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A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
The show became its own little world, with its own internal rhythm and high standards.
— Dick Van Dyke, My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business
Although it is great to know, it is better to be told, 'I love you.' Whose day can you make better today by simply saying, 'I love you?' Now do the thing you know better to do.
— DeWayne Owens
Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Management tries to manage problems
—  leadership tries to overcome the problems.
We cannot afford to let the ideas of our young generation go untapped or unbacked.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
The highest goal of a leader is to help others fulfill their purposes in life.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
You are a true leader if you help others to grow as leaders.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
The towering genius is not apolitical.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo.
— Scott Hammerle, Lessons from the Castle: My Journey From Prince Charming to Executive Level Leader and How You Can Find The Legendary Leader Within
You are never too old or too young to be a leader.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
The author points out that the moral failure of Abigail Adams' brother focused her on disciplining her children, and herself, so that they did not come to the same end.
— Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business.
— Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked
He was making the inevitable pivot from critic to manager.
— Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked
Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.
— Scott Hammerle, Lessons from the Castle: My Journey From Prince Charming to Executive Level Leader and How You Can Find The Legendary Leader Within
When an employee truly understands the meaning of his work and gets recognition for his efforts he performs the best.
— Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
when u have concepts(revelation) the way u live changes
— Ikechukwu Joseph, JESUS CHRIST:Beyond the Miracles,the Character: Lesson for Leaders (Jesus Christ
The formula for successful leadership has changed little, if at all over the centuries. It isn’t leadership that changes over time, rather where the leaders need to take their people that changes.
— Scott Hammerle, Lessons from the Castle: My Journey From Prince Charming to Executive Level Leader and How You Can Find The Legendary Leader Within
He was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing.
— Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked
A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Success will teach you who your real friends are.
— Germany Kent
We can be the very first generation which fails to see the logic or pride in defining ourselves by anything else but what is found within ourselves: our values
— Akilnathan Logeswaran
If you never try, you'll never know. You are what you manifest.
— Germany Kent
Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Replace dabbling with laser-beamfocus on something important.
— Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
You can actually herd cats. They can't be forced, of course. But if they sense something they want, if there enticed by something good, they'll follow, even in herds.
— Ron Suskind, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it.
— Nikki Rowe
Moral action – humble and honest – is the tribute that power must at some point pay to reason.
— Ron Suskind, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily
—  even if you had no title or position.
He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Life-shaping institutions tend to start with an idea or revelation. They often become mostly about the preservation and expansion of authority, something they relinquish only with the greatest reluctance.
— Ron Suskind, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
What most new entrepreneurs don’t realize is that before you can lead a business, or a family, or a ministry, or even just another person, you have to be the leader of yourself, first.
— Kevin J.  Donaldson, Lead and Succeed 7 Wealth Principles of Today's New Leaders
Connection" was the cement of the governing class.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them.
— Ron Suskind, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
He was rebuilt, reconstituted by vengeance dressed up as high purpose.
— Ron Suskind, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
— Debasish Mridha
There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.
— James Kouzes and Barry Posner
The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.
— H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
If you have allowed a laborious lifestyle to suppress your dreams, then NOW is the time to take a STAND and give yourself PERMISSION to DREAM again! Now remove the clutter in your life and make PLANS to make your dreams a reality.
— DeWayne Owens
Perhaps the most important factor of leadership is simply taking advantage of the chance to lead.
— Julie F. Parker
Nothing is more honorable than a man or woman with a good reputation.
— DeWayne Owens
Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.
— Stephen L. Carter, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
Leaderships about transforming lives and making a difference through innovation and purpose, grounded in values and integrity
— Michael Harris
In order to get where you want to go in life, you have to Geeet!
— DeWayne Owens
Inside that Colonel, there's a private that needs to be cuddled and held just like the rest of us." Hawkeye
— M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team, M*A*S*H EPISODE GUIDE: Details All 251 Episodes with Plot Summaries. Searchable. Companion to DVDs Blu Ray and Box Set.
A $10,000 investment in Dell at its 1988 initial public offering would have yielded a fortune of ~$6 million at the stock’s peak.
— Heather Simmons, Reinventing Dell
Seek a man that doesn't ask you to prove your love. Seek a man that will prove God's love.
