Leader Quotes - Page 38

The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained.

Courage! Do not fall back.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility.

...leaders who do not hold their people accountable to a set standard are, in effect, thieves and liars. Thieves because they are stealing from the stockholder who pays them to hold people accountable, and liars because they pretend that everything is OK with their people when in fact everything is not OK.

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.

Prayerless leaders are like ship captains without compasses; they can make their best guess at which direction to go, but they have no assurance they are heading the right way. Prayer keeps leaders focused on the one absolutely consistent factor in life - God.

The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.

Being an effective leader is enormously complex. It requires vision to see a future, dedication to make things happen, sensitivity to people who are quirky at times, and personal confidence without arrogance.

It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work. Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government and we have two choices for who’s our leader. In fascism you only have one choice. That’s great. We have one more choice than the worst form of government.

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

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

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.