Progress - Quotes

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. - George Bernard Shaw

A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself; indeed, he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself. - George Bernard Shaw

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. - Martin Luther King Jr.

All progress occurs because people dare to be different. - Harry Millner

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. - Herbert Hoover

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who had read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made. - Oscar Wilde

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving, but does not make any progress. - Alfred Montapert

Do not feel like you have lost when plans and dreams fall short of your hopes. Anytime you learn something new about yourself or about life, you have progressed. - Unknown

Great steps in human progress are made by things that don’t work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don’t, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress. - Charles Kettering 

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another. - Romain Rolland

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. - Winston Churchill

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. - Thomas Huxley

Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events. - Edgar Watson Howe

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. - Mahatma Gandhi

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Human progress is not an uninterrupted march forward. It is a slow and devious movement with haltings and twistings. The pathway of man ascends and descends, wanders off into mazes. At times the trail seems to lose itself in the wilderness of human passion and folly. But inch by inch it goes forward with halting steps. - Joseph Alexander Leighton

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction. - John Steinbeck 

If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. - Eugene Victor Debs

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without ploughing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. - Frederick Douglass

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress. - Barack Obama

It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking. - Fred Adler

Man’s ‘progress’ is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Man’s restlessness in every sense, physical, mental, and spiritual, has been and still is the largest contributing factor to progress and the development of civilization. - Dr. H Spencer Lewis

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skilful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. - Harry S Truman

Most people are in favor of progress, it’s the changes they don’t like. - Unknown

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. - Plato

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. - Josiah Gilbert Holland

One who accepts the general ideas of his time gets along smoothest, but he does the least for progress. - Lewis F. Korns

Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction. - Theodore Roosevelt

Progress always involves risk; you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first base. - Frederick Wilcox

Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. - Robert A. Heinlein

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. - Samuel Smiles

Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they knew to be right cannot be done. - Russell W. Davenport

Progress in life, business, or any project comes through taking initiative and continuing to press on with new strategies, concepts, and plans. The original momentum is not enough to keep you moving forward. Your progress will grind to a halt unless you refill your engine of inspiration with the fuel of fresh ideas. - Unknown

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority. - Oscar Wilde

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies. - Robert Kennedy

Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes; yet they are usually left unchronicled. - William Ramsay

Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy. - Peter F. Drucker

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity. - Arnold Glasgow

Progress of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. - Samuel Smiles

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana  

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. - George Santayana

Progress, that great heresy of degenerates. - Charles Baudelaire

Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. - Dale Turner

Remember that progress is not linear either. Sometimes you make great progress for a while and then you slide back a little. That's OK. Don't give up. - Lee Larbrada

Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders. - George Bernard Shaw

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. - Thomas Edison

Restlessness is discontent – and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man – and I will show you a failure. - Thomas Edison

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened. - Madame de Stael

Slow progress is better than no progress. - Unknown

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. - Henry George

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress. - Lisa Randall

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. - Albert Einstein

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. - Don Marquis

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. - Frank Herbert

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul. - Emma Goldman

The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. - Harold Wilson

The power to question is the basis of all human progress. - Indira Gandhi

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. - President Franklin D. Roosevelt

The world progresses only through misunderstanding. - Charles Baudelaire

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. - Alfred North Whitehead

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. - Elbert Hubbard

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. - Ronald Reagan

There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time. - Frances E. Willard

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress. - Henry Ward Beecher

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice. - Saint Francis De Sales

We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. - C. S Lewis

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress. - Richard Feynman

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. - Frank Zappa

You don’t make progress by standing on the side-lines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. - Shirley Chisholm

You will notice that a turtle only makes progress when it sticks out its neck. - Unknown

Mistakes - Quotes

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing’ - George Bernard Shaw

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. - John C. Maxwell

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. - James Joyce

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake. - Confucius

A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something. - Unknown

A mistake should be your teacher, not your attacker. A mistake is a lesson, not a loss. It is a temporary, necessary detour, not a dead end. - Unknown

A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of pain. However, if you’re a person who knows it all, then you’ve got a lot of heavy-hearted experiences coming your way. - Ron Carpenter Jr.