— Shannon L. Alder
As a citizen of the world, I stand only with Truth and my conscience is my only leader. This is the only way to peace and justice on earth. To always do the right thing, be the right person, and stand with whoever is right always and forever.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Action is the bridge between thought and reality.
— Richie Norton
A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Listen with the will to learn.
— Unarine Ramaru
If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.
— Germany Kent
anytime you speak to anybody, remember somebody
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
All the progress in science can’t be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses—to smell trouble or just something fishy.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Experience and wisdom are more tangible than materialism.
— Unarine Ramaru
Tough times don't last always. Your hard times are there to shape you and develop your character. It causes you to become more aware of life and you develop an attitude of gratitude. Don't lose hope because it gets better.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
With every step you take ask yourself, what do I really want?
— Unarine Ramaru
Weak leadership will always hide behind ambiguity and rhetoric.
— Amitav Chowdhury
The best leaders are well-rounded, able to draw on whatever skills suits the particular situation at hand. They are determined, insightful, shrewd, and, most important, able to command the attention of the people around them.
— Bob Rae, What's Happened to Politics?
Leadership is not a voice crying in the wilderness, aloof and apart. It requires an ability to command as well as to inspire, to learn in the process of collaboration and to build a team with a common purpose that can take action and execute the change they envision.
— Bob Rae, What's Happened to Politics?
An organization can only grow and set an exemplary model for development with the help of right talent pool.
— Amitav Chowdhury
Be true to who you are. Don't let the world tell you who to be.
— Germany Kent
If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
The accomplishments of the women in 'The Counselors' are a testament to the power and promise of the American Dream and are sure to resonate deeply with many young women who have the desire and the ability to make their own unique contributions to this legacy of progress. . . . Just as the women in this book were empowered by the efforts and example of those who came before them, a new generation will be inspired and encouraged by the spirit and achievements of this remarkable group.
— Bill Clinton
Rapport is the link between meeting and communicating.
— Nicholas Boothman, How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less
Jefferson determined the lodestar that lay hidden in the motivations of others
— John Ferling, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic
Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
Failure is an open invitation to improve and engage your frustrations with a refined energy of triumphant effort.
— Unarine Ramaru
There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.
— Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president.
— Ron Suskind, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.' — Tom Martin, former VP of marketing
— Heather Simmons
To the disrupters go the spoils.
— Heather Simmons, Reinventing Dell
Nobody thought the direct business model would work. But work it did, and spectacularly. Until it didn’t. And therein lies the tale.
— Heather Simmons, Reinventing Dell
People can destroy people
—  People can also decorate. The former are misleaders
If you fall into a pit, you need a ladder, not a hoe. You must climb up and not dig up. Leaders discover the right way out of limitations.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
We spend most of the time justifying the situation and not finding the real problem thus leaving minimal chance of solutions.
— Unarine Ramaru
One thing we entirely forget when making decisions is the fact that the results concern and throw back to the decision maker not the one it seeks to please.
— Unarine Ramaru
Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence
—  they take corrections.
A leader who sows confidence will reap excellency and legacy. A leader who sows fear will reap stagnancy or complacency.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Engaging solely to validate your opinion takes away from the character building process.
— Unarine Ramaru
People can push people down
—  People can also push people up. The former are misleaders
A goal shouldn't be limited to a title.
— Unarine Ramaru
Leaders decorate the world
—  character is their paint. They live exemplary life and make the world better than they found it.
Leaders do not conform; they reform. If you conform, you are nurturing mediocrity. If you reform, you are breeding change.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
There is no law against delaying action to weigh it in thought.
— Unarine Ramaru
Friends can speed up your steps or slow down your pace. Leaders choose friends wisely
—  they are aware of the consequences.
Respect is not an obligation nor a favour, it takes a bigger person to give or show some whether it is returned or not.
— Unarine Ramaru
John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.
— John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.
— John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
Leaders don't walk in front, nor do they walk behind. They walk on completely different paths on the journey of intuition. The road that has never been taken. And so they lead.
— Matthew Donnelly
When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.
