Leadership Quotes - Page 52

Be bold in pursuing what others believe is unrealistic because this will achieve more than being bland and unimaginative.

When picking a leader, choose a peacemaker. One who unites, not divides. A cultured leader who supports the arts and true freedom of speech, not censorship.

Love and Hate are two of the most used, abused, and misused words of mankind.

Don't let your emotions get in the way of rational decision making.

Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.

The power to influence flows to the person with the most information.

Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.

Your principles are your true north because they instruct how you will handle every situation, especially when there is no easy choice.

For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.

Champions realise that defeat - and learning from it even more than from winning - is part of the path to mastery.

Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.

To be undefeated, to primer is to learn the game for not just your talents but for the game itself.

Everyone is a business person. You must be in the business of managing your time. Managing your time means managing your life. Good time managers are good life managers, and vice versa.

Forgiveness is the subjective and fertile ground the acorn falls upon when gifted to ourselves and others.

Wisdom is hard to get but hardest to lose if once obtained.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

The courageous attitude of a leader awakens the dormant attitude of followers. The dormant attitude of a leader weakens the passionate attitude of followers. Leadership determines everything.

The body fades. A leader who would last relies on more.

Leadership amongst the crowd is often the one who has the least to gain and the most to offer......-bns

Work, and not wishing, is what brings motion and results from your vision. Don’t be lazy. Try and try again, learn and practice, review and refine, then go back to implement again.

Action is the bridge between thought and reality.

Well-intentioned but ill-informed actions usually compromise quality.

As you grow and develop your talent and skill – you must begin to create a demand for what you possess as a personal brand.

Stop worrying about what you cannot control. It’s a total waste of your energy, energy that could otherwise be used to help you focus on what you can influence. I spend large parts of my coaching sessions helping people to sift through their challenges and concerns – helping them to determine what they can change and what they have no control over.

It is interesting to note that an overwhelming majority of citizens in the world's three largest democracies have different religions: India (81 percent Hindu), the United States (76 percent Christian), and Indonesia (87 percent Muslim). Two of them have elected women as leaders of their government.

If the people in an organization think the company is small, they will act that way. If they think the company is big, they will act that way.

God's word will produce with your level of understanding. The much you can understand it, the more wisdom you are privileged to have.

Your mouth is not given to you for feeding alone it is given to you to programme events and circumstance around you.

To use an analogy, the "leadership is the answer to everything" perspective is the modern equivalent of the, 'God is the answer to everything' perspective that held back our scientific understanding of the physical world in the Dark Ages. In the 1500's, people ascribed all events they didn't understand to God. Why did the crops fail? God did it. Why did we have an earthquake? God did it. What holds the planets in place? God. But with the Enlightenment, we began the search for a more scientific understanding - physics, chemistry, biology and so forth. Not that we become atheists, but we gained deeper understanding about how the universe ticks.Similarly, every time we attribute everything to 'Leadership," we're no different from the people in the 1500's. We're simply admitting our ignorance. Not that we should become leadership atheists (leadership does matter), but every time we throw our hands up in frustration - reverting back to "well, the answer must be Leadership!" - we prevent ourselves from gaining deeper, more scientific understanding about what makes great companies tick.

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

One of the functions of leadership is to lead, and weak managers may simply check and check and check with others because they are not capable of leading when it is required of them to lead. Benedict says that in matters of importance the abbot or prioress is to ask everyone in the community, 'starting with the youngest,' and then the abbot or prioress is to 'do what seems best.

The future of work revolution begins one person at a time.

Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time criticizing the lives and work of others. Do what matters most to you and make a difference doing that.

Tell them a lie big enough, they'll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and they'll mock you.

As good surgical doctor works on a patient in the theater with varied kinds of surgical instruments, so a true leader also needs a clean bag of leadership characters that vary from task to task. One-way leaders are obvious failures!

When you don’t have time to do your job, that’s a good indication you’re playing the wrong game.

In the apocalyptic environment that is Los Angeles on fire, we should all be making a point to have a lot of sex, but no one seems particularly motivated. They need leaders, and sadly I am not up for the task.

Slipping into bad attitudes and habits is like a beautiful queen growing older and uglier compared to the defined mission and personal standards. Time and again everyone who is serious about making their success more deliberate needs to stop by the mirror in their own mind and ask, “Mirror, mirror in my mind, am I still on course to succeed in life?

Poverty might make you obscure, but if you continue churning out wisdom to solve more problems and challenges, you will neither remain poor nor die in obscurity.

Achieving your goal is greatExceeding your goal is exceptionalExceeding your goal and teaching others is Leadership

If given a choice between a potentially great hardship and doing nothing, people gravitate toward what was most familiar and comfortable. That was why leadership was needed. To do what was necessary rather than what was easy.

Never take lightly that becoming an employer puts another person’s ability to provide for their life in your hands.

In an era of globalization, we recognize that we are part of a global society, but we have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to guide us in this endeavor. We have not yet found a way to expand the spiritual ideals of democracy so that they pertain to every human being, every animal, and every plant. Until we do, human civilization and the Earth's ecosystem will continue to be in peril.

The point of criticism is to build you as a leader and a dimension to reflect.

Effective leaders make it easy for people around them to tell the truth, to be candid and open.

You don't wait till your case become terminal before you ask for a doctor. If you wait till it becomes incurable you will die without knowing your right. Spiritually put; you don't wait until you have problem before you pray. Pray without ceasing for you do not know when the problem will come. If you can bind headache you can bind cancer. If you can bind fever, you can equally bind ulcer. If you can loss a mentally dreaded man, you can loss and raise the dead.

Leaders find something to die for, not something to live on. If you haven't found something to die for yet, you can't lead.

Too many train their speaking than their listening.

Employees are usually motivated to stay or leave due to their managers.

The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will be while doing it.

Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity.

Clear direction leads to clear results

Leadership gives more than it can receive.

Power isn’t control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.

The quickest way a person can defame your character is by taking something you said out of context. But Fear Not. Everyone that was ever Anyone always had their words taken out of context. If you can't handle having your words twisted up, then leadership is not for you. Leadership is reserved for the ‪#‎BRAVE‬.

To succeed, with or without money, have deliberate plans to make success out of opportunity. If you are totally dependent on chance, then chances are that you will fail.

Every authentic leader needs to mind certain gaps and bridge the cognitive difference.

A leader without a team, is a car without steering wheel

A leader is one who travels the path carved out by him, and he ‘leads’ himself onward on that path. If his path is good and his goals are desirable, many more may follow him in their desire to achieve the same goal. Hence, followership is the effect of leadership and not its cause.

There is always a storm. There is always rain. Some experience it. Some live through it. And others are made from it.