“If you want to do something that really changes someones life, the best thing you can do is make the person youre trying to help a participant in the process.”

“Expect little, and we live up to the expectation. Expect a lot, and we stretch and grow to meet the expectation.”

“The more you teach your people to not need you, the greater your value.”

“A Serving Leader who creates a powerful churn of productivity needs a team that can put itself at the service of others.”

“Serving Leaders build teaching organizations to create excellence at every level.”

“Serving Leaders teach others the knowledge, skills, and strategies they need to succeed.”

“If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, youll keep resentment far away.”

“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations”

“One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.”

“Maybe if we stopped trying to achieve movie standards of greatness, we'd be happy with what we have.”

“Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.”

“You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so...”

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”

“The road to success is always under construction”