Leader Quotes - Page 69

One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.

Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them and look after the country, because they won't.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that people are making between the two.

Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders. While we're at it, let's put high school dropouts in charge of the University.

The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and how you do it.

Be an example in your Church activity-honor the Sabbath day, attend your meetings, observe the Word of Wisdom, pay your tithes and offerings, support your leaders, and otherwise keep the commandments. Serve cheerfully and gratefully in every calling you receive. Live worthy of a temple recommend and enjoy the sweet, sacred spirit that comes from frequent temple attendance.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.

In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.

In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.

I'll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn't pay enough attention to developing their leaders.

Women, as the minority, have to prove their worth all the time. That's the reason we tend to over-prepare, over-study, over-anticipate. I think it's the case with many women leaders. We tend to over do it.

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion.

The leader is always alone before bad fates.

A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal.

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

Behind the mask of diplomatic and political cooperation and partnership with the United States and Europe, the current Russian leaders are following the strategy of their predecessors and working towards a 'New World Order'. When the right moment comes the mask will be dropped and the Russians with Chinese help will seek to impose their system on the West on their own terms.