 1997

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'llhave to ram them down people's throats."

Howard Aiken

"Some men look at things the way they are and ask why? I dream of things thatare not and ask why not?"

Robert Kennedy

"In every work of genius, we recognize our once rejected thoughts." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on.Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kickin the seat of the pants."

Roger von Oech


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"Creativityis thinking up new things. Innovationis doing new things." Theodore Levitt

"Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketableform."

Watts Humprey

"The innovation pointis the pivotal moment when talented and motivated peopleseek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams."

W. Arthur Porter

Creativity Killers:

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." Charles H. Duell, Director of US Patent Office 1899

"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote." Grover Cleveland, 1905

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" Harry M. Warner, Warner Bros Pictures, 1927

"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." Robert Miliham, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923

"Heavier than air flying machines are impossible." Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895

"Ruth made a big mistake when he gave up pitching." Tris Speaker, 1921

"The horse is here today, but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad." President of Michigan Savings Bank advising against investing in the Ford

Motor Company

"Video won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first sixmonths. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."

Daryl F. Zanuck, 20th Century Fox, commenting on television in 1946

"What use could the company make of an electric toy?" Western Union, when it turned down rights to the telephone in 1878


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"Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploitchange as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It iscapable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of

being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources ofinnovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities forsuccessful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles ofsuccessful innovation."

Peter Drucker

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions" Albert Einstein

"I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did notunderstand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprintsof coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts alonger time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation thelightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. Howthe various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by astone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strangephenomena engaged my thought throughout my life."

Leonardo da Vinci

"Slaying sacred cows makes great steaks." Dick Nicolose

"In the modern world of business it is useless to be a creative original thinkerunless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected torecognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman."

David M. Ogilvy

"Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; frominsights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegialnetworks and fluid, open boundaries. Innovation arises from ongoing circles ofexchange, where information is not just accumulated or stored, but created.Knowledge is generated anew from connections that weren't there before."

Margaret J. WheatleyLeadership and the New Science


31/98

"When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you becomeoblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption inwhat you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creativeimagination."

Dr. Rollo May

"A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't becreative without playing."

Kurt Hanks and Jay Parry

"The achievement of excellence can occur only if the organization promotes aculture of creative dissatisfaction."

Lawrence Miller

"Replace either/orthinking with plusthinking." Craig Hickman

"Observe what iswith undivided awareness." Bruce Lee

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."- Albert Einstein

Quotes on DISCERNMENT

"The first rule of holes: When you're in one, stop digging." Molly Ivans

Columnist

"Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept calledrationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition." Henry Mintzberg

Researcher McGill University

"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe hispleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"


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Confucius

"Get to know two things about a man - how he earns his money and how bespends it - and you have the clue to his character, for you have a searchlight that

shows up the innermost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to knowabout his standards, his motives, his driving desires, and his real religion." Robert J. McCracken

"One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may nothave changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible beforebecome suddenly visible."

Louis L'AmourBendigo Shafter

"Opportunities are seldom labeled." John A. Shedd

"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning." Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men hehas around him."

Niccolo Machiavelli

"90% of everything is garbage!" Theodore Sturgeon

"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitelyrich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goesworrying about are of no importance whatsoever."

Isak Dinesen

"Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness." Marshall McLuhan

"To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking." Louis L'AmourLast of the Breed

On Science


33/98

Quotes on FOCUS

"If you chase two rabbits, both will escape" Unknown

"What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirelydifferent things."

Margaret MeadeAnthropologist

"Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and

capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begunon one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt everyimprovement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it."

Andrew Carnegie

"The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally doa few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength isalways specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinistJascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well."

Peter Drucker

"Concentration is the secret of strengths in politics, in war, in trade, in short in allmanagement of human affairs."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this:decide what you want."

Ben Stein

"Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all youractivities around it."

Brian Tracy

"Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having togo through one door and closing all others."

Abraham Zaleznik


34/98

"Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept calledrationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition."

Henry Mintzberg

Researcher McGill University

"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe hispleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"

Confucius

"Get to know two things about a man - how he earns his money and how bespends it - and you have the clue to his character, for you have a searchlight thatshows up the innermost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know

about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, and his real religion." Robert J. McCracken

"One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may nothave changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible beforebecome suddenly visible."

Louis L'AmourBendigo Shafter

"Opportunities are seldom labeled." John A. Shedd

"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning." Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men hehas around him."

Niccolo Machiavelli

"90% of everything is garbage!" Theodore Sturgeon


35/98

"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitelyrich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goesworrying about are of no importance whatsoever."