An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it. - Marilyn vos Savant

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. - Unknown

Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough. - Wess Roberts

As long as we are human, we are bound to make mistakes. What distinguishes a forward-looking person from an intransigent one, a virtuous person from a dishonest one, however, is whether one can candidly admit to one’s mistakes and take bold steps to redress them. - Daisaku Ikeda

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can’t accept your imperfections, that’s their fault. - Dr. David M. Burns

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset. - Paul J. Meyer

Contrary to popular belief, it is alright to make the same mistake more than once. Is not this how we learn to ride a bicycle or learn to spell a word in kindergarten? - Unknown

Don’t carry your mistakes around with you. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as stepping stones to rise above them. - Unknown

Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice. - Theodore Roosevelt

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. - Henry Ford

Every mistake becomes a helpful friend, when we appreciate it as a gift for us to experience life, learn and grow. It is not here to harm you, but to help you. - Unknown

Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there’s no such thing as an honest cover-up. - Price Pritchett

Everybody makes mistakes, but remember to be sure to point out your own before you point out someone else’s. - Unknown

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes. - Ajahn Brahm

Everyone makes mistakes in life, but that doesn’t mean they have to pay for them the rest of their life. Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn’t mean they are bad. It means they are human! - Unknown

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them. - Joe Abercrombie

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one. - James Gordon Bennett

I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown. - Hugh Prather

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake. - Luis Miguel

If someone feels that they have never made a mistake in their Life, then it means they had never tried a new thing in their Life. - Albert Einstein

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake. - F. Wikzek

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. - Bill Clinton

In order for you to profit from your mistakes, you have to get out and make some. - Unknown

It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self-righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable. - Dale Turner

It is necessary for us to learn from others’ mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself. - Hyman Rickover

It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better. - Jane Cahill Pfeiffer

It is not only our errors which ruin us, but our ways of conducting ourselves after committing them. - Yvette Gilbert 

It is one of life’s paradoxes that if you allow people to make mistakes, they will increase their creativity and inventiveness – and strangely, will make less mistakes than it takes if you had told them otherwise. - Unknown

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character. - Dale Turner

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually. - Abraham Maslow

It’s always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile. - Garry Marshall

It’s not the mistake that matters; it’s how you deal with it, what you learn from it, and how you apply that lesson to your life. - Unknown

Learn from the mistakes of others – you can never live long enough to make them all yourself. - John Luther

Let us be glad of the dignity of our privilege to make mistakes, glad of the wisdom that enables us to recognize them, glad of the power that permits us to turn their light as a glowing illumination along the pathway of our future. Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom. Without them there would be no individual growth, no progress, no conquest. - William Jordan

Making a mistake, admitting it without blaming your mistake on someone else, or justifying, or making excuses, is how we learn. Making a mistake and not admitting it, or blaming someone else for your mistakes, is a sin.

Making mistakes is not a problem, not catching those mistakes is where the trouble starts. - Ed Berger

Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. - Weston H. Agor

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your 'mistakes' for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. - AI Franken

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. - Salvador Dali

Mistakes are always part of learning. The real dignity of life consists in cultivating a fine attitude towards our own mistakes and those of others. It is the fine tolerance of a fine soul. Man becomes great, not through never making mistakes, but by profiting by those he does make; by being satisfied with a single rendition of a mistake, not encoring it into a continuous performance; by getting from it the honey of new, regenerating inspiration with no irritating sting of morbid regret; by building better today because of his poor yesterday; and by rising with renewed strength, finer purpose and freshened courage every time he falls. - William Jordan

