All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.