Quotes about leadership
leadership respect people
It is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right. William J. H. Boetcker
leadership wish succeed
If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.
leadership courage freedom
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
leadership sports attitude
We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules. Woody Hayes
leadership sports winning
When you're winning - you don't need any friends. When you're losing - you don't have any friends anyway.
leadership men play
If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards. Woodrow Wilson
leadership real struggle
Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.
leadership blow men
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.
leadership sports spiritual
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
leadership doe compromise
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
leadership patriotic listening-to-others
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
leadership battle half
Half-heartedness never won a battle. William McKinley
leadership self-esteem quality
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. William James
leadership motivation philosophical
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
leadership kings rain
But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain. Samuel Pepys
leadership character men
The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron. Samuel Smiles
leadership jobs mean
A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on things being done right and on time; a boss who is watching things closely enough so that he knows a good job from a poor one. Nothing is more discouraging to a good man than a boss who is not on the job, and who does not know whether things are going well or badly. William Feather
leadership skills people
People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support Warren G. Bennis
leadership skills followers
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
leadership jobs reality
The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.
leadership world hospitality
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
leadership vision hospitality
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
leadership art boys
I'd always rather err on the side of openness. But there's a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary is a judgment call. The art of leadership is knowing how much information you're going to pass on - to keep people motivated and to be as honest, as upfront, as you can. But, boy, there really are limits to that.
leadership dream believe
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
leadership running thinking
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
leadership opposites future-leaders
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
leadership groups great-leader
Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to have a great leader without a Great Group.
leadership organization wake-up
A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless ... someone's got to make a wake up call.
leadership ideas want
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
leadership wise reality
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
leadership eye horizon
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
leadership people followers
The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.
leadership music dance
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.