We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures.

- Max De Pree

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give a…

- Max De Pree

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

- Max De Pree

Leaders should be able to Stand Alone, Take the Heat, Bear the Pain, Tell the Truth, and Do What's Right

- Max De Pree

The leader is the servant who removes the obstacles that prevent people from doing their jobs.

- Max De Pree

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

- Max De Pree

By ourselves we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.

- Max De Pree

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

- Max De Pree

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

- Max De Pree