be a leader

“Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step. Only he who keeps his eyes fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.”
- Dag Hammarskjold, the 2nd UN Secretary-General

here is something i learned about leadership. your personl weaknesses as a leader in your own life are magnified when you are in a group and leading others.
so important to have me working right first.

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”
- Mark Twain

“If you acknowledge the importance and power of your ambition, recognize that it is there to drive you to greater achievements and sustain you through the challenges, and if you couple it with competence, hard work and the morality you learned at your mother’s knee, you can defeat the insidious erosion of feeling inadequate, the fear of being in charge, the doubts that we all have about our capacity to lead.”

Judy Elder, speaking at the WTN Gift of Wisdom Series, Toronto Board of Trade, March 7, 2002

“The goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.”
- Abraham Heschel

alpha female??

“Me. We.”
- Entire text of Muhammad Ali Commencement speech

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
- Heraclitas

“All I know is that I am not a Marxist.”
- Karl Marx

“I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why, I succeed.”
- Michael Jordan