Good leaders must first become good servants. Robert Greenleaf
Part 1. Our society is founded on a very limited
definition of power, namely wealth, professional success, fame, physical
strength, military might, and political control. Thich Nhat Hanh
Part 2. My dear friends, I suggest that there is another
kind of power, a greater power: the power to be happy right in the
present moment, free from addiction, fear, despair, discrimination,
anger and ignorance. Thich Nhat Hanh
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the
self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s
amazing what they can accomplish. Sam Walton (Wal-Mart)
I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people. John Hume
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. John F. Kennedy
The less you talk, the more people think about your words. Unknown
If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius. Michelangelo
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Adams
If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. Thomas Edison
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. Dr. Seuss
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not
be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under
them. Henry David Thoreau
All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just
like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have
to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. Vince Lombardi
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 humor, but without folly. Jim
Rohn
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give
you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody. Herbert
B. Swope
You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. Ken Kesey
Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity. Reed Markham
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. John Maxwell
With an education you all have everything you need to
rise above all of the noise and fulfill every last one of your dreams.
Michelle Obama
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. Dr. Seuss
Resiliency is a skill that cannot be overlooked. In fact,
it can be a skill that is the difference between surviving and
thriving. Laurie A. Namey
A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. Martin H. Fischer
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. Friedrich Nietzsche
My whole teaching is simply this: Whatsoever you are,
accept it so totally that nothing is left to be achieved, and you will
become a white cloud. Osho
Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the
parents start writing on his slate – what he has to become. Then the
teachers, the priests, the leaders – they all go on emphasizing that you
have to become somebody; otherwise, you have wasted your life. Just the
opposite is the case. You are a being. You need not become anybody
else. That is the meaning of simplicity: remaining at ease with one’s
being, and not going on any track of becoming – which is unending. Osho
On questioning everything:
It would infuriate my parents that I wouldn’t just believe them when
they said something, because I asked them why and then I consider
whether that response made sense given everything else I know. Elon Musk
I think people can choose to be not ordinary. They can
choose to not necessarily conform to the conventions that were taught to
them by their parents. So yes, I think it’s possible for ordinary
people to choose to be extraordinary. Elon Musk
Passive acceptance of the teacher’s wisdom is easy to
most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and
seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is
moreover the way to win the favor of the teacher unless he is a very
exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one
in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to
accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. Bertrand
Russell
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard
it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored
by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written
in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the
authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions
because they have been handed down for many generations. But after
observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason
and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it
and live up to it. Buddha
The truth is when I went to graduate school I would’ve
said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the
least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard. Mary Karr
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin,
barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship
what is known, but to question it. Jacob Bronowski
Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly
the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller,
Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas
Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age;
and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so
conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for
nourishment. Leonardo da Vinci
The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not
the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a
life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows
best. A.S. Neill
The middle years should be so busy, so demanding, so
active, so adventurous that adolescents should barely have time for
introspection. Michael Barber
