“One of the most significant contributions to business failure is the inability to get things done through people.”
— David Krajenowski
“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
— Abigail Adams
“As long as you’re green, you’re growing. As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot.”
— Ray Kroc
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
— attributed to Mahatma Gandhi
“There is a choice you make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.”
— John Wooden
“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.”
— Woodrow Wilson
“[What matters most] is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.”
— Branch Rickey
“The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”
— Shannon L. Alder
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.”
— Honoré de Balzac
“The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.”
— Sonya Friedman
“People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.”
— Norman Cousins
“Your reputation and integrity are everything. Follow through on what you say you’re going to do. Your credibility can only be built over time, and it is built from the history of your words and actions.”
— Maria Razumich-Zec
“If a man’s associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
“In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.”
— Warren Buffet
“Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.”
— Michael Josephson