Quotes on Perseverance

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer”.  -- Albert Einstein

"It is to the one who endures that the final victory comes”.  -- Anonymous

"Patience and perseverance have a magical affect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish”.  -- John Quincy Adams

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time”. -- Thomas Alva Edison

"Victory belongs to the most persevering”. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

"No road is too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; and no honours are too distant for the man who prepares himself for them with patience”.  -- Bruyere

"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling”.
-- Lucretius

“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul”.  -- Douglas MacArthur

"There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream."
- Anonymous

"Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."   -- Samuel Johnson

Quotes on Leadership

“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."
-- Harold S. Geneen

"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people". -- Mahatma Gandhi

"Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership”. -- Anonymous

"One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you".
- Dennis A. Peer

"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better”.  -- Bill Bradley

"Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves”.  -- Stephen Covey

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet”.  -- Theodore M. Hesburgh

"Leadership is a quality of those who earn the respect of others through the wisdom of the combination of their words and their actions”.  -- Walter Grant IV

"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves”.  -- Ray Kroc

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”.  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been”.  -- Henry Kissinger

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

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in others the conviction and will to carry on”.  -- Walter Lippman

"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

Quotes on Excellence

“The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor”.  -- Vince Lombardi

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit”. -- Aristotle

“Excellence can be attained if you Care more than others think is wise, Risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than others think is practical, and Expect more than others think is possible”.  -- Paula P. Brownlee

“Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters”. -- Seneca

“The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work”.  -- Brian Tracy

“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence”.   -- Confucius

“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude”.  -- Colin Powell

“Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer”.  -- Rick Pitino

“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work”.  -- Thomas J Watson

“Success hinges on a passion for excellence”.  -- John F. Kennedy

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - Excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it”.  -- Pearl S Buck

“Excellence is in details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come”.  -- Perry Paxton

“Going far beyond the call of duty, doing more than others expect...is what excellence is all about”. -- Anonymous

"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better."  -- Pat Riley

Quotes on Spirited

“It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.”  -- Vincent van Gogh

“A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.”  -- Montaigne

“It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders."  -- Ben Stein

“The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.”  -- Ovid

“Spirit has fifty times the strength and staying-power of brawn and muscle”.  -- Mark Twain

Quotes on Respect

“He who wants a rose must respect the thorn."   -- Persian Proverb

“Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.”  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.”  -- Laurence Sterne

“If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.”  -- John W. Gardner

“Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired - it can only be earned.”  -- Anonymous

“Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.”  -- Mark Clement

“Respect...is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.”  -- Annie Gottlieb

“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.”  -- Anonymous

“Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.”  -- Albert Schweitzer

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you”.  -- Lao Tzu

Quotes on Simplicity

“Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.”  -- Anonymous

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”  -- Leonardo Da Vinci

“A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.”  -- Chinese Proverb

“A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life."  -- Winston Churchill

“Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect.”  -- John Morley

“Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.”  -- Winston Churchill

“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”  -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance.”  -- Jon Franklin

“Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.”  -- Mahlon Hoagland

“Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.”  -- Sir Joshua Reynolds

“Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.”  -- Richard Halloway

“Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.”  -- Thomas a Kempis

Quotes on Creativity

“The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.”  -- Margaret J. Wheatley

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creative.”  -- Charles Mingus

“Creativity is when you pull the brighter side of Life out of darkness.”  -- Anonymous

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into the sun.”  -- Pablo Picasso

“Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.”  -- William CF Plomer

“The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”  -- Robert B. Tucker

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”  -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”  -- Arthur Koestler

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”  -- George Bernard Shaw

“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.”  -- Edward de Bono

 

“To be able to see with open eyes, what others cannot dream, even with their eyes closed is called Creativity.”  -- Anonymous

“Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous."  -- Bill Moyers

Quotes on Team Work

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”  -- Henry Ford

“Failure is success if we learn from it”.  -- Malcolm Forbes

“You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"  --George Bernard Shaw

“Players win games, teams win championships.”  -- Bill Taylor

“Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”  -- Unknown

“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”  --Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”  -- Henry Ford

“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”  -- Stephen Covey

“The power of a waterfall is nothing but a lot of drips working together.”  -- Anonymous

“Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.”  -- Anonymous

“Many of us are more capable than some of us . . . but none of us is as capable as all of us!!”  -- Tom Wilson

“It is amazing what can be accomplished, when you don't care who gets the credit.”  -- John Wooden

“If everyone in the world threw a little pebble or rock, we could build Mount Everest together.”  -- Adriano Volpentesta