If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.

The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.