(Anonymous)
If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.
(General Eric Shinseki)
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, “ I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.”
(Ann Landers)
We know what a person thinks not when they tell us what they are thinking, but by their actions.
(Isaac Bashevis Singer)
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
(Aristotle)
I would say some are born. A person can be born with certain qualities of leadership: good physique, good mental capacity, curiosity, the desire to know. When you go to pick out the best pup in a litter of bird dogs, you pick out the pup even though he is only 6 weeks old. He is curious, going around looking into things, and that kind of dog usually turns out to be the best dog. But there are qualities one can improve on. A thorough knowledge of your profession is the first requirement of leadership and this certainly has to be acquired. Observing others is important trying to determine what makes them stand out. That’s why I think we can learn a lot by studying past leaders. Studying Lee, other Civil War leaders, Jackson, Lincoln. Trying to see what made them great.
(GEN Omar Bradley)