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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot
The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Mark Zuckerberg
To be a leader, you must make decisions. Even if you don't have all the information, you have to be willing to take risks.
Carly Fiorina
The greatest risk is the risk of not taking risks.
Mark Benioff
If you're not a little bit uncomfortable on a daily basis, you're not growing. The more you embrace discomfort, the more fearless your life will become.
Robin Sharma
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
Mary Anne Radmacher
Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge.
Simon Sinek
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren Bennis
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
Douglas MacArthur
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Jim Rohn
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell
It takes courage to stand up and speak. It takes even more courage to listen.
Winston Churchill
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
Leadership is not about being fearless, it's about being brave enough to take action in spite of your fears.
Unknown
Leadership is not about being the boss. It's about taking care of those who are in your charge.
Unknown
Leadership is not about being in control. It's about creating a vision that others want to follow.
Unknown
The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.
John C. Maxwell
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
Sheryl Sandberg
Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about serving those in your charge.
Simon Sinek
Leadership is not about being the boss. It's about taking care of those in your charge.
Simon Sinek
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
Elizabeth Edwards
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Maya Angelou
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Lou Holtz
Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.
Rick Pitino
True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
C.S. Lewis
The greatest leaders are not necessarily the ones who do the greatest things. They are the ones that inspire others to do great things.
Ronald Reagan
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
Douglas MacArthur
The greatest leaders are willing to admit their mistakes and learn from them. That takes humility, and it takes courage.
John C. Maxwell
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine
The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.
Ken Blanchard
The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.
Antos Parrish
Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.
Brian Tracy
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
C.S. Lewis
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey
Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.
Brian Tracy
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Spencer Johnson
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
Charles Simmons
Integrity is not something you show others. It is how you behave behind their back.
Unknown
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler
Empathy is the most important weapon in a leader's arsenal.
Patricia Fripp
Empathy is the key to great leadership.
Bill McDermott
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.
Empathy is the antidote to shame. If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in a Petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
Brené Brown
Empathy is the first step in creating a bond with others.
Daniel Goleman
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. It is the foundation of human connection.
Bryant McGill
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
Leadership is the capacity to give direction and guidance to those who need it, and to inspire those who need inspiration to achieve the vision.
Jack Welch
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
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship.
Peter Drucker
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.
Peter Drucker
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford
Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs
Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Mattie Stepanek
The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
James Cash Penney
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie
Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
The strength of a team is not in the individual abilities of its members, but in their ability to work together as a team.
Unknown
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