It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.
-Leroy Eimes.

Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.
-Jesse Jackson.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say “I.” And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say “I.” They don’t think “I.” They think “we”; they think “team.” They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but “we” gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.
-Anna Pavlova:

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-Roger Babson

 Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
-William J. H. Boetcker

I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
-General George S. Patton

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
-Bill Cosby

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
-Bob Dylan

Try not to be a man of success, but rather to be a man of value.
- Albert Einstein

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
-Frank Lloyd Wright

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
-Warren Buffett

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
-Albert Schweitzer

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
-David Brinkley

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
-Henry Ward Beecher

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right. also attributed to Mary Kay Ash
-Henry Ford

My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general; if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

-Pablo Picasso

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
- John C. Maxwell

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal.  Courage is what counts.
-Sir Winston Churchill

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-Thomas A. Edison

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
 
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
- Albert EinsteinAnyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it. 
- Dr. Phil

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
- Dr. Denis Waitley

You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
- Tim Blixseth

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
- Stephen R. Covey

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
- Voltaire

Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
- Isaac B. Singer

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
- Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
- Anonymous

Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant, Author and Advice Columnist

Vision doesn’t usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
- Dr. Michael Norwood

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

Cause Change & Lead
Accept Change & Survive
Resist Change & Die

- Ray Norda, Chairman, Novell

Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.
- Matthew Keith Groves

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”
- Sydney Harris

“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”
- Richard L. Evans

 

So, what are yours?

Life is a learning process from day one to death bed. Life is a continuous process of errors and correction, no percentage game can amend it. There is only one golden rule – learn, analyze and decide to act. The lattest part is most important, if you can learn and analyze but your weak in deision, your very close to be called an unfortunate person.

1.Winning isn’t everything. But wanting to win is.
2.You would achieve more, if you don’t mind who gets the credit.
3.When everything else is lost, the future still remains.
4. Don’t fight too much. Or the enemy would know your art of war.
5. The only job you start at the top is when you dig a grave.
6. If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for everything.
7. If you do little things well, you’ll do big ones better.
8. Only thing that comes to you without effort is old age.
9. You won’t get a second chance to make the first impression.
10. Only those who do nothing do not make mistakes.
11. Never take a problem to your boss unless you have a solution.
12. If you are not failing you’re not taking enough risks.
13. Don’t try to get rid of bad temper by losing it.
14. If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for  you.
15. Those who don’t make mistakes usually don’t make anything
16. There are two kinds of failures. Those who think and never do, and those who do and never think.
17. Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
18. All progress has resulted from unpopular decisions.
19. Change your thoughts and you change your world.
20. Understanding proves intelligence, not the speed of the learning.
21. There are two kinds of fools in this world. Those who give advice and those who don’t take it.
22. The best way to kill an idea is to take it to a meeting
23. Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things.
24. Friendship founded on business is always better than business founded on friendship.

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“If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall in the ditch.”         

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“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”