Leadership Quotes
David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic.
If soldiering did not interest him, the soldiers themselves were another matter. He loved to sit with the men and draw out their first-hand stories of past campaigns.
Perhaps Ali's most significant talent with the ability to transport people past thoughts and words to a world of feeling and play.
You say I can't do it because you can't. Mohammed Ali
She turned back to the rest of us. "They've taken it all, " she said. "They've taken every last good thing in the world."Then she swung the door wide. "Now go and show them your answer.
Whatever his weight in pounds and ounces, he always seems bigger because of his bounces.
Leaders lead by example. No leader asks more than he is prepared to give himself.
Notice I did not say what people can do--what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.
Between a plan and it’s achievement is a leader in the middle. With his one arm he makes the plan. With the other one he carries them through.
Bad timekeeping will suck the life out of your bank account.
A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.
A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.
To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.
The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip.
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.
The best leaders have the ability to align people to their vision and motivate them to work passionately towards its fulfillment as if it were their own.
The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!
The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts.
The speed at which progress rolls is not determined by the number of people who started pushing it, but by the number of people who are passionate to hold on doing so.
Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.
Preferring steady progress, slow and imperfect, is a good philosophy for the defeated.
The common goal of leaders is to increase the value and productivity of people. Leaders inspire others to do better than they would have done when not inspired.
His was the strong soul, gentle, but tempered with fire, fervent, heroic and good, the helper and friend of mankind. It is such as he who make progress possible.
It is much easier to evaluate perfect rather than partial results.
Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.
Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon
It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.
The British Army has a fine tradition of being so distracted by what it is currently up to it stubbornly refuses to look round the corner, let alone into the future.
The most essential requirement for leaders is neither age nor gender. It is neither certificates nor positions. It is the character that reveals trust and exemplary life.
Staffers tend to mimic their bosses, to take their key from them.
Bring it down." Veteran leader Han Solo's correction to the overbearing swagger bike which his protégé is attempting to force his will on others.
The best way to predict future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln
The show became its own little world, with its own internal rhythm and high standards.
We cannot afford to let the ideas of our young generation go untapped or unbacked.
The author points out that the moral failure of Abigail Adams' brother focused her on disciplining her children, and herself, so that they did not come to the same end.
He was making the inevitable pivot from critic to manager.
When an employee truly understands the meaning of his work and gets recognition for his efforts he performs the best.
He was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing.
Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.