Leadership Quotes - Page 12

Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.

Ask yourself...If I walk a tight rope,will I fall ,If I shake my balance of thought will it deter me and if I stay focused will I succeed?.~bns

The Disciplined Leader is someone who focuses on the 20 percent of activities that drive 80 percent of results.

Some people only go to church for the social life. They like having all the friends in church or getting the praises of men by doing certain things, but they don’t go there to actually worship God. They go there so others can worship THEM instead.

His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.

Joseph J. Ellis

On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.

Josiah became King of Judah at the age of eight. Joan of Arc led the French Army at nineteen. King Tut led all of Egypt at age nine. Age isn't everything you think it is. Your heart and your spirit speak more than a simple candle count on your birthday cake. ~Tony (Exposing ELE)

People work harder, longer, and more creatively if they are motivated by the intrinsic pleasure of their work. Managers must do everything they can to make the value of jobs obvious and the joy in them accessible.

Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.

It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.

You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world.

Let go of a need for personal recognition. Heap kudos on others and they’ll perform even better next time. Leaders are only as good as those who follow them and followers are at their best when leaders are quick to give credit for successes.

All power lies in free expression.

The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.

Gregory C. Carlson

If you criticize others’ ideas, they will almost never use yours no matter how good they are.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.

I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

Great Leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, self-reflection, education, training, and experience

Tony Buon

Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.

The concert we give is winning. And if all the people in our organization whose instrument is scouting of player development or major league scouting or player knowledge, all play well, we're going to have the most beautiful symphony of success. And I think we have.

John Schuerholz

If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.

David Halberstam

We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside.

The more you give, the more you get.

You are mostly treated by others, the way you deserve.

Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.

He was the subject of a little respectful ribbing. But he was, of course, the captain, which meant he had to do lots of the ribbing himself.

Serving my generation with excellence will in turn mean my generation can lead with excellence.

I did not know of any single soul who succeed in life without a mentorship.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when he met resistance in a local, academic issue.

David Pietrusza

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

Otto von Bismarck

You don't see the world as it is, you see it,as you are.

REAL Leaders are experts at bringing out the best in others... Thinking , feelings and actions. They improve their teams' thinking skills and Mindsets.

Performance depends upon our actions an behaviors, which are activated by emotions, which are created when our MINDSET meets reality... Mindsets Matter Most

With the right Mindset...effective thinking is automatic.

Every nation can harness the energy of its citizens, either towards constructive work to generate optimism and hope, or towards tensions, unrest and war.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Embrace the change you desperately need. Tear down your walls and show gratitude for little things.

J. Loren Norris

Qualifications or not without gratitude you not qualified enough to be a leader.

I am hopeful because love overflows from my heart. Gratitude for beauty and life leads my way.

It's not what you eat that will kill you as much as what is eating you.

Being willing to listen to others and let them speak into our lives is a critical attitude leaders must have. It is not weakness to get good advice - it is strength to seek it out.

The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training.

Ortega y Gasset José

ReThink your success mindset: In life, the stuff that really matters most, is invisible, but palpable.

ReThink culture, because it is the foundation of all strategic success.

The humble one is the better one.

New beginnings can be painful ends. What your attitude is changes ends into new beginnings.

Don't make excuses. Make commitments and stick to them.

The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, or in the series of his achievements, but in his attitude towards mankind and the conception which he sought to realize in action of the service owed by America to the rest of the world...Thomas Jefferson was a great leader of men because he understood and interpreted the spirits of men.

No one is charismatic. Someone becomes charismatic in history, socially. The question for me is once again the problem of humility. If the leader discovers that he is becoming charismatic not because of his or her qualities but because mainly he or she is being able to express the expectations of a great mass of people, then he or she is much more of a translator of the aspirations and dreams of the people, instead of being the creator of the dreams. In expressing the dreams, he or she is recreating these dreams. If he or she is humble, I think that the danger of power would diminish.

Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.

The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what he DID NOT know.

David Halberstam

Great leaders are the first to say, “I was wrong. Let’s make a change.

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

James MacDonald

Vision and persistence will take you to the top of the leadership mountain, but only humility will keep you there.

The immediate reactions of the two superpower leaders when confronted with the gravest international crisis of their careers were much the same, shock, wounded pride, grim determination, and barely repressed fear.

If you're a boss, and not a leader, your time is limited.

The factor that made him so powerful was also his greatest liability.

Nixon under pressure turned only to reporters from publications already favorable to him; Kennedy, in trouble, turned to those most critical and dubious of him, and if anything tended to take those already for him a bit for granted.

David Halberstam

They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they particularly treasured were missing.

David Halberstam

One of the ladies asked about that awful Bobby Kennedy, and Goldwater responded by speaking about the attorney general with touching affection. (Mary) McGrory recalled how Jack Kennedy behaved at a similar stage in his campaign: spouting statistics, attacking carefully chosen enemies and puffing all the right friends, quoting dead Greeks, never cracking a joke lest he remind the voters how young he was.

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