Leadership Quotes
Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.
The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.
If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.
A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow.
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.
Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership.
Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.
Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then be different from your peers.
If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted, there is practically nothing she can't do.
It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.
What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.
Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.
And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.
No amount of training in leadership skills, courses in management methods, power titles, promotions, or associations can substitute for the right attitudes.
The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.
A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
All leaders are influenced by those they admire. Reading about them and studying their traits inevitably allows an inspiring leader to develop his own leadership traits.
I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.
Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.
Leading an organization is as much about soul as it is about systems. Effective leadership finds its source in understanding
A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.
Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.
People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.
No matter what the realm of leadership – the home, the workplace, the church, or the community – the vision is crucial. Leaders must funnel their faith into action so that life-changing results.
You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be seen in that light.
The greatest challenge of Leadership maintaining personal conviction in a globalized world.
It's important to have women in leadership positions, because our experiences are different from those of the men we serve with and that helps us identify problems we can fix.
The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
