The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.

We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.

Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have.

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

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.