Leadership Quotes: Guidance for Todays Leaders - Page 43
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Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.Collection: Leadership
You shouldn’t blindly accept a leader’s advice. You’ve got to question leaders on occasion.Collection: Leadership
The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.Collection: Leadership
A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.Collection: Leadership
My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.Collection: Leadership
Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.Collection: Leadership
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.Collection: Leadership
Progress requires change.Collection: Leadership
The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.Collection: Leadership
If you fail to honor your people, They will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, The people will say, "We did this ourselves."Collection: Leadership
You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.Collection: Leadership
The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.Collection: Leadership
Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.Collection: Leadership
Remember praise is more valuable than blame.Collection: Leadership
Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a big part of it. It's a bit like gut instinct, but a little more developed.Collection: Leadership
The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.Collection: Leadership
Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.Collection: Leadership
You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.Collection: Leadership
The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.Collection: Leadership
Men are lead by trifles.Collection: Leadership
The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.Collection: Leadership
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.Collection: Leadership
Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.Collection: Leadership
The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.Collection: Leadership
Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.Collection: Leadership
Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in Chief, I will do what is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. However, I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush towards conflict.Collection: Leadership
Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!Collection: Leadership
NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.Collection: Leadership
From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.Collection: Leadership
The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success.Collection: Leadership
Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.Collection: Leadership
Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to lead anyone anywhere, in the sense of pointing out the direction and setting the pace. They simply follow precedents, obey regulations, and move at the head of the crowd. Such employees lead only in the sense that the curved wooden figurehead leads the ship .Collection: Leadership
The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, but then they guide the horse with loose reins and very seldom use the spurs. So it was with our chief [William Rehnquist]. He guided us with loose reins and used the spurs only rarely to get us up to speed with our work.Collection: Leadership
Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.Collection: Leadership
Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.Collection: Leadership
Some questions cannot be answered, but they can be decided.Collection: Leadership
If a volunteer can help us with an immediate need, we can put them in a place to make their greatest contribution.Collection: Leadership
What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.Collection: Leadership
I learned early on that one of the secrets to campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I did that in college. I did it when I carried my papers. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them, I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them. Before long, I probably knew more students than anybody in the university, and they recognized me and considered me their friend.Collection: Leadership
People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains supportCollection: Leadership
Beloved youth, you will have your trials and temptations through which you must pass, but there are great moments of eternity which lie ahead. You have our love and our confidence. We pray that you will be prepared for the reins of leadership. We say to you, "Arise and shine forth" and be a light unto the world, a standard to others.Collection: Leadership
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.Collection: Leadership
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.Collection: Leadership
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.Collection: Leadership
There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them.Collection: Leadership
God uses broken-hearted leaders.Collection: Leadership
What is this generation of students worth? It's worth everything.Collection: Leadership
When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.Collection: Leadership
Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don't know of what. They are angry, but they don't know at whom. They are rejected and they don't know why. All they want is to be somebody.Collection: Leadership