Leadership Quotes - Page 30

• You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

  Major Owens

  Exercise, Constant, Ifs

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• The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief.

  Bear Bryant

  Basketball, Teamwork, Country

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• Be aware of "yes" men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget - people win.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Believe, Winning

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• If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.

  Bear Bryant

  Basketball, Believe, Wrestling

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• If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had a lot of them. Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. And, three, have a plan for everything. A plan for practice, a plan for the game. A plan for being ahead, and a plan for being behind 20-0 at half, with your quarterback hurt and the phones dead, with it raining cats and dogs and no rain gear because the equipment man left it at home.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Sports, Believe

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• Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspiring, Thinking, Development

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• In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.

  Andy Stanley

  Christian, Church, Trying

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• The will to win is more important then the skill to win. It is possible to achieve only what you actively pursue. Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. Keep your head high and work hard everyday, because you'll never get that day back

  Lloy Ball

  Volleyball, Hard Work, Winning

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• A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.

  Vince Lombardi

  Believe, Discipline, Goal

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

  Vince Lombardi

  Winning, Long, Battle

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.45, McGraw Hill Professional

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• So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.

  Julia Gillard

  Way, Next, Sustaining

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• While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed. An assumption cannot be used to justify making second-class citizens of those who are unfortunate enough to constitute living proof of the inaccuracy of that assumption.

  Bob Hawke

  Class, Income, Citizens

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• Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, Trying, May

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.99, Da Capo Press

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• These Australians hear the whispering in their heart and know it can only be silenced by coming to terms with the original owners of this beautiful and bounteous land. Many Australians of goodwill sense that a moment for national leadership has slipped past us and is gone.

  Patrick Dodson

  Beautiful, Heart, Past

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• To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

  Stephen Covey

  School, Pay The Price, Focus

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.24, Mango Media Inc.

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• I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Persistence, Organization

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field.

  Chuck Noll

  Team, Battle, Groups

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• First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.

  Zhuge Liang

  Firsts, Organize

  Liang Zhuge, Liu Ji (2005). “Mastering the Art of War”, p.90, Shambhala Publications

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• In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Relationship, Attitude, Real

  James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.770, Open Road Media

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  Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.

  Jesse Jackson

  Strong, Pain, Mistake

  1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco

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• Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful pursuit of goals.

  John Baldoni

  Goal, Outcomes, Embrace

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• Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you.

  Dan Hampton

  Sports, Play, Strive

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• Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed feel somewhat miscast in their role.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspiring, Eight, Play

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Jump high and hard with intention and heart.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Life, Positive, Success

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.90, Atlantic Books Ltd

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