Leader Quotes - Page 43

The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can't be achieved alone.

Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet!

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

Until you start thinking right, you will never start behaving right. Repentance always deals with the changing of the mind.

A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.

Trust is the essence of Leadership.

Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.

The true leader is always led.

As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent rules, neighboring rulers will take advantage of this.

Gone are the days when African leaders used to misrule their people and the rest of Africa was quiet under the guise of what was called non-interference.

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

You've got to realize that in any competition there is always a winner and loser. When it turns out that you're the loser on a given day, you can be a graceful loser, but it doesn't mean that you're a loser in the sense that you're willing to accept losses readily. Concede that on that day you weren't the best and that you were beaten in competition. But that should make you more dedicated and hard working. It's wrong to accept defeat as a loser. Be graceful about losing, but don't accept it.

Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.

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

The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The majority cannot reason; it has no judgement. It has always placed its destiny in the hands of others; it has followed its leaders even into destruction. The mass has always opposed, condemned, and hounded the innovator, the pioneer of a new truth.