Leadership Quotes
Leadership is action, not position.
-Donald H. McGannon
You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.
-Gene Mauch
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
-Elaine Agather
You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
-Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
-Albert Schweitzer
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
-Robert Jarvik
A leader is a dealer in hope.
-Napoleon Bonaparte, attributed
Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.
-Tom Peters
Stress Quotes
“The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles … are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.”
William Matthews
“It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.”
Hans Selye
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
Mother Teresa
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
“Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.”
Andrew Denton
“Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don’t take yourself so seriously.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.”
Douglas Pagels
“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’
I am always tempted to ask, ‘compared to what’?”
Sydney Harris
Honor
Better to die ten thousand deaths, than wound my honour.
-Joseph Addison
Honor lies in honest toil.
-Steven Grover Cleveland
Titles of honour add not to his worth, who is himself an honour of his titles.
-John Ford
Power
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
-Lord Macaulay
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
- David Brin
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
-Seneca
Strength
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more ‘manhood’ to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.
-Alex Karras
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-Lao Tzu