2098 Quotations Found

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Author: Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage. These are the four intelligences, the four forms of perceiving, the languages for communicating that are required to achieve meaningful, sustained results.

Author: Peter Koestenbaum | Subject: Leadership

I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity. In every aspect of life, polarities are inevitable: We want to live, yet we must die. How can I devote myself fully to both family and career? Am I a boss or a friend? A lover or a judge? How do I reconcile my own needs with those of my team? … [ Read more ]

Author: Peter Koestenbaum | Subjects: Leadership, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence — that you can’t get around life’s inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas.

Author: Peter Koestenbaum | Subject: Leadership

Reflection doesn’t take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action — to be a leader. Think of leadership as the sum of two vectors: competence (your specialty, your skills, your know-how) and authenticity (your identity, your character, your attitude). When companies and people get stuck, … [ Read more ]

Author: Peter Koestenbaum | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can’t make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning — much less set strategy for a company or for a human life.

Author: Peter Koestenbaum | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Every now and then say, “What the fuck.” “What the fuck” gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.

Author: Curtis Armstrong | Subject: Personal Improvement

Life is Short, Live it.
Love is Rare, Grab it.
Anger is Bad, Dump it.
Fear is Awful, Face it.
Memories are Sweet, Cherish them.

Author: Unknown | Subject: Personal Improvement

Comparison […] is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can’t win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.

Author: Jim Collins | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Worry is a misuse of the imagination.

Author: Dan Zadra | Subject: Personal Improvement

We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.

Author: Steve Maraboli | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

One of the biggest keys to success at anything hard is believing that you can figure it out as you go along. A lot of people won’t start until they figure it out. And because most hard things can’t be figured out in advance, they never start.

Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Success / Failure

The natural tendency to produce an imbalance between supply and demand is the source of Buddhistic “sorrow.”

Author: Garrett Hardin | Subjects: Concepts, Life & Society, Pain & Suffering

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Author: Thomas Jefferson | Subjects: Concepts, Freedom | Liberty, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. […] May we not even say, that that form of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?

Author: Thomas Jefferson | Subjects: Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy

A good cause is often injured more by ill timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies.

Author: Thomas Jefferson | Subjects: Change, Concepts, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy

Liberty and equality can be very much at odds with each other. […] Generally, so-called liberals pursue equality more zealously, whereas conservatives care first for liberty.

Author: Eva Brann | Subject: Politics & Public Policy

Feeling threatened overwhelms our perception. When we react to a situation, we revert to our primitive behaviour without flexibility or compassion.

Author: Iffet Türken | Source: Insead Knowledge | Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior

Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

Author: Hebrews 11:1 | Subject: Religion

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualistic ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

Author: Friedrich Hayek | Subjects: Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality