Leader Quotes - Page 44

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.

I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.

Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.

...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

A good leader makes a good follower.

Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.

Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened.

As long as you remember that if you get involved in politics, you have to be very careful that your leader is for Allah. You don't get involved in politics because it's the American thing to do. You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.

First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them with being communistic or otherwise dictatorial, dangerously aggressive, power hungry, genocidal, given to terrorism or drug trafficking, ready to deny us access to vital resources, harboring weapons of mass destruction, or just inexplicably "anti-American" and "anti-West." Lacking any information to the contrary, the frightened public ... are swept along.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

People don't mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. The public does not fully understand the world into which it is going. Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. Those leaders who do not are ultimately judged failures, even though they may be popular at the moment.

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.