Leadership Quotes - Page 36

• Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

  Stephen Covey

  Business, Vision, Process

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• Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.

  Winston Churchill

  Character, Men, Doe

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• How you spend your time defines who you are.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Who You Are

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know for Sure”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspiring, Education, Witty

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• What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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  The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

  Thucydides

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). “The History of the Peloponnesian War”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.

  Ronald Reagan

  Learning, Successful, Essence

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• Harry is my elder brother. He is the wiser one who leads Percept, he shows us the path. My job is to run it, create the relationships, and run the business as profitably as I can. Harry acquires, merges, expands he is responsible for Percept's growth.

  Shailender Singh

  Running, Brother, Jobs

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• I'm a firm believer in quiet confidence. By that I mean knowing inwardly that you are good, and not exhibiting a boastful attitude outwardly. If an athlete doesn't believe in himself, no one else will.

  Dick Van Arsdale

  Basketball, Attitude, Believe

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• Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a big part of it. It's a bit like gut instinct, but a little more developed.

  Donald Trump

  Business, People, Littles

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• Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very cut-and-dried. However, we judge ourselves by our intentions. Even if we do the wrong thing, if we believe our motives were good, we let ourselves off the hook. And we are often willing to do that over and over before requiring ourselves to change.

  John C. Maxwell

  Change, Believe, Cutting

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.13, Thomas Nelson

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• Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

  Davy Crockett

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Integrity

  Davy Crockett (1987). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee”, p.19, U of Nebraska Press

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• If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

  Dennis Roch

  Humorous, Silly, Communication

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• Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.

  Stephen Covey

  Basketball, Character, Two

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• I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.

  Bum Phillips

  Basketball, Motivation, Practice

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• I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Practice, Nba

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• We cannot all be masters.

  William Shakespeare

  Acceptance, Masters

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.230

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• Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Fall, Character, Adversity

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• The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

  Horace Mann

  Helping Others, Self Help, Highest

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• A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

  David Gergen

  Inspirational, People, Vision

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• A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

  Aristotle

  Greek, Coaching, Possibility

  Poetics ch. 24, 1460a

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• Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

  Jacob August Riis

  Motivational, Inspiring, Stay Strong

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• Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Organization, Glue

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• With all the power that a president has, the most important thing to bear in mind is this: You must not give power to a man unless, above everything else, he has character. Character is the most important qualification the president of the United States can have.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Character, Men, Giving

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• Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.

  Mitt Romney

  Christian, America, Vision

  "Cnn Saturday Morning News" with Randi Kaye, edition.cnn.com. May 12, 2012.

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