Leadership Quotes - Page 44

Commitment precedes success. What you are committed to doing you will be successful at doing.

Over-communicating is the glue that holds a high-performing team together and keeps them focused in the same direction. And, it circles back to clarity. Without good, consistent communication, you don’t have clarity.

Number me the things that are not yet come- gather me together the dross that are scattered abroad- make me the flowers green again that are withered- Open me the places that are closed, and bring me forth the winds that in them are shut up- shew me the image of a voice: and then I will declare to thee the thing that thou labor to know.

Stars are born out of dark moments.

Most great accomplishments do not look promising in the beginning. If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.

I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!

In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage.

The key questions and challenges that we must all continue to pose and remind this key sector (the media) should be, 'Do you realize the power you have, to build and to destroy; to promote success or failure; to bring life or death to a cause or talent; to give a platform or take it away?

If the word of God cannot do it in your life then your Pastor must be wasting his time.

Everybody starts small. We all begin life as a single cell. Every business starts as one person with an idea. How fast you go, how far you get, is in your hands. The bigger your vision, the bigger your achievement will be. Will you stumble on the way? Perhaps, but we cannot let fear keep us small. We have to be brave to be big.

You feed the requisite substance through personal development efforts and position yourself strategically to allow the forces around you to create the path for your relevance and significance. You are not lifted by air, but by the substance inside you hitting the springboard of opportunity.

The only thing that will make you successful is the believe you have in yourself

Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.

The most powerful way of being able to listen to your own intuition is by being silent. Find a quiet space, slow down and calm your mind. Your goal is to eliminate all that noise going through your head – all those thoughts that appear from nowhere.

Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.

There’s one thing you can start doing right now that will change how you communicate with any young human: Remember what it’s like to be one.

When we step into positions of leadership, we make a whole set of promises we may not know we are making.

Blow by blow a giant is knocked down.

True leadership is about pulling forth the gold in everyone and believing in people before they deserve it.

Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position!

On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.

If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training.

He listened to their opinions, stated his own, and supported them with reasons; and from his being constantly occupied with such meditations, it resulted, that when in command no complication could ever present itself with which he was not prepared to deal.

You cannot have a dream and expect someone else's faith to make it a reality for you. Habakuk 2:4

Print, it transpired, was not just an instrument of agitation and change: now it was equally necessary to win the peace.

To the disrupters go the spoils.

By all means be submissive in the bedroom (if you are that way inclined), but don't be submissive to life. Being life's bitch is no fun at all. Life may play up in many ways, but it's up to you to take control, take charge and show life who's really calling the shots.

Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.

Hatred is very powerful. It can overpower love. When a man burns in the fire of hatred, he cannot feel any love, and is willing to destroy his enemy even if it kills him. It is amazing to note that a leader who may be driven to act against another in hatred, may be showered with love in the process. People who share his hatred may love him for rising up to the challenge.

Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend.

It's all about energy

Leaders are made not born. They are the results of persistent effort. Thus, leadership involves much more than just shouting. Effective leadership requires a human focus and reflects a servant and transformation mentality. It is about the nuts and bolts of execution. Leadership is an everyday activity. It is a process that begins but never ends.

Millennials, instead of a danger, are really a reflection of the society in which they grew up in, and in which all of us now live.

Ensure you have done each day’s portion of the heavy responsibilities resting on you. Never delay your success!

Those who are not true leaders or elders will just affirm people at their own immature level, and of course immature people will love them and elect them for being equally immature. You can fill in the names here with your own political disaster story. But just remember, there is a symbiosis between immature groups and immature leaders, I am afraid, which is why both Plato and Jefferson said democracy was not really the best form of government. It is the safest. A truly wise monarch would probably be the most effective at getting things done.

Many in business feel they have to live up to a machismo archetype of the big-swinging-dick business leader

To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so few ever stand on the summit.

Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.

Don’t assume meekness is weakness and those who are loud are strong.

A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically think you're dumb. They think if you talk funny, you are funny. – Lloyd Hand

Once your character is poured with vigor and your attitude radiates confidence, there is no power in any external force to have any form of authority over you.

When the leader goes wayward, the organization goes wayward.

Sometimes the fact that you can't sense God isn't an indication that He is not there. It is just an indication that you are hanging out in the wrong place.The cave is not a physical location, it is a state of mind.

People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally. Action fixes images in their minds and they can carry those images for a long period.

You can’t shower happiness on others without getting few drops back on yourself.

I think forgiveness is a missing key to corporate success.

Stop praying that God should make you a leader if you are not ready to do hard work.

Your Potential is all that you can HAVE but have not yet possessed. No limits. No boundaries

Don't wait to be compelled to do great work.

A strong person has faithand builds for the future

If you perceive right you receive right. If you perceive wrong you receive wrong.

The author points out that novices to total war, and this Hitler and the British press have in common, overreact to daily events and lose sight of overall strategy.

Leaders fight hard wars againstinjustice and unfairness. Theybelieve that the truth is a weapon;when triggered, the lie dies.

I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first.

More than a phone call or likes on facebook - Leadership

In five minutes you should know if people have confirmed, calculated & considered your vision.

Some people are like egg. The more you apply heat to them, the harder they become. To hatch them, just use a gentle heat, and to keep them alive, just keep them cool.

He hadn’t asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a shape, he realized that he wanted to lead. If someone had to be lord of these people, he wanted to do it himself. Because doing it yourself was the only way to see that it was done right.