Quotes

Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.

I tell them it’s like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.

Your growth as a mature human being is measured by the increasingly difficult conversations you are willing to have.

Most of our failures are in races for which others enter us. Most of our successes come from races we ourselves want to enter.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood…

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralysed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

The Courage to Lead is a willingness to take risks for the good of an unknown future. And the risks are real. For it is much easier to tinker with the month, the quarter or the year, but to make decisions with an eye to the distant future is much more difficult.

Invest in preparedness, not in prediction.

So often, the best way to contend with problems, with issues, with adversity is action, is by taking action. The more you sit and the more you wait and the more time you spend with that adversity with the upper hand inside your head, the worse it’s going to get.