Mistakes are doorways to discovery. - Unknown

Mistakes are lessons of wisdom, they are portals of discovery. - Unknown

Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Hugh White

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder. - Paul J. Meyer

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. - Denis Waitley

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. - Sophia Loren 

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. - Phyllis Theroux

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. - Carl Jung

Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow. - Henry Haskins

Mistakes may lead to greatness if we learn from them. - Unknown

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on? - Peter Mcwilliams

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. - William Gladstone

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes. - William Ewart Gladstone

No one is more likely to make a mistake than the man who acts only on reflection. - Unknown

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. - Edmund Burke

One good thing about mistakes is that they help you be more patient with others. How can you criticize others for their faults when you know you have got plenty of your own? - Unknown

One mistake won’t kill you. The same mistake over and over again will. - Unknown

One way to avoid mistakes is to gain experience, and the easiest way to gain experience is to make some mistakes. - Unknown

Our mistakes reveal who we really are, what we’re really made of. - Donn Moomaw

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. - Dale Turner

Since nobody's perfect, mistakes should be allowed. Cover-ups shouldn't. Cover-ups create twice the trouble. - Price Pritchett

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others. - Brandon Mull

So never be embarrassed by mistakes, rather, be thankful for them, because they always present an opportunity for personal growth. - Donald L. Hicks

The man who achieves makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all – doing nothing. - Benjamin Franklin

The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go. - Richard Bach

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. - Elbert Hubbard

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. - Edward John Phelps

The novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive. - Abraham Maslow

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. - John Powell

The only way not to make mistakes is to do nothing and that, in our position today, would be the ultimate mistake. - Unknown

The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself ‘makes things go’ and creates confidence. - Unknown

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. - Dale Carnegie

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded. - Dale Turner

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. - Richard Bach

Those who can avoid mistakes by observing the mistakes of others are most apt to keep free from sorrow. In a world full of uncertainties, the record of what has gone before – human experience – is as sure and reliable as anything of which we know. - Ray Lyman Wilbur 

We need to realize that our path to transformation is through our mistakes. We're meant to make mistakes, recognize them, and move on to become unlimited. - Yehuda Berg

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. - L.M. Montgomery

We’ll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes. - Mickey Rivers

When you make a 'mistake', don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. 'Mistakes' are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Hugh White

When you make a mistake, laugh! That way, no one is laughing at you, they are laughing with you. - Unknown  
When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about  it; admit it; learn from it, and do not repeat it. - Paul Bryant

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. - Henry C. Link

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. - Johnny Cash

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. - Denis Waitley

Quote Worthy

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. - Arthur Helps

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. - Arthur Helps

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. - Thomas Browne

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. - Marston Bates

Learn to pause or nothing worthwhile can catch up with you. - Dorothy Ballard

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. - Roger Babson 

There are some things that are so serious that you have to laugh at them. - Niels Bohr

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself. - Marion Zimmer Bradley

Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow. - Les Brown

Leadership - Quotes

Effective leadership is not about controlling from the top; it is about unleashing the power of people. - Gordon R. Sullivan & Michael V. Harper

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. - Peter Drucker

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. - Deepak Chopra

Example is leadership. - Albert Schweitzer

First rule of leadership: everything is your fault. - Unknown 

Good leadership is largely invisible. When everything runs smoothly, no one notices. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

Good leadership is not obtained by issuing orders but by conviction and delegation – genuine leaders recognize and achieve agreement to an exciting and challenging vision. - Gerhard Zapke-Schauer

If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine. - Ken Blanchard

If leadership is the act of going beyond what is ... it begins by going beyond what is within ourselves. - Kevin Cashman

If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm. - Kevin Cashman

Leadership and learning are indispensable to one another. - John F Kennedy

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. - Woodrow Wilson

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table. - Hubert H. Humphrey

Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. - Grace Murray Hopper

Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation. - Tom Peters

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts your absence. - Unknown

Leadership is action, not position. - Donald H. McGannon

Leadership is defined not by the position you hold but by the people who follow you. - Charlene Li