Isak Dinesen

"Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness." Marshall McLuhan

"To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking." Louis L'Amour

Last of the Breed"Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mindto the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others."

Barbara Bush

"Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour onothers without getting a few drops on yourself."

Og Mandino

"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege." John D. Rockefeller Jr.

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill

"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." Friedrich Nietzsche

"The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable ofreceiving."

Albert Einstein

"Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can." Ashleigh Brilliant"


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"The only gift is a portion of thyself." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the

greatest sources of happiness." Ray Lyman Wilbur

"Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in theworld. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."

Helen Keller

"The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others." Ghandi

"Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others; letothers have their own way; do things for reasons other than furthering your ownneeds."

Larry Scherwitz

"When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helpingother people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own moreeffectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor."

Norman Vincent Peale

"You will discover that you have two hands. One is for helping yourself and theother is for helping others."

Audrey Hepburn

"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation;for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."

Seneca

"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I cando, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; letme not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."

Etienne de Grellet


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Quotes on GENEROSITY

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done forothers and the world remains and is immortal."

Albert Pike

"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal ofthought into the happiness that you are able to give."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward

for what he gave." Calvin CoolidgeFormer American President

"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who cannever repay you."

John Bunyon

"Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind

to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others." Barbara Bush

"Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour onothers without getting a few drops on yourself."

Og Mandino

"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege."

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill

"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." Friedrich Nietzsche


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"The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable ofreceiving."

Albert Einstein

"Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can." Ashleigh Brilliant"

"The only gift is a portion of thyself." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the

greatest sources of happiness." Ray Lyman Wilbur

"Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in theworld. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."

Helen Keller

"The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others." Ghandi

"Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others; letothers have their own way; do things for reasons other than furthering your ownneeds."

Larry Scherwitz

"When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helpingother people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own moreeffectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor."

Norman Vincent Peale

"You will discover that you have two hands. One is for helping yourself and theother is for helping others."

Audrey Hepburn


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"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation;for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."

Seneca

"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I cando, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; letme not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."

Etienne de Grellet

Quotes on HUMILITY

"The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient."

St. Augustine

"Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding ofthe depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility andreverence."

Robert A. Millikan

"He who sacrifices a whole offering shall be rewarded for a whole offering; hewho offers a burnt-offering shall have the reward of a burnt-offering; but he whooffers humility to God and man shall be rewarded with a reward as if he hadoffered all the sacrifices in the world."

The Talmud

"Some persons are always ready to level those above them down to themselves,while they are never willing to level those below them up to their own position.But he that is under the influence of true humility will avoid both these extremes.

On the the one hand, he will be willing that all should rise just so far as theirdiligence and worth of character entitle them to; and on the other hand, he will bewilling that his superiors should be known and acknowledged in their place, andhave rendered to them all the honors that are their due."

Jonathan Edwards


40/98

"True humilitythe basis of the Christian systemis the low but deep and firmfoundation of all virtues."

Edmund Burke

"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." Matthew 5:5

"True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a rightestimate of ourselves as God sees us."

Tryon Edwards

"Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself." Charles H. Spurgeon

"Life is a long lesson in humility." James M. Barrie

"The grace which makes every other grace amiable." Alfred Mercier

"If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the proud heart, as itloves none but itself, so it is believed of none but by itself; the voice of humility isGod's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforceswhere neither virtue nor strength can prevail nor reason."

Francis Quarles

"The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground." Bishop Reynolds

"If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low inthine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much."

Leighton

"Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble." La Rochefoucauld


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"After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser." Benjamin Franklin

"Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is apoint of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self esteem. Ahumble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize andappreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels."

Rabino Nilton Bonder

"Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all thepossible changes of life."

George Arliss

"Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able and yethumble man is a jewel worth a kingdom."

William Penn

"Pride is concerned with whois right. Humility is concerned with whatis right." Ezra Taft Benson

"Humility is royalty without a crown." Spencer W. Kimball (Improvement Era, August 1963, Page 704)

"[Humility is:] Greatness in plain clothes" Spencer W. Kimball (Improvement Era, August 1963, Page 704)

"If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not atany time the fame of being learned."

Thomas Kempis


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"It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) that itis to attain it. Success is a ruthless competitor for it flatters and nourishes ourweaknesses and lulls us into complacency. We bask in the sunshine ofaccomplishment and lose the spirit of humility which helps us visualize all thefactors which have contributed to our success. We are apt to forget that we are

only one of a team, that in unity there is strength and that we are strong only aslong as each unit in our organization functions with precision. Samuel Tilden

"In a humble state, you learn better. I can't find anything else very exciting abouthumility, but at least there's that."

