When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves.

Yes, content is king but excellence is his queen. ~ Onyi Anyado.

You have to be so disciplined that even your distractions become focused.

Steve Jobs says “innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower”. But I believe some followers are more innovative than their leaders. Some leaders come perchance.

Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.

The sword of the Spirit has been muffled up and decked out with flowers and ribbons,” author writes, conveying the sentiments of a Congregationist minister on men’s ceding of moral and religious instruction and correction...

You can unlock spiritual things only from within.

Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.

We can’t really explain what the goal of mentoring is, until we understand what the church is for.

Preparation breeds professionalism, and professionalism enhances leadership competencies.

We develop trust when we show that we are reliable, by doing what we say we are going to do to take care of that treasure, and then stepping it up by doing more, by...

It is not about knowing, but about living.

A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice....

Some will, some won’t. Look for the ones who will.

A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.

If you don’t get any motivation from your team, there is nothing wrong with those you lead but your form of leadership.

Lead by Example,not by showing samples

Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

Paraphrasing Plato’s Republic: “Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.

The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.

Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don’t forget to lift someone up.

Only do what only you can do.

One Man’s Hero, Another Man’s Villain..Sometimes in the same Man..

Success is not a probability visiting us once in a while..Success is a HABIT which can be acquired, cultivated, polished, practised and achieved on a daily basis !

From her character in the HBO miniseries: “The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

Hatred is the price that society extracts from its leaders for the honour, power and wealth it bestows unto them.

Make a commitment to serve the needs of the ‘least of these’ and give voice to the voiceless.

A hand that helps to make a person understand his true stand than supporting him to defend his wrong position in any given situation is only of his best friend.

Self-confidence is the degree of control,conviction and contention on own character.

Generate great impressions. This is a direct result of setting higher standards for yourself in your speech, dress, living environment, grooming, etiquette, study, research and commitment.

Your values, as guiding principles, will influence your attitude towards yourself, life, other people, work and even challenges or success itself. Your values are a product of your beliefs.

If you check your personal blind spots, you can be able to guard against focusing on what you cannot do, but reduce the areas of weakness by taking their space with more of your strengths.

Be in love with what you do. Love wisdom. Love life. Love people. God is love.

The unfairness of judging others comes in that we judge them on the basis of our own values and beliefs, yet we can never exactly stand on common ground.

In short, women who do not opt out of demanding professional positions are more likely to opt out of demanding family obligations.

Friends are won through personal contact, but admirers are won through their contact with our works

One of history’s secrets is that the revolutionaries’ appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.

The paradox of change is that the only way to alter the way we think is by doing the very things our habitual thinking keeps us from doing.” p. 5

A critical element in nearly all effective social movements is leadership. For it is through smart, persistent, and authoritative leaders that a movement generates the appropriate concepts and language that captures the frustration, anger, or...

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can’t stop.

Many people know themselves but hardly believe what they know. To be a leader, knowing yourself is not enough; you must believe what you know about yourself!

Their job as leader was not to solve the problem – the president really has little control over the economy – but to convince the public not only that he has a plan but that...

Preparation is the key to leadership success. The more prepared you are the less your struggle to make it happen and the more your effectiveness!

When the positive mind takes the lead, the legs are safe to follow without any shaking!

God is never tired of bringing the sun out every morning, taking it in the evenings and bringing out the moon.

He is the only option for better living.

Error is human,perfection is divine!You are not God! Your mistake is normal.So forgive yourself.

Don’t set your sights low, just because someone else has a limited view of life’s possibilities. One person’s comfort zone may be another person’s cage.