Leadership Quotes - Page 51

It is the challenge for every leader to develop and invest in those he depends on, to ensure his or her vision is realized in the way it has been put upon the leader’s heart. These key people will enhance the success or taint the leadership image and brand of the visionary.

You must learn to accept that humans make mistakes, but when the same issue is repeated over and over without corrective strategies to plug the holes, then you must expect negative impact on your definition of success. It is normal to make a mistake, but learn, face the consequences, get back up and march on. If you want to be different or stand out as a brand, then your actions, habits, behaviours and decisions must reflect that 'you care about what people think or say about you.

He could follow someone’s mind around, and get where it was going before the other fellow knew where it was going.

Patience is a virtue not a vice.

One presidential advisor to another: "If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.

From hope evolves faith. From faith evolves belief. From belief evolves expectations. From expectations evolve success. As long as you have hope you can achieve success.

To take risk and fail is not a failure. Real failure is to fear taking any risk

Leaders try every possible means to leave the world better than they found it. They make an indelible impact and society remembers them for that.

Leaders are not known by their positions; they are known by their roles in those position. You have many gifts as a leader, but your dominant gift is what you will use to lead.

Leaders inform, inspire and improve people. They educate, empower and enrich the value of their followers. They make impacts.

The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around.

Improvements enable adapting to new situations.

It’s very easy to blame others, but very difficult to prove your ability.

the condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

Chits knew no ideology.

Thou art sore troubled in mind for the people in the world’s sake: loves thou that people better than he that made them?

Passion + Persistence + Patience = Success.

Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one’s beloved extended community.

Eisenhower on LBJ: "He hadn't got the depth of mind nor the breath vision to carry great responsibility.

You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority.

when u have concepts(revelation) the way u live changes

A good businessman knows how to make a profit. An engineer makes sure it runs well. We need more leaders who are task oriented.

Sometimes you may feel like your life is submerged in life's relentless challenges, but you can develop the kind of internal substance in you that displaces every negativity, fear and self-doubt. Even if the challenges were bigger and heavy on your soul and life, the new attitude and belief within will displace every challenge before you - then the law of buoyancy will begin to force your challenges to be ejected out of your pathway to success.

transformation begins with the individual” Dr William Edwards DemingThe New Economics - 1993

Why the law of our forefathers are brought to nought, and the written covenants come to none effect-

One of the best ways to influence people is to make those around you feel important.

Gen. Matthew Ridgeway "intended not to impose his will on his men, but to allow the men under him to find something in themselves that would make them more confident, more purposeful fighting men. It was their confidence in themselves that would make them fight well, he believed, not so much their belief in him. His job was to keep them to find that quality in themselves.

While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and he must manage them and lead them, but he must not succumb to personal feelings. His job is to maintain a ruthless sense of proportion while keeping the coldness of his calculation to himself.

A lion conquers more in one day than a sheep in a lifetime.

Choosing to know yourself deeply hands you a torch to see beyond yourself, into the future. Into a strong future.

Without a vision to guide our path, and without ambition that knows no limits, we can never build a bright future for generations to come.

You don't have to feel grateful in order to be grateful.

Become loving and become courageous. Become the inspiration which you seek outside. Bring the metaphorical heart of your limbic system in sync with the analytical powerhouse of the prefrontal cortex. From your mind shall rise the inspiration. From your mind shall rise the love. From your mind shall rise the greatest education of all.

Your vision must state the end result and must be stated in the positive so that it will be a constant source of inspiration. Begin by, “I will…

I am not a leader but a pathfinder and a motivator.

Having a title only doesn’t make one a leader; talented people without a title don’t follow blindly, they practice leadership via influence.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Great Leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, self-reflection, education, training, and experience

Unlike most politicians who follow their audience, (Robert) Kennedy tried to lead his.

Good times don’t last and bad times don’t stay forever.

Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.

Do not look after people with big titles. Look after people with big characters.

Entitlement is such a cancer, because it is void of gratitude.

People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression.

The female brain itself is a highly intuitive emotion-processing machine, which when put to practice in the progress of the society, would do much more than any man can with all his analytical perspectives.

If you want to see the beauty of any fish, throw it into the water, you will see how best it can swim because that is its source. Do you want to see the beauty in you? Don't look in the mirror, don't put on makeups, no jewelleries or expensive designer clothes, just go back and reconnect to your source and I bet, the best of you will show up. Until you return back to God, your best won't come out because He is your source.

Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes--unfortunately--it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do.Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes.

When you know the destination, the path is easy.

There is no cure for ambition other than success.

If leadership is the spinal cord of success then discipline is its lumbar vertebrae.

Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust.

It's not about WHO is right, it's about WHAT is right.

Most of the people want to be a leader of winners, but I want to be a leader of losers because losers are the people who truly know the value of winning and they also know how to use and respect it.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it, and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on.

There are no self made heroes or leaders. No matter how rugged or self assured, everyone requires a cast of players - friends, mentors, lovers, critics, villains and supporters - who call, invite, seduce, goad and encourage them to finally step into their true power. We are all heroes and leaders in some way, and we all need each other.

Grasp the simplicity and power of no excuses and you have guaranteed success.

The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader." - Quoting Derek Sivers

Do what you love and love what you do, with excellence.

Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.