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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Henry Ford
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
Al Franken
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
Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge.
Simon Sinek
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
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
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
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.
Aisha Tyler
It's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.
Zig Ziglar
The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews
Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy T. Bennett
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
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
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
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
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.
J.K. Rowling
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
I have not failed. I've just learned 10,000 ways that won't work.
Benjamin Franklin
I have not failed. I've just found ways that won't work.
Maya Angelou
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
Ken Robinson
It's not about how hard you can hit; it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
Rocky Balboa
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
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Mahatma Gandhi
Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.
Max McKeown
The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Kakuzo Okakura
Adaptability is being able to adjust to any situation at any given time.
John Wooden
Adaptability is the key to survival in any situation.
Jessica Brody
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
Adaptability is not an act of compromise, rather a tool of survival.
Unknown
Adaptability is not a matter of changing oneself to fit the environment, but rather of changing the environment to suit oneself.
Unknown
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Arnold H. Glasow
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
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
Vince Lombardi
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Peter Drucker
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
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 the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
Phil Jackson
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs
The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
James Cash Penney
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford
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
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Vince Lombardi
Failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
Arianna Huffington
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen
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
Leadership is not just about giving energy... it's about unleashing other people's energy.
Paul Polman
Empathy is the key to great leadership.
Bill McDermott
The best leaders have a high degree of emotional intelligence. It's not just about their own ego and their own needs.
Anne Mulcahy
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.
Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.
Cory Booker
The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.
John C. Maxwell
Leadership is not about being the best. It's about making everyone else better.
Unknown
The greatest leaders are those who empower others.
Unknown
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell
Leadership is not about being in control. It's about creating a culture of accountability and empowering others.
Unknown
Leadership is not about being perfect. It's about admitting your mistakes, learning from them, and moving forward.
John Wooden
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