The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
- Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Alva Edison

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it you can make it so.
- Belva Davis

To be a star, you must shine in your own light, follow your own path, and don’t worry about the darkness, for that is where stars shine brightest.  –Unknown

Never be afraid to do something new.  Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the titanic.

All our dreams can come true- if we have the courage to pursue them.   –Walt Disney

A dream is in the mind of the believer, and in the hands of the doer.  You are not given a dream without being given the power to make it come true.  –Anonymous

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking.  This is true only of certain persons.  –Will Cuppy

This life is a test.  It is only a test.  Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go.  Anonymous

Don’t get your kickers in a knot.  Nothing gets solved and it just makes you walk funny.  –Unknown

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

Never argue with an idiot.  They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.  –Unknown

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.  Now put foundations under them.  –Henry David Thoreau

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get want you want and after that to enjoy it.  Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.  –Logan Pearsall Smith

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.  –Wayne Gretzky

In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.  –Unknown

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.  –Shari R. Barr

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.  –Victor Borge

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. –Confucius

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.  –Marian Anderson

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A man may fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame someone else.  –Knox Manning

It’s not only for what we do that we are responsible, but also for what we do not do.   –Moliere

Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.  –Unknown

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.  Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.  –Native American Proverb

Don’t be content with being average.  Average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top. 

In order to be a leader a man must have followers.  And to have followers, a man must have their confidence.  Hence, the supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity.  Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether he is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.  If a man’s associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail.  His teachings and actions must square with each other.  The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.  –Dwight D. Eisenhower

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.  –Gandhi

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.  –

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.  –John Quincy Adams

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.  –Anonymous

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.  –Henry Ford

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.  –Mary Kay Ash

Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.                  –Winston Churchill

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.  –A Cinderella Story

Defy Gravity.  –Wicked

Know love, know happiness.  No love, no happiness.  –Unknown

Life is like a taxi.  The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.  –Lou Erickson

Live as if you were to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you were to live forever.  –Gandhi

Life

Do more than exist, live.

Do more than touch, feel.

Do more than look, observe.

Do more than read, absorb.

Do more than hear, listen.

Do more than listen, understand.

Do more than think, ponder.

Do more than talk, say something.

-John H. Rhoades

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.  –Carolyn Kenmore

If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just ONE.  –Mother Teresa

In times of change, learners inherit the earth which the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.  –Eric Hoffer

The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.  –Helen Keller

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count.  It’s the life in your years.  -Abraham Lincoln

If you live to be a hundred, I want to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.  –Winnie the Pooh

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if he or she were going to be dead by midnight.  Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do so with not thought of any reward.  Your life will never be the same again.  -Og Mandino

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.  –Vidal Sassoon

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.  –Unknown

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.  –Michael Pritchard

There are two ways of spreading light: be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.  -Edith Wharton

When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.  –Unknown