Leadership Quotes - Page 81

I believe the team of Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard is the best leadership team for the Liberal Party and therefore part of the best leadership team of the Coalition for the country.

It's true, we are a highly professional force and we can produce highly lethal fighting forces, but I defy you to find more dedicated humanitarians or better friends when the chips are down.

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.

The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.

Leadership is the name that people use to make sense out of complex events and the outcomes of events they otherwise would not be able to explain. In other words, people attribute leadership to certain individuals who are called leaders because people want to believe that leaders cause things to happen rather than have to explain causality by understanding complex social forces or analyzing the dynamic interaction among people, events, and environment.

Who influenced you? When did they influence you? How have they influenced you? What have you done with their influence?

Everyone has influence. Use it wisely.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to it, and helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces, — self-denial, readiness to the cross, — they all work and help faith. But when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do.

Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.

Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning.

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

As a leader, you will never get ahead until your people are behind you.

Finish every day and be done with it.

Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.

Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team.

We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything.

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

We've got to build scale. We're going to hire the best people, build the best systems, and find solutions.