Leadership Quotes - Page 31

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can't be achieved alone.

Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet!

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

Until you start thinking right, you will never start behaving right. Repentance always deals with the changing of the mind.

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.

Trust is the essence of Leadership.

Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.

The true leader is always led.

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

You've got to realize that in any competition there is always a winner and loser. When it turns out that you're the loser on a given day, you can be a graceful loser, but it doesn't mean that you're a loser in the sense that you're willing to accept losses readily. Concede that on that day you weren't the best and that you were beaten in competition. But that should make you more dedicated and hard working. It's wrong to accept defeat as a loser. Be graceful about losing, but don't accept it.

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.

I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.