Leadership Quotes - Page 61

If we try to emulate the leadership style of others we perceive as successful, we end up being second-rate versions of someone else.

The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse. – Calvin Coolidge

If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

TAKE Risk because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be..

When girls see women in leadership roles speaking out for what they believe in, they see it is possible for them, too. Instead of a faraway dream, their aspirations become real, concrete and achievable. Womanhood starts to look more inviting.

Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands.

Your passion may determine what you can do, but your attitude redefines how far you can go while you do what you can. Your attitude leads you and you lead other people!

To believe in the possibilities of self is to unleash the power of the spirit quieted by doubt ~

Your organization needs you to be the lead, not the lid. If you're not growing as a leader, you've become the lid

When you have pictured and defined your desired legacy, allow your present life activities and efforts to begin reflecting the future you desire. Begin to do what you want to see, become involved in the causes you want to be a part of. Show your legatees how you want and expect things to be done after you are gone. This will enable them to fit the vision into their own as they make their own individual unique mark.

In order to sell, salespersons have to correctly evaluate and cater to customer choices.

The Gospel is the good news, not the grouse news. Preaching is not beating, it´s informing in a christlike way.

The closer the relationship, the greater the opportunities for intimacy. However the greater the opportunity the closer to offence. (A bit deep). Nobody can really make you mad more than someone that you really love. Nobody can hurt you like the somebody you have given your heart to.

The structure of our identity determines how we show up as a leader, how we deploy ourselves into circumstances.

The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it.

Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally.

Good leaders know who they are—their strengths, weaknesses, passions, talents, and values. And, developing leaders always starts with self-awareness.

A good officer learned to take care of the feet of his men first, and from there their stomachs and hearts. By that means, he could motivate their souls.

Every single achievement you make, every single life you change and every single skill you acquire brings you one step closer to becoming a better leader. Every day you can improve the leader in you to become a better person and a greater leader.

Withheld potential is a "CRIME TO HUMANITY

At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him.

Some team members act as adhesives to unite the team.

We know how to lead projects, but we forget how to lead people, because we forgot how to lead ourselves.

People who achieve marvelously in critical challenges are commended than people who achieve same things on the silver platter.

The men were always wary of an officer who took form more seriously than function.

But how do you come ‘offline’ when so much of our daily lives is moving ‘online’? Every month new sites and online services are launched. If you need to check anything – about a new school for your children, medical treatment, tourist destination or recipe – you go online. Bill Gates put it so well when he called the Internet the ‘town square for the global village of tomorrow’.Could you spend a week or even a day without reading your emails, using social media or going online? Someone recently joked with me that having Internet access is more important than having food or water.

A humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow.

It is amazing, the number of business executives and senior leaders who get to be appointed and elevated to positions of authority on the basis of technical competences whilst lacking essential grooming on basic good manners and customs of conduct that must come from the home training process.

Unless you acknowledge your vulnerability for sin, you won’t pray against it and you’ll end up experiencing defeat. The most effective weapon the enemy has against you - is you

Don’t only think of which job to get and live on. Think about which problem to solve and the jobs will keep suggesting themselves.

Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.

If you seek honor and respect you will not find it, for a leader is powerless to elevate himself. It is only when you serve others without regard for self, will honor, respect and lasting success be found.

You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day.

Pride refuses to be taught. Humility refuses not to be

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

Go the extra mile to do the undone, but work within your limits, and in doing so also, don’t be a coward to question things within your limit that are not all that right, and don’t be too arrogant or proud or be filled with excessive knowledge to do things which might though be within your limit, yet out of limit, for you must live and leave nothing, but distinctive and lasting footprints!

Appreciating others can be the catalyst that unleashes their greatness.

I believe more youths stay out of leadership positions because of the fear of indequacy and criticisms.

Success is less about what you get at the end but more about who you become in the journey.

I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?

You don’t miss great leaders because their impacts and footprints are always staring at you in the face.

Positive belief leaves no room for excuses; it questions why the feats and quests cannot be attained. When your beliefs are strong enough, you will not define yourself on the basis of past and present limitations or life events. Your success can only be as big as the size of your beliefs, for it is the size of your beliefs that will either limit your dream or allow it to explode.

You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers

The desire to swim in deeper waters is what gives a greater experience. Nothing new comes out of being ordinary. Leaders take risks.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.

Leaders inspire accountability through their ability to accept responsibility before they place blame.

Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.

Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

This is an everyday question and you must take note of it always. When you wake up, it should be among your number one thoughts. What are you doing for others?

Conflict is much the same, injustice and inequality is nothing new to our generation only the contest has changed because not only that everyone has opinion but they also have an opportunity to voice it and that is a bit dangerous.

Younger managers learn quickly that, whatever the public protestations to the contrary, bosses generally want pliable and agreeable subordinates, especially during periods of crisis. Clique leaders want dependable, loyal allies. Thos who regularly raise objections to what a boss or a clique leader really desires run the risk of being considered problems themselves and of being labeled "outspoken," or "nonconstructive," or "doomsayers," "naysayers," or "crepehangers.

You need a strategy to assume leadership, but only the character can sustain leaders as who they really are.

Be a leader you would follow.

A true leader leads by empowering not by enslaving.

Do you know great people are continually quoted while the average always misquote great people?

Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.

The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, or in the series of his achievements, but in his attitude towards mankind and the conception which he sought to realize in action of the service owed by America to the rest of the world...Thomas Jefferson was a great leader of men because he understood and interpreted the spirits of men.

Stop explaining to others, people will only understand from their level of discernment.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

We need Wisdom to seek for the Kindom and we need the Kingdom to have the Freedom to posess all other things!