John Dooner

"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."

Rabindranath Tagore

"When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it." Unknown

"Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them."

John J. McCloy

"A man who is at the top is a man who has the habit of getting to the bottom." Joseph E. Rogers

"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness;the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myselfbefore others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal;avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."

Lao-Tzu


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Quotes on INITIATIVE

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving.

They make mistakes, but they don't quit." Conrad Hilton

Hilton Hotels

"Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aimsyndrome. You must bewilling to fire."

T. Boone Pickens

"The right man is the one who seizes the moment." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is nota man of action. Youmust act as you breathe."

Georges Clemmanceau

"Their comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove itinto gear."

David Mahoney

"I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not." Lucille Ball

"If you don't make dust, you eat dust." Motto of Jack A. MacAllister

"If there is a trait which does characterize leaders it is opportunism. Successfulpeople are very often those who steadfastly refuse to be daunted bydisadvantage and have the ability to turn disadvantage to good effect. They arepeople who seize opportunity and take risks. Leadership then seems to be amatter of personality and character."

John VineyDrive


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"Do not lie in a ditch, and say God help me; us the lawful tools He hath lent thee." English Proverb

"Most people spend more time planning their grocery shopping than designingtheir future. The basic difference between people who live their dreams andthose who only dream about how they would live, are the accuracy of their plans,their ability to generate new ideas, and their ability to take action."

Unknown

"Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went wheresomething might be found and you found something, simple as that."

Louis L'Amour

To the Far Blue Mountains

"Eagles don't flock." Ross Perot

"A good plan implemented today is better than a perfect plan implementedtomorrow."

George Patton

"Things may come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hustle." attributed toAbraham Lincoln

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is themost difficult thing in the world."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of littleconsequence, The only consequence is what we do."

John Ruskin

"Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers


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"An idea is worthless unless you use it." John Maxwell

Injoy, Inc.

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to bewaited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

William Jennings Bryan

"No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but atthe same time a steady eye."

Winston Churchill

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it." Jonathan Winters

"Success comes to the person who does today what you were thinking aboutdoing tomorrow."

unknown

"Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out ofthe shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference."

Nolan BushnellFounder of Atari

"Don't wait for your ship to come in; swim out to it." Unknown

"You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water." Rabindranath Tagore

1913 Nobel laureate for literature


46/98

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on tofortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when itserves, or lose our ventures."

William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

"Anything worth doing is worth doing now!" Ralph Stayer

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers

"If opportunity doesn't knock - build a door." Milton Berle

"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there." Edwin Louis Cole

"Let's make a dent in the universe." Steve Jobs

"You have to recognize that every 'out front' maneuver you make is going to belonely, but if you feel entirely comfortable, then you're not far enough ahead to doany good. That warm sense of everything going well is usually the bodytemperature at the center of the herd."

John Masters

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started isbreaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, andthen starting on the first one."

Mark Twain

"Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone." Robert Allen


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"If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness.You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end youhave to set a timetable and act."

Lee J. Iacocca

"Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. Forthem, the new information environmentundermining old means of control,opening up old closets of secrecy, reducing the relevance of ownership, earlyarrival, and locationshould seem less a litany of problems than an agenda foraction. Reaching for a way to describe the entrepreneurial energy of his fablededitor Harold Ross, James Thurber said" 'He was always leaning forward,pushing something invisible ahead of him.' That's the appropriate posture for aknowledge executive."

Harland Cleveland

Quotes on INTEGRITY

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way." Aristotle

"A liar needs a good memory." Quintillian

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge withoutintegrity is dangerous and dreadful."

Samuel JohnsonRasselas, ch. 41

"What is left when honor is lost?" Publilius Syrus

First Century BC, Maxim 265

"No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And thereare two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being liedto."

SenecaRoman philosopher and writer 4 BCE - 65 CE


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"So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himselfon the narrow edge."

Cicero

"We need to stress that personal integrity is as important as executive skill inbusiness dealings....Setting an example from the top has a ripple effectthroughout a business school or a corporation. After nearly three decades inbusiness, 10 years as chief executive of a Big Eight accounting firm, I havelearned that the standards set at the top filter throughout a company....[QuotingProfessor Thomas Dunfee of the Wharton School:] ' A company that fails to takesteps to produce a climate conducive to positive work-related ethical attitudesmay create a vacuum in which employees so predisposed may foster a frontier-style, everyone for themselves mentality.' "

Russell E. Palmer

"Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own." American Proverb

"If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our dutyto try to prevent it and damn the consequences."

Lord Milner

"Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to doanything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a goodconscience is a continual Christmas."