— Richie Norton
You can easily miss out on the joy of today by worrying about the “what if’s” of tomorrow. Tomorrow is not guaranteed, so bask in the joy of the day and tomorrows “what if’s” will take care of themselves.
— DeWayne Owens
Simply thinking creatively is not the same as being innovative, and only those who risk breaking out of their comfort zone by putting thought into action will discover the profusion of opportunity that exists.
— Michael Lum
Leaders do not play a "what if game". They believe it will be and work it to be! Success is scarce because fear is common.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
The only relevance worth to pursue, is living your passion through your interests.
— Unarine Ramaru
Leaders' major question is "why". If they lose, they ask "why". If they win, they ask "why". Their "whys" weave their wonders.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Get attached to your dreams; The but to that statement is, be open to all possibilities in your mission.
— Unarine Ramaru
The altitude of any relation is possible through discourse.
— Unarine Ramaru
It is easier to fall off the ladder once you on top, the balance is being aware of your environment.
— Unarine Ramaru
People are tired of being told that it's possible... It's time to show them how it can be possible. Leadership is demonstration.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders are interested in gains. However, they acknowledge that there is no gain without pain. They embrace the pain.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
The ladder of leadership can only stand firm on the grounds of integrity. Any other ground makes it unstable till it falls.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Africa PRODUCES what it does NOT CONSUME and CONSUMES what it does NOT PRODUCE.
— Ali A. Mazrui, Africa, The Next Thirty Years
Leaders don't venture without vision. They don't pray without plans. They don't climb without clues. They are always prepared.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Fear punches holes in your eyes so that you don't see the future clearly. Faith enlarges your vision to behold your destiny.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
By constant practices, deliberate repetitions and uninterrupted exercises, leaders go from zero to hero. They don't quit.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
If you're determined to stand, nothing can move you. If you're determined to move, nothing can stop you. Determination is the key!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Don't confuse one leader's bluster for muster or another leader's meekness for weakness.
— Orrin Woodward
You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
So often in the church, being a pastor or a "spiritual leader" means being the example of  "godly living." A pastor is supposed to be the person who is really good at this Christianity stuff — the person others can look to as an example of righteousness. But as much as being the person who is the best Christian, who "follows Jesus" the most closely can feel a little seductive, it's simply never been who I am or who my parishioners need me to be. I'm not running after Jesus. Jesus is running my ass down. Yeah, I am a leader, but I'm leading them onto the street to get hit by the speeding bus of confession and absolution, sin and sainthood, death and resurrection — that is, the gospel of  Jesus Christ. I'm a leader, but only by saying, "Oh, screw it. I'll go first.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
Leaders do what is uncomfortable but helpful. They run away from the comfort that doesn't produce any help for the world.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Learning from failure boosts a leader's chance of staying ahead of his standards. Leaders who rise quickly after falling are always stable.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
A leader does not reduce his speeds to meet the views of negative thinkers. He leaves them to do their job as he focuses.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders scan the future so it can be free of doubts and fear. They do so by not living a double standard life in the present.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Do not mistake a leader's meekness for weakness.
— Orrin Woodward
Pride, anger and hatred are fruits from the same garden that poison the world when ripe. A leader cultivates no such fruits.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders build the future with clays of the past. Every good moment gives them ideas
—  every bad moment gives them lessons.
Courage promotes leaders
—  fear demotes them. Most people who have difficulties climbing up success ladders are fans of fear.
Every great leader once fell down from a tall ladder. You don't become a star until you get the scar. Take that risk now.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Words do less than 10 things, but actions do more than 10 thousand things. Leaders don’t talk in vain; they follow with actions.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Greed squeezes your dreams into a portable size, so that failure can easily carry them to dump somewhere.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Many self-leaders lead the world even by being invisible. The world learns from them without sitting in their classrooms.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Honesty is doing what you know or believe is right. Integrity is doing what is right and truthful.
— Roy  Bennett
Leaders find something to die for, not something to live on. If you haven't found something to die for yet, you can't lead.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Environment has its own ways of limiting us tightly. But leaders have their own ways of escaping those limitations narrowly.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The art of diplomacy is finding a reasonable route among imperfect alternatives.
