Best Leadership Quotations

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
- Thomas Carlyle

Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Harold R. McAlindon

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George Patton

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
- Solon

The real leader has no need to lead--
he is content to point the way.
- Henry Miller

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
- Polybius

Inspirational Quotes about "Integrity"

Our heritage and ideals, our codes and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
- Walt Disney

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
- Lee Iacocca

It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.
- Peter Drucker

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
- Mary Kay Ash

The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity. Choosing right over wrong, ethic over convenience, and truth over popularity ... these are choices that measure your life. Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.
- Submitted by Michael Moore

Good values are easier caught than taught.
- Zig Ziglar

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Moral courage and character go hand in hand .... a man of real character is consistently courageous, being imbued with a basic integrity and a firm sense of principle.
- Martha Boaz

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
- Joan Borysenko

The power of man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings.
- Blaise Pascal

Motivating Quotes for Knowledge

"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
– George Bernard Shaw

“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”
- Christopher Morley

"Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge."
- Anonymous

"Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune."
- Jim Rohn

"Man's flight through life is sustained by the power of his knowledge."
- U.S. Air Force

"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement."
- Peter F. Drucker

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
- Albert Einstein

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge."
- Daniel J. Boorstin

"'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant."
- John Abbott

Learn something new.Try something different.Convince yourself that youhave no limits.
- Brian Tracy

Inspiring Quotes for Strength

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
- Mahatma Gandhi

“Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.”
– Tom Chappel

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye."
– Helen Keller

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks."
- Phillips Brooks

"It is truly said: It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do."
- Chow Ching

"It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account."
- Confucius

"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do."
- Elbert Hubbard

"No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves."
- Dwight Eisenhower

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
- Erma Bombeck

Motivational Quotes on Success

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- Shakespeare

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Loyd Wright

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Earl of Beaconsfield

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
- Robert Collier

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
- Evan Esar

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.
- Dennis Waitley

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
- Josh Billings

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
- Vince Lombardi

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
- Albert Einstein

Top 10 Motivational Quotes For Employees

"Whatever you can do - or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, 1749-1832 - thanks Yvonne Bent)

"We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them." (Albert Einstein)

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed." (Booker T Washington, 1856-1915, American Educator and African-American spokesman, thanks for quote M Kincaid, and for biography correction M Yates and A Chatterjee)

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." (President Harry S Truman)

"If you're not part of the solution you must be part of the problem." (The commonly paraphrased version of the original quote: "What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution, or you're part of the problem" by Eldridge Cleaver 1935-98, founder member and information minister of the Black Panthers, American political activist group, in a speech in 1968 - thanks RVP)

"A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline." (Harvey Mackay - thanks Brad Hanson)

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you." (William James, American Philosopher, 1842-1910 - thanks Jean Stevens)

"In the midst of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." (Albert Camus, 1913 - 1960, French author & philosopher)

"A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." (George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950.)

"A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than the giant himself." (Didacus Stella, circa AD60 - and, as a matter of interest, abridged on the edge of an English £2 coin)

Motivational Quotes on Power...!!!

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to
test a man's character, give him power."

 

- Abraham Lincoln

 

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been
owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

 

- Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
English Scientist

 

Take full account of what excellencies which you possess,
and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after
them, if you had them not.

 

- Marcus Aurelius

 

"Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even
though you never touch its coat-tails."

 

- Clarence Darrow

Popular Quotes on Believe

"Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself."

 

- Liberace

 

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

 

- Henry Ford

 

"This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man."

 

- William Shakespeare

 

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. "

 

- John Milton

Be Yourself Motivating Quotes.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy
them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

- Norman Vincent Peale

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and
take without forgetting.

- Elizabeth Bibesco

"We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves."

- Eric Hoffer

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

- Beverly Sills (1929-)
American Opera Singer

Inspiring Quotes on Beauty

"The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity."

 

- Ruby Dee

 

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

 

- Confucius

 

Laughter is the language of the Gods.

 

- Buddhist saying

 

"Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy."

 

- Jim Hightower

Famous Happiness Quotes & Sayings

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

 

- Samuel Goldwyn

 

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

 

- A.W. Pinero

 

"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."

 

- Robertson Davies

Funny Joke - Peanuts.

A tour bus driver is driving with a bus load
Of seniors down a highway
When he is tapped on his shoulder by a little old lady.
She offers him a handful of peanuts,   

 

Which he gratefully munches up.

