"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets." - Abraham Lincoln

"Avoid popularity if you would have peace." - Abraham Lincoln

"As our case is new, we must think and act anew." - Abraham Lincoln

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." - Abraham Lincoln

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world." - Abraham Lincoln

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. " - Abraham Lincoln

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" - Abraham Lincoln

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." - Abraham Lincoln

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind." - Abraham Lincoln

"All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother." - Abraham Lincoln

"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me." - Abraham Lincoln

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." - Abraham Lincoln

"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have." - Abraham Lincoln

“If you're lying, you're lying.” - John C. Maxwell

"Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how - and know that they want to follow you."

"Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up." - John C. Maxwell

"Three reasons problems are inevitable; first, we live in a world of growing complexity and diversity; second, we interact with people; and third, we cannot control all the situation we face." - John C. Maxwell

"Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple." - John C. Maxwell

"Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today." - John C. Maxwell

"The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it." - John C. Maxwell

"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision." - John C. Maxwell

"Leadership is influence." - John C. Maxwell

"Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do." - John C. Maxwell

"Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best."

"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." - John C. Maxwell

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." - John C. Maxwell

"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them." - John C. Maxwell

"As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behaviour. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works." - John C. Maxwell

"Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it." - John C. Maxwell

"Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, 'I'll get a bigger job, then I'll learn how to be a leader.' But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn't a position, it's a process." - John C. Maxwell

"A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position." - John C. Maxwell

"If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone." - John C. Maxwell