Leadership Quotes - Page 107

Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.

Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.

We all need people who will help us look at situations from a different perspective.

So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst.

Give away everything you have learned. If for no other reason, do it selfishly; in order to get more, you must give more.

I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.

It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.

One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

Leaders stand out. Good leaders succeed. Great leaders make a difference in the world.

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

Why Me? Why You? Why His? Why Hers, Why Mine? or Why Theirs? It should be We and Ours.

Why do we universally admire and respect a Gandhi, Mandela, Mother Teresa, Lincoln, or any other leader or legend from history's pantheon? It is because they were guided by integrity-based practices. They stood for something. They didn't break with the values they believed in just because they faced struggle.

Effective communication is the best way to solve problems.

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.

If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.

Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.

Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.

A person's own definition of leadership defines the glittering crown of his leadership.

When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens.

If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.

When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.