Leadership Quotes - Page 6

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.

The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.

Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully.

I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.

The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.

True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise. The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is. The Tao nourishes by not forcing. By not dominating, the Master leads.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

I will always welcome joyfully any opportunity that comes my way to be of service to you