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“John W. Gardner observed, “If I had to name a single all-purpose instrument of leadership, it would be communication.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Every minute spent in planning saves ten to twelve minutes in execution.”
― Brian Tracy

“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at the opposite end of the ground. There was apparently nothing striking either in her dress or her attitude. But for Levin she was as easy to find in that crowd as a rose among nettles. Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light on all round her. "Is it possible I can go over there on the ice, go up to her?" he thought. The place where she stood seemed to him a holy shrine, unapproachable, and there was one moment when he was almost retreating, so overwhelmed was he with terror. He had to make an effort to master himself, and to remind himself that people of all sorts were moving about her, and that he too might come there to skate. He walked down, for a long while avoiding looking at her as at the sun, but seeing her, as one does the sun, without looking.
― Leo Tolstoy

“Strong on desire but short on smarts, these”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger

“When we are fully and totally networked, we are powerful.1 Sanders believes that along with knowledge and compassion, your network is your most valuable asset.”
― John C. Maxwell

“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.”
― Barack Obama

“If one Ponders on objects of the sense, there springs Attraction; from attraction grows desire, Desire flames to fierce passion, passion breeds Recklessness; then the memory—all betrayed— Lets noble purpose go, and saps the mind, Till purpose, mind, and man are all undone.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“In taking our human nature upon Himself, [Jesus] showed us what we might become, what God intended us to be.”
― Billy Graham

“Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“I learned the importance of the Bible and came to believe with all my heart in its full inspiration. It became a sword in my hand to break open the hearts of men, to direct them to the Lord Jesus Christ.”
― Billy Graham

“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”
― Billy Graham

“winners expect to win, they expect victory, and they expect success!”
― Zig Ziglar

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