c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
If you have time, you need a vision. If you have money you need a purpose.
— Alin Sav
Staying humble and being grateful is a perfect combination for longterm leadership
— Alin Sav
If people copy your ideas or thoughts, don´t stop them. It´s a sign, that you are an influencer.
— Alin Sav
Leadership is a longterm game.
— Alin Sav
Make people feel great when they feel small. Make them feel responsible when they feel great.
— Alin Sav
You want to build a big business? Start with your character.
— Alin Sav
Number one" leaders never think about positions, but disposition.
— Alin Sav
Leadership. Something you need few words for, acts are enough.
— Alin Sav
Leadership. An environment for developing changers.
— Alin Sav
Leadership. Applies for weak and strong ones.
— Alin Sav
Leadership. More than a New York Times best seller book.
— Alin Sav
Intentional leadership. The moment when your business starts to grow.
— Alin Sav
Leadership. When you attract more skilled people than you.
— Alin Sav
Leadership. A gun to protect or a gun to kill. Your choice.
— Alin Sav
Leadership. Where the greatest also has a mentor.
— Alin Sav
Leadership. Sees the future and knows the past.
— Alin Sav
Leadership. No rules, no laws, no books, no titles, just influence.
— Alin Sav
We do not influence through speaking that much, but by leading.
— Alin Sav
Our job is...To listen more than we speak.To follow more than we lead.To love more than we receive.To forgive more than we've been forgiven.To remember more than we forget.
— Alin Sav
I don't care if you dream big or small. Do shit.
— Alin Sav
Understand this: If you pay attention to the client, he will pay attention to your product.
— Alin Sav
People need to be loved and then to be led.
— Alin Sav
Don´t speak about it, prove it - Leadership
— Alin Sav
If you're focused, you can't get bored.
— Alin Sav
Bad Leadership: When you want to lead people more than to love them.
— Alin Sav
Leadership is influence. An influencer is not automatically a leader.
— Alin Sav
Leadership moves people doing things they are not paid for yet.
— Alin Sav
Today's common problem: The focus on results and projects, more than on people and their humanity.
— Alin Sav
Leadership brings people together.
— Alin Sav
Leaders think in advance.
— Alin Sav
Leaders read people more than books.
— Alin Sav
Church leaders need to pray more than they lead.
— Alin Sav
Everything what you do is Leadership, if you are OK being number 2 from time to time.
— Alin Sav
You can´t learn leadership from books. You learn it by following.
— Alin Sav
If people love you, they will listen. If people trust you, they will follow.
— Alin Sav
Leadership is simple, if the leaders starts to serve first.
— Alin Sav
Leadership means welcoming the truth, that there might be a more skilled one than you.
— Alin Sav
Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
You don’t influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
Just as you won’t enjoy the fruits of the tree you dislike, so you won’t even wait to learn from people you hate.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
You can decide to refuse to allow people who aim at hating you to achieve their aims.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
I love people, that´s why I win. If you love people, you win.
— Alin Sav
Younger managers learn quickly that, whatever the public protestations to the contrary, bosses generally want pliable and agreeable subordinates, especially during periods of crisis. Clique leaders want dependable, loyal allies. Thos who regularly raise objections to what a boss or a clique leader really desires run the risk of being considered problems themselves and of being labeled "outspoken," or "nonconstructive," or "doomsayers," "naysayers," or "crepehangers.
— Robert Jackall, Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers
The manager comes to see all relationships with others by a strict utilitarian calculus and, insofar as he dares, breaks friendships and alliances accordingly.
— Robert Jackall, Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers
The most feared situation is to end up inadvertently in the wrong place at the wrong time and get blamed. Yet this is exactly what happens in a structure that systematically diffuses responsibility. It is because managers fear blame-time that they diffuse responsibility; however such a diffusion inevitably means that someone, somewhere is going to become a scapegoat when things go wrong.
— Robert Jackall, Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers
My first grade nun had instructed me that from those to whom much is given, much is expected. I was learning that this lesson had to be combined with Shakespeare's wisdom that one must 'to thine own self be true.' Add to this humility, empathy, a sense of curiosity, courage, and plain old hard work, and I was finally seeing the real path to leadership. Of course, humor is always a plus. (158)
— Jacqueline Novogratz
Leadership is fundamentally about credibility.
— Rick Crossland, The A Player: The Definitive Playbook and Guide for Employees and Leaders Who Want to Play and Perform at the Highest Level
We thrive when we are pulled by the future, not pushed by the past.
