Leadership Quotes: Guidance for Todays Leaders - Page 61
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that's why we call it the present. If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And If not now, when? A brick alone is nothing but a brick. It takes a collection of bricks to build a house. Instructor, what?? You mean you teach best what you most need to learnCollection: Leadership
History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.Collection: Leadership
Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?Collection: Leadership
The true leader is always led.Collection: Leadership
As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.Collection: Leadership
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.Collection: Leadership
The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space.Collection: Leadership
All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then choose the one that will make you feel the best about it at the end of the day.Collection: Leadership
Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here. Edward Snowden is a coward. He is a traitor. And he has betrayed his country. And if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.Collection: Leadership
The mayor of Sochi is now saying that there are no gay people in Sochi. So the only thing that is flaming over there now is the Olympic torch.Collection: Leadership
Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.Collection: Leadership
Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.Collection: Leadership
Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.Collection: Leadership
Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.Collection: Leadership
A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.Collection: Leadership
The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.Collection: Leadership
When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.Collection: Leadership
A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.Collection: Leadership
Leaders are not born, they're made.Collection: Leadership
Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.Collection: Leadership
I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.Collection: Leadership
When I lose, it doesn't just go to my head; it goes to my heart too. If you're at all in the match, if you love to play and ein, it must go to your heart.Collection: Leadership
Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.Collection: Leadership
Here's a woman, a real pioneer for other women looking for careers in stand-up comedy. And talk about guts - she would come out here and sit in this chair and say some things that were unbelievable - where you would have to swallow pretty hard... but it was hilarious... the force of her comedy was overpowering.Collection: Leadership
Talent is important. But the single most important ingredient after you get the talent is internal leadership. It's not the coaches as much as one single person or people on the team who set higher standards than that team would normally set for itself. I really believe that that's been ultimately important for us.Collection: Leadership
I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.Collection: Leadership
We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.Collection: Leadership
Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.Collection: Leadership
We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.Collection: Leadership
In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.Collection: Leadership
Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.Collection: Leadership
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.Collection: Leadership
Anybody will do for you, but not for me.Collection: Leadership
Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.Collection: Leadership
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.Collection: Leadership
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'Collection: Leadership
I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.Collection: Leadership
Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.Collection: Leadership
No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.Collection: Leadership
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.Collection: Leadership
No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.Collection: Leadership
When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.Collection: Leadership
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.Collection: Leadership
True leaders inspire us to be bigger and do things we are afraid of doing.Collection: Leadership
While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.Collection: Leadership
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintainign focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.Collection: Leadership
A man is known by the company he owns.Collection: Leadership
Progress does not occur without change.Collection: Leadership
To succeed in life, we must stay within our strength zone but continually move outside our comfort zone.Collection: Leadership