Leadership Quotes - Page 22

You need to have the means to impose yourself

Entrepreneurs are innovators, visionaries—generators of new ideas turning into coinage

Leadership is the bridge of integrity that connects goals, desires, and actions.

The future you build for yourself is only as limited as your imagination and a undisciplined goal orientated mind.

Some are born leaders, some achieve leadership, and some have leadership thrust upon them. Which of these are you, or would you rather not bother?

He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means.

No great manager or leader ever fell from heaven, its learned not inherited.

Don’t complain of terrible circumstances. It has been proven several times that they are the sources of celebrated trophies.

I believe that positive energy and optimism help us to take up any challenge in life and to succeed in even the most difficult tasks. I also believe that positive energy is contagious: we can transmit it to others.

Africa PRODUCES what it does NOT CONSUME and CONSUMES what it does NOT PRODUCE.

start something, with a knowledge to end it.

He made his character his platform.

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry.

Any day God removes His hand from you, you are finished. Your hope and trust is only in Him. Your confidence, your strength, your power and your life is in God. There is no better life without Him. Look around the world and you will understand me.

Selfish leadership is okay with the failure of the successor so as to ensure that any form of praise will continue to be heaped on them

Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship

If you have assimilated even one idea and made it your life, you have more education than any person who has got by heart the entire Library of Congress.

Indecisive? Ask Yourself the Question: Does It Add Value To My Life and Makes Me Happy?

The most interesting aspect of leadership is that it cannot be predicted. All great leaders had been quite ordinary in their early years. It was only when they became leaders that people started recognising them as leaders.It is difficult to identify specific qualities that make a leader. However, when leaders emerge, people are inclined to point out their leadership qualities. Yet, when other people imbibe the same qualities and try to imitate the actions of their leaders, they may fail.

YOU ARE JUSTYou are not just for the right or left,but for what is right over the wrong.You are not just rich or poor,but always wealthy in the mind and heart.You are not perfect, but flawed.You are flawed, but you are just.You may just be conscious human,but you are also a magnificentreflection of God.

Weigh whatever you are about to say; what will it do to your hearer - encouragement, edification, disappointment or fear? What will it do to your life - glorify, edify, beautify or weigh you down? Speak well and things will go well.

Do not thou hasten above the most Highest: for thy haste is in vain to be above him, for thou hast much exceeded.

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

Politics means implementation of the best ideas for the society in the path of wellbeing and progress. This is the approach that gave the world, leaders of glorious characters such as Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Subhas Chandra Bose (the actual man behind India’s Independence), Vasil Levski (the man who liberated Bulgaria from the Ottoman oppression), Nelson Mandela and many more. These people were technically politicians too, but unlike the majority of the politicians ofmodern society, their approach to politics was what it should be in a real system of politics.

A leader in 10 minutes can unlock your potentials which in reality would have taken you 10 years to do without them.

I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success.

All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though. . . . These were leaders who saw strength in ordinary people and showed them how to break tyranny.

Tenacity is essential for accomplishment in anything you do. Without drive, determination and a strong-willed attitude, one's level of success at many endeavors will be limited in scope.

Do you want to know what General Putnam is thinking? It’s this. He’s thinking that he can’t win the war if he doesn’t keep the people on his side. He’s thinking that he can’t keep the people on his side if the troops are running amok among the civilian population—raping the women, stealing cattle, burning houses. He is determined to scare the wits out of the troops to keep them in line. And he’s thinking that it doesn’t matter very much who he executes to do it. So many men have died, so many mothers have wept, so many brothers and sisters have cried. He is thinking that in the long run if he executes somebody, he’ll shorten the war and save more lives. It doesn’t matter to him very much who he executes; one man’s agony is like another’s, one mother’s tears are no wetter than anybody else’s. And that’s why he’s going to have Sam shot.

The truth is that we all have what it takes to succeed and the fact is that not everyone will attain what they define success to be.

Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

And don’t forget, if you are very intelligent but load yourself with bad characters, nobody will follow you.

I am sorry for you tonight, Mr. President. You are facing one of the greatest decisions of your career. Upon what you decide depends on whether or not you are going to get your canal. If you fall back upon the old methods of sanitation you will fail, just as the French failed. If you back up Dr. Gorgas and his ideas, and you let him make his campaign against mosquitoes, then you get your canal. I can only give you my advice; you must decide for yourself. There is only one way of controlling yellow fever and malaria, and that is the eradication of the mosquitoes. But it is your canal; you must do the choosing and you must choose tonight whether you are going to build that canal.

One land also shall ask another, and say, ‘Is righteousness that makes a man righteous gone through thee?’ And it shall say, ‘No.

Life is not about who you know, but rather about who knows you & what you stand for. Show the world with presence, actions & the way you lead your life, who you are.

God didn't call me to kill me. He called me to glory and virtue. My body has dropped on His feet to follow me home no more. Who the son of God set free is free indeed.

Leadership always benefits the greater good.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Your attitude should not settle for the average when you have what it takes to become the best. You excel by choice and you must be focused like a laser beam. Even the sun, powerful as it is, will not be able to burn a hole into a piece of paper until a magnifying glass is used to channel the power of its rays onto one spot. Focus your intellect and your knowledge to get excellent results.

First step to success is to drop what we are not and accept who we are. Always be yourself.

Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.

A nation is not defined by its borders or the boundaries of its land mass Rather, a nation is defined by adverse people who have been unified by a cause and a value system and who are committed to a vision for the type of society they wish to live in and give to the future generations to come.

Your Potential is an OBLIGATION.Its what you MUST be,do and have because you CAN. You Can, you Must, You will

When we do not fully and equally represent the masculine and the feminine in church and civic leadership, we cannot represent the human experience or Jesus.

The task is not in getting the healing the task is in what will you do with your healing. The task is not in seeing the light the task is in what will you do with the light. It is when you have choices that God can see who you really are not when you are without.

Your career will include thousands of opportunities to transform yourself. Many will disrupt all that you have built. Each is an opportunity to choose to be vulnerable, to let go, to be reborn.

Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men; the least government is the best government.

In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served

If I advance follow me! If I retreat cut me down! If I die avenge me!

Mothers and fathers are born everywhere. What the world needs are leaders.

I learned that when you can turn a presentation into a conversation, you have won the battle of converting a client; and second, I learned that the real Carla was my best competitive weapon and my key personal advantage.

Character- building education is what the world needs – education, that will empower the mind with such an unimaginable strength that one would meet death face to face and say “some other time, pal!

What we saw in Richard Nixon's face was the panic in his soul. – Richard Goodwin

If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority , you create leaders

People would want to get safe and come to Christ because they see the evidence in your life not because you quote the scriptures to them.

Talk to people about what they want to hear, and they'll stay for more. Talk to them about what you want them to hear, and they'll soon turn away.

Every leader has a right to lead followers in the right direction and the responsibility to empower them to achieve much more.

The easiest thing for a person is to accept everything as it is and adjust with everyone in the surroundings by sacrificing or compromising originality, but it's also the worst thing if he proclaims that he has changed himself.

Leaders step up, even when they feel like hiding. And they do so because they care.