We can accomplish more together than we can alone.
Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping.
Understanding the diversity of our gifts enables us to begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other.
Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.
In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch-that is, who should be listened to and when.
We do not grow by knowing all of the answers, but rather by living with the questions.
History can’t be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past.
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.
In most vital organizations, there is a common bond of interdependence, mutual interest, interlocking contributions, and simple joy.
We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures.
Trust cannot be bought or commanded, inherited or enforced. To maintain it, leaders must continually earn it.
The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.
Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky.
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers.
The leader is the servant who removes the obstacles that prevent people from doing their jobs.
To be a leader means, especially, having the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those who permit leaders to lead.
By ourselves we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.
Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things.
We can go through anything because Jesus goes before us.
We cannot avoid growing old; but we can avoid growing cold.