— Crystal Kadakia, The Millennial Myth: Transforming Misunderstanding Into Workplace Breakthroughs
Despite the continual rise of the knowledge worker over the last 60 years, we haven’t done enough to question “how we’ve always done things” and redefine effectiveness in organizations.
— Crystal Kadakia
More than a phone call or likes on facebook - Leadership
— Alin Sav
The place where "me & I" does not exist - Leadership
— Alin Sav
Leadership, a daily development.
— Alin Sav
I am not afraid of how the LGTB community reacts on Christians, but how Christians react back.
— Alin Sav
Leadership: In love with the team, not the spotlights.
— Alin Sav
Leadership, where happiness and work works.
— Alin Sav
Having and understanding of the 'why' will help having an understanding of the 'how'.
— Bobby Darnell, Time For Dervin - Living Large In Geiggityville
To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so few ever stand on the summit.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
One of the first things you learn as a leader, whether you choose the position of have it forced upon you, is that leadership is as much about what you don't say as what you do say.
— Fredrik Backman, Philémon, Tome 9 : L'Arche du "A"
Before you follow somebody, ask whom is he following.
— Alin Sav
Leadership gives more than it can receive.
— Alin Sav
90% of our Leadership happens when we do not speak.
— Alin Sav
You can't be richer than your trust in your partners.
— Alin Sav
Look forward to be a learner. The leader comes along.
— Alin Sav
Too many train their speaking than their listening.
— Alin Sav
You can't build bigger businesses than your level of leadership.
— Alin Sav
Leaders lead by serving.
— Alin Sav
Love is the surprising emotion that company builders cannot ignore.
— Brian de Haaff, Lovability: How to Build a Business That People Love and Be Happy Doing It
Sacrifice everything that is yours, to call up the humans in others.
— Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
O my mighty sisters and brothers, forget not that the ideal of humanity is the search of truth. In this pursuit, countless souls have sacrificed themselves in the past. And in this pursuit, countless more shall need to sacrifice themselves.
— Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
Arise O lion-heart! Awake, O great soldier! Misery has come upon the world. It is wailing for help. It is wailing for redemption. Won’t you do anything, my friend!
— Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
Caring and a sense of purpose evoke better performance than pressure and fear. The idea that only obsessive egomaniacs can produce breakthroughs is nonsense.
— Brian de Haaff, Lovability: How to Build a Business That People Love and Be Happy Doing It
Commerce does not have to be a ruthless, brutal enterprise that damages people’s lives. It can be a source of happiness, healing, and hope.
— Brian de Haaff, Lovability: How to Build a Business That People Love and Be Happy Doing It
Lovability — the capacity to earn genuine, heartfelt love and loyalty from customers — is the secret ingredient that propels a select few organizations ahead and leads not only to consistent growth and profitability but sustainable happiness for everyone involved.
— Brian de Haaff, Lovability: How to Build a Business That People Love and Be Happy Doing It
Lovable products, services, and companies are disrupting entire industries. They are changing the world.
— Brian de Haaff, Lovability: How to Build a Business That People Love and Be Happy Doing It
Leaders are made to be rivers not reservoirs.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend.
— Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Buddha: The First Sapiens
The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' – a leader says, 'Let's go!
— E.M. Kelly
What counts that we’re not counting?
— Frank Sonnenberg, BookSmart: Hundreds of real-world lessons for success and happiness
Facts and intuition are false opposites.Leaders should listen to their intuition and instincts and allow others to do the same because they are sub-conscious, fast ways of processing, aggregating and then accessing evidence to reach a swift conclusion.Trust your gut.
— Phil Dourado, The 60 Second Leader: Everything You Need to Know about Leadership, in One Minute Bites
Self is All. (First Principle of Humanism)
— Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
Mark you, no Krishna can clear your eyes and make you look with a broader vision upon life in your march upward and onward, until the Self within you morphs into Krishna – until the Self morphs into Buddha – until the Self turns into Christ.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Krishna Cancer
Only you can save yourself.
— Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Buddha: The First Sapiens
You can't dominate a network with old-style leadership.But, you can emerge, with the network's consent, as one of its leaders, regardless of your formal position or job title.
— Phil Dourado, The 60 Second Leader: Everything You Need to Know about Leadership, in One Minute Bites
There is an interplay between great leadership, events, trends, the organization, the people in it, the market 'out there' that goes far beyond one person exercising their will over others. That's not what leadership is any more.
— Phil Dourado, The 60 Second Leader: Everything You Need to Know about Leadership, in One Minute Bites
Every leader attracts a different type of follower from the left or the right, from the lowest or the highest class. Every leader unwittingly attracts certain stereotypes that fuel their underlying agenda.
