Leadership Quotes - Page 108

Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.

I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.

The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.

It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash the paint about so freely that your words cease to have any real meaning and cease to carry any sense of affront even to those to whom they are applied and cease to bear any connection with any genuine feeling of indignation on the part of those on whose behalf they are spoken.

Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.

Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.

Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.

What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.

They really do feel under attack, rank-and-file officers and much of American police leadership, that they feel they're under attack from the federal government at the highest levels. So that's something we need to understand also, this sense of perception that becomes a reality.