Leadership Quotes - Page 55

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.

At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

So much of what you do physically happens because you've thought about it and mentally prepared for it.

Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.

Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.

If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.