Leader Quotes - Page 50

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.

In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

Leaders don't look for recognition from others, leaders look for others to recognize.

Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It's uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle...If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them.

The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee

It is a big embarrassment that a leader can say on the eve of an election that he cannot hand over power to an opponent, that he can only hand over power to a member of his political party.

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

For Aboriginal leaders, the social and moral obligation that comes with community leadership is life-long. Those who lead, who have authority, must care for and look after those who come behind.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

The Americans are trying to expand their influence in the world, particularly in Europe. They are defending their own interests, not ours. I am in favor of a multi-polar world in which France once again takes its position as the leader of non-aligned states, not with the US, not with Russia and not with Germany. One should strive to be neither slave nor master.

Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored and pressured into existence not by Lincoln but by the great emancipators nobody knows, the abolitionists and congressional leaders who created the climate and generated the pressure that goaded, prodded, drove, forced Lincoln into glory by associating him with a policy that he adamantly opposed for at least fifty-four of his fifty-six years of his life.

If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

Satan will try to use our troubles to worry and weaken us. But God uses them to strengthen us.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.