Leadership Quotes - Page 36

The more positive you are the more people want to be around you and the less positive you are...well, just reverse it!

As a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: What you create and What you allow.

Legacy is more than leaving possessions behind. It's about investing in people with passion and integrity through leadership and love.

Vision unknown is self-abuse. Vision known is self-abuse discovery. But vision applied is self-liberation. Application is the key

Some bad friends are so crafty in such a way that by the time their mission is reveal, they have already executed portions of it.

Great men have great discipline.

It remains for you to save one before saving others, to lead one before leading others.

What you realize is that everyone has her own priorities—her own constituency. Often, being a leader is not about making grand proclamations or telling people what to do; it’s about balancing all these priorities and constituencies.

You may not lead by ordering, but you may lead by showing possibilities and the beauty of success.

Guide valiantly.Guide venerably.Guide valiantly.Guide virtuously.

Smiling is not a choice It’s a Lifestyle Pass it on

If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can actually do more harm than good. Witness a nation now more divided; an intergenerational schism in the making; both a governing and opposition party torn to shreds from the inside; infinitely more complex issues raised than satisfactory solutions provided. It begs the question 'Was it really all worth it' ?

Being powerful or powerless is a habit.

You cannot lead an enemy to Heaven, but you can lead a friend even to Hell.

Timing is a critical issue when it comes to succession. Passing the baton too early or too late could both cause irreparable damage. The timing just has to be right, but again you are responsible for creating or influencing the right conditions over the course of your leadership tenure.

All leaders need to ask questions, but they also need to assist in providing answers, to bridge the gap between questions and answers.

When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.

Critics are loud, but success is louder.

Step out of your comfort zone. Comfort zones, where your unrealized dreams are buried, are the enemies of achievement. Leadership begins when you step outside your comfort zone.

Future shackled is when tomorrow is anchored, boxed and managed to maximize the minimizing of uncertainty.

Whatever comes to you in a cheap way will vanish in a cheap way. Be patient and earn it the hard way.

Under a bad leadership Serbs are capable of committing the most terrible atrocities; under good leaders we can do great deeds. It's like a field - if it's not cared for, the weeds will take over. But if you tend it, water and feed the seeds, you will read a bountiful harvest. Serbs are lazy, we lack discipline and have no capacity for self-criticism." With Their Backs to the World

Our relations seemed poor to me, and I wasn't surprised that the US intelligence picture in the Horn of Africa was weak. Much of what I read consisted of recycled news headlines repackaged as intelligence. Real, valuable intelligence only came from real people, yet we hadn't done much to meet and work with the people.

Managers are people who know what they want.Leaders are people who get what they want.

The leader’s job is to show the way. The bottom line is that you can’t tell anything about the condition of the way if you've not traveled on it yourself!

A good leader is known by ‘his qualities’ not ‘his authorities’.

Forgiveness and restoration are two difference acts. Forgiveness can lead to restoration but restoration is not hinged to forgiveness.

When you choose to act on your problems, you cease to be a victim of circumstance and become a force of change; that's when you transition to not only being a survivor, but to being a leader or hero too, and an inspiration to those still in the victim's mindset.

We have reached a time where we are suppressing talents in our communities with our common thinking.

I've never been part of an formation where the leader succeeded on their own merits apart from their Soldier's.

Management is the kitchen that produces a delicious meal, where Leadership is the Chef hooked by a purpose across the canyon of risks that adds the fragrance and taste to make it go beyond expectations.

The only pressure I agree to, is my conscious and not peer pressure.

Adversity Isn’t to Be Avoided

A bee does not need to follow you to give you honey: you follow it. Become a person of value and you too won’t have to beg anyone to follow you.

We all have something to offer, and we must choose to focus on what we do have to offer, not what we don’t. And remember the dirty little secret is that those who are acting like they have it all together really don’t.

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear.

In the professional world of leadership ambition and potential are the most excessive commodities.

Love is the fertile ground that allows obedience to sprout & flourish

At the end of the day let their be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.

Statecraft and kingship were not for the faint of heart

Manipulation is not of God, it is the highest form of sorcery for it enslave the soul to the will of man.....

Leaders are optimistic. When you walk with leaders, the spirit of hope will ramble around you and you will feel like “yes, I can break barriers with few blows.

Avoid trying to win tough battles on the silver platter. If the struggle is tough the success is sweet.

If I advance follow me! If I retreat kill me! If I die avenge me!

Stop counting your "years" and start enjoying your "seasons".

As long you are still living, you can achieve far more than you could ever imagined

Leaders don't rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits: They make every day a masterpiece. They are also humble enough to realize their victories depend upon their people

What betrayed me? Was it my heart? Or my Soul?

The very nature of education encourages group think and a fear of getting it wrong. When you read what great leaders throughout history have said, the willingness to take risks and be wrong is what leads to their eventual success. The thing that separates those who become great leaders and those who don’t is that great leaders are resilient. When their plans do not work out they try again. They don’t stop trying until they meet with success.

Leaders create and maintain good interpersonal relationships with people they meet and work with. People who lead better relate better.

You will never be rewarded for the dreams you slept over day in day out. You will be rewarded for dreams you stay awake and achieved.

Building a strong future is living at the intersection of today and tomorrow: where living in the moment and who you have chosen to become dance together as one.

If you see a leader solving one conflict wisely, remember he is working hard to prevent 10 of such from happening!

An educator will teach the students. An Educarer will reach the students.

Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.

Stop judging yourself on the basis of your appearance or condition of present circumstances. You may have an old car, in debt, job stress, and a troubled relationship, but they are not a true reflection of you as long as you are working on the vision of what you will be years from now.

We are endowed with different kinds of gifts for different kinds of services.

In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose.