Leadership Quotes - Page 96

Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.

Leaders need 5 core competences: soul, head, hand, heart, body. Where do you need to grow?

We have to show leadership in protecting our environment so that we have a future for our children and grandchildren.

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.

Leaders fix things that are broken.

We ask our volunteers, "Do you work here?" They say, "Not yet."

Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.

I think there is a big and significant difference between being a leader and being a manager-leaders lead from the heart. You have to be analytical and flexible. Flexibility is one of the key ingredients to being successful. If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.

The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."

Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . .

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius

From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.