Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
~ Helen Keller

Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leaders success.
He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.
~ Norman Allen

A boss creates fear, a leader, confidence.
A boss fixed blame, a leader corrects mistakes.
A boss knows it all, a leader asks questions.
A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.
A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.
~ Russel H. Ewing

Recognition is the greatest motivator.
~ Gerard C. Eakedale

I was not the lion,
but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar.
~ Winston Churchill

A good leader
takes a little more than his share of the blame,
a little less than his share of the credit.
~ Arnold H. Glasgow

Great spirits have always
encountered violent opposition
from mediocre minds.
~ Albert Einsten

Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but not one thinks of changing himself.
~ Leo Tolstoy

13 A gadabout gossip can’t be trusted with a secret,
but someone of integrity won’t violate a confidence.
14 Without good direction, people lose their way;
the more wise counsel you follow, the better your chances.
~ Proverbs 11

Do it right the first time,
If you don’t have the time to do it right…
You must have the time to do it over.
~ Unknown

You do not lead by hitting people over the head—
That’s assault, not leadership.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
~ Thomas Jefferson

To dream anything that you want to dream—that is the beauty of the human mind.
To do anything you want to do—that is the strength of the human will.
To trust yourself to test your limits—that is the courage to succeed.
~ Unknown

The Excellence of Love
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous;
love does not brag and is not arrogant,
does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own,
is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
~ 1 Corinthians 13

Leadership is the wise use of power.
Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.
~ Warren G. Bennis

There are no office hours for leaders.
~ Cardinal James Gibbons

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

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility…
in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have…
is the ability to take responsibility.
~ Michael Korda

I must confess that I am drive to my knees

by overwhelming conviction

that I have nowhere else to go.

My wisdom and that of all about me

is insufficient to meet the demands of the day.

~ Abraham Lincoln

If God had answered all of my prayers

I’d be traveling the world on my own private yacht

Involved in several romantic affairs

With women whose beauty I longingly sought.

If God had answered all of my prayers

I’d have fame and fortune and beautiful weather

I’d sail along the coast of Spain

And if inclined, stay there forever.

But if God had answered all of my prayers

There I’d be, a millionaire

Beneath the sun a world away

From where I met you that rainy day.

~ Ron Atchison

When I don’t understand something, I reach up and hold God’s hand. And we walk together in silence.

~ Ron Atchison

“Do not look for big opportunities, “worthy” of your abilities. Those will come in due time. The great saints of the Bible started as servants, not rulers: and they were faithful over a few things before God made them kings. Moses tended sheep; Joseph was a steward; David was a shepherd; even Jesus was a carpenter. Live with the eye of God upon you, and forger the praise of men. Serve faithfully in the hidden place, and in due time, God will life you up. Every opportunity for service is an opportunity to exercise sovereignty in Christ. We reign in life by living to serve, to the glory of God.”

~ Warren Wiersbe, Live Like Kings: Living the Beatitudes Today (Chicago: Moody, 1976), 42.