A hallmark of leadership is accountability.

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.