— Anita B. Sulser PhD, We Are One
The reason most of your staff are asleep and disengaged, is because you have boring, and bully managers, and no REAL Leaders to inspire and unleash potential.
— Tony Dovale
To ENSURE greater success, celebrate your progess daily.
— Tony Dovale
All leaders need to ask questions, but they also need to assist in providing answers, to bridge the gap between questions and answers.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Gaps: Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business
Having a title only doesn’t make one a leader; talented people without a title don’t follow blindly, they practice leadership via influence.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Gaps: Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business
Unless we immediately move to supporting People, Planet and Profit, we will never be able to reverse the tipping-point of no return. Business is abusing our natural resources, just for greater greedership. This will leave little for future generations.
— ― Tony "Success Activator" Dovale
Fear based mindsets see challenges as problems, that are dangerous and impossible. Courageous Mindsets see problems as challenges, that are possible and exciting.
— Tony Dovale
Impossible is a perception based upon a limiting mental illusion. Possible is the belief in the potential of unseen possibility,
— Tony Dovale
REAL success, satisfaction and joy has nothing to do with owning STUFF!
— Tony Dovale
The right mindset is the most powerful force we can use to positively change the world.
— Tony Dovale
Courage is the belief in self, and the possible ability to prevail in the face of adversity.
— Tony Dovale
From a leadership perspective, the liking has to be qualified and be able to garner respect.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Gaps: Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business
To go from Bitter to BETTER, means you need to turn your I onto an E, by embracing WE.
— Tony Dovale
Developing ALL staff to their fullest potential, on a daily basis, is the most powerful and humane approach, to building a high-performance organisation, that positively changes the world.
— ― Tony "Success Activator" Dovale
Bad Culture is the contaminated oxygen your staff breath, as they get indoctrinated by your limiting context.
— Tony Dovale
Culture is the constant constraint that controls creativity, commitment, collaboration, and cohesion.
— Tony Dovale
REAL Leadership is the building of belief, that activates and aligns the full potential, for a meaningful cause
— Tony Dovale
Appreciation and recognition are qualities that most leaders forget, but desperately need, to build a positive, passionate and engaged workplace.
— Tony Dovale
A Culture of clear consistent communication and connection is the foundation of a high performance team that thrives and flourishes.
— Tony Dovale
High Performance Teams create cultures of caring, connection, commitment, collaboration and clear consistent communication
— Tony Dovale
Your UNconscious mind has more power, influence and control over your thoughts, feelings, decisions, and choices, than your conscious mind.
— Tony Dovale
Most people are interested in success, but not COMMITTED to success, which is why 85%+ of people seldom achieve their desired level of success.
— Tony Dovale
Limitless Leadership is the secret ingredient that helps common people, create high performance teams, that achieve outstanding and uncommon results.
— Tony Dovale
Hope is the spotlight that shines on the mine fields of possibility
— Tony Dovale
A High Performance team requires people with High Performance Mindsets, with relevant competence, committed and balanced communication, to a meaningful and challenging goal.
— Tony Dovale
Your influence on others is your net worth, treat it as such.
— Peprah Boasiako
There is too much negativity in the world. Do your best to make sure you aren't contributing to it.
— Germany Kent
empty out the toxins of life to avoid clogging
— Ikechukwu Joseph, The Complete Leader: Jesus Christ the Accomplished Perfect Total Leader
The answer is always "No" until you ask. - Ref James 4:2
— Charles S. Stamper, DAILY VICTORY: 40 Day Devotional Inspired by the United States Armed Forces
Even the gloss of a Leader guides his followers, Leader creates ideas and followers follow them, that's why he is so satisfied & calm that his ideologies inspire even those who are against him, he sits aside and watches the spectacle of his followers. After all there is nothing wrong in all this because he knows that he is becoming the source for many to change their state of mind, passion and philosophy. Some are true followers they will learn and win some are Malevolent they will not .....Choice is always there ...
— Mohsin Ali Shaukat
If a leader wants his people to do something, he himself must firstly do it!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The two fundamental skills of any leader are creativity and initiative. Creativity to find solutions and initiative to take action on them.
— Ben Tolosa, Masterplan Your Success
Be a leader you would follow.
— Unknown
Strategize yearly, plan quarterly, examine monthly, reflect weekly, act daily, and live #intentionally.
— Farshad Asl
I've failed over and over but I get back up stronger, better, and bolder. It's the only way I know and want to live.
