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“Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate toward some goal which they come to find desirable.” – Ordway Tead

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” – Rumi

“Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared … It means you go on even though you’re scared.” – Angie Thomas

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali

“Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.” – Max Depree

“Set peace of mind as your highest goal and organize your entire life around it.” – Brian Tracy

“Character is much easier kept than recovered.” – Thomas Paine

“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” – Theodore Hesburgh

“The reward of suffering is experience.” – Aeschylus

“Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.” – Pat Riley

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” – Albert Einstein

“Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity and kindness.” – Confucius

“We do not remember days; we remember moments.” – Cesare Pavese

“The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.” – Mack R. Douglas

“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” – Frank Outlaw

“You may not control all of the events that happen to you but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar

“Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.” – Warren Bennis

“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.” – Charles de Lint