— Robert Dallek, Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House
Leaders don't pray to God for money. They simply ask for His grace to solve problems. By solving problems, the money comes.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Your relationships will either empower you to overcome obstacles, or put fears in you so you can run away from them.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
The desire to swim in deeper waters is what gives a greater experience. Nothing new comes out of being ordinary. Leaders take risks.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
— Henry Kissinger
What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Until you do your best, don't try to take a rest. Until you take a leap, don't try to sleep. Until you top, don't try to stop.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders are solutions conscious. They don’t complain. You would find them repeating this common question; “how will it be done, and by who?
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders inform, inspire and improve people. They educate, empower and enrich the value of their followers. They make impacts.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders do not chase comfort
—  they pursue vision even if it comes with risks. Don’t give up too early because you see not early rewards.
A leader in 10 minutes can unlock your potentials which in reality would have taken you 10 years to do without them.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders don't cry for what country can do for them for free. They dream about what they can do for country at high cost.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
People buy into leaders through the 3R's of Leadership: Relationship, Reason, and Results.
— Orrin Woodward
Why ships won't use roads, is why cars won't travel on oceans. When the position is wrong, the leader won't be right.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders gather scattered people with the positive influence of intimacy while misleaders scatter gathered people with the negative influence of intimidation.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
The skills of a leader will determine how excellent he will perform. His attitude will determine how often he will do that.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
A leader’s attitude tells how often he will be the winner
—  his character determines how long he will be the winner.
A leader isn't born after 9 months' conception. When talents are discovered, skills are mastered & values are developed, a leader is born.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
If you see a leader solving one conflict wisely, remember he is working hard to prevent 10 of such from happening!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
One of the greatest secrets of great leaders
—  'they are not controlled by what they cannot do'. They directed by what they can.
If you want to be a leader, don't stand on the toes of dwarfs. Mount the shoulders of giants and you will see further.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage.
— Lynne Olson, Citizens of London: The Americans who Stood with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour
Freedom is willpower to act for a change.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Almost everything a leader fails to achieve is anything he fails to try. What is not attempted is what is difficult to do.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
To become a leader, renovate your mind with painting of peace and roof your heart with ceiling of love. No love, no leader!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
It’s is good you are about something. But wait and ask, “why and how?”. Without “whys and hows”, not every energetic movement can be called progress.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders walk their talks. They don’t give theories that do not work. They have clarity into their dreams and insight into their directions!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders don't fall in gutters of fear; only negative ideas flow in that canal. There, you will see filthy things like doubts and disbelief.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
I believe that we have reached a stage in life in the economic development of Africa where moving forward is perilous, moving backwards is cowardice and standing still is suicidal but we must persevere because winners do not quit and quitter never win.
— Patrick L.O. Lumumba
Sometimes the reason God doesn't show up to win your battles is because he already put inside of you the power to end it.
— Shannon L. Alder
The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.
— Douglas MacArthur
People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy
— Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they’ve already done and go farther than they’ve reached.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leadership’s primary job is to enhance creative capacity by developing collectively effective leadership.
— William A.  Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
They were following their prime minister, matching their government's mood.
— William Manchester, The Last Lion 2: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams!
— Israelmore Ayivor
He not only had the gift of “reading” men and women, of seeing into their hearts, he also had the gift of putting himself in their place, of not just seeing what they felt but of feeling what they felt, almost as if what had happened to them had happened to him, too.
— Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
I'm the boss. I gotta pretend to worry.
— Code Black
The author points out that novices to total war, and this Hitler and the British press have in common, overreact to daily events and lose sight of overall strategy.
— William Manchester, The Last Lion 2: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
Officers came and went and were never a part of daily life.
— David Halberstam, Firehouse
Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours - watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he have a chance he will pull down and pulverize that subaltern's tower, and make a little heap of dust of it.
— Herman Melville
As the sun rises first on mountain-tops and gilds them with his light, and presents one of the most charming sights to the eye of the traveller; so is it one of the most delightful contemplations in the world to mark the glow of the Spirit's light on the head of some saint, who has risen up in spiritual stature.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
The men were always wary of an officer who took form more seriously than function.
— David Halberstam, Firehouse
The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward
— Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
You have great talent for great contribution to humanity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
With Johnson, you never quite knew if he was out to lift your heart or your wallet. Roy Wilkins
— Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
Take for instance, a society where the prevailing value system is that you only go into politics and leadership to serve and not to make money. In such a nation, people know that those who go into politics and leadership come out of it poorer than they went in.
— Sunday Adelaja
The specialty in all life is expecting the exception, while ignorant of real acceptance, until unexpectedly you re-witness your own ignorance to 'be' the cause that awakens others. One does not do this yesterday, or today. You do this with expressing honesty everyday.
— James Emlund
Be an intentionally D.U.M.B. Person today! D-Demonstrate love to someone todayU-Understand and encourage someone todayM-Motivate someone todayB-Believe in someone today
— DeWayne Owens
Politics look very simple to the outsider whether he is a businessman or a soldier – it is only when you get into it that all the angles and hard work become apparent. James Forrestal
— David Pietrusza, 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America
The Bible states in Psalms 139:14 that you are fearfully and wonderfully made and that you are a wonderful work of art. That makes you uniquely special. It only makes sense for you to just be the special you that you were created to be period.
— DeWayne Owens
The structure of our identity determines how we show up as a leader, how we deploy ourselves into circumstances.
— William A.  Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
Leaders spend time reviewing their mistakes rather than having fantasies over their achievements! They look for every way to do the undone!
— Israelmore Ayivor
True leaders spend time reviewing their mistakes rather than having fantasies over their achievements! They look for every way to do the undone!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leadership crisis erupt when people who have not learnt how to obey instructions are given the privilege to give commands. Leaders are experienced servants.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Great leadership has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies.
— William A.  Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Those who serve others will be served.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The better we serve, the greater the fulfilment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Leaders succeed or fail depending on whether or not they clarify role expectations and keep their promises.
— Bob   Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
Relational depth often emerges from intentional dialog
— Brad Lomenick
Serving God should elevate our level of excellence in every part of our lives.
— Brad Lomenick, H3 Leadership: Be Humble. Stay Hungry. Always Hustle.
Leaders today should be more conductors than solo artists
— Brad Lomenick, H3 Leadership: Be Humble. Stay Hungry. Always Hustle.
Open mind → Learning → Knowledge → Baseline for leadership
— Eraldo Banovac
If your endeavors result in success of the company in a continuity of atleast a few years, you are a successful manager. If other companies followyour business approach, you are certainly an important manager withleader characteristics.
— Eraldo Banovac
A leader is a person who knows how to act when other people don’t.
— Eraldo Banovac
Some of us need to put down the megaphone and just grab a shovel. Little less talk and a lot more action.
— Brad Lomenick
The single most important ingredient to success is Discipline.
— Brad Lomenick
Don’t assume meekness is weakness and those who are loud are strong.
— Brad Lomenick
Leaders today should be more conductors than solo artists.
— Brad Lomenick
Pride refuses to be taught. Humility refuses not to be
— Brad Lomenick
A leaders job is to shepherd, not necessarily to always shine.
— Brad Lomenick
If you are born to lead, be a leader!
— Eraldo Banovac
Pride refuses to be taught. Humility refuses not to be.
— Brad Lomenick
Leaders set the agenda for the future.
— Bob   Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
Once a good model gets inside you, it can inform and guide you throughout a lifetime.
— Bob   Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
A better model of leadership means more effective leadership and better business results.
— Bob   Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
Transformation is an acquired taste—not for the faint of heart.
— Bob   Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
When we step into positions of leadership, we make a whole set of promises we may not know we are making.
— Bob   Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
I wish you much more grace for all your works.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Leadership makes a difference in the results we create and the quality of life we live.
— Bob   Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
When direction and meaning are confined to Executive Leadership, value is minimized.
— Bob   Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me.
— Veronica Roth, Insurgent
Collective leadership effectiveness drives business performance.
— William A.  Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
When a Promise of Leadership is neglected or unfulfilled, trust is broken, engagement erodes, and performance suffers.
— William A.  Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
Leaders have the right to expect that others will compassionately recognize them.
— William A.  Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
Leadership is a conversation.
— William A.  Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
Your need to feel significant will never be met, until you can conquer your fear and manage your focus.
