"Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs."

(Confucius)

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."

(Saint Exupery)

"Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it."

(Philip Crosby)
(1926 2001, American business philosopher and writer on quality)

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

(Abraham Lincoln)

"What you cannot enforce, do not command."

(Sophocles)

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

(Oscar Wilde)

"Professionalism means consistency of quality."

(Frank Tyger)

(Brooklyn-born Trenton (NJ) Times editorial cartoonist, humorist, columnist and Promotion Manager, earning him the nickname of "Mr. Times" amongst his colleagues and the Trenton community.)

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."

(Saint Exupery)

"It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy."

(Seneca)

"He who has learned how to obey will know how to command."

(Solon)

"The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed."

(Publius Syrus)

"Charm is a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question."

Albert Camus
(1913-1960)

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."

(Rita Mae Brown)
(Born November 28, 1944, American writer, best known for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle)

"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent."

(Napoleon Bonaparte)

"I light my candle from their torches."

(Robert Burton)

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

(George Patton)

"Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had."

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully."

(Thomas Fuller)
(1608 – 16 August 1661, English churchman and historian)

"Where there is no vision, the people perish."

(Proverbs 29:18)

"The measure of a man is what he does with power."

(Greek Proverb)

"Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior."

(John Churton Collins)
(1848 – 1908, English literary critic)

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

(General Douglas MacAuthur)

"God has not called me to be successful. He has called me to be faithful."

(Mother Theresa)

"A bold onset is half the battle."

(Giuseppe Garibaldi)
(Italian freedom fighter: 1807 - 1882)

"A bold onset is half the battle."

(Giuseppe Garibaldi)

"An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions."

(Napoleon Bonaparte)

"Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm."

(Publilius Syrus)
(Latin writer, 1st century BC)

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

(Martin Luther King, Jr) (from Christian Leadership World)

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."

(Earl Wilson)

"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."

(Al Bernstein)

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."

(Mark Twain)

"Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts."

(Unknown)

"It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final."

(Roger Babson)

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

(Woody Allen)

"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."

(General George S. Patton)

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

(Sir Winston Churchill)

"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."

(Warren Buffett)

"A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

(Bob Dylan)

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."

(Dale Carnegie)

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

(Harold R McAlindon)

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

(Theodore Roosevelt)

"Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too."

(Robert Half)

"Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after."

(Lord Byron)

(from a napkin at Journees de la Presse, hotel Méridien Montparnasse, Paris, France)

"Managers are born on the job. Leaders are born when they are seven."

(Gert Van Mol)

"He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander."

(Aristotle)

"The history of the world is but the biography of great men."

(Thomas Carlyle)

"A leader is a deal in hope."

(Napoleon Bonaparte)

"The real leader has no need to lead-- he is content to point the way."

(Henry Miller)

"Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

(Dwight D. Eisenhower)

"The whole thing here is the organization. Whatever we accomplish belongs to our entire group, a tribute to our combined effort."

(Walt Disney)