Leadership Quotes - Page 60

One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us our own story; to explain us to ourselves; to help us weave some meaning and purpose into the fabric of our lives; to illuminate our understanding of where we have come from; to paint word pictures of our future onto which we can project our aspirations.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development, without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here and took it away, took it away and replaced it.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Every country needs its heroes, and we must follow them.

Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures.

Successful people keep moving, even when they are discouraged and have made mistakes.

When you accepted your job, you were not chosen solely to fill a position on the organization chart; you were chosen to fill a responsibility.

Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.

Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.

There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.

The more excited and committed you are to your work, the more excited and committed will be the people around you. The leader always sets the tone for the department or organization.

It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setback. They are champions because they've been hurt. Their experience moved them, and they pulled out this fighting spirit, making them what they are. Sometimes in life, God gives us a difficulty in order to bring out the fighting spirit. Everything that happens to you can happen for good if you have this spirit. The essential thing in life is not in the conquering, but in the fight.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.