23 Leadership Insights

These are some random quotes that have helped inspire me along my journey and I hope that they can do the same for you.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. – Norman MacEwan

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is. – Angelo Patri

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness. – Leo Buscaglia

This above all: to thine own self be true. – William Shakespeare

The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one. – Elbert Hubbard

What the student calls a tragedy, the master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach

One chance is all you need. – Jesse Owens

Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone. Person to person. – Mother Teresa

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. – Mark Twain

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. – Pele’

It is in the moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. – Anthony (Tony) Robbins

Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. – Muhammad Ali

When you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love. – Gandhi

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass

Without confidence you are twice defeated in the race of life, with confidence you have won even before you have started. – Marcus Garvey

Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. – Nelson Mandela

Be the change in the world that you want to see. – Gandhi

Life is what happens to you when you are making other plans. – Betty Talmadge

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. – Lao-Tzu in the Tao Te Ching

I have never let me schooling get in the way of my education. – Mark Twain

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. – Indira Gandhi

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances. – Martha Washington

Award-winning Author, Speaker, & Trainer (more importantly, a loving husband, father, son, brother and friend), Brandon W. Johnson, a.k.a., "Positive Energy Guy"