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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, the people fear; and the next, the people hate … When the best leader’s work is done the 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 is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers." — Dee Hock Founder and CEO Emeritus, Visa "All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership." — John Kenneth Galbraith "If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had 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 they have not been." — Henry Kissinger "No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings." — Peter Drucker "The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already." — John Buchan "You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership." — Dwight D. Eisenhower "The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest." — Hesiod 8th 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 wholehearted commitment to helping followers. We are tired of leaders we fear, tired of leaders we love, and of tired of leaders who let us take liberties with them. What we need for leaders are men of the heart who are so helpful that they, in effect, do away with the need of their jobs. But leaders like that are never out of a job, never out of followers. Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away." — Admiral James B. Stockdale "Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand." — General Colin Powell "I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be." — Warren Bennis "Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better." — Harry Truman "The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. … Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership." — Gary Wills Certain 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 of these is administration; the second, preparedness; the third, determination; the fourth, 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 know how to follow, too." — Sam Rayburn "Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others may receive your orders without being humiliated." — Dag Hammarskjöld "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on." — Walter Lippmann "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, ‘We did this ourselves.’" — Lao-Tse "People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the 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 thank you. 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 do anything 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 talking about…. Third, the American legislative process is one of give and take. Use your power as a leader to persuade, not intimidate…. Fourth, be considerate of the needs of your colleagues, even if they’re at the bottom of the totem pole…." — George Bush Former 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; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall." — Stephen R. Covey "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 and when 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 better established 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 it abundantly 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 by going to that place and making a case." — Ken Kesey "As a leader, you’re probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you’re not around." — Patrick Lencioni "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. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations." — Peter F. Drucker "Leadership is the ability to establish standards and manage a creative climate where people are self-motivated toward the mastery of long term constructive goals, in a participatory environment of mutual respect, compatible with personal values." — Mike Vance "The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do." — Andrew Carnegie "My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women 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, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a 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 a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now." — Wangari Maathai "I think leadership comes from integrity - that you do whatever you ask others to do. I think there are non-obvious ways to lead. Just by providing a good example as a parent, a friend, a neighbor makes it possible for other people to see better ways to do things. Leadership does not need to be a dramatic, fist in the air and trumpets blaring, activity." — Scott Berkun "Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others." — Jack Welch "I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example. I want to make sure there is no discrepancy between what we say and what we do. If you preach accountability and then promote somebody with bad results, it doesn’t work. I personally believe the best training is management by example. Don’t believe what I say. Believe what I do." — Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan Quotes on ATTITUDE "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitude of mind." — William James Psychologist "The most positive men are the most credulous." — Alexander Pope "No one ever finds life worth living—he has to make it worth living." — Unknown "Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict." — Eugene H. Peterson Author 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 others have thrown at him." — David Brinkley Television Journalist "We can not tell what may happen to you in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens to us—how we take it, what we do with it—and that is what really counts in the end." — Joseph F. Newton "You can not always control circumstances, but you can control your own thoughts." — Charles Popplestown "If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." — 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 of human freedoms —to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way." — Victor Frankl Man’s Search For Meaning "If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops 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 rise above day-to-day setbacks." — Dr. Robert Conroy in Bottom Line-Personal "The winner’s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner’s edge 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 croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief." — Benjamin Disraeli "What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you." — George Matthew Adams Author "[Sprezzatura ("unstudied nonchalance"):] Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives." — Baldassare Castiglione The 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 enough people 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. 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 CHARACTER "Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence." — Bernard Montgomery British Field Marshall "The respect that leadership must have requires that one’s ethics be without question. A leader not only stays above the line between right and wrong, he stays well clear of the gray areas." — G. Alan Bernard President, 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 or convictions." — Dag Hammarskjold Statesman "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 is character." — Joseph Dana Allen, Headmaster Poly Prep Magazine Fall 1989 "Character is destiny." — Heraclitus "Character is power." — Booker T. Washington "You can not dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one." — James A. Froude "God grant that men of principle shall be our principal 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 people and all their work." — Orison Sweet Marden "Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness." — J. Howe "Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character" — Warren Bennis "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 lasting reputation 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 are to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece—by thought, choice, courage and determination." — John Luther "While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about taking on reclamation projects regardless of the talent they may possess. Have the courage to make character 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 characters—that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has." — Alphonse Karr "In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do." — Stephen Covey "The forbearing use of power does not only form a touchstone; but the manner in which an individual enjoys certain advantages over others is a test of a true gentleman. The power which the strong have over the weak, the magistrate over the employed, the educated over the unlettered, the experienced over the confiding, even the clever over the silly; the forbearing and inoffensive use of all this 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 and unnecessarily 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 self and mildness of character which imparts sufficient strength to let the past be put the past." — General Robert E. Lee "Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them." — Winston Churchill "To be thrown upon one’s own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible." — Benjamin Franklin Quotes on COMMITMENT "People do not follow uncommitted leaders. Commitment can be displayed in a full range of matters to include the work hours you choose to maintain, how you work to improve your abilities, or what you do for your fellow workers at personal sacrifice." — 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 your ability, there will be someone out there somewhere with equal ability who is. And one day you’ll play each other, and he’ll have the advantage." — "Easy" Ed Macauley as 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 after day." — Arthur Gordon "The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, 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 an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek." — Mario Andretti "You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve." — Napoleon Hill Quotes on COMPETENCE "The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its piped nor its theories will hold water." — John Gardner "Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives." — Willa