Favorite Quotes

“Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it most like it least.”  Dr. Samuel Johnson

“Trying hard doesn’t make you remarkable.  Doing a good job doesn’t make you remarkable.  What makes you remarkable is being amazing, outstanding, surprising, elegant, and noteworthy.”  Seth Godin from Small is the New Big

“If we are not careful, we can become the sum total of all the expectations other impose on our lives.”  Erwin McManus from Soul Cravings

“We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”  Aristotle

“Great leaders create great problems.  If you’re not willing to create problems; you’re not willing to lead.  Leaders create problems by changing expectations.”  Erwin McManus

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”  19th century philosopher, William James

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

“Nothing fails like success.”  James O’Toole from Leading Change

“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what’s said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”  Abraham Lincoln

“Leadership is stewardship.  It’s temporary.  And you’re accountable.”  Andy Stanley

“Without the power of God the leader is nothing more than an organizer of human effort and activity.”  LeRoy Eims from Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be

“Some leaders are born women.”  Unknown

“I believe that if a woman’s heart belongs entirely to God and she doesn’t long for children, she is probably called to childlessness in order to pursue other purposes for God.”  Beth Moore