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No Great Man Ever Complains of Want of Opportunities
No Great Man Ever Complains of Want of Opportunities
Good decisions come from experience and experience comes from bad decisions.
Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his
share of the credit.
A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
-Goethe
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from
anger.
-Muhammad
Big people monopolize the listening, small people monopolize the talking.
Become that kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.
-Brian Tracy
Never listen and you’re stubborn. Always listen and you’re weak
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising
children isn’t.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
-Benjamin Disraeli
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to
govern their fellow men.
At the end of the game, pawns and kings go back into the same box.
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, b/c once you are truly
educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior
to your previous self.
The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might
weaken and the wisest might err.
-Gandhi
A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start one, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
-Pascal
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.
You can only become a true and successful leader once you have really lost a couple of times
The greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves, but then their very mistakes are so many lessons of
instruction.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude form achieving his goal; nothing on earth can
help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
-Thomas Jefferson
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
-Goethe
The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and share
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
-Andrew Carnegie
Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only
gave them life, those the art of living well.
-Aristotle.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did
not exist.’
-Maria Montessori
It marks a big step in a man’s development when he comes to realize that others can be called in to help
him do a better job than he can do alone
-Andrew Carnegie.
Leaders get into everyone’s skin, exuding positive energy and optimism.
As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people