“Think about your death. Look to the end, because it makes you get on with things.” – Edith Hall

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”- Abraham Lincoln

“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” – Bill Bradley

“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.” – John Zenger

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” – Colin Powell

“Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.” – Orrin Woodward

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John C. Maxwell

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” – Rosalynn Carter

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” – Lao Tzu

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” – Brian Tracy

“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold Glasow

“As a leader, you work for the person just as much as the person works for you.” – Daymond John

“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.” – Joel Barker

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” – David Star Jordan

“The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry Kissinger

“To add value to others, one must first value others.” – John Maxwell

“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

“We’re always doing exactly what we want to do.” – Becky Deans

“The way you talk to yourself about yourself both reveals and creates who you think you are, which determines your life experience.” – Shaun Roundy

“Differences frighten us because they make us grow.” – Pope Francis

“Attachment has three phases: sweetness, disappointment, then pain. Complete yourself rather than relying on anything or anyone else to be whole.” – Shaun Roundy

“Love is about loving you for the difficult things, not the easy things.” – Paul Gilbert

“Our reality is negotiable and can be manipulated — on purpose or by accident…by the expectations of those around us.” – fs.blog

“Failure does not make you a loser, only giving up or never trying in the first place can do that. The courage to try again and again makes you an inspiration, a hero, and, eventually, a success story.” – Shaun Roundy, in Motivation 101: the Motivation Equation

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart” – Helen Keller

“Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence, making sure that impact lasts in your absence” – Sheryl Sandberg

“Civility doesn’t weaken a message. It helps others hear it” – Kate Nasser

“A person’s world is only as big as their heart” – Tanya A. Moore

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates

“The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.” – Deepak Chopra

“Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.” – Viktor Frankl

“The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may.” – John F. Kennedy

“You can give without loving, but you can’t love without giving.” – John Wooden

“The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. There are many men who feel a kind of twister pride in cynicism; there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attempt. There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.” – Maya Angelou