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Learning quotes
Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannons. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.
/ W.M. Paxton

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
/ Carl Schurz

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
/ George H. Lorimer

In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
/ Thomas Jefferson

Never waiver from your deeply rooted values.
/ "Secrets of Effective Leadership"

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
/ Friedrich Nietzsche

Strong convictions precede great actions.
/ Author Unknown

The time is always right to do what is right.
/ Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
/ Thomas Huxley

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
/ Ernest Bramah

Have regard for your name since it will remain with you forever.
/ "Secrets of Effective Leadership"

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
/ Albert Schweitzer

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. You must live for others if you wish to live for yourself.
/ Seneca

Compassion is the basis of all morality.
/ Arthur Schopenhauer

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.
/ Helen Keller

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
/ George B. Goethals

I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
/ John Ruskin

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important...they do not mean to do harm...they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
/ T.S. Eliot

Conceit is the quicksand of success.
/ Arnold Glasow

The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes.
/ Henry A. Courtney

The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
/ Confucius

Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
/ John Ruskin

If I had only one sermon to preach, it would be a sermon against pride.
/ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
/ Gen. Peyton C. March

There are no mistakes so great as that of being always right.
/ Samuel Butler

Truth is the strongest and most powerful weapon a man can use, whether he is fighting for a reform or fighting for a sale.
/ Arthur Dunn

Set the course of your life by the three stars - sincerity, courage and unselfishness. From these flow a host of other virtues...He who follows them will obtain the highest type of success, that which lies in the esteem of others.
/ Dr. Monroe E. Deutsch

There is one element that is worth its weight in gold and that is loyalty. It will cover a multitude of weaknesses.
/ Phillip Armour

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
/ Bruyers

Genius is eternal patience.
/ Michaelangelo

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them. Every day begin the task anew.
/ Saint Francis de Sales

Have patience, all things are difficult before they become easy.
/ Saadi

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
/ Abraham Lincoln

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers. These are the guys who do more than expected - they always reach.
/ Lee Iacocca

It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
/ Montesquieu

Too many executives tend to follow the road proved safe rather than the dynamic approach of self-reliance, individualism and initiative.
/ Louis E. Wolfson

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
/ Lord Nelson

What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are: and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
/ H.P. Liddon

The four-way test of the things we think, say or do: ...Is it the truth? ...Is it fair to all concerned? ...Will it build good will and better relationships? ...Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
/ Rotary International Motto

Even the hint of prejudice of any type has no place in a well run organization.
/ Fred A. Manske, Jr.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
/ Max DePree

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
/ Bear Bryant

If you stop learning today, you stop leading tomorrow.
/ Howard Hendricks

The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.
/ Fred A. Manske, Jr.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
/ Ben Sweetland

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.
/ Walter Lippmann

The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve. Leadership requires hard work over the long haul, and it doesn't come easy.
/ David Neidert

Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself-your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers.
/ Dee Hock

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
/ Stephen R. Covey

The great leaders are like the best conductors-they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
/ Blaine Lee

Of those to whom much is given, much is required.
/ John F. Kennedy

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
/ Warren Bennis

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
/ Dr. Robert Jarvik

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
/ John F. Kennedy

An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leaders premier trait.
/ Tom Peters

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
/ Harold Geneen

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
/ Sam Rayburn

"Contrary to the opinion of many people, leaders are not born. Leaders are made by effort and hard work.
/ Vince Lombardi

"The re-engineering leader is one part visionary, one part communicator and one part leg breaker."
/ Michael Hammer

"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence by seeing how you react. It you're in control, they're in control.
/ Tom Landry

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. . . But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did this ourselves.
/ Lao-Tzu (6th Century BC)

Nothing is quite as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.
/ Anon

Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want because he wants to do it.
/ Dwight D. Eisenhower