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“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

“Celebrate what you want to see more of.”

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

“Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.”

“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”

“I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.”

“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.”

“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”

“Calamity is the test of integrity.”

“Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.”

“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

“I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.”

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.”

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.”