Astonishing Leadership Quotes

#1. When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

Andy Rooney

#2. Coal-black is better than another hue,
In that it scorns to bear another hue;
For all the water in the ocean
Can never turn the swan's black legs to white,
Although she lave them hourly in the flood.

William Shakespeare

#3. I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

J.K. Rowling

#4. There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'.

Nelson Rockefeller

#5. We are all different and we all have a different sense of humor.

John Patrick Hickey

#6. I'm Hispanic - don't mess around with my coffee. Leave my beans alone.

Liz Torres

#7. A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

Gertrude Jekyll

#8. Never ever let anyone tell you, you can't do anything you are set out to do in life. We are all gifted".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#9. I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine.

George J. Mitchell

#10. READING, beaming up into books" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary
"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 167

Rodman Philbrick

#11. I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is.

Pete Wentz

#12. Getting a spark of inspiration to write is the best feeling in the world, no matter what time it is...I get a feeling on the inside that urges me to get up from whatever I am doing, grabbing that pen and writing down whatever my heart and mind tell me too... it's beautiful."

Sontia Levy-Mason

#13. Now it is raining, but we don't know what will happen in the next moment. By the time we go out it may be a beautiful day, or a stormy day. Since we don't know, let's appreciate the sound of the rain now.

Shunryu Suzuki