Leadership Quotes - Page 54

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God

Henry Kissinger

So if you see no one like you, no one who agrees, don't worry. There are actually hundreds of people like you, and they're waiting for a leader. That person is you.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

Sun Tzu

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

God uses imperfect people for impossible tasks

John Paul Warren

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.

Hyman George Rickover

Leaders draw out ones individual greatness

John Paul Warren

Too many in the Church today are likes babies in the nursery,they put everything in their mouth.

John Paul Warren

Be a FRIEND and stop worrying about having any

John Paul Warren

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Theodore M. Hesburgh

Impossible situations TEST you and PROVE Him

John Paul Warren

Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up.

Shannon L. Alder

...You have any suggestions, make them. I'm in charge but humble. No need to salute when you see me." Fraser said, "Mind if we snicker every once in a while behind your back?" "Hell, no," I said. "Everyone else does.

Robert B. Parker

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

Robert Louis Stevenson

He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up.

Malcolm X

Good leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own.

You are either supporting the vision or supporting division

Compassionate leaders honor the complexity of human relationships, nurture authenticity and create common grounds for blooming great ideas of individuals.

Amit Ray

In essence, leadership is the sense of calling to a higher purpose.

Amit Ray

Compassionate leaders know their stakeholders and address their concerns, their hopes, dreams and fears.

Amit Ray

You are not alone in the struggles of life. Entire cosmos is with you. It evolves through the way you face and overcome challenges of life. Use everything in your advantage.

Amit Ray

Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.

Warren G. Bennis

All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting. If we want different results, we must change the way we do things.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Harvey S. Firestone

We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves...Don't be afraid of new ideas.

J. Oswald Sanders

The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.

J. Oswald Sanders

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

Your life is a trajectory. Every choice you make alters that trajectory, in a positive or negative way. Will you categorize that dinner with friends as a business expense? Will you be honest with your daughter? Will you take more credit than you’re due? These are just the small questions that we face every day, and little by little, the answers influence the trajectory of our lives and beings.

Donald Van de Mark

No great manager or leader ever fell from heaven, its learned not inherited.

Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.

Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.

Michael Bassey Johnson

I define my life not by the things I have done, but by the people I have loved.

John Paul Warren

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

Warren G. Bennis

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

the quality of your mind depends on the quality of your thought

Most people don't care who's in charge as long as someone is.

Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship

As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership.

Amit Ray

Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility - toughness for accountability - flexibility to adapt changes with a compassionate & caring heart for self and others.

Amit Ray

You can’t move up in the staircase of leadership unless you are emotionally intelligent.

Amit Ray

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Peter F Drucker

Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.

David Foster Wallace

When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.

When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.

Winston S. Churchill

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

George Washington

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

In the end,” Callum said, his voice soft, gentle, “it all comes back to you. You protect them [your pack], you love them, you live for them, and someday, you die. That’s what it means, Bryn-girl, to be what we are [to be Alpha]. It’s lonely. It’s impossible. It’s all-consuming.” It is what it is.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.

There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot."Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.""Why can't we all move forward together?""Because you're all different. You're not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow.""Who leads?""The men who must...driven men, compelled men.""Freak men.""You're all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory.""Thank you very much.""My pleasure, sir.""You've saved the day.""Always a lovely day somewhere, sir," the robot beamed. Then it fizzed, jangled, and collapsed.

The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.

Tom Rath

Stop counting your "years" and start enjoying your "seasons".

John Paul Warren

It’s not just picking the right friends. It is being the right friend.

John Paul Warren

Belief has the power to change your inner state and your outer world.

John Paul Warren

The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.

Lao Tzu

If you perceive right you receive right. If you perceive wrong you receive wrong.

John Paul Warren

Although individuals need not be well-rounded, teams should be.

Tom Rath

The world is full of stupid people. That's why we have rules. But with enough intelligence, a person can be above the rules. She can make rules.

Neoteny is more than retaining a youthful appearance, although that is often part of it. Neoteny is the retention of all those wonderful qualities that we associate with youth: curiosity, playfulness, eagerness, fearlessness, warmth, energy. Unlike those defeated by time and age, our geezers have remained much like our geeks – open, willing to take risks, hungry for knowledge and experience, courageous, eager to see what the new day brings. Time and lost steal the zest from the unlucky, and leave them looking longingly at the past. Neoteny is a metaphor for the quality – and the gift – that keeps the fortunate of whatever age focused on all marvelous undiscovered things to come.

Warren G. Bennis

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