Leadership Quotes
I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.
Great things in business are never done by one person, They are done by a team of people
People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that’s the job of vision.
Most times, the way isn’t clear, but you want to start anyway. It is in starting with the first step that other steps become clearer.
When you are silent on the truth, you have given a transport fare for the lie to travel and spread fast.
One of the first steps to successful leadership is to always forget your age and remember your dream regularly.
One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, "His confidence and compassion increase every day.
A dream without an action is like a fish without gills. It can’t survive.
Until you step in the game and influence the skills, you will never change the score line.
Leaders face battles. They don’t run away from troubles.
Develop the muscles for hard work and never be an early quitter.
Avoid trying to win tough battles on the silver platter. If the struggle is tough the success is sweet.
Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
You can’t shower happiness on others without getting few drops back on yourself.
It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.
Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
You can’t afford to limit your joy. It has been proven several times that angry people are never happy people.
Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody knows that but you.
Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy.
Whatever comes to you in a cheap way will vanish in a cheap way. Be patient and earn it the hard way.
Leaders know how to set priorities. They focus on the task that requires the most rapid attention.
You missed it when you pay more attention to the damaged car in the mechanic shop than the sick human being in the hospital.
You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people’s happiness suffocate.
Do what you can with all love and passion irrespective of whether it pays you well or not. Joy in the result lives longer than the joy in the reward.
The essence of one life is empowering another life, and so your passion has to be linked to the liberation of other people’s happiness.
Hatred is a burden that can hunt you day by day, robbing you off your personal joy in broad day light.
Haters can never rejoice especially when their enemy wins. The moment you can’t be happy when someone wins, watch yourself. That habit is not good for you.
I'm not a follower. I'm a leader. And anyone who speaks their mind is always criticised.
You don’t need a huge number of people with little passions to get a good job done. You rather need few people with huge passion.
A star wants to see himself rise to the top.A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.
The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority.
Don’t reduce your impacts to match what you earn.
I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)
Most people who were educated have become the "problems" instead of problem solvers.
Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change.
Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival.
If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
The strongest storms make the best sailors. The strongest games make the best players. Tougher challenges make the best leaders.
Leadership is about taking people from a good place to a better place where they would not regret to be.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.
Promised yourself never to keep quiet on the truth. Speak it out and let the lie die
A bit of adviceGiven to a young Native AmericanAt the time of his initiation:As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump.It is not as wide as you think.
When the leader goes wayward, the organization goes wayward.
Every leadership role has a character driving force that will fulfill or decimate the ultimate purpose of the role.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
