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The signs of outstanding leadership
appear primarily among the followers.
Are the followers reaching their potential?
Are they learning? Serving?
Do they achieve the required results?
Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
- Max De Pree
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny
is in trouble and reminders that its structure
is as brittle as its surface is hard.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
No one has been barred on account of his race
from fighting or dying for America,
there are no white or colored signs
on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
- John F. Kennedy
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth,
and that is that no instruction book came with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
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.
- Vince Lombardi
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver.
The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver,
the less he demands in slaughter.
- Winston Churchill
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
I must follow the people.
Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
Never hold discussions with the monkey
when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
The glue that holds all relationships together -
including the relationship between; the leader and the led
is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
- Brian Tracy
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Leaders are those who empower others.
- Bill Gates
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
Some single mind must be master,
else there will be no agreement in anything.
- Abraham Lincoln
leading by example creates a degree of
loyalty and overall success
that cannot be achieved through
issuing orders from a lofty office.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus
but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
While most managers spend their time attempting
to predict the future accurately -
and while that's valuable -
the best managers are able to generate a future
which was not going to happen otherwise -
that is, a future which was not predictable.
- Werner Erhard
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
Leadership is the art of getting someone else
to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust.
Service brings satisfaction.
Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- James Cash Penney
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -
that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
This myth asserts that people simply either
have certain charismatic qualities or not.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Leaders are made rather than born.
- Warren G. Bennis
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient.
It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
There are people in the world so hungry,
that God cannot appear to them
except in the form of bread.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Leap and the net will appear.
- John Burroughs
Are you feeling stressed and upset?
If so, you are worrying about tomorrow.
Events that have already occurred may cause you regret,
but they only appear to cause worry.
If you just lost your job, you are not worrying about losing your job -
that already happened.
You are worrying about paying your bills and finding a new job.
Those are worries about tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
Constant development is the law of life,
and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas
in order to appear consistent
drives himself into a false position.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You are more than you appear to be.
- Ernest Holmes
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
In principle, the great religions of the world
do not differ as much as they appear to.
- Ernest Holmes
All things appear and disappear
because of the concurrence of causes and conditions.
Nothing ever exists entirely alone;
everything is in relation to everything else.
- The Buddha
Laziness may appear attractive,
but work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb
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