Leadership Quotes - Page 32

...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

A good leader makes a good follower.

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

People don't mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity

You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.

Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort.

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.