Leadership Quotes - Page 53

Sasha: "It's not your fault. You were doing what you thought was best to keep them safe. It isn't easy, making those kinds of decisions. I know that. And I also know the difference between you when you're trying to be the leader and you when you get to just be a boy."Wells: "It's funny you should say that,""Say what?""That you see the difference between me as a leader and me as a person.""I believe I said boy." she corrected.~Chapter 21 Pg: 228

The conservatives had started bringing demagoguery to the table on the [Afghan] war issue the previous fall [fall 2006]. Whenever opposition members criticized the war policy, assorted Tories accused them of being disloyal and of failing to support the troops....[Harper] was gaining the reputation of a leader who couldn't see a belt without wanting to hit below it.

Lawrence Martin

Effective decision-making can be seen as an optimal link between memory of the past, ground-realities of the present and insights of the future.

Amit Ray

Point me in the right direction, and shut the fuck up. I'm the one calling the shots now. Fall in line or fall down a fucking well.

The choice to lead is nurtured by the willingness to rise above challenges of life.

Israelmore Ayivor

Be the start of something that is good, revolutionary and powerful. Everything after that is a bonus!

Never undermine the power of passion. You have a very high chance of achieving anything you are passionate about.

Israelmore Ayivor

Try not to leave your work for someone else to do. If possible, carry the work of someone and add it to yours. That's a trait of leaders!

Israelmore Ayivor

Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better.

Great leaders have three things; inner light, inner vision and inner strength.

Amit Ray

[T]hese leaders must not believe they are actually being watched, for their behavior in no way reflects the possible existence of a set of values or ethical laws that supersedes their own dominion.

Arthur C. Clarke

Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Barbara W. Tuchman

The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.

Jack Weatherford

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

Thomas S. Monson

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

Leaders..should influence others..in such a way that it builds people up, encourages and edifies them so they can duplicate this attitude in others.

It's not about you. It's about them.

‎"You will never reach your dreams without honoring others along the way.

John Paul Warren

If there were only success in your life, you would not learn anything. Leadership is experience and you are still young. You still have much to learn about our people and war; it should not come easy to you. If it did, you would be robbed of life's most valuable teacher.

Rachel Higginson

In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man.

Many have exchanged the touch of God for the applause of men

John Paul Warren

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned — would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

Charles Dickens

Lobbing hand grenades on the bride of Christ takes zero talent or effort. I also think this really ticks God off. My five-year-old child complains and whines when things aren't the way she wants them, but courageous men and women roll up their sleeves and get busy. I want to be an active participant in putting back together the broken pieces.

Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.

Warren G. Bennis

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work ot make it better.

Barbra Pletcher

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

Thornton Wilder

In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he always knows what's up, like nothing can ruffle him.

Jeff Greenfield

the condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

Thornton Wilder

[Nicodemus] 'Magistra DeVega, can I ask for your help?'[DeVega] 'You can ask,' she said with her usual calmness, 'but the clerics haven't developed a cure for death by idiotic leadership.

A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news. In places where people see a lot of obstacles, I see a lot of opportunities. A good businessman sees where others don’t see.

live as temporal, serve as eternal

John Paul Warren

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations.

Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.

Leadership is not just some empty formulas but establishing deep connection at soul levels through service, integrity, passion, perseverance and equanimity.

Amit Ray

You are blessed, You are great. You are not alone. You are powerful.

Amit Ray

Great leader knows that under the turmoil of chaos and change, there is a beauty of patterns and designs.

Amit Ray

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

Marco Pierre White

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Carl von Clausewitz

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

J. Oswald Sanders

Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.

Warren G. Bennis

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.

Jack Weatherford

People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.

The essential difference with Builders is that they've found something to do that matters to them and are therefore so passionately engaged, they rise above the personality baggage that would otherwise hold them down. Whatever they are doing has so much meaning to them that the cause itself provides charisma and they plug into it as if it was electrical current.

Diplomacy is the delicate weapon of the civilized warrior."- Hun, A. T.

Robert Lynn Asprin

Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.

Warren G. Bennis

The president had shifted to the 'we' mode now, something he invariably did when a potentially unpopular decision was at hand. For the easy ones, it was always 'I.' When he needed a crutch, and especially when he would need someone to blame, he opened up the decisionmaking process and included Critz.

If you seek honor and respect you will not find it, for a leader is powerless to elevate himself. It is only when you serve others without regard for self, will honor, respect and lasting success be found.

Stevenson Willis

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

Leadership isn't about power for the sake of power - not true leadership. Instead it deals with modeling behavior you want others to have, and with responsibility for being certain the people you lead are treated equitably, and with respect. Not an easy task. You can't make other people feel anything, or think anything; you can only try to teach them what you want them to feel and think and why you think they should act accordingly.

And a leader has to command confidence, and consent.

John Christopher

I'm accustomed to being top man. I been a bull goose catskinner for every gyppo logging operation in the Northwest and bull goose gambler all the way from Korea, was even bull goose pea weeder on that pea farm at Pendleton -- so I figure if I'm bound to be a loony, then I'm bound to be a stompdown dadgum good one.

Ken Kesey

Your outlook affects your outcome

John Paul Warren

(Patrick Henry) He understood that the home was the foundation of a stable society and that the authority a man "exercised within the larger society was rooted in the authority exercised at home." Thus ... the training ground for all sound leadership is the family.

David J. Vaughan

My life has far exceeded my expectations not because of my own personal efforts or mindset but because of my friends who have enriched my existence

John Paul Warren

A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.

Leading people is like cookingDon’t stir too much It annoys the ingredients And spoils the food

Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty

Grace Murray Hopper

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader’s arsenal

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