Leadership Quotes - Page 28

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

I do what I do because I believe in the country that we live in. I believe we are making a difference in stemming the flow of terrorism into Australia... I want my children to be able to live as everyone does now without the fear of getting on a bus and having it blow up.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

I learned early on that one of the secrets to campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I did that in college. I did it when I carried my papers. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them, I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them. Before long, I probably knew more students than anybody in the university, and they recognized me and considered me their friend.

Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.

If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.

My general rule, which I have followed throughout my coaching career, is that everyone doesn't necessarily get treated the same way, because I'm not sure that's possible. But everyone has to be treated fairly. Moreover, they have to know and trust that they will be treated fairly. Dennis Green, NFL Coach There's nothing worse than the feeling of wishing you had another chance at a play because you weren't ready. Every athlete has those feelings to mull over, and over, and over... Don't even expose yourself to the possibility of being caught off-guard.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. Put in a negative way, the aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men, but to remove the causes of failure: to help people to do a better job with less effort.

There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.

Practice the game the way you're going to play the game. Practice hard and play hard. Run hard and above all else, hustle every moment you're on the field where you are practicing or playing in a game.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.