Leadership is defined not by the scale of the opportunity but by the quality of the response. - Chris Lowney

Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream. -John C. Maxwell

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve. - Tom Landry 

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. - Peter F. Drucker

Leadership is most effective when those acting in that capacity realize that their effect on others must be indirect. This indirectness means influencing others by changing yourself. - Greg Robinson

Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are. If you view leadership as a bag of manipulative tricks or charismatic behaviours to advance your own personal interests, then people have every right to be cynical. But if your leadership flows first and foremost from inner character and integrity of ambition, then you can justly ask people to lend themselves to your organization and its mission. - Jim Collins

Leadership is not a job, not a role one plays at work and then puts aside during the commute home in order to relax and enjoy real life. Rather, leadership is the leader's real life. - Chris Lowney

Leadership is not about titles, position, or flow charts. it is about one life influencing another. - John Maxwell

Leadership is not about your ambition. It is about bringing out the ambitions of your team. - Cheryl A. Bachelder

Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all the needed talents to go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader. - Vince Lombardi

Leadership is not just the province of people at the top. Leadership can occur at all levels and by any individual. In fact, we see that it is important for leaders to develop leadership in those below them. - Bernard M. Bass & Ronald E. Riggio

Leadership is not magnetic personality - that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people" - that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. - Peter F. Drucker

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. - Karl Popper

Leadership is not something you do to people, but something you do with people. - Ken Blanchard

Leadership is not the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It is a process ordinary people use when they are bringing forth the best from themselves and others. When the leader in everyone is liberated extraordinary things happen. - James M. Kouzes & Barry Posner

Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations. - John C. Maxwell

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses. - John C. Maxwell

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. - Colin Powell

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

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. - Warren G. Bennis

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. - Jim Rohn

Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place. - Sheryl Sandberg

Leadership is the outward expression of our inner character. - Dick Abel

Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many. - John C. Maxwell

Leadership is the readiness to stand out in a crowd. - John C. Maxwell

Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen. - Alan Keith

Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure. - Arleigh Burke

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter F. Drucker

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skilful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. - Harry Truman

My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. - General Montgomery

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. - Peter Drucker

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold Glasgow

Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who ... have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well. - J. K. Rowling

Real leadership is not seeking the applause from followers; real leadership is applauding the followers who become leaders. - Onyi Anyado

That's what leadership is all about, identifying quality people, giving them the opportunity and experience to create and develop to continue to make the company successful. The best leaders identify and mentor potential leaders. A leader's most important legacy is the leaders he or she develops. - Kenneth E. Strong & John A. Dicicco

The challenge of leadership is to be strong but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humour, but without folly. - Jime Rohn

The first act of leadership is coming to grips with yourself, who you are, where you are, and what is of value to you, and shaping yourself by acts of conscious will into what you want to become. - Fenwick W. English

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. - Ralph Nader

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. - Harvey S. Firestone

The only real training for leadership is leadership. - Unknown

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow. - Seth Godin

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already. - John Buchan

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. - Theodore Hesburgh

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from influence, and that can't be mandated. It must be earned. The only thing a title can buy is a little time – either to increase your level of influence with others or to erase it. - John C. Maxwell

True leadership strengthens the followers. It is a process of teaching, setting an example, and empowering others. If you seek to lead, your ability will ultimately be measured in the successes of those around you. - David Niven

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance. -  Eric Shinseki

You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership. - Dwight Eisenhower 

Sympathy - Quotes

If your heart is filled with human sympathy you are sure to have friends. - Lewis F. Korns

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help. - Criss Jami

One advantage gained by calamities, is to know how to sympathize with others in the like troubles. - Wellins Calcott

Though sympathy can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable. - Bram Stoker

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. - Ivan Turgenev

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. - Samuel Johnson

You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change. - Sue Grafton

Food For Thought

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him. - Leo Tolstoy.

It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret. - Vernon Howard

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances. - Martha Washington