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"Make me sweet again, Fragrant and fresh and wild, And thankful for any small event."
Rumi
"The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself."
Alan Alda
"The difficulty lies, not in new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of have been, into the corners of our minds."
John Maynard Keynes
"To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives."
Denis Waitley
"Be open to constructive criticism from others; it's the only way you can grow and learn."
Brian Tracy
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
Lao-Tzu
"Touch passion when it comes your way. It's rare enough as it is. Don't walk away when it calls you by name."
J. Michael Straczynski
"Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted."
Hans Margolius
"We've all heard the expression, 'An apple a day keeps the doctor away.' Well, I've got a good question for you: What if it's true? Wouldn't that be easy to do - to eat an apple a day? Here's the problem: It's also easy not to do."
Jim Rohn
"By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own."
Mark Victor Hansen
"Life at any time can become difficult: Life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life."
Morarji Desai
"Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential."
John Amatt
"I will tell you a secret, what is really important... true love is really the same as awareness. They are identical."
Jack Kornfield
"Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love."
Lao Tzu
"Nothing would remain stable in human society if we determined to believe only that what can be held with absolute certainty."
St Augustine
"Most people are so busy going through the motions of the day that they don't pay attention to what their heart and soul are saying to them. That's really the magic formula for knowing what your passions are."
Marci Shimoff
"Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes."
Charles Prestwich Scott
"It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in so doing, you bring everything to the realm of possibility."
Albert Einstein
"At any given time you are emitting to the world a vibration that is being received by the Universe. It is your free agency to think any thought and feel any feeling that you choose. This agency is the most powerful tool that you have to change your life right now."
Carol Tuttle
Quotes on leadership are insightful and instructive. Are you ready for your lesson in leadership?
1. It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Elbert Hubbard
2. To lead people, walk beside them... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate. When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves'.
Lao Tzu
3. A good leader inspires people to have confidence in their leader. A great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
Anonymous
4. If your actions inspire others to do more, to learn more, to dream more or to become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
5. Leaders know one thing... if they have no one following... it's gonna be a long walk.
Doug Firebaugh
6. Leadership comes from the top down as it has traditionally, but in today's world it also has to come from the bottom up.
Patricia Fripp
7. A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.
Source Unknown
8. A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
9. Leadership is not a right - it's a responsibility.
John Maxwell
10. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
11. The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. The glue that holds all relationships together --- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based in integrity.
Anthony Robbins
13. The unique ability to take decisive action while maintainign focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Robert T Kiyosaki
14. To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Anthony Pagano
Personal Leadership Development Quotes
These few quotes on leadership development in a personal vein are particularly appealing to me. Add your favorite leadership quotes below.
15. Leadership is not a right of passage, or at least it shouldn't be. Leadership is a state of mind. A philosophy. An attitude. Understanding this, you an recognize and develop the key traits that will enhance and improve your personal capacity for leadership.
Andrew Wood
16. Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
J. Philip Everson
17. The taller one walks, the bigger a target they become.
Rick Beneteau
18. Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.
Brian Tracy
19. Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.
Brian Tracy
20. Leadership can be found in the most unusual and unexpected places... like in your daily routine when you live your life... amazing.
Doug Firebaugh
Quotes About Leadership at Work
Leadership quotes for the work environment are plentiful. Here is just a small selection... please add your favorite quotes on leadership below.
21. It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence.
Andrew Harvey
22. It doesn't take much talent to issue orders. It does take continued discipline to study the variety of people you are leading in order to understand what it takes to motivate them - and to inspire them to do their very best to make the company and themselves a success.
Fred Bucy
23. The heart of a leader is the heartbeat of a group... is your group on success life support?
Doug Firebaugh
24. The more excited and committed you are to your work, the more excited and committed will be the people around you. The leader always sets the tone for the department or organization.
Brian Tracy
25. Honesty in the workplace can't be regulated. It has to be encouraged by leaders who themselves are honest and willing to admit their failures.
Carol Hymowitz
26. Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.
Jim Rohn
Quotes on Leadership - 26 Inspiring Quotes about Leadership (http://www.inspired-personal-development.com/quotes-on-leadership.html)
"Every evening, write down the six most important things that you must do the next day. Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplish them."
Tom Hopkins
"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of Love; and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light."
Jennie Jerome Churchill
"When you see what you're here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It's almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you."
Betty Sue Flowers
"I may have more money than you, but money doesn't make the difference. If there is any difference between you and me it may simply be that I get up every day and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day. If you learn anything from me, this is the best advice I can give you."
Warren Buffet
"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat."
Napoleon Hill
"Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains."
Thomas Paine
"When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them."
Sir William Osler
"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1. Welcome change in your life.
2. Question what you read, hear and experience in order to wring the most from it.
3. Honestly look at your life.
4. Respect why you do things.
5. Having fun yet?
"Identify and develop your unique talents and abilities, the things that make you special."
Brian Tracy
"To dream anything that you want to dream. That is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed."
Bernard Edmonds
"We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."
Omar N. Bradley
"It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits to our abilities do not exist."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
Albert Einstein
"Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"In a time of drastic change, it is the unlearners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."
Eric Hoffer
"Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework."
Jim Rohn
"History repeats itself over and over again unless we reinvent it imaginatively and sculpt it with bigger, better, and grander ideas."
Mark Victor Hansen
"You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts."
Napoleon Hill
"You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. 't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones."
Marsha Sinetar
"Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy."
Izaak Walton
"I believe that you are great. There is something magnificent about you regardless of what has happened to you in your life. Regardless of how old or young you think you might be, the moment you begin to think properly that there is something that is within you, there's power within you that's greater than the world, it will begin to emerge. It will take over your life. It will feed you. It will clothe you. It will guide you. Protect you. Direct you. Sustain your very existence... If you let it. Now this is what I know for sure."
Michael Bernard
"Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things."
Stephen Covey
"95 of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself."
Brian Tracy
"Take the time to come home to yourself every day."
Robin Casarjean
"Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations win and preserve the heart."
Humphrey Davy
"To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe. I call it stillness, but it is a jewel with many facets: that stillness is also joy, and it is love."
Eckhart Tolle
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly."
Thomas H. Huxley
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes."
Benjamin Disraeli
Life foods for thoughts....
"It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."
George Sand
"It requires some effort to achieve a happy outlook on life, and most people don't make it. Most people take the path of least resistance. Far too many people today don't take the steps to make their life a more fulfilling one."
Author and researcher Greg Easterbrook
"The whole Universe is to us the writing of the Infinite in the language of the Finite."
Swami Vivekananda
"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us."
John N. Mitchell
"... by expressing, in the world of forms, truth, love, purity, and beauty - this is the sole game that has intrinsic and absolute worth. All other happenings, incidents, and attainments in themselves can have no lasting importance."
Meher Baba
"It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require."
Jim Rohn