We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

St. Clement of Alexandra

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

Polybius

Let him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.

Thomas Carlyle

It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.)

Latin Proverb

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Philip Armour

What you cannot enforce / Do not command.

Sophocles

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Ovid

No man can stand on top because he is put there.

H. H. Vreeland

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Solon

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

Publius Syrus

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Woodrow Wilson

I light my candle from their torches.

Robert Burton

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.

Henry W. Longfellow

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

Horace

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Harold R. McAlindon