The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. Warren Bennis
There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all. Peter F. Drucker
It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief. Ernest Becker
Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers. John Gardner
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. Ralph Nader
Leadership is not just about giving energy… it’s unleashing other people’s energy. Paul Polman
More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance,
sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses
put together. Warren Bennis
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. John Zenger
Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders
raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their
own bar. Orrin Woodward
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. Max De Pree
Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible. Max De Pree
If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything. Tom Rath
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old. Peter F. Drucker
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. Thomas Aquinas
To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action. Mark Manson
Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right. Peter F. Drucker
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and
dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers
flourish. Warren Bennis
A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see. Leroy Eimes
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them. Diogenes
When people are financially invested, they want a return.
When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute. Simon
Sinek
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than
his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
John C. Maxwell
If our drive to get and maintain power drains us and
strains our relationships, we never truly enjoy our professional or
material success and it’s simply not worth it. Thich Nhat Hanh
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model
obsolete. Buckminster Fuller
If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing. Brad Szollose
Leaders walk a fine line between self-confidence and humility. Stanley McChrystal
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. Seneca
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Anger is the enemy of nonviolence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.
Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be
truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn
your fingers.
The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing
that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in
fragment and from different points of vision.”
The roots of violence: Wealth without work, pleasure
without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without
morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics
without principles.
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can
be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals
is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I
keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is
possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
When you are right, you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.
The Seven Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without
conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity. Religion without sacrifice. Politics without
principle.
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or
woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of
our hearts.
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other
than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations,
however noble and great the latter may be.
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word.
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. Bruce Lee
What we need are few. What we want are many. Sheng Yen
Instead of presents, give presence. Leo Babauta
If everything is important, then nothing is. Patrick M. Lencioni
Never use a long word when a short one will do. Louisa May Alcott
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. Henry Miller
There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little. Jackie French Koller
Maybe a person’s time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food. Frank A. Clark
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. Martin H. Fischer
I think we are in a non-essentialist bubble — everything seems important — so of course nothing is. Greg McKeown
Every time I’m doing something that is not essential, I am giving up on something that is essential. Greg McKeown
I would rather own little and see the world, than own the world and see little of it. Alexander Sattler
What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us. Robert Brault
Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request. Arthur Helps
Don’t forget it: He has most who needs least. Don’t create needs for yourself. St. JosemarÃa Escrivá
Learning isn’t acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired. Criss Jami
When everything is urgent, nothing is urgent. The Minimalists
If buying stuff hasn’t made you happy, maybe getting rid of it will. Joshua Becker
Those who are wise won’t be busy, and those who are too busy can’t be wise. Lin Yutang
Forget sale price. Everything is 100% off when you don’t buy it. Joshua Fields Millburn
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. Socrates
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. Socrates
A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace. Confucius
Anything that costs you your peace is too expensive. Unknown
Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few. Pythagoras
Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.
If the recipe sucks, it doesn’t matter how good a cook you are.
You’re never as bad as they say you are, but you’re never as good as they say you are either.
Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitant to get in the way if you’re moving.
The goal is to find your inefficiencies in order to eliminate them and to find your strengths so you can multiply them.
Babe Ruth struck out all the time, but he’s not remembered for that. He’s remembered for what worked.
Time is wasted because there is so much time available.
Never automate something that can be eliminated, and
never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined.
Otherwise, you waste someone else’s time instead of your own, which now
wastes your hard-earned cash.
Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple—many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.
It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
The fishing is best where the fewest go and the
collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home
runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.
Look for flexible principles so that you can then have a toolkit that’s adaptable.
“Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.
Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain. Robert Gary Lee
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. Thomas Paine
When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness. Kahlil Gibran
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order
to grow, lose in order to gain, because life’s greatest lessons are
learnt through pain. Nagato
Handling our suffering is an art. If we know how to
suffer, we suffer much less, and we’re no longer afraid of being
overwhelmed by the suffering inside. Thich Nhat Hanh
Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means
understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a
way through it. Michael J. Fox
When it hurts – observe. Life is trying to teach you something. Anita Krizzan
Trying to build a life where you never experience bad feelings is like building a ship that can’t handle a storm. Neil Strauss
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things 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. Sarah Frances Brown
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the
order of nature and the existence of free wills involve, and you find
that you have excluded life itself. C.S. Lewis
The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. Eckhart Tolle
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Francis Bacon
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Erma Bombeck
The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow. Unknown
Pain can change you, but that doesn’t mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom. Unknown
There are two types of pain in this world: pain that hurts you, and pain that changes you. Unknown
Every negative situation contains the possibility for
something positive, an opportunity. It is how you look at it that
matters. Robert Greene
Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You
are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise.
You are the love and joy beneath the pain. Eckhart Tolle
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People
will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their
own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious. Carl Jung
Where the wound has been given, there must the cure be found, if anywhere. Jane Austen
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. Alan Watts
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. Plato
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. John F. Kennedy
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. Coco Chanel
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. C.S. Lewis
Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you. George R.R. Martin
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. Stephen King
You should never take more than you give. Elton John
Take a long pause …breathe and know that things are happening for you not to you. Ashton Kutcher
It’s nice to be important, but it’s also important to be nice. Never forget that. Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat)
Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment. Al Pacino
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak. George Clooney
Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it.
Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both.
They balance each other out. Barbra Streisand
Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but
you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.
