c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
A prophet is not someone who first had an idea. He is the one to first believe in it and take it to its conclusion.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Every leadership role has a character driving force that will fulfill or decimate the ultimate purpose of the role. Jesus our role model
— Ikechukwu Joseph, JESUS CHRIST:Beyond the Miracles,the Character: Lesson for Leaders (Jesus Christ
When someone makes you a priority it is Great! When you make yourself a priority it is Brilliant!~
— Bluenscottish
Standards are not established by your proclamations they are established by your routines.
— T Jay Taylor
The value of someone is not determined by titles, positions and sects, but by the impact and the major contributions he/she makes in the society by digging a hole in the universe to build a foundation for the next generation that is coming.
— Lydor Brunice
Organizing a coup was not the same as wanting one.
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
TO GROW OUR MIND- We must learn new things. We must CARE for more things. We must TEACH more things. We must SHARE more things. We must RETAIN more things. To grow our mind - We don't need education, We need a good memory.
— Lorenzo Victory
Every day you should wake up with the excitement in knowing that God’s plans for you are far greater than your dreams for yourself. The best is yet to come!
— DeWayne Owens
John F. Kennedy responded, as he often did when at his best, skillfully mixing dollops of wit with, self-deprecation, and the principle of not-really-going-near-the-question.
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Georges Pompidou
— Mark Kurlansky, 1968: The Year That Rocked the World
Every day you should up with the excitement in knowing that God’s plans for you are far greater than your dreams for yourself. The best is yet to come!
— DeWayne Owens
Great leadership makes ordinary people into extraordinary people.
— Jeffrey Fry
They probably think the sun won't come up unless you're there to allow it.
— Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
William McKinley was a man made to be managed.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Nixon was by nature a excluder. Halderman like to exclude people. When Nixon's need met Halderman's abilities, you had the most perfect formula for disaster. – Jim Shepley
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation.
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
Begin each day with a promise to self to be grateful ,be kind .be authentic your day will meet your intent ~bns
— Bluenscottish
House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Leadership is the right combination of Integrity and Repect for others.The Success of anyone worth remembering is the TRUTH in their actions~bns
— Bluenscottish
[That] speaks to one of the most important roles of a leader; to boil down an organization's many priorities into a simple plan, so that employees can remember it, internalize it, and act on it.
— Adam Bryant, Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation
JFK apparently felt genuine sympathy for his 1960 presidential opponent Richard Nixon. He felt that, with Nixon's frequent shifts in political philosophy and reinventions, he must have to decide which Nixon he will be at each stop. This, Kennedy reasoned, must be exhausting.
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
The author commented that John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign team worked like a band of brothers, while Richard Nixon's campaign team worked like a band of brothers in law under the direction of a quarrelsome aunt.
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
Nixon wanted view and advice brought to him through intermediaries. He wanted information filtered as it came to him – and he wanted his filters to filter his will back to those whom he must direct.
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
Eisenhower on LBJ: "He hadn't got the depth of mind nor the breath vision to carry great responsibility.
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
Henry Cabot Lodge was like medicine, good for you, but hard to take. – Teddy White
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
There are really two essential things in campaigning. First, you must be in good humor. If you're going to be a raffle, you are to stay home. Second, you are to make sense in your speeches. These aren't the two things you must do. Unless you're saying, if you can be in good humor when you're exhausted. – Henry Cabot Lodge
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
The most important job of a leader is to instill the confidence to follow.
— Kevin T. Cunningham
Eleanor Roosevelt on the changes in John F. Kennedy that led her to drop her opposition to his nomination for president: "He has the qualities of a scholar, and a sense of history. I had the feeling that he was the man who can learn. I like him better than I ever had before because he seemed so little caulk-sure, and I think he has a mind that is open to new ideas.
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
He left to do whatever editors do.
— Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country
The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha".
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Jack Kennedy protected a mature and presidential image – tough, yet not unduly combative.
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ.
— Beth Moore, To Live Is Christ
What we saw in Richard Nixon's face was the panic in his soul. – Richard Goodwin
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
The power to influence flows to the person with the most information.
— Dr. Rob Pennington
Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Leadership embodies a spirit of encouragement. It is difficult to lead people where they are not enthusiastically encouraged to go.
— DeWayne Owens
The world has enough deceit, decay, and despair; be different.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, "He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreality, a certain frivolity, distractedness, over-interest in words and phrases.
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world".
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past.
