It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Nelson Mandela

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
Robert Frost

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
Robert Frost

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Robert Frost

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Robert Frost

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Aristotle

Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Jack Welch

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck

Children make your life important.
Erma Bombeck