Leadership Quotes - Page 56

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.

In business, integrity is just as important as in any of the great public offices... but I believe one of the first and fundamental obligations of competent business leadership is above all to protect the reputation and integrity of the business - to that degree the integrity of the business is the integrity of the leader.

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.

Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that. But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering your own best ways to travel with that pain will lead you to the joy that you long to have. They are your paths, your ways and while my experience and the experiences of others may inspire you, ultimately it will be the choices you discover and make for yourself that lead you to certain joy in the midst of your challenges.

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

He will always know as we know now that in the heat of battle he did not fail when mateship and duty called.

You can't receive forgiveness unless you let God deal with your deceit.

Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.

The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.

Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

If you're truly obsessed over customers, it'll cover a lot of errors.

Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.

There are no office hours for leaders.

It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.