“The essence of real leadership is to allow your people to see your need and desire for learning. Your actions speak more than your words. Today’s leaders must be students of change first, before they become teachers of change to others.”
- Jack Kahl

Leadership

“An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a deer.”
- Philip II of Macedon

Leadership

“The leader must have infectious optimism. . . . The final test of a leader is the feeling you have when you leave his presence after a conference. Have you a felling of uplift and confidence?”
- Field General Bernard Montgomery

Leadership

“If you lead through fear you will have little to respect; but if you lead through respect you will have little to fear.”
- Anonymous

Leadership

“Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by.”
- Johann Friedrich Schiller

Enthusiasm

“Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”
- Dale Carnegie

Dealing with Others

“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration and expectation.”
- Jack Nicklaus

Achievement

"It is as wrong to say that the church has no part in the ministry of healing as it is to say that the only thing that prevents people from being healed is their lack of faith."
- Colin Brown

"Ultimate healing and the glorification of the body are certainly among the blessings of Calvary for the believing Christian. Immediate healing is not guaranteed. God can heal any disease, but He is not obligated to do so."
- Warren Wiersbe

"God certainly can, and sometimes does, heal people in a miraculous way today. But the Bible does not teach that He will always heal those who come to Him in faith. He sovereignly reserves the right to heal or not to heal as He sees fit. From time to time God, in His mercy, may grant us healing from disease as a gracious glimpse, a ‘sneak preview’ of what is to come. It is my opinion that He sometimes does. But, in view of the fact that the kingdom has not yet come in its fullness, we are not to automatically expect it."
- Joni Eareckson Tada

Healing

“Faithfulness to principle is only proved by faithfulness in detail.”
- Ridly Havergal

“Dependability—fulfilling what I agreed to do even though it requires unexpected sacrifices.”
- Bill Gothard

“My dear Senator, I am not called to be successful, but faithful.”
- Mother Teresa to Senator Mark Hatfield who asked her, “How can you bear the load without being crushed by it?”

“Is your place a small place?
Tend it with care!—
He set you there.
Is your place a large place?
Guard it with care!—
He set you there.
Whate’er your place, it is not yours alone,
But his who set you there.”
- John Oxenham

Faithfulness

"The story of Easter is the story of God's wonderful window of divine surprise."
- Carl Knudsen

"Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer;
Death is strong, but Life is stronger;
Stronger that the dark, the light;
Stronger than the wrong, the right;
Faith and Hope triumphant say
Christ will rise on Easter Day."
- Phillips Brooks

"O chime of sweet Saint Charity,
Peal soon that Easter morn
When Christ for all shall risen be,
And in all hearts new-born!"
- James Russell Lowell

"If Easter means anything to modern man it means that eternal truth is eternal. You may nail it to the tree, wrap it up in grave clothes, and seal it in a tomb; but "truth crushed to earth shall rise again." Truth does not perish; it cannot be destroyed. It may be distorted; it has been silenced temporarily; it has been compelled to carry its cross to Calvary's brow or to drink the cup of poisoned hemlock in a Grecian jail, but with an inevitable certainty after every Black Friday dawns truth's Easter morn."
- Donald Harvey Tippet

"On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer."
- Douglas Horton

"Easter is not a passport to another world; it is a quality of perception for this one."
- W.P. Lemon

"There is a stage in a child's life at which it cannot separate the religious from the merely festal character of Christmas or Easter. I have been told of a very small and very devout boy who was heard murmuring to himself on Easter morning a poem of his own composition which began 'Chocolate eggs and Jesus risen.' This seems to me, for his age, both admirable poetry and admirable piety. But of course the time will soon come when such a child can no longer effortlessly and spontaneously enjoy that unity. He will become able to distinguish the spiritual from the ritual and festal aspect of Easter; chocolate eggs will no longer seem sacramental. And once he has distinguished he mustput one or the other first. If he puts the spiritual first he can still taste something of Easter in the chocolate eggs; if he puts the eggs first they will soon be no more than any other sweetmeat. They will have taken on an independent, and therefore a soon withering, life."
- C. S. Lewis

Easter

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Abraham Lincoln

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle
Benjamin Franklin

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
Andrew J. Holmes

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Barry Switzer

When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.
Bernard Baily

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.
Mary H. Waldrip

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
Benjamin Whichhcote

He was like a rooster who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot

If I had any humility I would be perfect.
Ted Turner

Don’t be humble; you’re not that great.
Golda Meir

I am no more humble than my talents require.
Oscar Levant

Only the penitent man will pass…the penitent man is humble, the penitent man kneels before God.
Dr. Jones, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Oh yeah? Well, I’m twice as humble as you!
Linus to Charlie Brown

Humility