Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I have women banging on my door, I have no time to answer it.

Scott Wolf

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

Jack Dempsey

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Miles Davis

Do the Duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a Duty! Thy second Duty will already have become clearer.

Thomas Carlyle

Beginnings start without shade, Thinner than minnows. The live grass whirls with the sun, Feet run over the simple stones, There's time enough. Behold, in the lout's eye, love.

Theodore Roethke

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Abraham Lincoln

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Michelangelo

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

Steven Moffat

When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us.

Source Unknown

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

Tommy Lasorda

Oh, order! Material order, intellectual order, moral order! What a comfort and strength, and what an economy! To know where we are going and what we want; that is order. To keep ones word, to do the right thing, and at the right time: more order. To have everything under ones hand, to put ones whole army through its manoeuvres, to work with all ones resources: still order. To discipline ones habits and efforts and wishes, to organize ones life and distribute ones time, to measure ones duties and assert ones rights, to put ones capital and resources, ones talents and opportunities to profit: again and always order. Order is light, peace, inner freedom, self-determination: it is power. To conceive order, to return to order, to realize order in oneself, around oneself, by means of oneself, this is aesthetic and moral beauty, it is well-being, it is what ought to be.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To think is good. To obsess is bad.

Steve Backley