“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today”
– President Abraham Lincoln
βIn all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.β
– President Gerald Ford
βNo man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.β
– Andrew Carnegie
βThe task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.β
– Henry Kissinger
βA genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.β
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
βI think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.β
– Neil Armstrong
βI know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.β
– Queen Elizabeth II
βA Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.β
– Lord Robert Baden Powell
“Success in going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm”
– President Abraham Lincoln
“I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as a nation, and it’s a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and the dirt is not the enemy”
– Mike Rowe
“The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves”
– Steven Spielberg
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
– Frederick Douglass
“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.”
– Oprah Winfrey