Personal Development Quotes
You have to know who to keep near you and those you should be far away from.
You will never be able to go to the east if you follow people who are on the way that leads to the west.
What differentiates victors and victims are visions and vigor. Victims won't get the vim to step out of their situations.
When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you.
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.
Management informs. Leadership applies. The effective managers inform accurately. Effective leaders apply wisely.
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.
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.
The courageous attitude of a leader awakens the dormant attitude of followers. The dormant attitude of a leader weakens the passionate attitude of followers. Leadership determines everything.
Leaders don’t fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn’t their desire to maintain but to improve.
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.
People who praise a leader even when he is doing the wrong things are the main reasons why his fall is near.
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.
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.
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.
Leaders know where they can function better. They don’t cry over what they cannot do.
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.
If you have only answers and no questions, chances are high that you will never know new things.
Leaders create and maintain good interpersonal relationships with people they meet and work with. People who lead better relate better.
Leaders look out for people who can criticize them constructively and rebuke them reasonably.
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 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.
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 try every possible means to leave the world better than they found it. They make an indelible impact and society remembers them for that.
Leaders reject free opportunities they don't need, so that they can have time to create the expensive opportunities they need.
Vision unknown is self-abuse. Vision known is self-abuse discovery. But vision applied is self-liberation. Application is the key
Self-leadership is about digging out your hidden endowment and making them known and useful to those who need it most.
Those who see poverty looking for human slaves to capture, will tell you they saw him holding the handcuffs of laziness.
Achievements take leaders' name everywhere. Character keeps those names wherever they reach. A leader with no trust soon fades no matter how far he goes.
Leaders take actions. Attacking your plans with blows of actions will not cost you painful but temporal bruises. Never leave goals untouched.
Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them.
Leaders let go of what they can't control. It's a matter of knowing the power of the muscles and bones in your neck so you can go for what it can carry
Leaders get to tall heights by taking short steps. Being faithful, diligent and consistent with little steps is the secret to mounting greater heights.
Clarity repositions you to quit nice activities that take you nowhere in order to pursue risky tasks that take you somewhere.
Leaders don't define wealth by material things they see. They define wealth by the visions they imagine and actions they take.
Most great accomplishments do not look promising in the beginning. If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.
There seems to be a direct correlation between the spike in suicides by young people and the increase in cyberbullying amongst young people.
We can change our own life and ultimately change the world.
Leaders say "no" to corruption. Anyone playing a role in governance, and is not ready to do this is not a leader.
The failure of a person is wrapped in his ignorance about his strengths.
If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.
The competency of people you mobilize to work with will determine the output you will receive. As a leader, always look for people who buy into your vision.
When the lenses in the eyes of a leader captures tomorrow, they don't print the passport size of it. They make enlargements.
To become a better you, secure your dreams from the jaws of people who discredit your ambitions.
If you are not hungry for success, you will not make the best use of your time. It is simple and clear. People who are truly hungry for food never play with a meal when they see it.
People who are ready to learn are those who will be the best to lead.
Stop blaming other people for your mistakes. Until you are ready to admit that you are infallible, you are vulnerable for failure to whip.