— Farshad Asl
Whom the society deems worthless, once they discover their special inclination, it will change the very course of their lives as well as the shape of the very society that distastes them.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree
Help does not come from anywhere outside - it comes only from within ourselves.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree
In order to master the ability to lead, develop and deliver innovation at speed systematically, you must challenge your assumptions and expectations that influence your actions.
— K. Melissa Kennedy
Awake, O brave one! Arise, O lion-heart! Be the messenger that spreads compassion.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Krishna Cancer
When we do not fully and equally represent the masculine and the feminine in church and civic leadership, we cannot represent the human experience or Jesus.
— Tina Schermer Sellers, Sex, God, and the Conservative Church: Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy
When you’re faced with a choice, choose to inspire, choose to empower, choose to stand for those who have lost the will to stand for themselves.
— Orly Wahba, Kindness Boomerang: How to Save the World (and Yourself) Through 365 Daily Acts
Engage the whole community with a common purpose to build an innovative and sustainable enterprise.
— Miguel Reynolds Brandao, The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society: Think about sustainability in an age of technological progress and rising inequality
A powerful leader, like a conductor, need not say a word for his message to be communicated.
— Orly Wahba, Kindness Boomerang: How to Save the World (and Yourself) Through 365 Daily Acts
So imagine that fans of our products or services no longer simply consume and use them. Now we are creating a new opportunity for them to both participate directly in the development of the products but also benefit from a share of the profits too.
— Miguel Reynolds Brandao, The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society: Think about sustainability in an age of technological progress and rising inequality
I see entrepreneurship, like many other activities, as a type of mission. A mission by which we can provide better life chances and quality for both our current and future generations.
— Miguel Reynolds Brandao, The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society: Think about sustainability in an age of technological progress and rising inequality
Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
No matter how much you water the ground, if the ground holds no seed then no plant is coming out. Don’t expect the plant to come out unless you have sown the seed
— Lazarus Takawira, Imagine Africa
Great leadership is a reflection of honest service
— Lazarus Takawira
Excellence doesn’t come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree
You send a message by what you say and what you do. If words aren’t supported with consistent actions, they will ring hollow.
— Frank Sonnenberg, BookSmart: Hundreds of real-world lessons for success and happiness
The spotlight does not change a person, it simply reveals what one has mastered in the darkness
— Lazarus Takawira
I am sorry, I was wrong and it’s my fault, these are words only accustomed to humble leadership
— Lazarus Takawira
The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader." - Quoting Derek Sivers
— Adam M. Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
— Colin Powell
A value-added step in a process is defined by three characteristics. First, the step must be something that the customer is willing to pay for. Second, the step must directly change the form, fit, or function of something to produce a product or service. The final characteristic of a value-added step is that it is so important that it must be done right every time to successfully produce the intended product or service.
— Robert E. Hamm Jr., Continuous Improvement; Values, Assumptions, and Beliefs for Successful Implementation: It's All About the Culture
When you master the basics, and execute them well, there’s no need to worry about the score.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
It is the sensitive people in any organization that become aware of the need to discover the acceptable "middle" ground between "profit only" and "people only" and act accordingly.
— Herman L Glaess
When you feel that others are lacking and failing ....first assess the skill, style, quality, results, mindset, support, professionalism and spirit with which you yourself play the game.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Many great leaders understand intuitively that they need to work hard to create a sense of safety in others. In this way, great leaders are often humble leaders, thereby reducing the status threat. Great leaders provide clear expectations and talk a lot about the future, helping to increase certainty. Great leaders let others take charge and make decisions, increasing autonomy. Great leaders often have a strong presence, which comes from working hard to be authentic and real with other people, to create a sense of relatedness. And great leaders keep their promises, taking care to be perceived as fair.
— David Rock, Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
To create oneself as a Leader the foundation of Integrity must be laid, built with character and aspirations of greatness
— Bluenscottish
Think of strength, dream of strength, live of strength.
— Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
Marketing without sales is dead.
— Richie Norton
Tethered to our smart phones, we are too caught up and distracted to take the time necessary to sort through complexity or to locate submerged purpose . In our urgent rush to get "there," we are going everywhere but being nowhere. Far too busy managing with transactive speed, we rarely step back to lead with transformative significance.
— Kevin Cashman, The Pause Principle: Step Back to Lead Forward
We stand at an immense fork in the raod. One way is the path of generosity, dignity and a respect for other races and customs; the other leads most certainly to greed, suspicion, hatered and the old, bloody course of violence and waste - and now, God help us, to the very destruction of all the struggles and triumphs of the human race on this earth. My old friends and fellow townsmen: which will it be?