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
True leaders do the right thing when the team's success is at stake and integrity is challenged.They just commit to personal excellence~Bluenscottish
— Bluenscottish
It remains for you to save one before saving others, to lead one before leading others.
— Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants
Leadership is when you build the team,have the tools,teach the trade,use their skills to ready them for success.~Bluenscottish
— Bluenscottish
Leaders who listen to their team ,encourage dreams, they inspire success by example andl ignite the passion needed to achieve ~Bluenscottish
— Bluenscottish
The dance you take with passion and self belief While every step is in rhythm with the honor of your words and the integrity of your daily actions~bns
— Bluenscottish
The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically think you're dumb. They think if you talk funny, you are funny. – Lloyd Hand
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
Duty was not untinged by ambition.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
In person, Mr. Desmond mixes low-key friendliness and on-message discipline.
— Jennifer Schuessler
In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man at the top.
— Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia
What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?
— Rick Perlstein, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind that he could not discuss my prospects without having me before him.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them; in other words, those who are unacquainted with the institution are the only persons who passed censure upon it.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider.
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
I am not a leader but a pathfinder and a motivator.
— Debasish Mridha
The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Tolkien, lucky man, had protected a realm of his own invention to which he could flee. Robert Graves, embittered by battle, writes: The child alone a poet is: Spring and Fairyland are his… Wisdom made him old and wary banishing his Lords of Faery
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Governing is not a hero's profession. It is a profession of compromises.
— Rick Perlstein, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Jack had an actor's control." Chuck Spalding
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
Jousting with an obvious hoodlum couldn't hurt.
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
From hope evolves faith. From faith evolves belief. From belief evolves expectations. From expectations evolve success. As long as you have hope you can achieve success.
— DeWayne Owens
Integrity is the ultimate foundation of leadership.
— Debasish Mridha
When you get to the junction of double mindedness in purposefulness, remember the will of God.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.
— Rick Perlstein, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
He talks to people's grievances, but he doesn't seem mad. – Elizabeth Drew
— Rick Perlstein, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Chronicling the mid-1970s up session with Gerald Ford's clumsiness, the author quotes a medieval maxim that the king has two bodies. The head of state has a physical body like everyone else, but he also represents the body politic, either reflecting its majesty or its weakness.
— Rick Perlstein, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse. – Calvin Coolidge
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
Once Trump got his hands around this promising idea, he basically strangled it.
— Joe Nocera
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part on the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
You can't lead if no one will follow.
— Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories
A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field.
— Robert A. Heinlein
If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.
— John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
It doesn't follow that the riots mean permanent hostility toward him.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.
— H.W. Brands
His was a quiet but persistent charisma.
— H.W. Brands
The essence of leadership is not to portray yourself as some sort of know-it-all, but your ability to develop the people you are working with so they themselves can take the initiative and do the organizational drive.
— Pat Chambers
He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.
— H.W. Brands
I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future.
— H.W. Brands
He made his character his platform.
— H.W. Brands
Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved.
— H.W. Brands
You can’t be a great leader if your heart is not filled with greatness.
— Debasish Mridha
If you have a great vision and are ready for a passionate mission, they you are a leader.
— Debasish Mridha
Comfort leads to complacency, and complacency kills. For this reason, I believe that we all should be a little uncoomfortable in our jobs.
— Stephen R. Lorenz, Lorenz on Leadership: Lessons on Effectively Leading People, Teams and Organizations
You are a good leader when your actions inspire others to do good for themselves and for others.
— Debasish Mridha
A true leader leads his people from the front and if he falls into a pit the people will surely not follow.
— Amit Abraham
He communicates authenticity to an electorate ravenous for it.
— Frank Bruni
Initial uniformity can be deceiving, warns the author, because parties arrive at that state from so many different motives which will be exposed over time.
— Donald R. Hickey, The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict
In all things... .strive for perfection - settle for excellence
— Jeff Dixon - Storming the Kingdom
Now even reformers needed political machines.
— Rick Perlstein, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Leaders don't pray to God to fill their potholes. They ask God for shovels so they can do it by His grace. Pray practically.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
The main way people waste time is by complaining of their past wasted time. Leaders respond even if it seems to be late.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
To leaders, one trusted friend is better than ten well known betrayers
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
What differentiates victors and victims are visions and vigor. Victims won't get the vim to step out of their situations.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Inferior and Superior life lives in the interior of a person.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Experiment participants asked to pick which politician looked more confident in a photograph picked the winner of the race two thirds of the time. This phenomenon held up even when they only glimpsed the photographs for a 10th of a second.
— Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Leaders don't define wealth by material things they see. They define wealth by the visions they imagine and actions they take.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders act with visions
—  they don't react with emotions. Maturity is when you don't allow your bad feelings to direct your good dealings.
He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
Clarity repositions you to quit nice activities that take you nowhere in order to pursue risky tasks that take you somewhere.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders get to tall heights by taking short steps. Being faithful, diligent and consistent with little steps is the secret to mounting greater heights.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders with high esteem are high performers.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Richest leaders are not those who have calories in their bank accounts
—  but those who have fats in their positive ideas.
Leaders let go of what they can't control. It's a matter of knowing the power of the muscles and bones in your neck so you can go for what it can carry
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders take actions. Attacking your plans with blows of actions will not cost you painful but temporal bruises. Never leave goals untouched.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Achievements take leaders' name everywhere. Character keeps those names wherever they reach. A leader with no trust soon fades no matter how far he goes.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders don't cheat
—  they don't envy. Leaders don't hate
Those who see poverty looking for human slaves to capture, will tell you they saw him holding the handcuffs of laziness.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Self-leadership is about digging out your hidden endowment and making them known and useful to those who need it most.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Vision unknown is self-abuse. Vision known is self-abuse discovery. But vision applied is self-liberation. Application is the key
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders reject free opportunities they don't need, so that they can have time to create the expensive opportunities they need.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass
— Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.
— George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent.
— John Ferling, Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation
The author characterizes Hamilton's tone in the Federalist papers by saying that he never spoke of problems but of being at the last stage in the crisis.
— John Ferling, Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation
A boss says “go and make sure you do it”
—  a leader says “let’s go and make it happen”. Bosses control people
A person with low standards will forever be walking. A person with high standard will soon stop walking and start running. Later, they’ll soon stop running and start galloping. The next time you see him, he’s either flying or soaring.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders learn more from blames than praises. Praises make them know what’s already done well
—  blames show them what’s yet to be done well.
Leaders try every possible means to leave the world better than they found it. They make an indelible impact and society remembers them for that.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Don’t let the horrible nature of the waters prevent you from crossing the rivers of life. The more horrible the challenges we face, the sweeter the joy of conquering them.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders are raised through training and experience. Nobody was born naturally with hand-gloves of leadership. We come to life to search for it, discover it and optimize it.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Live an exemplary life as a leader. When you are gone, you will still lead from the grave because your influence, impacts and inspirations will become and information for the living.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
You can’t gather much if you won’t go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns
—  they’ll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they’ll get.
People do not recognize that you can do it when you merely tell them you can. Until they see you doing it, they won’t follow you. Leaders who are willing to go further alone today are those to be consulted for solutions tomorrow.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders look out for people who can criticize them constructively and rebuke them reasonably.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders create and maintain good interpersonal relationships with people they meet and work with. People who lead better relate better.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
If you have only answers and no questions, chances are high that you will never know new things.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Contrary to popular opinion, leaders aren’t created out of fame. Fame is just a shadow. When you enter dark times in, it leaves you.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders know where they can function better. They don’t cry over what they cannot do.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Innovation is the art of creating a better, a more convenient and more comfortable way for the world to pass. Leaders leave footprints everywhere they go. They are impact makers and innovators.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.
— George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Leaders are optimistic. When you walk with leaders, the spirit of hope will ramble around you and you will feel like “yes, I can break barriers with few blows.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.
— George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Your followers are interested in going where you have gone before. Take them where you have been and let them know what took you there. They’ll learn by your example.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
People who praise a leader even when he is doing the wrong things are the main reasons why his fall is near.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Whether it is in business life or in political roles, leaders rise up to offer the solutions to problems society faces. They act with the right actions at the right time.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders don’t fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn’t their desire to maintain but to improve.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
The courageous attitude of a leader awakens the dormant attitude of followers. The dormant attitude of a leader weakens the passionate attitude of followers. Leadership determines everything.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don’t give him poem to recite; don’t give him a song to sing. Just engage him in an argument and you will know it for yourself who he is.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally. Action fixes images in their minds and they can carry those images for a long period.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
A leader does not only discover what people can do better. He teaches, guides and mentor them to do it exceptionally well. When a seed comes into contact with a leader, fruits are produced.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Management informs. Leadership applies. The effective managers inform accurately. Effective leaders apply wisely.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leaders are farmers
—  they cultivate human beings by adding values to them till they are fully grown as successful people for harvesting.
