In addition to Laurie Sudbrink's, Leading With GRIT, being a great new in 2015 book for leaders, it's packed with powerful leadership and life quotes. Here are some of my favorites:
- Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are – Kurt Cobain
- The respect you show to others (or lack thereof) is an immediate reflection on your self respect – Alex Elle
- You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – Harper Lee
- People only see what they are prepared to see – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give – Winston Churchill
- If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you – Fred Devito
- The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old but on building the new – Socrates
- The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to rely – Anonymous
- Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity – Simon Weil
- Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves – Eleanor Roosevelt
- The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them – Zig Ziglar
- You can't change what you refuse to confront – Gina Senarighi
