Leadership Quotes - Page 36

The common soldiers did not blame him for his excessive grief. They knew him. They knew his flaws. Indeed, I think they loved him all the more because he was flawed, as they were, and did not hide his passionate, blemished nature.

Geraldine Brooks

As wars dwindled to skirmishes and our strength grew, so David was able to spend less time with military commanders and more with the engineers and overseers who were fanning out throughout the land, digging cisterns, making roads, fortifying, connecting, and generally making a nation out of our scattered people.

Geraldine Brooks

Leaders are deep thinkers. They don’t relax for problem to lay eggs before they attempt dealing with them.

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The ultimate profit from all of my businesses is to be happy and to make all of the customers happy.

Debasish Mridha

There is no greater truth than this: God created you for success. He gave you all the physical, mental, and spiritual DNA to succeed. He loves you through your mistakes and loves you enough to correct you when you step out of line. If you have not done it lately, Grab on to His great big hands of love and let Him take you places you have never dreamed of going. He’s that AWESOME!

The greatest part of our existence enfold in service of humanity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Resilient communities relied on informal networks of deep trust to contend with and heal disruption.

I have lived most of my life in soldiers’ camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk.

Geraldine Brooks

I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions.

Geraldine Brooks

A beacon of light shining in a dark tunnel leads even the blind to safety

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

Leaders are optimistic. When you walk with leaders, the spirit of hope will ramble around you and you will feel like “yes, I can break barriers with few blows.

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People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.

Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.

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Your followers are interested in going where you have gone before. Take them where you have been and let them know what took you there. They’ll learn by your example.

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People who praise a leader even when he is doing the wrong things are the main reasons why his fall is near.

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Whether it is in business life or in political roles, leaders rise up to offer the solutions to problems society faces. They act with the right actions at the right time.

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Leaders don’t fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn’t their desire to maintain but to improve.

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The courageous attitude of a leader awakens the dormant attitude of followers. The dormant attitude of a leader weakens the passionate attitude of followers. Leadership determines everything.

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To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don’t give him poem to recite; don’t give him a song to sing. Just engage him in an argument and you will know it for yourself who he is.

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People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally. Action fixes images in their minds and they can carry those images for a long period.

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A leader does not only discover what people can do better. He teaches, guides and mentor them to do it exceptionally well. When a seed comes into contact with a leader, fruits are produced.

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Management informs. Leadership applies. The effective managers inform accurately. Effective leaders apply wisely.

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The leader who listens is the one society needs most. They don’t force their commands on people. They pay attention to their demands and set the pace for the change that society truly needs.

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It's all right to drill your crew, but why not drill the passengers.

When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you.

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The growth of an organization is not dependent on the number of employees in its register. It is dependent on the number of employees who show dedication and commitment to the vision of the organization.

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Leadership is about taking steps while management is about drawing the map on the steps to take. Managers simply plan, leaders simply execute!

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The public personality of a leader is not what really matters. What he does out of the open stage really tells more about him than anything else.

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Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!

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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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Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass

Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.

The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent.

The author characterizes Hamilton's tone in the Federalist papers by saying that he never spoke of problems but of being at the last stage in the crisis.

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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Live an exemplary life as a leader. When you are gone, you will still lead from the grave because your influence, impacts and inspirations will become and information for the living.

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People do not recognize that you can do it when you merely tell them you can. Until they see you doing it, they won’t follow you. Leaders who are willing to go further alone today are those to be consulted for solutions tomorrow.

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Leaders look out for people who can criticize them constructively and rebuke them reasonably.

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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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He communicates authenticity to an electorate ravenous for it.

Initial uniformity can be deceiving, warns the author, because parties arrive at that state from so many different motives which will be exposed over time.

Donald R. Hickey

In all things... .strive for perfection - settle for excellence

Jeff Dixon - Storming the Kingdom

Now even reformers needed political machines.

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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Experiment participants asked to pick which politician looked more confident in a photograph picked the winner of the race two thirds of the time. This phenomenon held up even when they only glimpsed the photographs for a 10th of a second.

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