John Wooden on your character
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden
the benefits of a disability
If I wasn’t dyslexic, I probably wouldn’t have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily… and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
Bruce Jenner, as found in Mindset, pp 91.
John Wooden on Character
“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”
John Wooden
Michael Jordan on the heart
“The mental toughness and heart are a lot stronger than some of the physical advantages you might have. I’ve always said that and I’ve always believed that.”
- Michael Jordan as quotes in Mindset, pp 86
William Wallace on living
“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.”
- William Wallace
Ken Hakuta on the value of ideas
“Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.”
- Ken Hakuta
John Quincy Adams on who is the leader
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
- John Quincy Adams
Daily Leadership Quote
Good leaders develop through a never-ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience.
- Manual on military leadership
Rosalynn Carter on risk taking
“You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try – you don’t take the risk.”
— Rosalynn Carter
Leonardo da Vinci on obstacles
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.”
- Leonardo da Vinci