" Virtue, then, is of two kinds, intellectual and moral. Intellectual virtue springs from and grows from teaching, and therefore needs experience and time. Moral virtues come from habit... They are in us neither by nature, not in despite of nature, but we are furnished by nature with a capacity for receiving them, and we develop them through habit... Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it... by doing just acts we come to be just and by doing brave acts, we become brave..."

- Aristotle from the Nicomachean Ethics

"Each and every person in the department is expected to be a leader. Leadership means to be fair, to follow a set of core values, and to do the right thing."

- Leroy D. Baca, Los Angeles County Sheriff

" Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing."

- Warren Bennis

"As he thinketh in his heart, so is he."

-Bible, Proverbs 23:7

"...He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness..."

- Bible, Psalms 23:2-3

"There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity."

- Nathaniel Branden (author and psychologist)

"If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years, grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow people."

- A Chinese Proverb

"I prefer to strive in bravery with the bravest; rather than in wealth with the richest, or in greed with the greediest..."

- Marcus Cato

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope."

- Sir Winston Churchill

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

- Confucius

"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"..the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."

- Anne Frank

"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."

- Mohandas K. Ghandi

"There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled."

- Baltasar Gracian

"Courage is grace under pressure."

- Ernest Hemingway

" There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses."

- Andrew Jackson

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

- Thomas Jefferson

"This life we have is short, so let us leave a mark for people to remember."

- Kip Keino
(Kenyan Olympic gold medalist in track, explaining why he adopted and educated 69 orphan children)

"The basis of effective government is public confidence."

- John F. Kennedy

" Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

- John F. Kennedy

" Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on."

- Robert F. Kennedy

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"...that is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."

- Doris Lessing (British writer)

"Duty, Honor, Country."

- Douglas MacArthur, (General)

"Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided."

- James Madison

"Be afraid to die until you have won some victory for humanity."

- Horace Mann (American Educator)

"A leader is a dealer in hope."

- Napolean I

"Character is much easier kept than recovered."

- Thomas Paine

"It is not the critic who counts,
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena;
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes short again and again;
who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotions,
and spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement;
and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring.
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who know neither victory nor defeat."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Leadership involves conduct. Conduct is determined by values.
Values are what makes us who we are."

- H. Norman Schwarzkopf (General)

"Passion comes from what you contribute rather than what you get."

- Peter Senge

"You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

- George Bernard Shaw

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

- Socrates

"What you cannot enforce,/Do not command."

- Sophocles

"To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble."

- Mark Twain

"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."

- Universal Declaration of Human Rights

"Lead, follow, or get out of the way"

- Unknown

"Managing: A Key Part of Leadership"

- U.S. Army leadership definition quotes through the years.
Army Officials.
"Official Army Leadership Definitions."
Pentagon, Washington D.C.
The Information Management Support Center of the U.S.Army (October, 1996)

"Character is power."

- Booker T. Washington

"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."

- George Washington