The leader who listens is the one society needs most. They don’t force their commands on people. They pay attention to their demands and set the pace for the change that society truly needs.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
It's all right to drill your crew, but why not drill the passengers.
— Erik Larson, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
The growth of an organization is not dependent on the number of employees in its register. It is dependent on the number of employees who show dedication and commitment to the vision of the organization.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leadership is about taking steps while management is about drawing the map on the steps to take. Managers simply plan, leaders simply execute!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
The public personality of a leader is not what really matters. What he does out of the open stage really tells more about him than anything else.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
People who follow you want to know in their hearts what you are willing to sacrifice for them. Your followers don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care for their welfare. Leading to succeed begins with servant leadership.
— DeWayne Owens
Feeling threatened by others' choices pulls us all down. Instead, we should funnel our energy into breaking this cycle.
— Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Women can enter (...) negotiations with the knowledge that showing concern for the common good, even as they negotiate for themselves, will strengthen their position.
— Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
For leaders, wars are filled with guesses.
— John Ferling, Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation
His level of experience is nearly transcendent.
— Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts
Leaders heal
—  they don’t kill. They unite
Everyone has a kind of limitation respectively. Leaders don’t allow their own to obscure them in a small corner.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
By means of positive imaginations, leaders bring the future to the present so that they can work on it before setting off to enter it.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Everyone in the organizations is very important. From the sweeper to the security officer; from the messenger to the manager, everyone doing well at his post is a leader. The organization becomes a leading one when it’s made up of people leading in their roles.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
You will never overcome your self righteousness if you continue to believe that God prefers you over other people. The moment you feel entitled is the moment you feel superior and distance yourself from a humble heart that believes God knows what he is doing.
— Shannon L. Alder
The simplest way to silence your critics as a leader is to do what they claim you can’t do. However, be careful they don’t set you up to take fatal risks to please their criticisms.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
The common soldiers did not blame him for his excessive grief. They knew him. They knew his flaws. Indeed, I think they loved him all the more because he was flawed, as they were, and did not hide his passionate, blemished nature.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
As wars dwindled to skirmishes and our strength grew, so David was able to spend less time with military commanders and more with the engineers and overseers who were fanning out throughout the land, digging cisterns, making roads, fortifying, connecting, and generally making a nation out of our scattered people.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
Leaders are deep thinkers. They don’t relax for problem to lay eggs before they attempt dealing with them.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
The ultimate profit from all of my businesses is to be happy and to make all of the customers happy.
— Debasish Mridha
There is no greater truth than this: God created you for success. He gave you all the physical, mental, and spiritual DNA to succeed. He loves you through your mistakes and loves you enough to correct you when you step out of line. If you have not done it lately, Grab on to His great big hands of love and let Him take you places you have never dreamed of going. He’s that AWESOME!
— DeWayne Owens
The greatest part of our existence enfold in service of humanity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Resilient communities relied on informal networks of deep trust to contend with and heal disruption.
— Andrew Zolli, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back
I have lived most of my life in soldiers’ camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
A beacon of light shining in a dark tunnel leads even the blind to safety
— Wogu Donald
There is no greater truth than this: God created you for success. He gave you all the physical. mental, and spiritual DNA to succeed. He loves you through your mistakes and loves you enough to correct you when you step out of line. If you have not done it lately, Grab on to His great big hands of love and let Him take you places you have never dreamed of going. He’s that AWESOME!
— DeWayne Owens
He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.
— Erik Larson, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
David was at his best in group settings, soldier enough to join in the raucous jests, king enough to make it matter that he remembered some moments of bravery or sacrifice, and praised each man accordingly.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
A sign of a good leader is not his position but his vision.
— Debasish Mridha
If soldiering did not interest him, the soldiers themselves were another matter. He loved to sit with the men and draw out their first-hand stories of past campaigns.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
You can’t lead people if you can’t lead yourself. Self-leadership qualities qualifies you to become a co-operate leader.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Perhaps Ali's most significant talent with the ability to transport people past thoughts and words to a world of feeling and play.
— Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts
You say I can't do it because you can't. Mohammed Ali
— Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts
Leaders can change the tenor of the workplace and create harmony in motion toward a favorable result. So every time you say to your team, "Let's rock and roll," make sure you have already set up the stage to where they can actually perform like rock stars.
