“Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.”
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
“Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.”
Xenophon
“I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country”
E. M. Forster
“I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.”
Christopher Fry
“All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.”
Graham Chapman
