This document contains short quotes and sayings about leadership, truth, courage, compromise, learning and doing what is right. The quotes encourage listening more than talking, standing up for your principles, leading by example, and gaining expertise through continuous learning. Key themes are doing the right thing regardless of what others think and making decisions based on integrity rather than acceptability.

3. When someone shows you who they are,
believe them the first time.
- Maya Angelou

8. Conscience is the inner voice that
warns us someone is watching.
-H.L. Mencken

9. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

10. Start with what is right
rather than what is acceptable.
- Peter Drucker

12. Anything you do is everything you do.
-Buddhist saying

13. It’s better to displease people by doing what’s right
than to please them by doing what’s wrong.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

18. If we were supposed to talk more than we listen,
we would have two mouths and one ear.
- Mark Twain

19. The time is always right
to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

20. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to
remember anything.
- Mark Twain

23. One person with courage makes a majority.
- Andrew Jackson

24. Never do anything that you wouldn’t do
if it were the last hour of your life.
-Jonathan Edwards

25. Those who stand for nothing
fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton

26. Don’t compromise yourself;
you’re all you’ve got.
- Janis Joplin

27. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do
something you want done because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

30. What you get free costs too much.
- Jean Anouilh

31. Never become so much of an expert
that you stop gaining expertise.
View life as a continuous learning experience.
- Dennis Waitley