Leadership Quotes: Guidance for Todays Leaders - Page 19
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I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive.Collection: Leadership
Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.Collection: Leadership
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.Collection: Leadership
But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.Collection: Leadership
Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.Collection: Leadership
Leadership is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision.Collection: Leadership
Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.Collection: Leadership
Men are loyal when you lead from the front.Collection: Leadership
...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.Collection: Leadership
It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence.Collection: Leadership
There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.Collection: Leadership
Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.Collection: Leadership
Learning comes from education, while knowing comes from revelation. Learning is cognitive, while knowing is spiritual.Collection: Leadership
The shortest distance to leadership is service.Collection: Leadership
The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their careful observance of all the rules, their precious concern for status symbols, their strict legality, their pious patriotism... the haircut becomes the test of virtue in a world where Satan deceives and rules by appearances.Collection: Leadership
Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.Collection: Leadership
The best thing you can give as a leader is a reason to trust. People want to trust. They're hungry for it. But they're selective. They'll only give it to a motivator, a communicator, a teacher, a real person. Someone who in good times and bad always does the right thing.Collection: Leadership
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.Collection: Leadership
Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.Collection: Leadership
I am not looking for perfection. I look for the best in me.Collection: Leadership
...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.Collection: Leadership
In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.Collection: Leadership
If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.Collection: Leadership
Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.Collection: Leadership
A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.Collection: Leadership
The first key to leadership is self-control.Collection: Leadership
People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.Collection: Leadership
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?Collection: Leadership
If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.Collection: Leadership
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.Collection: Leadership
The Republicans tend to choose the candidate who came in second place in the last election, and Democrats tend to move on. Ask President Ed Muskie how it worked out to be the front-runner. Ask President Howard Dean how it worked out.Collection: Leadership
Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadershipCollection: Leadership
A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.Collection: Leadership
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.Collection: Leadership
Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.Collection: Leadership
Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.Collection: Leadership
I do not believe that there is any secret or single formula for success, but there are common threads of thought and action that characterize the successful people that I have been fortunate enough to know and observe. I do know, from my own experience, that our chance of succeeding is much greater when we organize and take charge of our lives. When we are willing to make decisions, we aggressively pursue those things in life that are important to us.Collection: Leadership
Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.Collection: Leadership
Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.Collection: Leadership
I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.Collection: Leadership
The film looks suspiciously like the game itself!Collection: Leadership
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.Collection: Leadership
Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.Collection: Leadership
It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setback. They are champions because they've been hurt. Their experience moved them, and they pulled out this fighting spirit, making them what they are. Sometimes in life, God gives us a difficulty in order to bring out the fighting spirit. Everything that happens to you can happen for good if you have this spirit. The essential thing in life is not in the conquering, but in the fight.Collection: Leadership
Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these great ones until your form is perfect. This is true in all of life. A flaw in a product can ruin a business. A personal failing, a little one, can ruin a person's life. Don't be content with mediocrity - strive to live up to the greatest within you.Collection: Leadership
It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world.Collection: Leadership
Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.Collection: Leadership
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.Collection: Leadership
Practice the game the way you're going to play the game. Practice hard and play hard. Run hard and above all else, hustle every moment you're on the field where you are practicing or playing in a game.Collection: Leadership