Quotes by Ghanaian Authors - Page 180

Leaders create and maintain good interpersonal relationships with people they meet and work with. People who lead better relate better.
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If you have only answers and no questions, chances are high that you will never know new things.
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Contrary to popular opinion, leaders aren’t created out of fame. Fame is just a shadow. When you enter dark times in, it leaves you.
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Leaders know where they can function better. They don’t cry over what they cannot do.
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Innovation is the art of creating a better, a more convenient and more comfortable way for the world to pass. Leaders leave footprints everywhere they go. They are impact makers and innovators.
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Those who see poverty looking for human slaves to capture, will tell you they saw him holding the handcuffs of laziness.
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Self-leadership is about digging out your hidden endowment and making them known and useful to those who need it most.
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Vision unknown is self-abuse. Vision known is self-abuse discovery. But vision applied is self-liberation. Application is the key
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Leaders reject free opportunities they don't need, so that they can have time to create the expensive opportunities they need.
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A person with low standards will forever be walking. A person with high standard will soon stop walking and start running. Later, they’ll soon stop running and start galloping. The next time you see him, he’s either flying or soaring.
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Leaders try every possible means to leave the world better than they found it. They make an indelible impact and society remembers them for that.
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Don’t let the horrible nature of the waters prevent you from crossing the rivers of life. The more horrible the challenges we face, the sweeter the joy of conquering them.
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Leaders are raised through training and experience. Nobody was born naturally with hand-gloves of leadership. We come to life to search for it, discover it and optimize it.
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Leaders don't pray to God to fill their potholes. They ask God for shovels so they can do it by His grace. Pray practically.
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The main way people waste time is by complaining of their past wasted time. Leaders respond even if it seems to be late.
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To leaders, one trusted friend is better than ten well known betrayers
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What differentiates victors and victims are visions and vigor. Victims won't get the vim to step out of their situations.
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Inferior and Superior life lives in the interior of a person.
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Leaders don't define wealth by material things they see. They define wealth by the visions they imagine and actions they take.
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Clarity repositions you to quit nice activities that take you nowhere in order to pursue risky tasks that take you somewhere.
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Leaders get to tall heights by taking short steps. Being faithful, diligent and consistent with little steps is the secret to mounting greater heights.
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Leaders with high esteem are high performers.
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Leaders let go of what they can't control. It's a matter of knowing the power of the muscles and bones in your neck so you can go for what it can carry
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Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them.
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Leaders take actions. Attacking your plans with blows of actions will not cost you painful but temporal bruises. Never leave goals untouched.
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Achievements take leaders' name everywhere. Character keeps those names wherever they reach. A leader with no trust soon fades no matter how far he goes.
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When you get to the junction of double mindedness in purposefulness, remember the will of God.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Service is a sacred strength.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You must not wait to be elected into office, before you begin to serve. Begin to serve every where you are; in the home, community, school, university, work, hospital, church, market, society, nation and among many other places.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Leaders must served and not to be served as demonstrated by Jesus Christ, the Saviour.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Accept it as it is and be true to yourself, the real answer is in you. It is about saying no to whom and what no is due and saying yes to whom and what yes is due! A simple solution to most of the problems of mankind today is just Yes and No!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Great leaders live and leave noble and indelible footprints. Any leader can start something. Any leader can do anything but, the real hallmark and a great measure of a great leader is not necessarily what happens now but, what happens later. The noble works of a true and a great leader stand the test of time and never vanish with time.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If you cannot lead, do not mislead.
Lailah Gifty Akita
A true leader is the one who leaves memorable footprints of nobility. A leader who is decisive enough and have all the guts to take bold and frank decisions regardless of the oppositions and the temporal adverse effect of such decision on the masses, knowing that in the end, the fruits of such decision will be sweeter enough to put joy on the faces of the masses and they shall remember such noble footprints and ponder in humility.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Ideas love speed
Bernard Kelvin Clive
A journey to make real impact that changes lives, give meaning to life and living, and turns vision of the masses into realities demands a true focus, an utmost zeal and robustness and an unfailing tenacity to do whatever necessary within the powers and reach of a true leader, and with all needed dexterity, wit and wisdom, to make real impact have a meaning and give real liberation to the masses!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Though sometimes you must have an unstoppable courage, it must be with a well defined humility for purposeful living! Humility is not just good for our lives; it also greatly saves our lives, integrity and true purpose! Don’t just think you are on top of the world just because you stand on the tallest building. When the building collapses, you may be far worse than they that walk besides the building who can run away upon seeing it collapsing!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark.
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You don’t influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.
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Just as you won’t enjoy the fruits of the tree you dislike, so you won’t even wait to learn from people you hate.
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You can decide to refuse to allow people who aim at hating you to achieve their aims.
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Not every gift must you stretch your hands to take! Sometimes, just put your hands by your side and humbly and courageously say thank you!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The most risky day in the world will be the day the bird will decide to swim and the fish will decide to fly. Stay glued to what you can do.
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It is not just about what you can do that will make you a leader. It is about how well you can do it.
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The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will be while doing it.
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This fact is that the heaviest and more burdensome load ever is neither the cement bag nor the iron rod. It is hatred.
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Harbour no hatred in your heart against anyone. People who do this have placed their influence on the risky line.
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If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it.
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A self-leader looks around for problems, and then thinks deep to device solutions to them.
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And don’t forget, if you are very intelligent but load yourself with bad characters, nobody will follow you.
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Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age.
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You can’t be a self-leader if you are an enemy to yourself. Stop the hatred and love yourself.
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To influence people with your leadership gifts, you don’t make them your enemies. When they are your enemies, they won’t take your words seriously; neither will they support your actions.
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Since you can’t be influence by people who hate you, you cannot influence people you hate also.
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Not money, not fame and not positions can transform an enemy into a friend but rather, it is love that can do such a job.
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A leader’s goal is to improve on upon the past and if your goal is to remain where you are, doing the same things you have done times and times again, you can’t lead.
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Never reject the opportunity to take the first step. The first step is the key to obtaining the experience you have longed for.
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If you’re going to give up after few attempts, bear it in mind that your struggles are going to be wasted.
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Most times, the way isn’t clear, but you want to start anyway. It is in starting with the first step that other steps become clearer.
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When you are silent on the truth, you have given a transport fare for the lie to travel and spread fast.
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