Chris Brady > Quotes

“No guts, no story.”
― Chris Brady

“The only way to BE happy is to GIVE happy.”
― Chris Brady

“Our privileges are not for our pleasure but rather for our purpose.”
― Chris Brady

“It's hard to be less than happy when you can be happy with less.”
― Chris Brady, A Month of Italy: Rediscovering the Art of Vacation

“You can't take your same old self into a bright new future. You would only darken it.”
― Chris Brady

“A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think.”
― Chris Brady

“No person is great in and of themselves; they must touch the lives of other great beings that will inspire them, lift them, and push them forward.”
― Chris Brady

“Mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.”
― Chris Brady, Launching a Leadership Revolution

“You don't know what you don't know. That's why you don't have. Because to know and not to have is not to know.”
― Chris Brady, TEAM Textbook

“Cynicism is what happens when skepticism is given too much latitude.”
― Chris Brady

“Leaders lead for the joy of creating something bigger than themselves.”
― Chris Brady, Launching a Leadership Revolution

“No one should ever go hungry, what with chewing ourselves out, eating crow and swallowing pride.”
― Chris Brady, LIFE

“Being a leader is a study in managed frustration.”
― Chris Brady, Launching a Leadership Revolution

“Abraham Lincoln said, “Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing.”
― Chris Brady, Launching a Leadership Revolution

“To think that the wise are not capable of folly is not wise.”
― Chris Brady, LIFE

“Leadership is the influence of others in a productive, vision-driven direction and is done through the example, conviction, and character of the leader.”
― Chris Brady, Launching a Leadership Revolution

“Life should be about purpose and meaning and cause and fulfilling our personal, God-given destinies.”
― Chris Brady, Launching a Leadership Revolution

“Leadership is about doing the right things; management is about doing those things in the right way.”
― Chris Brady, Launching a Leadership Revolution

“Leadership is influence—nothing more, nothing less.”
― Chris Brady, Launching a Leadership Revolution

“What separates a leader from the rest is not only his ability to see what needs to be done but his unhesitating execution of it, even while others watch or deliberate.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

“The less talented we are, the more focused we must be.”
― Chris Brady, PAiLS: 20 Years from Now, What Will You Wish You Had Done Today?

“Hunger, it should be noted, is different from ambition. Where ambition is largely about self-aggrandizement, hunger is more about service and significance.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

“Wise leaders court hunger like a muse, and they summon her continuously. Complacency, arrogance, malevolence, apathy, and comfort can easily chase her away.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

“A true leader makes a decision and then works to make the decision right.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

“You are in command. Your job is so challenging, so complex, so never-ending that most people could never come close to understanding the load you carry. You are thrust into impossible situations with little time and usually even less information upon which to make a decision.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

“We should strive to matter as much as we possibly can and guard ourselves against the inevitable temptations that would cheapen our accomplishments.”
― Chris Brady, PAiLS: 20 Years from Now, What Will You Wish You Had Done Today?

“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

“Happiness is the by-product of doing the right things in life. And the “right things” always involve serving and loving and caring and contributing to others.”
― Chris Brady, PAiLS: 20 Years from Now, What Will You Wish You Had Done Today?

“What really needs to be learned from other successful leaders is their thought processes, their reasons, their methods of emotional control, their strategies, their abilities in dealing with other people, their subtle touches.”
― Chris Brady, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

“Nothing of significance was ever achieved without negative input from other people.”
― Chris Brady, PAiLS: 20 Years from Now, What Will You Wish You Had Done Today?