— Anton Myrer, Once An Eagle
Great leaders are most often God’s spokesmen.
— Jay Bryan Sandifer
Courageous people know that saying ‘no’ to one idea enables them to say ‘yes’ to another.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
His request to those listening was to start every day knowing that each minute lost is one that they will never get back and use that thought to drive them forward. This is what resonates most with this writer about our beloved Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid, he is a force of positive energy that the world is in dire need of. Therefore, when people ponder about what it is that makes the government of the United Arab Emirates different one can safely reach the conclusion that, Mohammed Bin Rashid is the difference.
— Aysha Taryam
Real leaders focus resources in areas that provide the greatest opportunity rather than making across-the-board decisions.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
Parishes that have learned to develop a culture of continual invitation to leadership, training, and growth in responsibility for their members are predisposed to ongoing health and growth when pastor transitions occur
— William E. Simon Jr., Great Catholic Parishes: A Living Mosiac: How Four Essential Practices Make Them Thrive
A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.
— DaShanne Stokes
Every posting, message, or email creates an impression, a public persona, from which other people make judgments. We make judgments about others, but how often do we turn that critical analysis on ourselves?
— Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
Character – the inner world of motives and values that shapes our actions – is the ultimate determiner of the nature of our leadership. It empowers our capacities while keeping them in check. It distinguishes those who steward power well from those who abuse power. Character weaves such values as integrity, honesty, and selfless service into the fabric of our lives, organizations, and cultures.
— Bill Thrall, The Ascent of a Leader Experience Guide
Rephrase the words "staff members" into team members. Because the people in our team are far more than employees, or colleagues. We are a unit!
— Janna Cachola
For every opinion, there is an equal and opposite opinion.
— Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
You are always a gardener. What grow - and how it grows - is up to you.
— Jones Loflin, Always Growing
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law...Do you understand the rights I have just read to you? With these rights in mind, do you wish to speak to me?” Most Americans adults have heard the Miranda rights from countless television and movie crime drams. The first statement of the Miranda rights is a simple but powerful declarative sentence. “You have the right to remain silent.” Not speaking will not be held against you, but the suspect is told that any words spoken “can and will be used against you in a court of law.” U.S. law provides the opportunity for reflection and protection against self-incrimination with the last sentence asking, “Do you wish to speak to me?” Reflect and ask yourself, it is wise to post or send an email containing that information?
— Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
An organization's proprietary, internal information is constrained only by an understanding that stake-holders will keep organizational matters within the organization.
— Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
A damaging email forwarded outside the organization is indicative of problems within the organization.
— Kent Alan Robinson
The written word imparts a gravitas the spoken word lacks. The underlying assumption is that time and thought has been expended on what was written, even if that is not the case.
— Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
A car crash at seventy-five miles an hour results in glass and steel strewn about the roadway. Emergency workers attend to the injured drivers, passengers and bystanders, and remove the wreckage. An electronic communication wreck lacks the visual drama, but imparts damage just as real and just as permanent. A momentary lapse in judgment may prove catastrophic for the writer, their family, coworkers, and stakeholders.
— Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
Emails, texts and social media promise the writer the power to be heard…In a society where relinquishing control is viewed as weakness, power is relinquished through every message sent without forethought to the potential consequences.
— Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
In the Darwinian environment of business, one's most provocative words are naturally selected by competitors to be hurled back at them at the most inopportune moments. Do not arm your adversaries.
— Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
It is better to apologise later than to ask for permission now. It is called self leadership
— Janna Cachola
Neither inherently good nor evil, electronic communication platforms are 100 percent dependent on user input.
— Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
...as we proceed to higher and higher levels of expertise, and as the stakes get higher and higher, the agonies of excellence reappear in new and frightening ways. A tiny minority gets through to the top, to memorable excellence or profound understanding. The rest of us stop at stages along the way, perhaps for a temporary rest, perhaps for a period of reassessment. But once we stop, we are unlikely to start up again. Security is suddenly far sweeter than enterprise. The sufferings of the ascent, so long endured by insuppressible aspiration, suddenly seem pointless.
— Robert Grudin, The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation
To be fully in service to something one has experienced as real is the essence of leadership in a nonhierarchical age. A leader is the holder of a story, someone whose experience of its reality is deep enough so that she can hold the belief on behalf of others.
— Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
They'll tell you who they think you should be they'll even try to manipulate you into believing it but let me tell you something son, if I listened to who I was supposed to be - this, everything we are and do wouldn't be in existence. Be a leader, find yourself and make a life with it. Those who judge you and try to force the patterns of their beliefs onto you are envious they haven't the strength in themselves to do the same.
