Leadership Quotes - Page 59

Leadership. More than a New York Times best seller book.

You can’t be a great leader if your heart is not filled with greatness.

Sometimes even a "Yes" can be fatal for our Souls

Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation.

You can and should stand up for who you are and what you represent, without fear or prejudice. You take the promises you have made to yourself and to others very seriously.

A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!

You can’t be “it” for everyone. In fact, if you try to please everyone, you will please no one, especially yourself.

If the 'Journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step' - that is prescribed to - ALIGN

Live a life of purpose. Be a voice to be reckoned with. Do not be lost in the midst of the crowd. Contribute your own quota to the transformation going on where God planted you.

In the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb of a woman: For like as a woman that travails make haste to escape the necessity of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed unto them.

Manager! Have brain - use it!

In sales, every prospect is a potential customer.

If you want to know more about someone, look at their results.

Be stimulated to become significant. This might be your back-slap moment. New-born babies born with weak signs of life are given a slap on the back to “stimulate” them. It is a knock to wake them up to the reality that they must now take charge. In this world, they have to do their own breathing and their own eating otherwise they will not survive. It’s the same in your adulthood and your quest for success, you must take charge because no one will wake up every day to do things for you and make a success out of a life of excuses and laziness.

Leaders fly economy. They prefer people around them than luxury.

I pride myself in being a technology innovator, so our specialty at Veeam is our laser-focused commitment to R&D, but you cannot build solid solutions without knowing what the goals are for your customers.

Taking your own life could become the ultimate failure, because you will be killing and closing the existing door to a chance that might have been waiting to lead you into another path.

A leader helps others to reach their full leadership potential.

Never allow doubt to roam unimpeded within you. When it arises acknowledge it immediately, and then exterminate it with extreme prejudice.

Church must lead all other spheres of influence.We find people from all the mountains there.The church leaders must be able to mentor them

Today is a good day to have a great day.

Taking a leap of faith is better than taking a leap of doubt.

The desire we so often hear expressed today for “episcopal figures,” “priestly men,” “authoritative personalities” springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick need for the admiration of men, for the establishment of visible human authority, because the genuine authority of service appears to be so unimpressive.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Always be the light. Do not wait for others to take responsibility

If you have fallen down, you cannot go further down, so pick yourself up and aim high, you've got nothing to lose.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

The most difficult step ever is the first step. It comes with doubts, uncertainties, and all sort of fears. If you defy all odd and take it, your confidence will replicate very fast and you'll become a master!

It takes strong, sound leadership, that correspondingly rare commodity, which is afflicted with neither an excess of pity nor callousness, to stand against the insipid tide of superficiality that is sweeping the world.

Keep trying hard because there is always a next time.

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody knows that but you.

You have to grab the goal, visualise your vision, excel in excellence and then become distinct in distinction.

Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change.

Leadership begins inside of you. Leadership is about you, the people you influence and a belief that you can make a difference and have an impact. Leadership starts with a condition of the heart – the desire and passion to make a difference before it moves to the brain to implement a plan to make a difference. It is an inside-out process and is shaped by your values, character, choices, opportunities, experiences and your worldview

The world is always throwing challenges and questions - which ones does your mission and purpose respond to or seek to solve? Do you know your mission and have you clearly defined the life-issues you intend to address?

Management informs. Leadership applies. The effective managers inform accurately. Effective leaders apply wisely.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

Peter must have thought, "Who am I compared to Mr. Faithfulness (John)?" But Jesus clarified the issue. John was responsible for John. Peter was responsible for Peter. And each had only one command to heed: "Follow Me." (John 21:20-22)

The everyday actions of average citizens have a greater impact on society than any politician. Unfortunately politicians exert a disproportionate amount of influence on the actions of the average citizen. If we all use our own ability to positively influence the people around us, time will erode the negative impact of any politician.

His level of experience is nearly transcendent.

[That] speaks to one of the most important roles of a leader; to boil down an organization's many priorities into a simple plan, so that employees can remember it, internalize it, and act on it.

I am the most important person to me. I am the most important person in the entire universe to me. I am the centre of my own universe.

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

While a mission statement speaks to why a company exists, a vision statement communicates what you want to accomplishin the future.

Unwise application of knowledge is dangerous.

I would rather be on the team of the Leader who prays to God for wisdom to guide the followers, than to be on the team of the leader who leads without prayer.

If your sad about your work then remember there are people who clean actual shit for a living

The fearful have lost faith while the fearless allow faith to lead the way.

Leaders' major question is "why". If they lose, they ask "why". If they win, they ask "why". Their "whys" weave their wonders.

Whilst you can be a stepping stone to help others succeed, you are not a dirty mat to be abused by others.

No God, no messiah, no prophet can grant your wishes – it is only through your own efforts that you can make your wishes come true – it is only you who can grant your own wishes.

Unless they're utterly heartless, people put a certain value on human life. It keeps us from killing each other off for no reason. But for leaders like you and me, a moral high ground is too absolute. There are choices to be made.

Leaders who nurture followers to be leaders, keep leading even when they retire, and they keep winning the admiration of leading leaders

Could thou not make those that have been made, and be now, and that are for to come, at once; that thou might shew thy judgement the sooner?

I had to make a choice, either take care of my family and become a good son, or be a bad son and start working towards constructing a world of harmony and peace. I chose the later.

Fortunately for the cause of science and of humanity, we had as Governor-General of Cuba at that time General Leonard Wood, of the United States Army. General Wood had been educated as a physician, and had a very proper idea of the great advantages which would accrue to the world if we could establish the fact that yellow fever was conveyed by the mosquito, and his medical training made him a very competent judge as to the steps necessary to establish such fact. General Wood during the whole course of the investigations took the greatest interest in the experiments, and assisted the Board in every way he could.

Channeled correctly and integrated properly, our diversity can be our greatest strength.

Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.

Confidence of a dedicated person, seems to be over-confidence to ordinary masses.