John Quincy Adams

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Governor Tom Ridge

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I’ve learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you, they will magnify your power to lead.

Bill Gates

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

John Maxwell

Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Too often, we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Pablo Casais

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Mother Teresa

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Alice Childress

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

The best portion of a good man’s life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Maya Angelou

The best part of life is not just surviving, but thriving with passion and compassion and humor and style and generosity and kindness.

William James, Author

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind, the second is to be kind, and the third is to be kind.

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)

Never, if possible, lie down at night without being able to say: I have made one human being at least a little wiser, or a little happier, or at least a little better this day.