Leadership Quotes
Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass
Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.
The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent.
The author characterizes Hamilton's tone in the Federalist papers by saying that he never spoke of problems but of being at the last stage in the crisis.
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.
Don’t let the horrible nature of the waters prevent you from crossing the rivers of life. The more horrible the challenges we face, the sweeter the joy of conquering them.
Leaders are raised through training and experience. Nobody was born naturally with hand-gloves of leadership. We come to life to search for it, discover it and optimize it.
Live an exemplary life as a leader. When you are gone, you will still lead from the grave because your influence, impacts and inspirations will become and information for the living.
Leaders look out for people who can criticize them constructively and rebuke them reasonably.
Leaders create and maintain good interpersonal relationships with people they meet and work with. People who lead better relate better.
If you have only answers and no questions, chances are high that you will never know new things.
Contrary to popular opinion, leaders aren’t created out of fame. Fame is just a shadow. When you enter dark times in, it leaves you.
Leaders know where they can function better. They don’t cry over what they cannot do.
There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.
Leaders are optimistic. When you walk with leaders, the spirit of hope will ramble around you and you will feel like “yes, I can break barriers with few blows.
People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.
Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.
Your followers are interested in going where you have gone before. Take them where you have been and let them know what took you there. They’ll learn by your example.
People who praise a leader even when he is doing the wrong things are the main reasons why his fall is near.
Whether it is in business life or in political roles, leaders rise up to offer the solutions to problems society faces. They act with the right actions at the right time.
Leaders don’t fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn’t their desire to maintain but to improve.
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.
A leader does not only discover what people can do better. He teaches, guides and mentor them to do it exceptionally well. When a seed comes into contact with a leader, fruits are produced.
The leader who listens is the one society needs most. They don’t force their commands on people. They pay attention to their demands and set the pace for the change that society truly needs.
It's all right to drill your crew, but why not drill the passengers.
When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you.
Leadership is about taking steps while management is about drawing the map on the steps to take. Managers simply plan, leaders simply execute!
The public personality of a leader is not what really matters. What he does out of the open stage really tells more about him than anything else.
Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!
Feeling threatened by others' choices pulls us all down. Instead, we should funnel our energy into breaking this cycle.
Women can enter (...) negotiations with the knowledge that showing concern for the common good, even as they negotiate for themselves, will strengthen their position.
For leaders, wars are filled with guesses.
His level of experience is nearly transcendent.
Everyone has a kind of limitation respectively. Leaders don’t allow their own to obscure them in a small corner.
By means of positive imaginations, leaders bring the future to the present so that they can work on it before setting off to enter it.
The simplest way to silence your critics as a leader is to do what they claim you can’t do. However, be careful they don’t set you up to take fatal risks to please their criticisms.
Leaders are deep thinkers. They don’t relax for problem to lay eggs before they attempt dealing with them.
The ultimate profit from all of my businesses is to be happy and to make all of the customers happy.
The greatest part of our existence enfold in service of humanity.
Resilient communities relied on informal networks of deep trust to contend with and heal disruption.
I have lived most of my life in soldiers’ camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk.
I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions.
He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.
Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.
Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.
When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.
No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.
This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so.
He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.