"I will always welcome joyfully any opportunity that comes my way to be of service to you"
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"Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating."
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."
"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office."
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
"Don't talk unless you can improve the silence."
"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."
"The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do."
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."
"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."
"The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received."
"The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'"
"We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives."
"I have been told many times that when I win I make my people proud to be Australian. I am Aboriginal, I am one of them and every time I win or am honoured like this it should be an example to Aboriginal people who may think they have nowhere to go but down. But more importantly I am an Australian and I would like to make all Australians feel proud to be Australian. Ours is a truly multicultural society and should be united as such. I would like to believe that my successes are celebrated by all Australians, bringing our nation together."
"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it."
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."