"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning."
"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
"Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best."
"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."
"As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
"Don't fear change, embrace it."
"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them."
"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs."
"I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today."
"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
"You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere."
"Thoughts come through people, not from them."
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
"Set high standards and few limitations for yourself."
"Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find."
"There is no substitute for hard work."
"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."
"Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance."
"Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart."
"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course."
"He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much."
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."
"The only way to keep a good reputation is to continuously earn it."
"Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize."
"Search for a single, inclusive good is doomed to failure. Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situation of experience its own full and unique meaning."
"If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive."
"Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement."
"The greatest achievements are those that benefit others."
"Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past."
"Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure."
"The man who dies rich dies disgraced."
"Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties."
"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."
"Always wear expensive shoes. People notice."
"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure."
"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat."
"You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do."
"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."
"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
"All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath - so what does that make today worth?"
"The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get."
"Foregiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting."
"The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests."