Leadership Quotes

  • "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily." -- Zig Ziglar
  • "The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." -- Ken Blanchard
  • "Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." -- John Quincy Adams
  • "The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." -- Robert Frost
  • "We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization." -- Petronius Arbiter (210 B.C.)
  • "It is not death that a man should fear, he should fear never beginning to live." -- Marcus Aurelius (121 - 80 B.C.)
  • When you change the way you look at things; the things you look at change. -- Author Unknown
  • All It Takes For Evil To Triumph Is For Good Men To Do Nothing ! -- Author Unknown
  • "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points how the strong man stumbled 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 and comes short again and again; who knows the 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 will never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • "To anyone with kids of any age, or anyone who has ever been a kid, here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out in speech at a high school about 11 things the students did not learn in school. He talks about how feel good politically correct teachings created a full generation of kids with no concept of reality, and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world. Here's what he said:

    Rule 1: Life is not fair, get used to it.

    Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

    Rule 3: You will NOT make $ 40,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a Vice-president with a car phone, until you earn both.

    Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

    Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping they called it opportunity.

    Rule 6: If you mess up, it is NOT!! Your parents' fault. So don't whine about your mistakes; learn from them.

    Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes, and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So, before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

    Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades, and they will give you as many times, as you want, to get the right answer. This does not bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

    Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. You have to do that on your own time.

    Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

    Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."

    -- Bill Gates