A. Foster Quotes on VISION "The empires of the future are empires of the mind." — Winston Churchill "No one is less ready for tomorrow than the person who holds the most rigid beliefs about what tomorrow will contain." — Watts Wacker, Jim Taylor and Howard Means The Visionary’s Handbook: Ten Paradoxes That Will Shape the Future of Your Business (1999) “To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.” — Seneca “A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.” — Ralph Lauren “A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.” — David Gergen “A philosophy of life: I’m an adventurer, looking for treasure.” — Paulo Coelho, 21st century Brazilian writer The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream “All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.” — Benjamin Franklin “Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain.” — William Jennings Bryan “Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be. Your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.” — James Allen "Big thinking precedes great achievement." — Wilferd Peterson "Dissatisfaction and discouragement are not caused by the absence of things but the absence of vision." — Anonymous "The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious." — John Scully "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours." — Henry David Thoreau "Don’t underestimate the power of a vision. McDonald’s founder, Ray Kroc, pictured his empire long before it existed, and he saw how to get there. He invented the company motto — ‘Quality, service, cleanliness and value’ — and kept repeating it to employees for the rest of his life." — Kenneth Labich "If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise." — Robert Fritz "The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet." — Theodore Hesburgh "The companies that survive longest are the one’s that work out what they uniquely can give to the world—not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul." — Charles Handy "All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible." — T.E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom "Vision is the art of seeing the invisible." — Jonathan Swift “It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.” — Sören Kierkegaard “Create your future from your future, not your past.” — Werner Erhard “Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt “Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.” — Mevlana Rumi, 13th century sufi poet and mystic Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance “No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities – always see them, for they’re always there.” — Norman Vincent Peale “Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.” — Jon Madonna “Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills — against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and 32 year old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal. ‘Give me a place to stand,’ said Archimedes, ‘and I will move the world.’ These men moved the world, and so can we all.” — Robert F. Kennedy “To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership—not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.” — Ronald Reagan “I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.” — Mark Twain "You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction." — Alvin Toffler "The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious." — John Sculley Former CEO of Pepsi and Apple Computer "Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." — Warren Bennis "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise." — F. Scott Fitzgerald "Where you come from is not nearly as important as where you are going." — Unknown "You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieveing it you become someone worth becoming." — Jim Rohn "Where there is no vision the people perish." — Proverbs 29:18 "We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present." — Adlai E. Stevenson "Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done." — Harriet Beecher Stowe "Vision is the art of seeing the invisible." — Jonathan Swift "When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic." — Charles R. Swindoll "The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains." — Peter Drucker "To be a successful entrepreneur one needs a vision of greatness for one’s work. If we dream extravagantly we will be inspired to forge a reality beyond the straight jacket of practicalities. There is a profound connection between art and enterprise which allows businesses to overcome the limitations of their existing visions." — Sir Ernest Hall "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." — Michelangelo "If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes." — Andrew Carnegie "If you are bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things—you don’t have enough goals." — Lou Holtz "The future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious." — Ted Levitt "A man’s life is colored by the dye of his imagination." — Louis Nizer "Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then we shall find the way." — Abraham Lincoln "Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you can imagine it." — George Lucas "Peak performers want more than merely to win the next game. They see all the way to the championship. They have a long-range goal that inspires commitment and action." — Charles Garfield, Peak Performer "The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never scoring." — Bill Copeland "Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration and expectation." — Jack Nicklaus, My Story "Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed." — Mia Hamm "In the long run men hit only what they aim at." — Henry David Thoreau "So many of our dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable." — Christopher Reeve "In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles." — David Ben-Gurion "There is no more powerful engine driving an organization toward excellence and long-range success than an attractive, worthwhile, achievable vision for the future, widely shared." — Burt Nanus, Visionary Leadership "The only way to predict the future is to have the power to shape it." — Eric Hofer "In an organization of any significant size, the executives cannot create the future single-handedly. They must develop the enterprise in a constellation of teams within the overall team if they hope to bring the special talents and resources to bear on the challenge of creating superior customer value and sustaining a competitive advantage in the eyes of its customers." — Karl Albrecht, The Northbound Train "IIf you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes on SERVICE "The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price." — Eugene B. Habecker in The Other Side of Leadership "I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." — Albert Schweitzer "If you don’t understand that you work for your mislabeled ’subordinates,’ then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny." — Dee Hock Founder and CEO Emeritus VISA International "The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant." — Max DePree "Good leaders must first become good servants." — Robert Greenleaf "Let me pass, I have to follow them, I am their leader." — Alexandre Ledru-Rollin Quotes on RESPONSIBILITY "Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility . . . . In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility." — Michael Korda Editor-in-Cheif, Simon & Schuster "The price of greatness is responsibility." — Winston Churchill "The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it." — Lou Holtz "Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off." — General Colin Powell "You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself." — Jim Rohn "The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there’s only one other choice." — Doug Larson "In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they’re replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one’s actions.." — Don Henley Singer/Songwriter "Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses." — George Washington Carver "All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you." — Wayne Dyer Quotes on PASSION "The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire." — Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch "When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn." — John Wesley Evangelist (eighteenth century) "Anyone can dabble, but once you’ve made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it’s very hard for people to stop you." — Bill Cosby Comedian "One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested." — E. M. Forster "Chase your passion, not your pension." — Denis Waitley "The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind." — Li Ka Shing Chinese Businessman "There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it’s the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson." — Anthony Robbins "Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark." — Henri Frederic Amiel "Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion." — Thomas Browne "With out passion you dont have energy, with out energy you have nothing." — Donald Trump "If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins." — Benjamin Franklin "Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring." — Ralph Waldo Emerson "Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work." — Aldous Huxley "Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work." — David Sarnoff CEO of RCA "Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for." — Ray Bradbury On the key to success "You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing." — Dale Carnegie "I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got." — Walter Cronkite "Whatever you do, put romance and enthusiasm into the life of our children." — Margaret Ramsey MacDonald "Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?" — Friedrich Nietzsche "Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." — Ralph Waldo Emerson "I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message." — Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter "Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies." — Albert Camus