— Shannon L. Alder
When people don't know what’s going on, it’s human nature for them to imagine a version that’s ten times worse than the truth!
— Kenneth H. Blanchard, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight.
— Shannon L. Alder
Once leaders embrace the role of coach, they realize the weight of leadership is now balanced between themselves and their direct reports.
— Kenneth H. Blanchard, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs.
— Kenneth H. Blanchard, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
You won't benefit from diverse perspectives if you aren't open to utilizing differences.
— Eunice Parisi-Carew, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know.
— Jane Ripley, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
People need to feel safe to be who they are—to speak up when they have an idea, or to speak out when they feel something isn't right.
— Eunice Parisi-Carew, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
We must serve each other in love and in humanity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When people feel trusted, they'll begin to understand they are contributors--and you'll get great ideas and happy people.
— Eunice Parisi-Carew, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
You are who you position yourself with
— Batya Maman
Map out lofty goals… include reasonable checkpoints along the way... refine, improve, and enhance your behavior in alignment with your goals…. that is the dynamic of true leadership and the formula for success.
— Steve Maraboli
Sometimes the best way to get other people to give up their egos is for you to give up yours first.
— Jane Ripley, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
The key to handling conflict is to make sure people understand it's okay to have an opposing view.
— Eunice Parisi-Carew, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
Collaboration begins with focusing on the collective good rather than personal gain.
— Jane Ripley, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
The natural result of utilizing different perspectives is that people are more engaged because they feel their opinions are important.
— Eunice Parisi-Carew, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
Perceive conflict as positive, creative, and issue driven. Don't allow personal attacks.
— Eunice Parisi-Carew, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
If you put your heart into everything you do, you will recreate yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A little self-doubt is a good thing," said Jia, "but not excessive doubt. Sometimes we live up to the stories others tell about us.
— Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings
Leaders find a need and quickly respond to the need.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The art of effective leadership is about navigating the dynamics of growth and success… holding a vision and leading a team, but arriving at the same time.
— Steve Maraboli
Stagnancy will suffocate a business… Leadership must be dynamic and evolving to ensure successful growth, enhancement, and longevity.
— Steve Maraboli
With automobile accidents, mechanical failure is seldom the cause; and most often, operator error. I find the same to be true with corporate failings…. the people are rarely the issue… the shortcoming is most often found in the leadership.
— Steve Maraboli
Don’t just timidly swing at the problems in your life, swing hard enough to knock them out! Small efforts produce small results, big efforts produce big results!
— DeWayne Owens
Our deeds and actions can change the heart of men.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
John’s standard maneuver to ask someone to help him, especially in a moment of crisis,
— William R. Forstchen, One Year After
We can serve humanity with passionate commitment to our divine purpose.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.
— Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
Life is meant to be shared and fully lived.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
He did not falter, as long as there was a path that led toward his goal.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Reliance in its most basic, daily, form is being part of a group that lives by a pact: To always have each other’s backs — no matter what — so that everyone comes out future strong.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
A leader only follows a better leader than himself.
— MD. Muhtashimur Rahman
Reliance in its purest, highest, form is a code to live by: That every life matters. Every future matters. Taking care of each other matters. And our shared purpose is to create amazing futures for our children’s children.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Reliance is the ultimate measure of a team’s or organization’s culture. It’s not 'Would I recommend a friend to work here?' It’s 'Would this group of people put their ass on the line for me?' And 'Would I do the same for them?
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
If you want a strong future: Becoming secure with insecurity is the best security you can have.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
If you want to lead others into a strong future: You need to be keenly aware of how your own inner truths — biases, fears, courage, values and dreams — do or do not impact the daily work of others.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
If you want a strong future: You need to get past the stories that you have told yourself and others. You need to hear the heartbeatthat’s the real you.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Me comes before we. You need to become future strong before you can help others do the same.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Your career will include thousands of opportunities to transform yourself. Many will disrupt all that you have built. Each is an opportunity to choose to be vulnerable, to let go, to be reborn.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
All the statistics about how many jobs you’ll have over your lifetime… (15-20) and how many companies you’ll work for… while true, completely miss the point! From now on, treat those numbers as red herrings — crucial only to HR directors, leaders and companies who are stuck in the past. The Rule of Disruptive Personal Transformation: Every year, you will experience about 100 significant transformative moments. Most will be thrust upon you by the disruptive churn of our times.Driven, focused people know which 3—5 to seize each year	as crucial to their future.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Future strong individuals will not take on personal sacrifices, hardships and corporate crap that sidetrack them from their dreams and goals.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
To be future strong, you will face difficult hardships. Usually, there is no absolutely right or absolutely wrong choice. The key is to be intentional: Choosing the best hardships for your best future.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
People should not have to sacrifice so much of their personal lives, hopes, dreams and goals just to keep up with corporate pressured morebetterfaster. And tomorrow’s workforce won’t.
