Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.

Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.

My days are filled with you, and for that I am more grateful than you could ever know

What adjective can be used for a nation who is consistently fooled, recurrently deceived by the crafty politicians? Goofy? Very light! Fool? Not enough! Brainless? Yes, that is the very adjective!

Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.

I don't give a damn how you feel about me, I sip lean pure codeine and I don't give a damn what you say about me.

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

South African rugby doesn't have to stand back for anyone.

That's how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.