Benjamin Franklin

"The right type of [leader] is democratic. He must not consider himself a superiorsort of personage. He must actually feel democratic; it is not enough that he try topose as democratiche must bedemocratic, otherwise the veneer, the sheen,would wear off, for you can't fool a body of intelligent American workingmen forvery long. He must ring true."

Thomas Coleman Du Pont

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." Mark Twain


49/98

"As religion and faith are being driven out of the public square, the Judeo-Christian ethical foundations that have sustained our country since its beginning,are being lost and are being replaced with a humanistic amorality, a self-centered, pragmatic indifference that will ensure that our moral compasses willfail to point us in the right direction in the future."

Archie B. CarrollProfessor of Management, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia

"In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence,and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you."

Warren BuffetCEO, Berkshire Hathaway

"To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible;

credible we must be truthful." Edward R. Murrow

"If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, theother virtues would be well-nigh useless."

Moliere [Jean Baptiste Poquelin]Tartuffe, V, i (1622-1673)

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,give him power."

Abraham Lincoln

"The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make aman trustworthy is by trusting him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthyis to distrust him and show your distrust."

Henry L. StimsonFormer U.S. Secretary of State

"A great man is always willing to be little." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is our hypocrisy and self-focus that drains us. When we become purposecentered, internally directed other focused and externally open, we discoverenergy we didnt know we had."

Robert E. Quinn


50/98

"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them." Camillo Benso di Cavour

"When greeted upon his return to power by cries of 'Algrie Franaise!' [DeGaulle] answered his countrymen, 'Je vous ai compris' (I have understood you).Indeed he had. But he did not say he would keep Algeria French. No leader canlie, or condone official lying, without turning totalitarian. But he may, and oftenmust, tell what one political scientist call 'the truth, the partial truth, and nothingbut the truth.' "

Brock Brower

"It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Trust is rebuilt by focusing not on what the other person did or did not do but oncritiquing one's ownbehavior, improving one's trustworthiness, and focusingattention not on words and promises but on actions, attitudes, and ways ofbeing."

Kenneth Cloke and Joan GoldsmithThe Art of Waking People Up

"He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds." St. Gregory

"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If youdon't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn'tthere, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, willwin your case for you."

Lyndon B. Johnson

"Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keephucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason."

Cervantes

"You have the right to remain silent, but you can never, repeat, never lie or shadethe truth."

Robert L. Woodrum


51/98

"Though negotiations are a rough game, you should never allow them to becomea dirty game. Once you've agreed to a deal, don't back out of it unless the otherparty fails to deliver as promised. Your handshake is your bond. As far as I'm

concerned, a handshake is worth more than a signed contract. As anentrepreneur, a reputation for integrity is your most valuable commodity. If you tryto put something over on someone, it will come back to haunt you."

Victor Kiam

"Neither shall you allege the example of the many as an excuse for doing wrong." God

Exodus 23:2

"Re-examine all that you have been told . . . dismiss that which insults your soul." Walt Whitman

"Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company." Hannah Arendt

"A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The TenCommandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybodyneeds."

Harry S. Truman

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can becounted counts."

Albert Einstein

"There are seven things that will destroy us: Wealth without work; Pleasurewithout conscience; Knowledge without character; Religion without sacrifice;Politics without principle; Science without humanity; Business without ethics."

Mahatma Gandhi

"It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is anethical and not a biological principle."

Ashley Montagu


52/98

"In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of itappears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold inthe future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping thefoundations of justice from beneath new generations."

Alexander Solzehnitsyn

"Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right, decide on what you think is rightand stick to it."

George Eliot

Quotes on LEADERSHIP

"To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not

notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, thepeople fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is donethe people say, 'We did it ourselves!'"

Lao-tsu

"If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall in the ditch." Jesus Christ

"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers

are getting hungry." Winston Churchill

"Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership isleadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leadingyourselfyour own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest atleast 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers."

Dee HockFounder and CEO Emeritus, Visa

"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was thewillingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in theirtime. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."

John Kenneth Galbraith


53/98

"If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he wouldhave great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that hehad no authority whatever."

G.K. Chesterton to Alexander Woollcott

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where theyhave not been." Henry Kissinger

"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manageit. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under aleadership composed of average human beings."

Peter Drucker

"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for thegreatness is there already." John Buchan

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head that's assault, notleadership."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are alsoblessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest."

Hesiod8th Century BC Greek poet

"Never give an order that can't be obeyed." General Douglas MacArthur

"Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and,least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholeheartedcommitment to helping followers. We are tired of leaders we fear, tired of leaderswe love, and of tired of leaders who let us take liberties with them. What we needfor leaders are men of the heart who are so helpful that they, in effect, do awaywith the need of their jobs. But leaders like that are never out of a job, never outof followers. Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away."