— Bill Jensen
Future strong cultures and relationships are built upon intense 'I have your back' bonds.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Future Strong leaders are driven by a core question: What do I want my legacy to be? That requires a lot of searching one’s inner truths, and being brutally honest about how that compares to one’s daily actions.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Working for a company must help individuals achieve their dreams and goals more efficiently and effectively than they could achieve them elsewhere.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Calling upon our crucible moments allows us to transcend our own limitations. Those moments create completely new possibilities within each of us.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
You talk to leadership in China, and THEY are all the engineers. They get what is going on immediately. The Americans don't because they're all lawyers.
— John Doerr
Leadership is more about purpose than it is about position.
— Michele Jennae
Tomorrow’s workforce is flopping the relationship lens: They see companies as vehicles to achieve their goals and dreams — vehicles that can amplify their passions, achievements and community relationships beyond what they could have done on their own or elsewhere. Companies that they will join are seen as communities that explore and resource and fund making a difference in the world in ways that align with their personal approach and values.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Making heroes out of celebrity CEOs is at the heart of the crisis in corporate leadership.
— Bill George
He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.
— Stephen L. Carter, Back Channel
They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.
— Stephen L. Carter, Back Channel
In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.
— Stephen L. Carter, Back Channel
Future strong is adventurous self-mastery. Unlocking your future by running toward the unknown, with the wondrous soul of a child and the drive of a force that will not be stopped.
— Bill Jensen
All Prophets were leaders
—  should all leaders be Prophets?
You need to have the means to impose yourself
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Leadership is a mindset in which one is unapologetically driven towards their goals and in behaving accordingly, inspires those around them to join in.
— Steve Maraboli
Leadership is the bridge of integrity that connects goals, desires, and actions.
— Steve Maraboli
The biggest, toughest competition in the future will be the battle for your time and attention. Your one thing — your call to adventure — is your best tool in that battle.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Loyalty — deep, intense, devoted loyalty — to a leader or a culture, to any group, brand or idea, goes far beyond being engaged or having our needs met. We see our emotional selves in that connection. We see our future, our best selves and our better angels in that connection.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Do not wait for vulnerability to be thrust upon you by your company or the marketplace. That is when you lost control of your own destiny. Choose to disrupt yourself. Seek vulnerability on your terms, no one else's.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Future strong leadership means being willing to stand alone. Often, the times we feel most vulnerable are when we stand alone, before others join us. When we choose to be the first voice echoing above the silence. Standing strong, alone.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Future strong is grace, kindness, and gratitude within a pressure cooker.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Future shackled is when tomorrow is anchored, boxed and managed to maximize the minimizing of uncertainty.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
The one thing that's missing to create a fundamental shift in work capacity: courage. Leadership courage.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Less than 10% of the mainstream workforce can achieve their dreams where they currently work.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
The current relationship between companies and the workforce is like marrying into a dysfunctional family. Only you don't get to escape when the holiday meal is over.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Instead of getting the leaders we deserve, we can an abundance of ShitRollsDownhill Shovelers, ShitCatchers, and NewShitCreators.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
We each must do a better job of choosing which hardships are best for our future, not just for the company's.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Most corporate infrastructures are massive time-wasters and demoralizing energy suckers.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Most companies are not respectful of each individual's time.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Far too much corporate stupidity is disguised as cost-saving efficiencies.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Far too much horrific wast of human capacity is disguised as order, predictability, and minimizing uncertainty.
— Bill Jensen, Future Strong