Leadership Quotes - Page 109

Pride is the fuel of human accomplishment.

Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.

The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

I don't think either team can win it.

Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.

I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons, if they aren't capable of taking that decision themselves and giving that order, then I hope that they won't prosecute people who want to save their lives and the lives of others.

I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons.

Challenging American leadership is not at stake.

O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!

If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.

You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to serve him for a long time

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.

When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.

Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed.

Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.

Leadership is not about being important, it's about serving something important.

I've got to be first. ALL the time.

He is a thermostat leader, not a thermometer...He does not react to the environment he's in. He changes every environment he's in.

Make sure your daughter's goal is her goal, not your goal.

We only learn our limits by going beyond them. I propose that we all commit ourselves to the process of Constant and Never ending Improvement.