Leadership Quotes - Page 21

To keep the wrong leader in the wrong place prevents the right leader from being in the right place.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.

The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government -- people who understand the inherent dangers of power and feel a distaste for using it, but who may do so for a few years as a civic duty. The worst kind of people to have in government are those who see it as a golden opportunity to impose their own superior wisdom and virtue on others.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.

When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and your life.... In a company, high trust materially improves communication, collaboration, execution, innovation, strategy, engagement, partnering, and relationships with all stakeholders.

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.

Leaders grow; they are not made.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration-of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.