A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. Arnold H. Glasow I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou Even a brief interaction can change the way people think about themselves, their leaders, and the future. Each of those many connections you make has the potential to become a high point or a low point in someone's day. Douglas Conant Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. Colin Powell A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. Lao Tzu Everything you want is on the other side of fear. Jack Canfield If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. Ken Robinson I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless. Neal Shusterman The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. Max de Pree

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve….You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. Martin Luther King, Jr. Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. Ralph Waldo Emerson Power isn't control at all--power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own. Beth Revis You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. Woodrow Wilson Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. Brian Tracy If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk. Benjamin Hooks I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. Mother Teresa

Three Things to Remember: As long as you’re dancing, you can break the rules. Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules. Sometimes there are no rules. Mary Oliver

What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. Colette It’s easy to be heavy; hard to be light. G.K. Chesterton Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain

They may forget what you said, but they will NEVER forget how you made them feel. Carl W. Buechner We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior. Stephen Covey

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you

alter yourself meeting them. Phyllis Bottome

Every person in this life has something to teach me--and as soon as I accept

that, I open myself to truly listening. Catherine Doucette

The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. Seth Godin An enemy is a person whose story we have not heard. Gene Knudsen Hoffman One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work. Peter Drucker

Don’t just think, do. Horace It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us…. This is where our love for each other must start. Mother Teresa The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. Albert Schweitzer Life’s persistent and most urgent question is “What are you doing for others? Martin Luther King Jr. Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. Albert Camus Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. George Eliot No one need wait a single moment to improve the world. Anne Frank We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as you ever can. John Wesley No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. William James