Leadership Quotes - Page 63

Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.

Who is in your life asking you the tough questions?

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

Always let your employees come to work with a smile.

Vision with action can change the world.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

It all comes down to this: If you want one year of happiness, grow grain If you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees If you want 100 years of happiness, grow people

High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Sports provide girls with the opportunity to develop a better relationship with their bodies. They can be aggressive on the court, be strong and still be feminine.

The unknown is the governing principle of war.

The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.

Grown men do not need leaders.

I found out from my own experience that the best way to involve my daughter, Joanna, in sports is to participate with her. Recently, a mother asked me how I got my children to swim laps. The truth is, I've never asked my children to do laps. They see me do laps and want to do it with me. Parental participation is one way.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Winners bring reality up to their vision. Losers bring their vision down to reality.

You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.

A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.

A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.

I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.

Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.

If you as a pastor don't have a passion for evangelism then don't be surprised if your people done either.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!