Why do we like quotes so much? A good reason for many of us is that you don’t have to read a book to get to the point. Quotes can be very short, straight to the point and thought provoking. Sometimes, there’s just so much wisdom and life experiences in one short sentence that you can almost sense and understand what the author has gone through to reach the point they are attempting to make! Here are some quotes that have thought provoking to me in my own leadership journey. Do you recognize any of these?

1. “I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.” —Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
2.  “A leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless … someone’s got to make a wakeup call.” —Warren Bennis
3.  “Although some people think that life is a battle, it is actually a game of giving and receiving.” —Florence Scovel Shinn
4.  “A boss creates fear, a leader, confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.” —Russell H. Ewing, Author
5. “A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.” —Lister Sinclair, Playwright/Broadcaster
6.  “As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.” —Toni Morrison, Author
7. “Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.” —Warren Bennis
8. “A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually, and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.” —Rita Mae Brown, Mystery Author
9.  “A teacher affects eternity. He can never tell where his influence stops.” —Henry B. Adams, American Historian
10. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” —John Quincy Adams
11.  “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear” —Ambrose Redmoon, American Philosopher
12. “Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.” —William Ellery Channing, Psychologist
13. “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” —Peter Drucker
14.  “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.” —Jim Rohn, Author/Motivator
15. “Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. “Everyone lives by selling something.” —Robert Louis Stevenson
17.  “I have more fun, and enjoy more financial success, when I stop trying to get what I want and start helping other people get what they want.” —Spencer Johnson, Business Author
18. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.” —George Bernard Shaw
19.  “I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?” —Benjamin Disraeli
20. “If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near” —Jack Welch
21. “If you don’t think about the future, you won’t have one.” —Henry Ford
22. “Most people succeed because they are determined to. People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit.” —George Allen, Football Coach
23.  “It takes a tremendous act of courage to admit to yourself that you are not defective in any way whatsoever.” —Cheri Huber, Author/Zen Philosopher
24. “Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.” —William James
25. “It’s so hard when contemplated in advance and so easy when you do it.” —Robert Pirsig, Philosopher/Author
26. “Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.” —Tom Peters
27. “Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.” —Bernard Baruch
28.  “Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.” —George Washington Carver
29. “No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” —Helen Keller
30. “Nothing great was ever created without enthusiasm.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
31.  “One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.” —Dennis A. Peer, Management Consultant
32. “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” —John Quincy Adams
33. “Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.” —Thomas J. Watson, Former CEO, IBM
34.  “People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those people who sit still and inquire, why wasn’t it done the other way?” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
35. “Question: How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Answer: Four; calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” —Abraham Lincoln
36. “Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I’ll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.” —Lawrence D. Bell, Founder, Bell Aircraft
37. “Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” —St. Francis
38. “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” —Theodore Roosevelt
39. “The best way out is always through.” —Robert Frost
40.  “The first law of success is concentration, to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right, nor to the left.” —William Matthews, Journalist
41. “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.” —Max DePree, Business Consultant/Author
42. “The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. Then you develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.” —Elaine Agather, CEO, JPMorgan Bank
43. “The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower
44. “The reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.” —Robert J. McKain, Management Consultant
45. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” —Peter Drucker
46. “The first duty of a leader is optimism. How does your subordinate feel after meeting with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a leader.” —Field Marshal Montgomery
47.  “Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.” —Jean-Jacques Rousseau
48. “Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.” —James F. Bymes, Secretary of State
49. “What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. “When I’m getting ready to persuade a person, I spend one-third of the time thinking about myself, what I’m going to say, and two-thirds of the time thinking about him and what he is going to say.” —Abraham Lincoln
51. ”Always think of what you have to do as easy and it will be.” —Emile Coue, Psychologist
52. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing — that’s why we recommend it daily.” –Zig Ziglar

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One of my favorite American authors is well known for not only the creation of two of the country’s best known fictional characters (Huckleberry “Huck” Finn and Tom Sawyer), but for his strong wit and whimsical wisdom that so embodied many of his words. Missouri born author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, more widely known by the name Mark Twain, was a person with many hardships and joys in his life. Father, family man, world traveler, lecturer, humorist are just a few of the words used to describe him. Regardless of how one describes Mr. Clemens, he will be remembered in United States (and world) history as a very colorful person who has influenced many people with his writings and sayings. Below are some of those quotes and sayings credited to him. My expectations are that you may enjoy but a small portion of a person who made many people “think” a little bit more as well as helped people enjoy life a little more:

1. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
2. A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
3. A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
4. A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
5. A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.
6. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
7. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
8. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
9. All generalizations are false, including this one.
10. All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
11. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
12. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
13. Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
14. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
15. Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
16. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
17. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
18. But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
19. Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.
20. By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.
21. ‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read.
22. Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
23. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
24. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
25. Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.
26. Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
27. Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
28. Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.
29. Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
30. Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
31. Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.
32. Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
33. Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
34. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
35. Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.
36. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
37. George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
38. Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
39. Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
40. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
41. God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
42. Golf is a good walk spoiled.
43. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
44. Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
45. Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
46. Honesty is the best policy — when there is money in it.
47. Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.
48. Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
49. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
50. I can live for two months on a good compliment.
51. I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
52. I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
53. I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell — you see, I have friends in both places.
54. I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
55. I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.
56. I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
57. I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
58. I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
59. I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
60. Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
61. If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.
62. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
63. If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
64. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
65. It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
66. It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
67. It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
68. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
69. It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
70. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
71. It is easier to stay out than get out.
72. It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
73. It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
74. It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
75. It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
76. It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
77. It’s not the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
78. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
79. Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.
80. Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
81. Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
82. Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
83. Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
84. Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
85. Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
86. Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
87. Man — a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
88. Man is the only animal that blushes — or needs to.
89. Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
90. Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
91. My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
92. My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
93. Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.
94. Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
95. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
96. No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
97. Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
98. Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
99. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
100. One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
101. Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial “we.”
102. Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
103. Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
104. Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
105. Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
106. Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
107. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
108. Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
109. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
110. Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
111. Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
112. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
113. The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
114. The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
115. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
116. The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
117. The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
118. The lack of money is the root of all evil.
119. The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
120. The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
121. The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
122. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
123. The Public is merely a multiplied “me.”
124. The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
125. The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
126. The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
127. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
128. The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.
129. The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
130. The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
131. There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
132. There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
133. There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one — keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
134. There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
135. There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
136. There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
137. Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others.
138. Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
139. To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
140. To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
141. To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
142. Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
143. Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
144. Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
145. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
146. Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
147. We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.
148. We are all alike, on the inside.
149. We have the best government that money can buy.
150. What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
151. What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
152. What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
153. What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
154. When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
155. When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
156. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
157. When in doubt tell the truth.
158. When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
159. When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
160. When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
161. When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.
162. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
163. Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
164. Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
165. Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
166. Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
167. Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
168. Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
169. Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
170. You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

