Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Clarity affords focus.
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. Put in a negative way, the aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men, but to remove the causes of failure: to help people to do a better job with less effort.
Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don't know of what. They are angry, but they don't know at whom. They are rejected and they don't know why. All they want is to be somebody.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow
To have a successful career, you have to approach it as an entrepreneur, even if you are working for someone else. Your career is your own private business. You have to market yourself and your abilities and knowledge just as you would a product or service.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.
A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.
There are no office hours for leaders.
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
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