Leadership Quotes - Page 16

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster

Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

As they were leading me up, I looked up and around the galleries and I could feel the whole Aboriginal race, of those who had gone before, were all up there, and I could visualise, I could hear voices and amongst those voices was the voice of my grandfather saying, 'It's alright now boy, you are finally in the council with the Australian Elders. Everything is now going to be alright.'

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you're in the wrong place. You boys are special. I don't want my players to be like other students. I want special people. You can learn a lot on the football field that isn't taught in the home, the church, or the classroom. There are going to be days when you think you've got no more to give and then you're going to give plenty more. You are going to have pride and class. You are going to be very special. You are going to win the national championship for Alabama.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

Developing excellent COMMUNICATION skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can't get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn't even matter.

I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.

Future leaders will be less concerned with saying what they will deliver and more concerned with delivering what they have said they would.