Leadership Quotes - Page 65

I saw one of my primary tasks was to do what I could to restore confidence, to ensure that people knew and cared about their predicament and that governments were committed to helping. Equally an optimism had to be engendered, a belief that not only would they recover but would emerge 'bigger, brighter and better than ever.'

In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself.

I think personal diplomacy has caused a lot of mischief and harm, and has impeded the progress of peace in the world. It leads to a very great fallacy - the almost pathetic belief of some Foreign Ministers - that, if they had lunch with someone and called him by his Christian name, they have changed the fundamental facts of relationship between nations.

Masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Lions cannot afford to hunt mice because they literally will starve to death, even if they catch them. Lions and all large carnivores have to hunt game large enough to justify the investment, so they have to hunt antelope and zebra. Why is this important? Because most senior executives are really big on chipmunks.

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Leaders think differently about themselves, and this distinguishes them from followers.

We were not designed to be dominated.

Each of us was created to rule, govern, control, master, manage, and lead our environments. You are in essence a leader, no matter who you are.

The shortest distance to leadership is service.

I do not believe that there is any secret or single formula for success, but there are common threads of thought and action that characterize the successful people that I have been fortunate enough to know and observe. I do know, from my own experience, that our chance of succeeding is much greater when we organize and take charge of our lives. When we are willing to make decisions, we aggressively pursue those things in life that are important to us.

Your success will shine as a light of hope and inspire numbers you cannot total.

One way to show someone you love them is to simply go out of your way for them. It's the gift of inconvenience.

You just do it one step at a time.

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Thank you Jesus you are a stone mover. And you can move any stone away.

A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always wanted to be.

More than anything else today, followers believe they are part of a system, a process that lacks heart. If there is one thing a leader can do to connect with followers at a human, or better still a spiritual level, it is to become engaged with them fully, to share experiences and emotions, and to set aside the processes of leadership we have learned by rote.

Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.

What blame did Jesus have when He took the full blame for your sin?

Influencers refuse to leave the world they way they found it. They leave a legacy.

A leader’s most powerful ally is his or her own example.

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.