Leader Quotes - Page 99

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

I want to show kids, look where I came from. You can do it too if you believe and are willing to work hard.

Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.

If you are the kind of person who listens to conservative advice, you may do okay in life, but you probably won't ever be a fantastic leader. You have to take risks, and you also have to go against conventional wisdom, because conventional wisdom doesn't make for startling advances in society.

Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If we fail to select Godly leaders our destiny will surely be as that of the Roman Empire.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism.

The greatest leaders don't rule. They inspire

The problem isn't testosterone and aggression; it's how often we reward aggression. And we do: We give medals to masters of the "right" kinds of aggression. We preferentially mate with them. We select them as our leaders.

The unique ability to take decisive action while maintainign focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.

Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.

It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.

The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

He is a great leader by example. Someone whom I have always admired for his ability to remain balanced and have the sense of equanimity about his captaincy.

And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

I saw one of my primary tasks was to do what I could to restore confidence, to ensure that people knew and cared about their predicament and that governments were committed to helping. Equally an optimism had to be engendered, a belief that not only would they recover but would emerge 'bigger, brighter and better than ever.'

In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself.

I think personal diplomacy has caused a lot of mischief and harm, and has impeded the progress of peace in the world. It leads to a very great fallacy - the almost pathetic belief of some Foreign Ministers - that, if they had lunch with someone and called him by his Christian name, they have changed the fundamental facts of relationship between nations.

I used to be a cheerleader, but fighting just seemed more, "me". So I went that route.

Because to me it is inconceivable that a subordinate leader should not carry out orders given by the leaders of the State.

Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities.

Masterly retreat is in itself a victory.