Céline Dion
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man. Malcolm X
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. Bruce Lee
I don’t care that they stole my idea… I care that they don’t have any of their own. Nikola Tesla
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare
Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Warren Buffett
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. Isaac Newton
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do
not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. Nicolaus
Copernicus
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker
People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power. Bill Clinton
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. Jonathan Kozol
Be careful, ever so careful, in trumpeting your own
achievements, and always talk less about yourself than about other
people. Modesty is generally preferable. Robert Greene
Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle:
every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what
worked before will work today. Robert Greene
Success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right. Gary Keller
If you want to be successful, surround yourself with
people who are more successful than you are, but if you want to be
happy, surround yourself with people who are less successful than you
are. Naval Ravikant
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much. Elbert Hubbard
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. Jonas Salk
If I tell you I’m good, probably you will say I’m boasting. But if I tell you I’m not good, you’ll know I’m lying. Bruce Lee
Show me someone for whom success is less important than
the manner in which it is achieved. Of concern for the means, rather
than the ends, of their actions…I want to see him. This is the person I
have looked for a long time, the true genius. Epictetus
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Bruce Feirstein
There is little success where there is little laughter. Andrew Carnegie
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same. Audrey Hepburn
Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is. Brianna Wiest
If you only master yourself and you don’t help anyone
else, we’d call you happy, but nobody would define you as successful.
Derek Sivers
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry,
and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. Ben
Jonson
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Benjamin Franklin
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. Erich Fromm
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. Euripides
Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period. Felicity Kendal
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. Henry A. Kissinger
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which
attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings
happiness to him. Max Planck
Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own. Michelle Obama
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it. Oprah Winfrey
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to
copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to
sterility. Pablo Picasso
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. Paramahansa Yogananda
Success is the most important to many, to me it’s just a bonus. Lucas Grabeel
I have had all of the disadvantages required for success. Larry Ellison
" Silence is true wisdom's best reply....Euripides"
"
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the
courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the
difference...Reinhold Niebuhr "
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance....Benjamin Franklin "
"
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is
noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by
experience, which is the bitterest...Confucius "
" I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures....Lao Tzu "
" Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration...Thomas A. Edison "
"Without
freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such
thing as public liberty without freedom of speech...Benjamin Franklin "
"Patience is the companion of wisdom....Saint Augustine "
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe...Marilyn vos Savant "
"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment... Lao Tzu "
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy....Ludwig van Beethoven "
" Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance....Francis of Assisi "
"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance....H. L. Mencken "
"Knowledge
comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the
mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the
ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work
and the tempering heat of experience and maturity...Calvin Coolidge "
"
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot
forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair,
against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of
God....Aeschylus "
" He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom...James Huneker "
"The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense...Dean Inge"
"The
seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world
over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence
consisting of two or three words...Robert South "
"God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own...Johannes Tauler"
"The
model a lot of companies use is a very pyramidal model which sort of
designates that all creativity, all wisdom flows from the top. We think
that's the absolute wrong model...Richard Hayne"
"My
past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to
experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides...Gene
Oliver "
"All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward....Johann Georg Hamann"
"The
biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box.
The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a
given field...Aubrey de Grey "
"I understand that
there's a certain energy in youth, no question, in terms of pursuing
jobs. But there is wisdom in age. It's too bad that the two can't come
together because I do think that people are dropped from what they're
really good at too soon...Rene Russo"
"Now it is time
to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and
security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most
valuable things in life cannot be measured...Michael D. Higgins "
"Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery. Thomas Moore "
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates "
"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. Terry Pratchett "
"A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. Pythagoras "
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson "
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. Will Rogers "
"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life
when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never
sit. David Elton Trueblood "
"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. Honore De Balzac "
"He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue. Mark Twain "
"Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? Martin Farquhar Tupper "
"Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. Leo Tolstoy "
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which
does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. Kahlil Gibran "
"We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a
journey that no one can take for us or spare us. Marcel Proust "
"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave
to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. Kahlil Gibran "
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? Jean-Jacques Rousseau "
" To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao Tzu"
"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. Leonardo da Vinci "
"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. Confucius "
"There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool. Diogenes "
"Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret
art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment
of life. Hermann Hesse "
"We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. Leo Tolstoy "
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Benjamin Franklin "
"Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life."
"Give, even if you only have a little."
"Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves. "
"Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good. "
"Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. "
"The mind is everything. What you think you become. "
"If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another. "
"Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded. "
"Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes. "
"If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. "
"What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now. "
" If you propose to speak always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind."
" Doubt everything. Find your own light."
"A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is
peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise. "
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. "
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"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.... Charles Dickens "
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.... Satchel Paige "
" In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.... John Muir "
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.... Jean Paul "
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.... Ralph Waldo Emerson "
"Patience is the companion of wisdom.... Saint Augustine "
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.... Nelson Mandela "
"For
beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak
only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you
are never alone.... Audrey Hepburn "
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.... Jim Rohn "
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.... Lao Tzu "
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.... Thomas Jefferson "
"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.... John Wooden "
"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.... Buddha"
" A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.... Saint Basil "
"Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.... Amitabh Bachchan "
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.... Ralph Waldo Emerson "
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.... Immanuel Kant "
" We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.... George Bernard Shaw"
"It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.... John Wooden "
"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.... Confucius "
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.... William Arthur Ward "
"Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.... Bob Marley "
"Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.... John Wooden "
"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 "
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference... Reinhold Niebuhr "
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.... Calvin Coolidge "
"Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.... Buddha "
