The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.

How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

We often get so busy "sawing" (producing results) that we forget to "sharpen our saw" (maintain or increase our capacity to produce results in the future).

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.