Leadership Quotes - Page 10

• The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Helping Others, People, Growth

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• 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.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Philosophy

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• You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

  Jerry West

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A leader is a dealer in hope.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Basketball

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Vision, Doe

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.224, Lexington Books

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  Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Morning

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.72, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Teacher, Encouragement

  "Thoughts on various subjects (Further thoughts on various subjects)". Book by Jonathan Swift, 1745.

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• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Education, Business, Honesty

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• Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Integrity, Character, Self

  Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”

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• To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects - the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner "I stand for consensus"?

  Margaret Thatcher

  Motivational, Inspiring, Believe

  Margaret Thatcher's speech at 1981 Sir Robert Menzies lecture at Blackwood Hall of Monash University in Melbourne, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 6, 1981.

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• Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Men, Unhappy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1228, Delphi Classics

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• Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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  Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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  Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

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• There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sports, Spiritual, Helping Others

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• He that cannot obey, cannot command.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Relationship, Discipline, Classroom

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Business

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• The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

  Walter Lippmann

  Business, Common Sense, Grace

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.500, Harvard University Press

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• If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Character, People

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

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• Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

  Jim Rohn

  Spiritual, Positivity, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 05, 2016

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• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Life, Happiness

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• Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.

  James Fisher

  People, Special, Quality

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