— Thomas Huynh, The Art of War—Spirituality for Conflict: Annotated & Explained
She turned back to the rest of us. "They've taken it all," she said. "They've taken every last good thing in the world."Then she swung the door wide. "Now go and show them your answer.
— Sebastien de Castell, Traitor's Blade
I've never understood one thing: Why do all these megalomaniac dictators, secret societies, mad scientists, and totalitarian aliens want to rule the world? I mean really? Don't they know what a pain in the neck it is to be in charge? People are always making unreasonable demands of kings. "Please save us from the invading Vandal hoards! Please make sure we have proper sanitation to prevent the spread of disease! Please stop beheading your wives so often; it's ruining the rugs!
— Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens
Whatever his weight in pounds and ounces, he always seems bigger because of his bounces.
— A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Leaders lead by example. No leader asks more than he is prepared to give himself.
— David Amerland, The Tribe That Discovered Trust: How Trust Is Created, Propagated, Lost and Regained in Commercial Interactions
Notice I did not say what people can do--what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.
— Max DePree
Eradication represents a complete change of philosophy and a recognition of the equal rights of all citizens to protection from infection, no matter where they live. Eradication, by its very nature, is public health with a conscience. The public health control officer can sleep tranquilly, salving his conscience with the thought that most of his responsibility has been discharged – that he did not have enough money to do any more. The eradicator knows that his success is not measured by what has been accomplished but, rather, is the extent of his failure indicated by what remains to be done. He must stamp out the last embers of infection in his jurisdiction. His slogan must be: ANY IS TOO MANY.
— Fred Lowe Soper, Building the Health Bridge: Selections from the Works of Fred L. Soper
The best friend of truth is time while the best friend of a leader is results.
— Orrin Woodward
Between a plan and it’s achievement is a leader in the middle. With his one arm he makes the plan. With the other one he carries them through.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Bad timekeeping will suck the life out of your bank account.
— Colin Myles, 5 Keys to Doing Business With The Right People
Leaders know the great deal of productivity that comes out of a strong self-esteem. They help others to develop this esteem so that productivity can increase.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
My dear Gorgas,Instead of being simply satisfied to make friends and draw your pay, it is worth doing your duty, to the best of your ability, for duty’s sake; and in doing this, while the indolent sleep, you may accomplish something that will be of real value to humanity. Your good friend, ReedDr. Walter Reed encouraging Dr. William Gorgas who went on to make history eradicating Yellow Fever in Havana, 1902 and Panama, 1906, liberating the entire North American continent from centuries of Yellow Fever epidemics.
— William Crawford Gorgas, Sanitation in Panama
A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
Fortunately for the cause of science and of humanity, we had as Governor-General of Cuba at that time General Leonard Wood, of the United States Army. General Wood had been educated as a physician, and had a very proper idea of the great advantages which would accrue to the world if we could establish the fact that yellow fever was conveyed by the mosquito, and his medical training made him a very competent judge as to the steps necessary to establish such fact. General Wood during the whole course of the investigations took the greatest interest in the experiments, and assisted the Board in every way he could.
— William Crawford Gorgas, Sanitation in Panama
My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
— Larry Page
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.
— George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Over seven billion people exist and not one has your set of fingerprints. That sets you apart from anyone who has or ever will walk the face of this earth. You bring something to the table of life that no one else can, so bring it!
— DeWayne Owens
The best leaders have the ability to align people to their vision and motivate them to work passionately towards its fulfillment as if it were their own.
— Ben Morton
Although leaders and followers are closely linked, it is the leader who often initiates the relationship, creates the communication linkages, and carries the burden for maintaining the relationship.
— Peter Northouse
Leaders show examples. They have something to offer and they’ll offer it by the process of how they got it. Anyone who has no examples to show may not lead better.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
A leader who is through learning is through.
— John Wooden
You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Few of us realize our potential; because if we did, we would pursue our passion and walk in our purpose.
— Germany Kent
It was not feasible to lose time in making careful surveys or extensive preliminary studies of possible control methods
—  learn how to get rid of Anopheles gambiae by actually getting rid of Anopheles gambiae.
The speed at which progress rolls is not determined by the number of people who started pushing it, but by the number of people who are passionate to hold on doing so.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Take a look around,” the instructor had advised. “Ask yourself if there’s anyone else who is better qualified to do the job. Not in the entire galaxy, but right there, at that point in time. If the answer is ‘yes,’ ask them to accept command, and do everything you can to support them. If the answer is ‘no,’ which it will be ninety-nine percent of the time, then take your best shot. That’s all any of us can do.
