Leadership Quotes - Page 37

• Keeping ridiculous hours doesn't mean you'll be successful.

  Tony Dungy

  Football, Mean, Successful

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• It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back.

  Bear Bryant

  Encouraging, Hate, Believe

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• Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

  Wayne Dyer

  Confusion, Each Day, Want

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• We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the truth." The point is clear: If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the king acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with the people.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Kings, Truth, Honesty

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• Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Moving, Want, Firsts

  "Essay on Burns".

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• As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

  Steffi Graf

  Sports, Fun, Play

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• There is no sin in not liking to play; it's a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn't want to.

  Bear Bryant

  Basketball, Mistake, Believe

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• The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Liberty, Followers

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• If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.

  Bear Bryant

  Basketball, Believe, Wrestling

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.1934, Triumph Books

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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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• You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.

  Bear Bryant

  Basketball, Believe, Thinking

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• My approach to the game has been the same at all the places I've been. Vanilla. The sure way. That means, first of all, to win physically. If you got eleven on a field, and they beat the other eleven physically, they'll win. They will start forcing mistakes. They'll win in the fourth quarter.

  Bear Bryant

  Basketball, Mistake, Believe

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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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• 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

  Skills, People, Support

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• To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.

  John C. Maxwell

  Success, Inspiration, Endurance

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• As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Jobs, Good Job, Employee

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• When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Inspire, Honey

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.273, Wildside Press LLC

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• Less isn't more; just enough is more.

  Milton Glaser

  Inspiration, Enough

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• The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Past, Men

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• Purpose is what gives life meaning.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Giving, Meaning Of Life, Purpose

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• One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.

  John P. Kotter

  Communication, Ideas, People

  John P. Kotter (2013). “John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do”, p.22, Harvard Business Press

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• A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Perseverance, Practice, Principles

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Important, Looks

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• I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Taken, Past, Command And Control

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