"So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Time and Time Management | 2 bookmarks

"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Time and Time Management | 5 bookmarks

"Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance."

Buscaglia, Leo | Time and Time Management | 1 bookmarks

"I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting."

Brown, John Mason | Time and Time Management | 2 bookmarks

"City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead."

Hoagland, Edward | Time and Time Management | 1 bookmarks

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

Drucker, Peter F. | Leaders and Leadership | 9 bookmarks

"The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do."

Ruskin, John | Humility | 3 bookmarks

"Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them."

Mccloy, John (Jay) | Humility | 3 bookmarks

"Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis."

The EMS Manager Newsletter | Leaders and Leadership | 5 bookmarks

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. | Leaders and Leadership | 6 bookmarks