"Lessons In Leadership....."

January 11, 2015


Leader:  1. a person or thing that leads.  2. a guiding or directing head.

Leadership:  1. the position or function of a leader.  2. ability to lead.  3.  an act or instance of leading; guidance; direction.

Lead:  1. to go before or with to show the way; guide.  2. to influence or induce; cause.  3. to guide in direction, course, action, opinion, etc;  4. to go at the head of or in advance of; to be in control or command of;

Today I'm going to share some of my "Lessons In Leadership"  that inspire, empower and motivate me to keep moving forward, that also let me know that if I fall, I fall forward.



"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President



"If you do good people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
     Do good anyway.
If you are successful you will win false friends and true enemies.
     Try to be successful anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
     Do it anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
     Be honest and frank anyway.
People favor underdogs but will follow the top dogs.
     Fight for some underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
     Build it anyway.
People really need help but they may attack you if you help them.
     Try to help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
     Give the world your best anyway.

~Author Unknown
adapted by Karl A. Menninger, MD  1893-1990 




"This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.  This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new....Thy infinite gifts come to me only on those very small hands of mine.  Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill."

~Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali



Love Always,

Lolita