Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

Reading thus introduces an "art" which is anything but passive.

That which you fix your heart to, believing with all your desire you will get, you will.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

Offer me that deathless death Good God, let me give you my life.

I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.

She used to tell me that she couldn't feel the sunlight anymore, not even when she was standing in it, not even when it was hot on her cheeks

You have to give respect to get respect.

Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time.