This document contains over 30 quotes and sayings related to leadership, success, teamwork, and personal growth. Some of the key ideas expressed are that opportunities are most valuable when prepared for in advance, true heroism is serving others, leadership requires keeping a team united and focused on goals rather than personal agendas, and that the role of a good leader is enabling others to excel while remaining largely unnoticed themselves.

2. When opportunities come, it is too late to prepare John Wooden (9)‏

3. Advice is seldom welcome and those who need it most like it the least. Samuel Johnson (37)‏

4. “ You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.” John Wooden (39)‏

5. “ True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at what ever cost” Arthur Ashe (51)‏

6. Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged on one thing- THE RESULT. Vince Lombardi (55)‏

7. A journalist asked an accomplished mountain climber “Why do you climb mountains? What is it that causes you to go through all of the preparation, the training, the risk, and the pain?”

8. His response “ Its obvious that you have never been to the top of a mountain.” (58)‏

9. 'The person who keeps busy helping the one who is below him won't have time to envy the person above him.' Henrietta Mears (60)‏

10. “ The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team” John Wooden (61)‏

11. 'Maturity doesn't come with age. It begins with the acceptance of responsibility' Ed Cole (62)‏

12. 'You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time”' Protestant Reformer John Knox (74)‏

13. Yiddish Proverb 'If you act like an ass, don't get insulted if people ride you' (77)‏

14. ... both will escape Old Proverb (88)‏ If you chase two rabbits...

15. “ Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it” James Joyce (90)‏

16. “ Show me what you can do; don't just tell me what you can do.” John Wooden (91)‏

17. Chinese Proverb ( 96 )‏ “ Those who drink the water must remember those who dug the well.”

18. ' It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good everyday.' Willie Mays (98)‏

19. “ Don't find a fault find a remedy.” Henry Ford (99)‏

20. “ A Bold heart is half the battle” Dwight Eisenhower (100)‏

21. 'There are no traffic jams on the extra mile' Zig Ziggler (101)‏

22. “ Nobody who ever gave their best ever regretted it” George Halas- Football Coach (106)‏

23. “ The higher the level you play, the less they accept excuses” McDonald Valentine- Baseball Coach (108)‏

24. The secret of success in life is for man to be ready for his time when it comes Benjamin Disraeli- British Prime Minister (128)‏

25. “ If what you did yesterday still looks big you haven't done much today” Elbert Hubbard (152)‏

26. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve the worlds problems Mahatma Gandhi (153)‏

27. By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be afraid only of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you” Ben Franklin (153)‏

28. “ The best time to plant a tree was twenty five years ago the second best time is today.” (153)‏

29. “ You can't change where you started, but you can change the direction you are going It's not what you are going to do, but it's what you are doing now that counts.” Napoleon Hill (154)‏

30. “ Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others” Jack Welch- CEO General Electric (156)‏

31. The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people Theodore Roosevelt (176)‏

32. To enjoy a friend, I need more in common with him than hating the same people. Frank A. Clark (177)‏

33. “ Your best friend is he who brings out the best that is within you” Henry Ford(179)‏

34. “ Nothing would get done at all if a man waited until he could do something so well that no one could find fault with it” Cardinal Newman (205)‏

35. To talk about the need for perfection in man... is to talk about the need for another species. Norman Cousins (206)‏

36. President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person with a know it all attitude in this manner. Lincoln asked “How many legs will a sheep have if you call the tail a leg? “ Five” the man answered. “ No” replied Lincoln “ He'll still have four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.” (208)‏

37. 'Having the best players on the floor isn't enough. You have to have the best players in the right positions.' Don Neff (241)‏

38. “ Leaders are dealers of hope” Napoleon (271)‏

39. “ Start doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” St. Francis of Assisi (276)‏

40. Leadership is seeing opportunity in tough times Jack Welch (287)‏

41. “ The biggest job in getting any movement off the ground is to keep together the people who form it” Martin Luther King Jr (288)‏

42. Lao-Tzu Chinese philosopher (308)‏ A leader is best when the people barely know he exists