--- title: 'Leadership Quotes' url: 'https://tonypiper.coach/quotes' updated: '2024-03-04' description: 'A curated collection of leadership quotes from thinkers like Sydney Banks, Michael Neill, and others. Words that point toward clarity, resilience, and insight.' --- # Leadership Quotes These are quotes I come back to again and again. Each one points toward something true about how the mind works, how we lead, and how we find clarity when things feel complicated. ## A A Milne > “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — A A Milne ## Albert Einstein > “The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is at the root of all true science. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible Universe is my idea of God.” — Albert Einstein ## Beverley Wilson Hayes > “Love doesn't need to be spoken in order to be heard.” — Beverley Wilson Hayes ## Bill Pettit > “You're in your thoughts or you're in your life.” — Bill Pettit ## Blair Warren > “People will do anything for those who will encourage their dreams, justify their failures, allay fears, confirm suspicions and help them throw rocks at their enemies.” — Blair Warren ## Brian Tracy > “Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are aways asking "what's in it for me?"” — Brian Tracy ## Carl Jung > “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” — Carl Jung ## Chip Chipman > “There's information in the feeling.” — Chip Chipman ## Deepak Chopra > “In every failure are the seeds of greater success.” — Deepak Chopra ## Don Miguel Ruiz > “You don't need internal dialogue to navigate life” — Don Miguel Ruiz ## Edgar Cayce > “Voice is the highest vibration of humans.” — Edgar Cayce ## Gabor Maté > “Trauma is not what happens to you, it’s what happens inside you as a result of what happened to you. Trauma is that scarring that makes you less flexible, more rigid, less feeling and more defended.” — Gabor Maté ## Jack Pransky > “All we are is peace, love and wisdom, and the power to create the illusion that we're not.” — Jack Pransky ## Jamie Smart > “People are always doing what makes most sense to them in the moment at their current level of understanding.” — Jamie Smart > “The ego only knows about the past. It's a rear-view mirror. It doesn't know a thing about the future.” — Jamie Smart ## Jan Chipman > “Being aware of my shortcomings doesn't help me” — Jan Chipman > “There's information in the feeling.” — Chip Chipman > “Wisdom isn't imparted - it's woken up” — Jan Chipman ## Joseph Campbell > “Most people aren't looking for the meaning of life, they're looking for the feeling of being alive.” — Joseph Campbell > “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” — Joseph Campbell ## Lao Tzu > “Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.” — Lao Tzu ## Lau Russell > “God will work with you, but not for you.” — Lau Russell ## Leo Tolstoy > “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” — Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina) ## Mavis Karn > “Thought is a tool but like any tool you can use it to create things or a weapon against yourself or others.” — Mavis Karn ## Michael Neill > “A thought problem goes away if you stop thinking about it. A real problem doesn't.” — Michael Neill > “All the problems in the world come from unrecognised thought.” — Michael Neill > “As soon as you stop thinking a thought, it's gone.” — Michael Neill > “Attention is oxygen.” — Michael Neill > “Every Baby brings its own loaf of bread.” — Michael Neill > “Excitement is Inspiration + Tension” — Michael Neill > “From a low level of consciousness the game doesn't look like a game - it looks like your life depends on it.” — Michael Neill > “Habits are not always easy to break, but they are incredibly easy to extinguish by reducing attention.” — Michael Neill > “If you want to be impactful, open yourself up to being impacted by others.” — Michael Neill > “If you're drunk but you know you're drunk you're not that drunk.” — Michael Neill > “Knowing where you're going is the enemy of creativity.” — Michael Neill > “Once we understand how film works, our job is to forget how film works.” — Michael Neill > “The length of a feeling is the length of a thought.” — Michael Neill > “The mind is an unreliable narrator.” — Michael Neill > “The money will come from where it is now.” — Michael Neill > “The most important choice you make is what you choose to make important (or what you come to see most important).” — Michael Neill > “We are made to live in a river of insight. We don't need to grab each one and mount it on the wall to remind us of it. Because when we do that we step out of the river.” — Michael Neill > “When we meet the world with shining eyes, everything and everyone is impacted by it.” — Michael Neill > “When you stop drinking poison, you stop needing the antidote.” — Michael Neill > “When you're not making it about you it's easier to handle a charging bull.” — Michael Neill > “You don't break a habit - they extinguish when you stop feeding them. And you don't have to wait until they're completely gone to begin to enjoy your life.” — Michael Neill > “You'll never watch the sunrise if you only ever look west.” — Michael Neill > “You've gotta catch the ball before you can run with it.” — Michael Neill ## Peter Thomson > “You can't take responsibility for your results, because there are too many variables. You can take responsibility for your actions, because there aren't.” — Peter Thomson ## Ram Dass > “We're all just walking each other home.” — Ram Dass ## Robert Cialdini > “Tell people what you can't do before you tell them what you can do.” — Robert Cialdini ## Robert Fritz > “If you can't hang out with tension, you can't create.” — Robert Fritz ## Seng T’san > “Do not search for the truth; only cease to cherish opinions.” — Seng T'san (The Hsin Hsin Ming - Verses on the Faith Mind) ## Steve Hardison > “If you can hate someone you don't know, you can love someone you don't know” — Steve Hardison ## Sydney Banks > “If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience that would change the world.” — Sydney Banks > “Our eyes are the windows to the soul, and only when our eyes are free of yesterday's scratches will we see today with any clarity.” — Sydney Banks > “Truth always comes with a nice feeling.” — Sydney Banks > “When you learn to forgive, you see with clarity the ignorance and the innocence of those who trespass against you.” — Sydney Banks > “Wisdom is available everyday throughout the world... if you can hear it.” — Sydney Banks > “Wisdom is the antibiotic of the soul.” — Sydney Banks ## T S Eliot > “We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.” — T S Eliot ## Tony Piper > “Half the battle is knowing you’re in a movie theatre, and not in the movie.” — Tony Piper ## Unknown > “It's not about sharing the good news, it's about being the good news.” — Unknown > “What is, is. what isn't, isn't.” — Unknown > “When you fell out of your head you wound up in your heart.” — Unknown > “You don't need to put the yolk in the egg. It's already in the egg.” — Unknown ## Walt Disney > “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” — Walt Disney ## William Blake > “I see through my eyes, not with them.” — William Blake ## William Shakespeare > “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” — William Shakespeare (Hamlet, Act 1)