Leadership Quotes - Page 39

You cannot lead those who do not want to follow.

The manager needs only a molehill to build a mountain, but the money-ger needs a full mountain to build another.

Be your self at your personal best

John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.

There is a throne up there and someone is sitting on it. It is not you, the economy or your government. My God is still on the throne and I shall not worry.

Educators are in the news, too. Usually that’s bad. I had a favorite college professor. He used to tell us, 'If you make CNN as a teacher, you’re probably going to jail.

Positive energy is unleashed when leaders give themselves permission to connect and express themselves from the core of who they are. When leaders practice authenticity, creativity, engagement, confidence, and a sense of inner resourcefulness emerge.

The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha".

But a society in which pluralism is not undergirded by some shared values and held together by some measure of mutual trust simply cannot survive. Pluralism that reflects no commitments whatever to the common good is pluralism gone berserk... ..Leaders unwilling to seek mutually workable arrangements within systems to their own are not surviving the long-term interest of their constituents

Leaders gather scattered people with the positive influence of intimacy while misleaders scatter gathered people with the negative influence of intimidation.

Indira was surrounded by people who had given up hope, who blamed their own misery on the influence of Christianity and western cultures, and yet, literally in the midst of squalor, her family had created a place of real beauty. It really makes you stop and think. Uncle Google should be spitting out eight hundred million things American schools have done right. The fact things are so screwed up makes no sense. If you believe Uncle Google, then we’ve done the exact opposite from Indira’s family—in the land of hope and plenty we’ve created a place that’s ugly. We have so much. Can things really be so bad? Maybe we can’t fix our schools because as individuals we’ve never truly been broken. Or maybe Chinese lanterns make everyone wax philosophical.

To a leader, reputation is an option, but true character is a necessity!

When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you.

You will only become significant in life, by solving the unique set of problems only you and your mission are meant to solve.

Only a person who perceives that all human beings are important can become a great leader.

The person who will end up enjoying success, is the one who planned for it and who knew why they are seeking to succeed.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

Do not do everything for your children – teach them personal responsibility and accountability. This includes using your home environment – the kitchen, the garden, making their room/bed, chores – as training platforms. Prepare them to be independent.

Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.

You can continue to cry over the same pain & complain about the same situations or you can expand your mind and you can grow. Maybe im not alone when I say, sometimes we all get a little confused and feel like we owe it to the people and places to try harder when in reality, most of the time lessons become lifelong if we don't learn the art of peaceful detachment early in the game.

Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.

I believe in you my friend, so much so, that if any of my ideas make you feel belittled in any manner, I want you to rise against me and throw my work into the fire. Any notion, any book, any institution that weakens the self instead of strengthening it, must be discarded at ones.

The most feared situation is to end up inadvertently in the wrong place at the wrong time and get blamed. Yet this is exactly what happens in a structure that systematically diffuses responsibility. It is because managers fear blame-time that they diffuse responsibility; however such a diffusion inevitably means that someone, somewhere is going to become a scapegoat when things go wrong.

Culture is the constant constraint that controls creativity, commitment, collaboration, and cohesion.

True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.

Jack had an actor's control." Chuck Spalding

You’ve got to get your team to not only understand your company brand, but also to understand their personal brand.

Unfortunately, most followers do not know that they can also become leaders because to them, leadership is confined to an "assumed" category of people who have authority or social prestige as their background pillows.

‪#‎TRUTH‬ ‪#‎BEREAL‬We must be ruthlessly honest with and about Self..Self Assessments are often inflated or deflated or just imaginary..

Ultimately, having what we want is our liability. It is no one else’s. Purge the blame game. Everyone has a legitimate reason why they CAN’T get something done. It’s the will to get it done REGARDLESS.

When success is internalized, no situation, no matter how bad, can convince you that you will not be able to attain your goal. You become adamant and refuse to give up.

Leaders don’t leave people empty handed. They give them part of themselves through knowledge sharing and influence creation.

To influence people with your leadership gifts, you don’t make them your enemies. When they are your enemies, they won’t take your words seriously; neither will they support your actions.

When someone makes you a priority it is Great! When you make yourself a priority it is Brilliant!~

The author commented that John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign team worked like a band of brothers, while Richard Nixon's campaign team worked like a band of brothers in law under the direction of a quarrelsome aunt.

Don't leave the dream, lead your dreams!

People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.

Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably in the job description: "Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted minister.

The more you give, the more you get.

Success requires a focused attention of your time and energy. This is true no matter what you want to achieve – to change the world or simply change apartments. All success stories come down to one person having a focused aim – so focused at times it can look like an obsession.

A good leader lead from the heart not the head.

If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.

Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders.

Try to lead the leaders and first never follows in whatever case may be, avoid following someone just strive for being followed by other people.

Angry issues need settling time.

Less than 10% of the mainstream workforce can achieve their dreams where they currently work.

Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.

Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

The writers in the newspapers could sounds smart because they did not have the responsibilities of decision, and they could sound bold by enunciating positions which they were not required to implement.

All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.

The outcome is not up to you. The outlook is.

Every growth on this planet is at the cost of loss to some one. No one can deny it or proove it wrong.

In relationships, the cheater is unable to trust anyone, including the cheated.

One of the first things you learn as a leader, whether you choose the position of have it forced upon you, is that leadership is as much about what you don't say as what you do say.

Great is a great one whose great ones are great

Make people feel great when they feel small. Make them feel responsible when they feel great.

Being a solution and not a problem proves progression.

The dance you take with passion and self belief While every step is in rhythm with the honor of your words and the integrity of your daily actions~bns