 

After about 15 minutes, she taps him on his shoulder

 

Again and she hands him another handful of peanuts.  

 

She repeats this gesture about five more times.

 

When she is about to hand him another batch again

 

He asks the little old lady,

 

"why don`t you eat the peanuts yourself?".

 

"We can't chew them because we've no teeth", she replied.

 

The puzzled driver asks,

 

"Why do you buy them then?"

 

The old lady replied, 

 

"We just love the chocolate around them."

Inspirational Text Lines on Courage n Will...!!!

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

- Andre Norton

Have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal.

- Harold E. Stassen

Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

- Henry Ford

Inspirational Poem by Ann Martin

Inspirations on the breeze
Landing on your ears with ease
Words to encourage and to calm
Quieting your heart like a psalm
The Lord whispers sweet words to you
Giving guidance, helping to know what to do
His words come floating, caressing your soul
Listen carefully, He can make you whole
He tenderly reaches out His hand
Searching for the broken in the land
He longingly desires to embrace
You and all the fears you face
His gentle touch will bring release
Reach out to Him and receive His peace.

~~~ Ann Martin ~~~

Belief Quotes - Top 10 Believing in Yourself Quotations.

Develop Positive Attitude Quotes - Believing in Yourself...!!!

It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. He was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open".

- Anil Ambani (Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group)

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years. Most people believe that aging is universal but there are biological organisms that never age.

- Deepak Chopra (Medical Doctor & Popular Contemporary Writer)

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.

- Samuel Moore Walton (Founder of 2 American Retailers, Wal-Mart & Sam's Club)

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious.

- Vincent Thomas Lombardi (One of the Most Successful Coaches in the History of American Football)

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.

- Ken Blanchard (American Businessman, Owner of Ken Blanchard Companies)

I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself.

- Brian Tracy (Self Help Author, Chairman of Brian Tracy International)

If you believe that some day it's going to happen, some day it probably will happen. You just have to make sure you're there when it's happening, and ideally you're at the front of the parade, and the principle beneficiary of when it happens, but it's not a kind of thing where you just sort of sit back and wait.

- Steve Case (Co-founder & CEO of America Online (AOL))

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

- Mary Kay Ash (American Businesswoman & the founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc.)

I work with wonderful people who support me. And, my beliefs are that the business needs to serve the family rather than the family serve the business.

- Kathy Ireland (American Supermodel, Actress, Author and Entrepreneur)

Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

- Norman Vincent Peale (Christian Preacher, Author & Progenitor of the theory of "Positive Thinking")

Inspiring Messages, Famous Quotes by Swami Vivekananda.

~ Swami Vivekananda ~

[1863-1902]

The unknown monk of India suddenly leapt into fame at the Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893, at which he represented Hinduism. People who saw or heard Vivekananda even once still cherish his memory after a lapse of more than half a century.


"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced."


"Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through selfless work."


"We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act."


"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself."


"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."


"The goal of mankind is knowledge. Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside - it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge."


"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far."


"Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being."


"The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong."

Inspirational Quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Full Name :- Tsering, Tensin
(Tenzin Gyatso; the [14th] Dalai Lama)

Biography Tibetan Buddhist religious leader;
Nobel Prize in Peace 1989.
Head of the Dge-lugs-pa order of Tibetan Buddhists.


Inspirational Quotes
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama...
(Below quotes have impressed me lot and I would like to share them with you)

Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, from "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness"

The mind's own basic nature is ultimately neutral. It can be influenced by negative as well as by positive emotions. Take, for instance, those who have a short tempter. When I was young I was quite short-tempered. However, the mood never lasted for twenty-four hours. If negative emotions are in the very nature of our mind, then as long as the mind is functioning the anger must remain. That, however is not the case. Similarly, positive emotions are also not in the nature of the mind. The mind is something neutral, reflecting all sorts of different experiences or phenomena.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, from 'Live in a Better Way: Reflections on Truth, Love and Happiness'.

I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend or an enemy, as long as that person wishes for peace and happiness and wishes to overcome suffering, then on that basis we develop genuine concern for his or her problem. This is genuine compassion. Usually when we are concerned about a close friend, we call this compassion. This is not compassion; it is attachment. Even in marriage, those marriages that last only a short time do so because of attachment although it is generally present but because there is also compassion. Marriages that last only a short time do so because of a lack of compassion; there is only emotional attachment based on projection and expectation. When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one’s projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment and similarly, to have anger without hatred. Therefore we need to clarify the distinctions between compassion and attachment, and between anger and hatred. Such clarity is useful in our daily life and in our efforts towards world peace. I consider these to be basic spiritual values for the happiness of all human beings, regardless of whether one is a believer or a nonbeliever.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, from Peace to all beings...site BigHappyBuddha.com

