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1.      Always do what you are afraid to do. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

2.      If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.–St. Clement of Alexandra

3.      Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. –Voltaire

4.      Men’s best successes come after their disappointments. –Henry Ward Beecher

5.      Fortune favors the brave. –Publius Terence

6.      He who hesitates is lost. –Proverb

7.      When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. –Richard Hooker

8.      Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. –Albert Einstein

9.      Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

10.  Every artist was first an amateur. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

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1. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. -Henry Ford

2. 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. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

3. In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. -Author Unknown

4. There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second. -Logan Pearsall Smith

5. Goals are dreams with deadlines. - Diana Scharf Hunt

6. The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. - Goethe

7. All our dreams can come true –if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney

8. Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. -Viktor Frankl

9. If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else. -Yogi Berra

10. The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain. -Kahlil Gibran

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LEADERSHIP-- "If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully."-Thomas Fuller

PUBLIC SPEAKING-- "Be who you are And say what you feel, Because those who mind Don't matter, And those who matter Don't mind." Dr. Seuss

Tweet1.  Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.  –John F. Kennedy

2.      I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.  –Mohandas Gandhi

 3.   Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.  –Peter Drucker

4.   To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.  –Pat Riley

5.   “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.  –John C. Maxwe

6.   There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.  –Bertolt Brecht

7.   Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.  –Warren G. Bennis

8.   Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.  –Erskine Bowles

9.  Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.  –Steve Jobs

10.  A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.  –Unknown

11.  It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. –Nelson Mandela
12.  Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. –Harold S. Geneen

13.  Whatever you are, be a good one. –Abraham Lincoln

14.  The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. –John Buchan

15.  Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. –Woodrow Wilson
16.  Character matters; leadership descends from character. –Rush Limbaugh

17.  A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. –John Maxwell

18.  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.–John Quincy Adams

19.  You must do the thing you think you cannot do. –Eleanor Roosevelt

20.  Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. –Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Words have incredible power.
They can make people’s hearts soar,
or they can make people’s hearts sore.
–Dr. Mardy Grothe

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
 –Mark Twain

There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first, to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into the heart of your audience.
–Alexander Gregg

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
 –Cato The Elder

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
–Winston Churchill

It’s not how strongly you feel about your topic, it’s how strongly they feel about your topic after you speak.
–Tim Salladay

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
–Marcus T. Cicero

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
–Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

If you can’t write your message in a sentence, you can’t say it in an hour.
–Dianna Booher

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
–Oliver Wendell Holmes

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.
–Sir Ralph Richardson

Talk low, talk slow, and don’t talk too much.
–John Wayne

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
–Dorothy Nevill

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
–Carl W. Buechner

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.
–Robert Greenleaf

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
–Rudyard Kipling

It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time.
–Wayne Burgraff

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
–Dale Carnegie

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
–Ira Hayes

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
–Dorothy Sarnoff

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

–Sophocles in Oedipus Colonus

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

–Aristotle