1. Existing leaders have to live their best value system so that they are very powerful models and mentors. Stephen R. Covey

2. People in more and more organizations are asking their leaders to better ‘walk their talk’. Larry E. Senn

4. There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton

5. As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say, I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie

7. A leader doesn’t just get the message across – a leader is the message. Warren Bennis

8. Throughout our country and world, when leading by example, the standards for integrity are set by our leaders. To vary from those standards is to lose the capacity to lead. Anthony Robbins

10. Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. Stephen R. Covey

11. When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. Jim Henson

13. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise. Proverbs 13:20

14. It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt

16. A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example. Joe DiMaggio

17. He that would govern others first should be the master of himself. Philip Massinger

19. One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one’s most personal themes – the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one’s own individual life, its real texture and substance. Gloria Vanderbilt

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

22. Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down. Wilson Mizner

23. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower

25. Saying is one thing and doing is another. Montaigne

26. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter. Martin Luther King Jr.

28. Peace means loyalty to self … And loyalty to one’s self means never a gap between thought, speech, act. Ruth Beebe Hill

29. Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value. Albert Einstein