It is our custom to say that someone is "lucky" or "unlucky" if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is however, too simplistic to think in terms of random "luck." Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation. Should something unfortunate happen, we immediately think, "Oh, how unlucky!" And yet this is not sufficient to explain what happened- there must be a cause. We seem to cal "luck" that factor which overrides external conditions to bring about a positive situation. But that too is a cause; it is an inner cause, which we call "merit.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, from "Answers: Discussions with Western Buddhists"

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, from "Kindness, Clarity, and Insight"

Before we can generate compassion and love, it is important to have a clear understanding of what we understand compassion and love to be. In simple terms, compassion and love can be defined as positive thoughts and feelings that give rise to such essential things in life as hope, courage, determination, and inner strength. In the Buddhist tradition, compassion and love are seen as two aspects of the same thing: Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, from "The Compassionate Life".

When receiving the teachings, it is important to have the correct attitude. It is not practicing the Dharma properly to listen with the intention of gaining material advantage or reputation. Neither should our goal be higher rebirth in the next life, nor should we be wishing only for our own liberation from samsara. These are all attitudes we should reject. Instead, let us listen to the teachings with the determined wish to attain the state of omniscience for the sake of all beings.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama from "The Path to Tranquility: Daily Wisdom"

In the present circumstances, no one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient; we must become actively engaged.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, from "The Path to Tranquility: Daily Wisdom"

Many ancient Indian masters have preached nonviolence as a philosophy. That was a more spiritual understanding of it. Mahatma Gandhi, in this twentieth century, produced a very sophisticated approach because he implemented that very noble philosophy of nonviolence in modern politics, and he succeeded. That is a very great thing. It has represented an evolutionary leap in political consciousness, his experimentation with truth."

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, in an interview with Catherine Ingram, from "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness"

Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering, and everyone has the basic right to do this. In this way, all here are the same, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Easterner or Westerner, believer or non-believer, and within believers whether Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and so on. Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same."

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, from "Kindness, Clarity, and Insight."

Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able to prevent the advent of negative conduct dominated by negative emotion. That is 'shila', or moral ethics. Once we develop this by familiarizing ourselves with it, along with mindfulness and conscientiousness, eventually that pattern and way of life will become a part of our own life.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, from "Live in a Better Way: Reflections on Truth, Love and Happiness"

We find that if a person lives a very selfish life and is never concerned about the welfare of others, he will have few friends, and people will not take much notice of him. At the time of his death, there will not be many people who will regret his passing. Some deceptive and negative persons may be very powerful and wealthy, and therefore some people- for economic reasons and so forth- might portray themselves as friends, but they will speak against such person behind their back. When these negative person die, these very same "friends" may rejoice at their death.

On the other hand, many people mourn and regret the death of a person who is very kind and always altruistic and who works for the benefit of others. We find that altruism, as well as the person who possesses it, is regarded as the friend of all, and it becomes the object of veneration and respect by others.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, from "Path to Bliss: A Practical Guide to Stages of Meditation".

With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one; it is an awareness of ones own potential. On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative qualities.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, from "The Dalai Lama's Book of Wisdom".

Gandhi's Talisman - Mahatma Gandhi's Famous Quotations

Gandhi's Talisman

 

"I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away."

 

- One of the last notes left behind by Gandhi in 1948, expressing his deepest social thought.

 

Source: Mahatma Gandhi,
[Last Phase, Vol. II (1958), P. 65]

Spread Some Love Today

A loving heart, a gentle smile
a warm and tender touch
We give so many things in life
but nothing means as much.
A little inspiration
when one loses hope,
A kind word of encouragement
when they no longer seem to cope.
A simple phrase, "I love you"
when no one else is there
Taking hold onto a handing
a little heartfelt prayer.
Love is never silent
It has so much to say,
And it is our greatest blessing
when we give it all away.

Spread Some Love Today...!!!

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Famous Quotes.

Check some Famous Quotes, which I like...

 

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being."

 

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

 

- Helen Keller

 

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

 

- General George S. Patton