Quotes

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Will Durant, historian and philosopher

By leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US president

If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped. Melinda Gates, philanthropist

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (1828-1910)

People forget years and remember moments. Ann Beattie, novelist (born 1947)