When you can lead yourself, you can lead others well.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.

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.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people – men and women, boys and girls – that make the world a special place.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.