Admiral James B. Stockdale


54/98

"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut throughargument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand."

General Colin Powell

"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is noleadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillfulleaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."

Harry Truman

"The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders andfollowers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessarysupports for leadership."

Gary WillsCertain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders

"A leader is one who influences a specific group of people to move in a God-given direction."

J. Robert Clinton

"All Leadership is influence." John C. Maxwell

Injoy, Inc.

"Now there are five matters to which a general must pay strict heed. The first ofthese is administration; the second, preparedness; the third, determination; thefourth, prudence; and the fifth, economy."

Wu Ch'i (430-381 BC)

"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you knowhow to follow, too."

Sam Rayburn

"Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you theduty of so living your life that others may receive your orders without beinghumiliated."

Dag Hammarskjld


55/98

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, theconviction and the will to carry on."

Walter Lippmann

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when peopleobey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, whotalks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did thisourselves.'"

Lao-Tse

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, andthe boss drives."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned." Harold Geneen

"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thankyou. In between, the leader is a servant."

Max DePree

"Four rules of leadership in a free legislative body:First, no matter how hard-fought the issue, never get personal. Don't say or doanything that may come back to haunt you on another issue, another day....Second, do your homework. You can't lead without knowing what you're talkingabout....Third, the American legislative process is one of give and take. Use your poweras a leader to persuade, not intimidate....Fourth, be considerate of the needs of your colleagues, even if they're at thebottom of the totem pole...."

George BushFormer President of the United States

"Speak Softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." Theodore Roosevelt

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadershipdetermines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."

Stephen R. Covey


56/98

"He who has great power should use it lightly." Seneca

"How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way andwhen your people are visibly growing individually and as a group."

Sir John Harvey-Jones

"He makes a great mistake ... who supposes that authority is firmer or betterestablished when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection."

Terence

"The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to make itabundantly clear to those around him that he knows." Clarence Randall

"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead bygoing to that place and making a case."

Ken Kesey

"Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following you." Henry Gilmer

"Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. Itis not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is liftinga person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to ahigher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."

Peter F. Drucker

"Leadership is the ability to establish standards and manage a creative climatewhere people are self-motivated toward the mastery of long term constructivegoals, in a participatory environment of mutual respect, compatible with personalvalues."

Mike Vance


57/98

"The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at whatthey do."

Andrew Carnegie

"My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men andwomen to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence." General Montgomery

"High sentiments always win in the end, The leaders who offer blood, toil, tearsand sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety anda good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic."

George Orwell

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to anew level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when wehave to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now."

Wangari Maathai

Quotes on LISTENING

"The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people." Woodrow Wilson

"Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request." Phillip StanhopeEarl of Chesterfield

"In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol oftemporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conchthat is, who should be listened to and when."

Max De Pree


58/98

"Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.Publilius Syrus

First Century BC, Maxim 914

"You have to be willing sometimes to listen to some remarkable bad opinions.Because if you say to someone, 'That's the silliest thing I've ever heard; get onout of here!'then you'll never get anything out of that person again, and youmight as well have a puppet on a string or a robot."

John Bryan

"Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivateswisdom."

Chip Bell

"Silence is a source of great strength." Lao Tzu

"We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feelashamed to ask and learn from people below, and we should listen carefully tothe views of the cadres at the lowest levels. Be a pupil before you become ateacher; learn from the cadres at the lower levels before you issue orders."

Mao Tse-tung

"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and beunderstood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them."

Ralph Nichols

"Effective listeners remember that "words have no meaning - people havemeaning." The assignment of meaning to a term is an internal process; meaningcomes from inside us. And although our experiences, knowledge and attitudesdiffer, we often misinterpret each others messages while under the illusion that acommon understanding has been achieved."

Larry Barker

"Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen." Ambrose Bierce


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"An actors a guy who if you aint talkin about him, aint listening." Marlon Brando

"Its a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear."

Dick Cavett

"Ill defend to the death your right to say that, but I never said Id listen to it!" Tom Galloway

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be takenseriously."

Hubert Humphrey

"One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebodyslistening."

Franklin P. Jones

"Just because I didnt do what you told me, doesnt mean I wasnt listening toyou!"

Hank Ketcham

"One friend, one person who is truly understanding, who takes the trouble tolisten to us as we consider a problem, can change our whole outlook on theworld."

Dr. E. H. Mayo

"There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what tolisten for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation."

James Nathan Miller

"You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time." M. Scott Peck

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