Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

Johnny Unitas

In order to be successful at anything you choose to do, you must make a 100 percent commitment to what it is you are trying to do. If you put 50 percent of your ability into it, that is all that you will get out of it. You must discipline your body and your mind to work towards the goals you have set. Once you have made this decision, then the work begins.

James Cash Penney

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

Henry Rollins

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.

Henry A. Kissinger

Far too often, the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.

Henry A. Kissinger

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Henry A. Kissinger

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Henry A. Kissinger

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Helen Hunt

A small step in a good direction.

Henry George

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Henry Blodget

The definition of strong leadership is not about making decisions that are popular. Making popular decisions is easy - you don't need to be a leader to do that. The definition of strong leadership is to make decisions that are unpopular, but are nevertheless sound.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.

Mahatma Gandhi

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

Mahatma Gandhi

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Malcolm Gladwell

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

John C. Maxwell

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

John C. Maxwell

Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat.

John C. Maxwell

Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.

John C. Maxwell

Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.

John C. Maxwell

My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.

John C. Maxwell

Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.

John C. Maxwell

Leadership is the dream made reality.

John C. Maxwell

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

John C. Maxwell

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

John C. Maxwell

Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.

John C. Maxwell

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

John C. Maxwell

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

John C. Maxwell

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

John C. Maxwell

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

John C. Maxwell

People who are not leaders automatically gravitate toward lines--limitations set by others. Many people are taught this in kindergarten when they are instructed to stay within the lines while coloring. But leaders are more creative than that. They look for options and opportunities. They try to take things in a new direction, or beyond the limit. Progress and innovation are made by people who think without lines.

John C. Maxwell

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.