Leadership Quotes
Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
Winning is what happens when commitment, desire, talent, preparation, hard work, and leadership all come together.
Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.
Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.
In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.
Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences
It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
Observing many companies in action, I am unable to point to a single instance in which stunning results were gotten without the active and personal leadership of the upper managers.
No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.
We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.
Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.
Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-Tung.
