Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. Einstein

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. George Bernard Shaw

A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk. Harry F Banks

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. Thucydides

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. Robert Lewis Stevenson

Generals must never show doubt, discouragement, or fatigue. Gen George S Patton

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. Dale Carnegie

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement -and we will make the goal. anon

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Goethe

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. Washington

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. Colin Powell

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby

One kind word can warm three winter months. Japanese proverb

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. Colin Powell

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Eisenhower

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. Vince Lombardi

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert. Vince Lombardi

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. Vince Lombardi

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. Vince Lombardi

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T S Eliot

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. Gen George S Patton

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Mark Twain.