Never Enough

Genius is eternal patience. - Michelangelo

Necessity is often the spur to genius. - Honoré de Balzac

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

A belief is not true because it is useful. - Henri Frederic Amiel

A genius from nine to five - a fool at the weekends. - Unknown

Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. - Stuart Aken

A genius can do readily what nobody else can do at all. - Herbert Spencer

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. - Woodrow Wilson

There was never a great genius without a tincture of madness. - Aristotle

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. - C.W. Ceram

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. - F Scott Fitzgerald

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. - Henry Miller

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it. - Dr. Phil McGraw

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions. - Bo Bennett

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see and hits it. - Unknown

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. - Oscar Wilde

Marriage requires a special talent like acting. Monogamy requires genius. - Warren Beatty

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. - George Eliot

You do not lead by hitting people over the head; that is assault, not leadership. - Dwight D Eisenhower

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. - Harry S Truman

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,
And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart. - Edward Lear

Leadership is all about influence and everything rises and falls on leadership... everything. - John C Maxwell

Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like... love! - Homer Simpson

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold H. Glasow

Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well. - Clayton Christensen

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources. - Johann Wolfgang Goethe

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. - Tom Landry

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. - William Hazlitt

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. - Marilyn Monroe

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. - T S Eliot

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. - James Thurber

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

Integrity will take a leader farther than any other quality. If you would travel far and do much as a leader, never compromise your integrity. - John C Maxwell

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people, so that they can get on with their jobs. - Robert Townsend