— Nikki Rowe
Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody knows that but you.
— John Wooden
You are always a gardener. What grows - and how it grows - is up to you.
— Jones Loflin, Always Growing
One reason I continue to oppose efforts to criminalize abortion is that I do not believe any government should have the power to dictate, through law or police action, a woman's most personal decisions.""I consider that a slippery slope to state control of reproduction, and I'd witnessed the consequences of such control in China and Communist Romania.
— Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
I don't need to be vocal about my intentions, I am just intentional about my actions.
— Janna Cachola
Once a message has been sent electronically, the writer has ceded power not just to the recipient, but to whomever the recipient chooses to forward the information. To access electronic communication is to control it. The recipient, not the writer, has power over future dissemination of the writer’s words.
— Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
Clear direction leads to clear results
— Paul Bradley Smith
Generous leaders are servant leaders. They always come with open hands and an open heart.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do with your attitude and how you treat people.
— Germany Kent
You Are At Different Levels With Different People.
— Syed Sharukh
Never embrace a version of the gospel that doesn't require you to do life with someone who isn't like you.
— Reggie Joiner
Leadership isn't just about giving orders. A fool can give orders. A leader listens. He changes his mind. He acknowledges mistakes.
— Brian Staveley, The Emperor's Blades
LOVE is Leadership through Optimism, Value, and Endurance.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
Leadership is not only about producing results or measuring success with statistics. Leadership is doing something with significance that makes families, organizations, societies, nations, and the world a better place before you die.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
LEGACY plays an important role in defining a good leader at any age.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
Mr Mandela, who had given his whole life for justice and had never once thought of himself. How unlike these people were modern politicians, who thought only of power and tricks.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Full Cupboard of Life
Though sometimes you must have an unstoppable courage, it must be with a well defined humility for purposeful living! Humility is not just good for our lives; it also greatly saves our lives, integrity and true purpose! Don’t just think you are on top of the world just because you stand on the tallest building. When the building collapses, you may be far worse than they that walk besides the building who can run away upon seeing it collapsing!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
You are responsible for everything you TWEET and RETWEET.
— Germany Kent
No institution can become the cradle of leadership, until its teachers break their manacles of rugged dogmas.
— Abhijit Naskar
I wrote Beyond The Label to open up the aperture through which we look at the world. I want us to reconsider what it means to be a woman, a mentor, a wife, a mother.
— Maureen Chiquet, Beyond the Label: Women, Leadership, and Success on Our Own Terms
Good leaders are always in the “act” of leading. They listen as much to others as they listen to themselves.
— Maureen Chiquet, Beyond the Label: Women, Leadership, and Success on Our Own Terms
Allowing yourself to follow the crevices of your heart lines is a messy process and not easy to characterize or rationalize into neat and tidy lists and boxes.
— Maureen Chiquet, Beyond the Label: Women, Leadership, and Success on Our Own Terms
This book is for those of you who are tired of trying to squeeze into constrained categories, who long for a life without limits on who you are or who you will become.
— Maureen Chiquet, Beyond the Label: Women, Leadership, and Success on Our Own Terms
The underlying issue in getting women to top positions is what kind of leadership we value and how we teach, assess, and promote “good” leaders in all organizations.
— Maureen Chiquet, Beyond the Label: Women, Leadership, and Success on Our Own Terms
Be bold in pursuing what others believe is unrealistic because this will achieve more than being bland and unimaginative.
— Janna Cachola
When your leadership and legacy are built on love, obstacles are overcome through love’s fruit of optimism, foundations are built solid and secure in love’s values, and success is achieved through the strength found in love’s endurance.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
The more you've struggled, the more inspiring your story will be when you come out the other side. Do not give up. Today's struggle brings tomorrow's wisdom.
— Vironika Tugaleva
When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others. If you shun someone, the effect will trickle down through those who value your opinion.
— Kelley Armstrong, The Calling
The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.
— David Kelley
Maybe he wasn’t there to lead so much as to provide an illusion to the others that they were being led.
— Hugh Howey, Shift
Leadership is all about leading your life with a cause greater than yourself and continuously doing self-development.
— Deepak Burfiwala, Self-Ignorance Is Your Problem. Self-Awareness Is Your Solution.: Success Is Your Birthright! Life Is Yours and You Are the Pilot of It, Do Something about It.
