Leadership Quotes - Page 25

Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.

The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.

Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.

Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.

A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.

When you practice leadership,The evidence of quality of your leadership, Is known from the type of leaders that emerge out of your leadership.

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.

Communication is the real work of leadership.

We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the truth." The point is clear: If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the king acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with the people.

I never said it was possible. I only said it was true.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.

We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine that these things could be done to us.

Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.

It is the responsibility of leadership and management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in their work environment.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.