Leadership Quotes - Page 49

We have reached a pivotal time in Indigenous affairs when for the first time, national attention is being paid to the horror of Indigenous family violence in this country. For the first time, an Australian Prime Minister has held a summit in the national capital to listen to concerns and ideas on this issue from a group of Indigenous leaders.

Leaders who want to show sensitivity should listen often and long and talk short and seldom. Many so-called leaders are too busy to listen. True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.

The spiritual leader will choose the hidden path of sacrificial service and approval of the Lord over the flamboyant self-advertising of the world.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be seen in that light.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Leadership is an action, not a position.

Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.

It's never crowded along the extra mile.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.

Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

I am convinced that we must train not only the head, but the heart and hand as well.