Leadership Quotes - Page 55

To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Peter F Drucker

Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

George Washington

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.

Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.

Karen Marie Moning

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Together we are better

John Paul Warren

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

Patrick Lencioni

The world is full of men who want to be right, when actually the secret of a man's strength and his pathway to true honor is his ability to admit fault when he has failed. God wants to fill the church with men who can say they are wrong when THEY ARE WRONG. A man who is willing to humble himself before God and his family and say:"I was wrong." will find that his family has all the confidence in the world in him and will much more readily follow him. If he stubbornly refuses to repent or admit he was wrong, their confidence in him and in his leadership erodes.

True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.

Sheri Dew

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry Kissinger

Each day you are leading by example. Whether you realize it or not or whether it's positive or negative, you are influencing those around you.

Rob Liano

At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Benjamin Disraeli

To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.

A leader must lead. Where others see obstacles, he must see opportunities. When others see problems, he must see possibilities ... Civilization is not built on a negation but on an affirmation- an affirmation of the bright and promising possibilities that the future holds for those who are enterprising enough to pursue them.

David J. Vaughan

Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are.

Thomas John Carlisle

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.

Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Startwith what they know. Build with what they have. But with the bestleaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people willsay 'We have done this ourselves.

Lao Tzu

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Peter F Drucker

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

Patrick Lencioni

Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

Peter F Drucker

Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears.

George R.R. Martin

A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengeance. Kings though...well, who is there to turn upon them? So the chains are made of straw. It is the curse of kings, Helikaon, that they can become monsters. And they invariably do.

If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

Jack Weatherford

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

Peter F Drucker

Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

The best form of saying is being

Ernesto Che Guevara

Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men; the least government is the best government.

Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.

He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.

In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

The first key to leadership is self-control.

Jack Weatherford

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)

Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does needy Africa continue to let its wealth meet the needs of those outside its borders and then follow behind with hands outstretched for a loan of the very wealth it let go? How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa?

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

A star wants to see himself rise to the top.A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.

(On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.

The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Peter F Drucker

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

Margaret Thatcher

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoléon Bonaparte

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don't know of what. They are angry, but they don't know at whom. They are rejected and they don't know why. All they want is to be somebody.

Thomas S. Monson

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Rosalynn Carter

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are.

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