Leadership Quotes - Page 13

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

Jesus said several times, “Come, follow me.” His was a program of “do what I do,” rather than “do what I say.” His innate brilliance would have permitted him to put on a dazzling display, but that would have left his followers far behind. He walked and worked with those he was to serve. His was not a long-distance leadership. He was not afraid of close friendships; he was not afraid that proximity to him would disappoint his followers. The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

I gave (my drivers) three things: a sense of optimism, a creative environment, and the ultimate motivator-competition. By competing with each other in-house, we wound up beating our rivals.

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader.

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money, but if they believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if He had taken a poll in the land of Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll? It isn't polls or public opinion alone of the moment that counts.

People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality makers who've cast Barack Obama as the savior of the world. To alter our course from tyranny to liberty, to defeat the corrupt elite, we must get past the puppets and confront the real power structure of the planet.

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.

Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.