Leader Quotes - Page 49

Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.

Can't pick and choose when you're gonna be a leader. If you're gonna be it - gotta do it every day.

Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don't fall in line with people who don't respect us and who we don't believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst.

The worst mistake a leader can make is to mentor no one, choose no successor and leave no legacy.

I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda.

To be effective, leaders must have the qualities and attitudes essential to work in a group setting.

The traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but, unfortunately, the traitors among the Negro race are generally to be found among the men with the highest place in education and society, the fellows who call themselves leaders.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Dedicate yourself to a core set of values. Without them, you will never be able to find personal fulfillment, and you will never be able to lead effectively.

We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.

Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or a country has steadfastness.

To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk.

Find the right people, not the best people.

It is obvious that Paul did not regard prayer as supplemental, but as fundamental-not something to be added to his work but the very matrix out of which his work was born. He was a man of action because he was a man of prayer. It was probably his prayer even more than his preaching that produced the kind of leaders we meet in his letters.

Obama is correct in saying that the world is ready for someone like him - a messiah-like figure, charismatic and glib... The Bible calls that leader the Antichrist. And it seems apparent that the world is now ready to make his acquaintance.

I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the child that still lives in all of us will always be incomplete. And not only physically, but creatively, intellectually, and spiritually as well.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

The job of the leader is to get the big ideas right.

I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.

Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.