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As I write this post, it’s snowing outside, thanks to the courtesy of winter storm Albert coming up the East coast. My town was fortunate to only get 12 to 16 inches. Some other areas of the state got over 24 inches. Due to my injury this past summer, I’m still recovering and medically forbidden from all strong twisting motions that may cause me to re-injure myself. What does that mean? It means I’m not allowed to shovel my own driveway and sidewalk so I’m letting some of the neighborhood kids earn a few dollars shoveling it for me (and no I don’t own a snowblower). In the meantime, I’m stuck at home unable to go out until my driveway is cleared.  This made me think about what I can do with the little bit of time I have until my driveway is clear. “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine” is a saying that comes to mind. The first time I read it, I thought how profound yet simple. The funny thing is that I recognized it to be so true. Everyone has the same 168 hours in a week. What we get out of it depends a great deal on what we do with it. At the same time, it also depends on what we don’t do with it.

We all have the choice to choose what we do with our time to some extent of another. Whether it is taking care of our children, going to work, taking care of an errand, you name it we all have something we choose to do…even if it’s doing nothing at all.

What do you like to do when you find yourself with time on your hands?

Today I found myself looking at the choices of watching TV or an on demand movie, reading a book, or catching up on my emails. I decided to give myself some time reading a good book. I haven’t been able to do that in a few days and as I started reading, I began to see the images of the world that the book was describing and the story that was unfolding within its words. I read for a little bit, which for me with a good book is a few hours, and then put the book down after saving my place with a bookmark. Growing up so many of my friends despised reading and they did everything they could to avoid doing the reading assignments from school (Cliff Notes, Book Summary Reviews, etc.). Even as an adult I know so many people who would prefer not to read at all if they could help it.  Of all things that a person can do to weaken the growth in their life, choosing not the read is probably one of the worst.

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is for the body” – Sir Richard Steele

Reading can become addictive and a healthy addiction at that. The benefits that come from reading are always guaranteed and they always come to those who read, regardless of whether they are consciously aware of them or not. It doesn’t matter who you are and what it is that you’re reading, the benefits are always there, provided what you’re reading is not trash.

The most wonderful thing that reading offers is a view into another world. When you pick up a book and start reading it, you begin to lose yourself into it. Studies have proven  that reading offers the mind a healthy escape from the everyday routines of life and allows us to recharge our brains a bit. Reading offers us a chance to see the world from someone else’s eyes, thus broadening our minds to other points of view and new possibilities. Reading is also a great imagination booster and it helps to give people a better sense of creativity. If you ever find yourself needing a new idea for a project at work or simply a fresh design for a new pillow cover, all you need to do is read. It doesn’t mean that you’ll necessarily find the idea you’re looking for in what you’re reading, but the very act of reading allows the mind to wander into another mode of thinking allowing the creative reserves of your mind to flow. Reading has also been shown to help people with focus and concentration.

-Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year?

-And that 60% of average Americans only get through the first chapter?

-CEOs of Fortune 500 companies read an average of four to five books a month.

Why am I saying this about reading? Because of all the things we can do to improve the quality of life, reading has to be the most inexpensive and also one of the most powerful ways to do it.

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders must be readers.” — Harry S. Truman

“The ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.” — Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1964

“You’re the same today as you’ll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read.” — Charlie “Tremendous” Jones

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” — Confucius

“The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” — Dr. Seuss, “I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!”

I challenge every person who doesn’t read to try the following: For 7 days, plan out 10 to 15 minutes everyday to do nothing but read a book on something you’d like to know more about. Do it at the same time each day if you can. A simple way to choose a book to read is to go to a nearby Border’s or Barnes and Noble and choose a book from their best seller selection. These are usually not expensive and can be bought in paperback form (less expensive than hardcover). After 7 days, see if you notice anything different with the way your mind is. You may notice that you are more focused on certain things than you usually are or you may feel that you are accomplishing more than you’re use to accomplishing. Whatever you notice, I’m willing to wager that you’ll notice some form of positive benefit in your life just by taking a little bit of time each day to read.

What would you like to do better in your life? It’s a good chance that reading will help!

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Do you have any favorite sayings that inspire or motivate you? Why not share some of them! I have a habit of reading many personal development and inspirational books from which I’ve learned some fantastic sayings. Some of my favorite sayings include “The worst of all fears is the fear of living” by Theodore Roosevelt. Another is “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up” by Mark Twain. You never know when a particular saying, or story will pop out at you and give you a new perspective or inspiration on something you’ve had to deal with in your life.

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