Leadership Quotes - Page 98

The wisest among us - the genuine leaders - smile in the face of adversity.

No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches.

American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people.

True leaders inspire us to be bigger and do things we are afraid of doing.

Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).

Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine.

We have absolute trust in our employees. In fact, we are partners with them.

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.

Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.

Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.

No matter who you are, you have the nature and capacity for leadership.

We are the products of a highly intelligent and creative supreme being.

Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow.

In the end leaders are leaders. They get the credit and they get the blame.

Cast first to your church those visions you absolutely know are the Lord's.

If God doesn't build the vision, He will tear it down.

An order then should always be given not as a personal matter, not because the man giving it wants the thing done, but because it is the demand of the situation. And an order of this kind carries weight because it is the demand of the situation.

many rules could be made for the giving of orders. Don't preach when you give orders. Don't discuss matters already settled unless you have fresh data. Make your direction so specific that there will be no question whether they have been obeyed or not. Find out how to give directions and yet to allow people opportunity for independent thinking, for initiative. And so on and so on. Order-giving requires just as much study and just as much training as any other skill we wish to acquire.

This is a major strategic challenge affecting not only our military, but ultimately, America's leadership in the global world order, we are at a point where our national aspirations are at risk of exceeding our available resources.

A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is achieving goals by coaching your staff to peak performance. Focusing on the positive means that you start with what's good and what works, and spend your attention and energy there.

What a rope of sand we are without a leader.

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation