"it can happen, you have to believe in yourself... play together, trust in your teammates. when everybody is on the same page, success is bound to happen."

~ travis williams

"build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity."

~ vince lombardi

"the way a team plays as a whole determines its success. you may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."

~ babe ruth

"talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."

~ michael jordan

"you can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

~ mark twain

"the only real training for leadership is leadership."

~ anthony jay

"criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots."

~ via islamic thinking

"leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. the visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice."

~ max depree

"even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me'. look what happens with a love like that. it lights the whole sky."

~ in hafiz of shiraz's "the gift"

"the signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. are the followers reaching their potential? are they learning? serving? do they achieve the required results? do they change with grace? manage conflict?"

~ max de pree

"people seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

~ friedrich nietzsche

"in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

~ martin luther king, jr.

"power resides where men believe it resides. no more and no less."

~ varys, in g.r.r. martin's "a clash of kings"

"if you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet."

~ isaac b. singer

"a lighthouse can only do so much. it is the ship that must slow and choose: to stop or to reverse, to risk the rocks or to chart a different course."

~ song of azrael 111:111

"pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."

~ jonathan kozol

"no friend have i. i must live by myself alone; but i know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so i will walk fearlessly with Him."

~ ludwig van beethoven :

"not everything needs to be said. tears for example: they speak for themselves."

~ paulo coelho