Fair-minded people earn the respect of their colleagues rather than demanding it.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
Relational congruence is the ability to be fundamentally the same person with the same values in every relationship, in every circumstance and especially amidst crisis. It is the internal capacity to keep promises to God, to self and to one's relationships that consistently express one's identity and values in spiritually and emotionally healthy ways. Relational congruence is about both constancy and care at the same time. It is about both character and affection, and self-knowledge and authentic self-expression. Relational congruence is the leader's ability to cultivate strong, healthy, caring relationships; maintaining healthy boundaries; and communicating clear expectations, all while staying focused on the mission.
— Tod Bolsinger, Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory
Of course the servants had chosen not to follow me
—  I’d failed them already by refusing to be a man they could believe in.
Those who criticize the innovative concept of multi-site churches must also remember that at one point stained glass and hymnals were new as well.
— Braden Pedersen
You can’t lead without love, and more importantly, you can’t leave a legacy without love.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
...The happy Warrior... 'tis he whose law is reason; who depends upon that law as on the best of friends; whence, in a state where men are tempted still to evil for a guard against worse ill, and what in quality or act is best doth seldom on a right foundation rest, he labors good on good to fix, and owes to virtue every triumph that he knows: who, if he rise to station of command, rises by open means; and there will stand on honorable terms, or else retire, and in himself possess his own desire; who comprehends his trust, and to the same keeps faithful with a singleness of aim; and therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait for wealth, or honors, or for worldly state; whom they must follow; on whose head must fall, like showers of manna, if they come at all:
— William Wordsworth, Character of the Happy Warrior
Stop grovelling and start working.
— Abhijit Naskar
You are born to build the society, not to follow it.
— Abhijit Naskar
The world needs heroes. Be a hero and build your part of the world.
— Abhijit Naskar
True Leaders take an Ordinary Person and turn them into an Extraordinary Performer.
— Farshad Asl
You don't die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world.
— Abhijit Naskar
Throw away the newspapers. Discard all the useless debates and gossiping. Start working in silence. Start working on your passion. And make the news yourself.
— Abhijit Naskar
Have patience and keep working. Everything will come alright in time.
— Abhijit Naskar
Decisiveness is the number one quality of a dynamic leader
—  his ability to communicate a decision with passion and integrity is an art form.
Leadership without servanthood is like an ocean without water.
— Farshad Asl
Innovative leaders today are digital conductors, problem-solvers, and culture influencers.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Innovative thinkers are explorers and synthesizers of new world views or future views of the world.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Diplomacy in leadership is winning the war on behalf of both sides
— Lazarus Takawira
Courageous people know that old ways of doing things shouldn’t stand in the way of a better solution.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
A true revolution is about making those who are comfortable with corruption, uncomfortable. It's about pointing your fingers in the right direction and with nothing but the truth, will come power. A power not to exploit the Liberian people. But an ability to restore liberty, justice, and prosperity for all." - Henry Johnson Jr
— Henry Johnson Jr, Liberian Son
True leaders don't look at just the outward appearances in the selection of team members, they look at one's core values and heart.
— Farshad Asl
...The happy Warrior... is he... whose powers shed round him in the common strife, or mild concerns of ordinary life, a constant influence, a peculiar grace; but who, if he be called upon to face some awful moment to which Heaven has joined great issues, good or bad for human kind, is happy as a lover; and attired with sudden brightness, like a man inspired; and, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law in calmness made, and sees what he foresaw; or if an unexpected call succeed, come when it will, is equal to the need: he who, though thus endued as with a sense and faculty for storm and turbulence, is yet a soul whose master-bias leans to homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes; sweet images! which, wheresoe'er he be, are at his heart; and such fidelity it is his darling passion to approve; more brave for this, that he hath much to love:
— William Wordsworth, Character of the Happy Warrior
A level 4 leader's greatest asset is his ability to engage, empower, and equip his people; this is what creates the momentum for a significant change in the organization. He invests 80% in his people and 20% in the process.
— Farshad Asl
A journey to make real impact that changes lives, give meaning to life and living, and turns vision of the masses into realities demands a true focus, an utmost zeal and robustness and an unfailing tenacity to do whatever necessary within the powers and reach of a true leader, and with all needed dexterity, wit and wisdom, to make real impact have a meaning and give real liberation to the masses!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Simplicity is the language of leadership.
— Farshad Asl
Sins of omission should be regarded as far more serious than sins of commission,
— Stephen Bungay, The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions and Results
Telling people what to do is showmanship.Showing people how to do it is leadership.
— Janna Cachola
Legacy is more than leaving possessions behind. It's about investing in people with passion and integrity through leadership and love.
— Farshad Asl
You won this job because you were the best for the job. You are smart, quick to learn, and can quickly acquire any skill you might be lacking.
