Leadership Quotes - Page 20

The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

A person who sins neither in thought nor deed, and is fair and just, gains enormous courage and strength. As a leader, you need courage born of integrity in order to be capable of powerful leadership. To achieve this courage, you must search your heart, and make sure your conscience is clear and your behavior is beyond reproach.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

You see it in schools all over... the concept that 'I'll be somewhat less than my best in order to make those around me feel more comfortable' is alive and well... I'm very keen that they understand that if they make themselves a little less than they can be, it is a one-way street to mediocrity.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness, and when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration - then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America.

Leading with integrity is embracing honesty! We should always use our weaknesses to point others to Christ's strength.

The first step to leadership is servanthood.

When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.