Inspiring & Thought Provoking Quotations

"I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking." - Dorothy Sayers

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races, one after the other." - Walter Elliot

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed." - Storm Jameson

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin

"Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned." - Gotama Buddha

"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." - William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)

"Perhaps the most central characteristic of authentic leadership is the relinquishing of the impulse to dominate others." - David Cooper

"Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

"It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise." -- Goethe

"Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us." -- Marcus Aurelius

"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." - Abraham Maslow

"Our job is to give the client, on time and on cost, not what he wants, but what he never dreamed he wanted; and when he gets it, he recognizes it as something he wanted all the time." - Dewys Lasdon, designer.

Any page from "The Tao of Leadership" - John Heider (listed on our Bookshelf). For example:

"Our job is to facilitate process and clarify conflicts. This ability depends less on formal education than on common sense and traditional wisdom."

"The highly educated leader tends to respond in terms of one theoretical model or another. It is better simply to respond directly to what is happening here and now."