— Carla Harris, Expect to Win: Proven Strategies for Success from a Wall Street Vet
Know your limit and circle of influence
—  you are not called to meet the needs of everyone.
Mathematics is life: the workings (process) is more important than the answer (proof/product). A wrong process cannot make a right product.
— Dele Ayo Bankole
[On action filled leadership] Telling your team what to do is showmanship.Showing people how to do it is leadership. Leading for the purpose of visual effect will not accomplish the vision.
— Janna Cachola
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
— Woodrow Wilson
Leadership is influencing others through modeling.
— Farshad Asl
Entrepreneurial Leadership is where your vision, influence and creativity converge; it is where opportunities become limitless and your capabilities boundless.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
Leadership is the art of intentional living.
— Farshad Asl
True leadership is the orchestration of truth into action to shine Light into darkness.
— Orrin Woodward
I learned that when you can turn a presentation into a conversation, you have won the battle of converting a client; and second, I learned that the real Carla was my best competitive weapon and my key personal advantage.
— Carla Harris, Expect to Win: Proven Strategies for Success from a Wall Street Vet
When I give the best of me, that becomes my legacy.
— Karen Lopez McWilliams, The Ones Who Believed: True Inspirational Stories of Everyday People Who Took a Chance, Shaped a Life and
People who repeatedly find career success learn to broaden their perspective and understand that there are always several roads to getting where you want to go.
— Carla Harris, Expect to Win: Proven Strategies for Success from a Wall Street Vet
Leaders don't assume. Assumptions are the termites of leadership. Communicate, communicate, and communicate, until you connect.
— Farshad Asl
Leadership is the act of serving others and has no gender preference.
— Farshad Asl
Men's Leadership Success Formula: Get up, Show up, Man up, Mentor up, and Move up!
— Orrin Woodward
The accumulation of non-obvious, ineffective, or misapplied actions leads to low productivity.
— Chris Behnke
The problem is not lack of leadership, the problem is lack of good leadership
— Lazarus Takawira, Imagine Africa
DONOVAN: Court’s a good leader. He doesn’t hold my hand or treat anyone like a child. He’s kicked a few *sses when guys went off script to make their own moves. Once he even scared the sh*t out of one of the older guys.
— Bijou Hunter, Snake Charmer
Serving is the best kind of Leading.
— Todd Stocker
Leadership is the capacity to turn vision into reality.
— Warren Bennis
He has the power to render us happy or unhappy, to make our service light or burdensome, a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks, in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up; what then? The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?
— Akilnathan Logeswaran
Be yourself! Don’t try to fabricate your personality in the guise of impressing others.
— Ashish Patela
I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides
— Frank Herbert, Dune
No one can make you successful, the will to succeed comes from within
— Fabrizio Moreira, The Gift That Would Change My Life
Tell them a lie big enough, they'll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and they'll mock you.
— Abhijit Naskar
Highly engaged teams have highly engaged leaders. Leaders must be about presence not productivity. Make meetings a no phone zone.
— Janna Cachola
If you have a vision and there is no job title for it yet. That's a vision right there!
— Janna Cachola
Your superpowers don't care who you dislike. If you are an encourager, you encourage them anyway
— Janna Cachola
To use an analogy, the "leadership is the answer to everything" perspective is the modern equivalent of the, 'God is the answer to everything' perspective that held back our scientific understanding of the physical world in the Dark Ages. In the 1500's, people ascribed all events they didn't understand to God. Why did the crops fail? God did it. Why did we have an earthquake? God did it. What holds the planets in place? God. But with the Enlightenment, we began the search for a more scientific understanding - physics, chemistry, biology and so forth. Not that we become atheists, but we gained deeper understanding about how the universe ticks.Similarly, every time we attribute everything to 'Leadership," we're no different from the people in the 1500's. We're simply admitting our ignorance. Not that we should become leadership atheists (leadership does matter), but every time we throw our hands up in frustration - reverting back to "well, the answer must be Leadership!" - we prevent ourselves from gaining deeper, more scientific understanding about what makes great companies tick.
— James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
A leader without a team, is a car without steering wheel
— Fabrizio Moreira, The Gift That Would Change My Life
I don't buy dreams, i buy actions
— Fabrizio Moreira, The Gift That Would Change My Life
A real job can kill a real dream, chase your real dreams
— Fabrizio Moreira, The Gift That Would Change My Life
A leader cannot fall prey to the whims of the voices that shout the loudest, but must stand as a voice of reason in defense of the silent.
— Saminu Kanti