COURAGE isn't an absence of fear. It is doing what you are afraid to do, letting go of the familiar and forging ahead into new territory. What I have discovered is that the best leaders have the courage to act - are willing to take the risk, make the statement, point the way, lead the way - when others hesitate out of fear. Effective leadership requires the ability to stand up, stand out, and the conviction to do it. I have never known a successful leader that was not courageous.

Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.

Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportionate to the strength of leadership.

Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.

Nothing is as hard as it looks; everything is more rewarding than you expect; and if anything can go right it will and at the best possible moment.

Every journey toward a dream is personal, and as a result, so is the price that must be paid for it.