— William C. Dietz, Halo: The Flood
Yes, it takes two to dance. But somebody has to lead.
— Ellen Hopkins, Perfect
Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Leaders are lovers of change. Without change, growth is static. To lead, you have to appreciate change; else change will depreciate you!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last.
— Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Preferring steady progress, slow and imperfect, is a good philosophy for the defeated.
— Fred Lowe Soper, Anopheles Gambiae in Brazil, 1930 to 1940
The common goal of leaders is to increase the value and productivity of people. Leaders inspire others to do better than they would have done when not inspired.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
His was the strong soul, gentle, but tempered with fire, fervent, heroic and good, the helper and friend of mankind. It is such as he who make progress possible.
— Thomas W. Martin, Doctor William Crawford Gorgas Of Alabama And The Panama Canal
You have to make people realize your worth, else no one cares!
— Anamika Mishra
It is much easier to evaluate perfect rather than partial results.
— Fred Lowe Soper, Anopheles Gambiae in Brazil, 1930 to 1940
Over a century now after Dr. William Gorgas wiped Yellow Fever out of Havana and Panama, and by that out of an entire continent, and more than half a century after Fred Lowe Soper led the eradication of Anopheles gambiae out of Northeast Brazil, their names are unknown, their carefully-detailed, boots-on-the-ground methods that they described in detail to leave expressly for generations to study and learn from to apply to malaria - and specifically they both had the desire for the destruction of malaria in Africa on their minds - is unread. The mistakes they warned about, the assumptions that they discovered to be useless and ineffectual in the field against disease-bearing mosquitoes are repeated today, while what Gorgas and Soper found to be effective and efficient in real-life conditions are routinely ignored or unknown, avoidable errors blithely doomed to be repeated thanks to modern ignorance of their incredibly important and transformative historical successes in public health. In the battles against malaria, to be ignorant of Gorgas’ and Soper's work in eradicating the mosquito that carries it is to be hobbled by the lack of hard-earned field knowledge, practical and effective discoveries that remain completely relevant and critical to success in eradicating malaria today.
— T.K. Naliaka
I am sorry for you tonight, Mr. President. You are facing one of the greatest decisions of your career. Upon what you decide depends on whether or not you are going to get your canal. If you fall back upon the old methods of sanitation you will fail, just as the French failed. If you back up Dr. Gorgas and his ideas, and you let him make his campaign against mosquitoes, then you get your canal. I can only give you my advice; you must decide for yourself. There is only one way of controlling yellow fever and malaria, and that is the eradication of the mosquitoes. But it is your canal; you must do the choosing and you must choose tonight whether you are going to build that canal.
— Thomas W. Martin, Doctor William Crawford Gorgas Of Alabama And The Panama Canal
Leadership is influence
— John Maxwell
She was an experimental child but compassionate with it.
— Joe Cawley
In fact, second lieutenants were primary-school teachers. Sure, teachers with guns, but a platoon commander was, nonetheless, the guy who sorted out the working day for 30 men under his command, taught their lessons, helped them with their homework, sorted out their petty squabbles and put plasters on their knees when they fell over in the playground.
— Patrick Hennessey, The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time And Fighting Wars
Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.
— Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
Optimists are more qualified storytellers.
— Tomorrowland
Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon
— Patrick Hennessey, The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time And Fighting Wars
It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
The British Army has a fine tradition of being so distracted by what it is currently up to it stubbornly refuses to look round the corner, let alone into the future.
— Patrick Hennessey, The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time And Fighting Wars
The most essential requirement for leaders is neither age nor gender. It is neither certificates nor positions. It is the character that reveals trust and exemplary life.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Many ‘experts’ don’t possess the imagination or vision or any of the logistical expertise required to achieve malaria eradication. Their opinions shouldn’t be allowed to hold back men and women who do possess these qualities from achieving the ‘impossible.
— T.K. Naliaka
Staffers tend to mimic their bosses, to take their key from them.
— Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked
Bring it down." Veteran leader Han Solo's correction to the overbearing swagger bike which his protégé is attempting to force his will on others.
— Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one’s beloved extended community.
— Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
People don’t follow you because you are nice, they follow you because they believe the place you are taking them is better than the place they are.
— Scott Hammerle, Lessons from the Castle: My Journey From Prince Charming to Executive Level Leader and How You Can Find The Legendary Leader Within
The best way to predict future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln
— Gary Chapman, Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World