Leader Quotes - Page 83

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

He who cultivates that quiet, unobtrusive ecstasy of inner joyousness can scale any heights and be a leader in his field, no matter what that field is.

Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.

A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.

The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.

The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.

Be a leader, not a follower. Never let anyone tell you what you can and cannot be.

The ability to connect and influence people, that's the job of a leader. And we're all leaders at some level.

If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.

Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of industries by demagogues who never ran a business, the rousing rhetoric of resentment addressed to the masses and the personal cult of the leader promoted by the media. But do we want to become the world's largest banana republic?

It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Great leaders don’t try to be perfect. They try to be themselves. And that’s what makes them great.

Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.