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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
— George Washington
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.
— Eugene V. Debs
Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.
— Karen Marie Moning, Iced
Your life is a trajectory. Every choice you make alters that trajectory, in a positive or negative way. Will you categorize that dinner with friends as a business expense? Will you be honest with your daughter? Will you take more credit than you’re due? These are just the small questions that we face every day, and little by little, the answers influence the trajectory of our lives and beings.
— Donald Van de Mark
No great manager or leader ever fell from heaven, its learned not inherited.
— Tom Northup
Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.
— John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I define my life not by the things I have done, but by the people I have loved.
— John Paul Warren
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
— Warren G. Bennis
One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.
— Orrin Woodward, LIFE
the quality of your mind depends on the quality of your thought
— okorie deborah
Most people don't care who's in charge as long as someone is.
— Tanya Huff, Nights of the Round Table and Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy
Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship
— Thomas Fuller
As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility - toughness for accountability - flexibility to adapt changes with a compassionate & caring heart for self and others.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
You can’t move up in the staircase of leadership unless you are emotionally intelligent.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
— Peter F. Drucker
Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.
— David Foster Wallace
When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.
— Kelley Armstrong, The Calling
When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.
— Jerry Porras, Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters
When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.
— Winston S. Churchill
It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.
— George Washington
Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
— Robert Half
Be a FRIEND and stop worrying about having any
— John Paul Warren
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
— Theodore M. Hesburgh
Impossible situations TEST you and PROVE Him
— John Paul Warren
Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up.
— Shannon L. Alder
...You have any suggestions, make them. I'm in charge but humble. No need to salute when you see me." Fraser said, "Mind if we snicker every once in a while behind your back?" "Hell, no," I said. "Everyone else does.
— Robert B. Parker, The Widening Gyre
Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?
— Robert Louis Stevenson, The Suicide Club
He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up.
— Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Good leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own.
— Roy  Bennett
You are either supporting the vision or supporting division
— Saji Ijiyemi
Compassionate leaders honor the complexity of human relationships, nurture authenticity and create common grounds for blooming great ideas of individuals.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
In essence, leadership is the sense of calling to a higher purpose.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
Compassionate leaders know their stakeholders and address their concerns, their hopes, dreams and fears.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
You are not alone in the struggles of life. Entire cosmos is with you. It evolves through the way you face and overcome challenges of life. Use everything in your advantage.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.
— Warren G. Bennis, Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting. If we want different results, we must change the way we do things.
— Tom Northup
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
— Harvey S. Firestone
We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves...Don't be afraid of new ideas.
— J. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Leadership
The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.
— J. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Leadership
Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.
— Paul Orfalea, Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned a Bright Idea Into One of America's Best Companies
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work. 
— Joseph Conrad
Now the big question is: what direction are you moving? Look inward
—  there is a burning desire in your heart that will make you the person you can become – A superstar!
The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.
— Oliver DeMille
Leadership isn't about power for the sake of power - not true leadership. Instead it deals with modeling behavior you want others to have, and with responsibility for being certain the people you lead are treated equitably, and with respect. Not an easy task. You can't make other people feel anything, or think anything; you can only try to teach them what you want them to feel and think and why you think they should act accordingly.
— Laura Weakley
And a leader has to command confidence, and consent.
— John Christopher, When the Tripods Came
I'm accustomed to being top man. I been a bull goose catskinner for every gyppo logging operation in the Northwest and bull goose gambler all the way from Korea, was even bull goose pea weeder on that pea farm at Pendleton -- so I figure if I'm bound to be a loony, then I'm bound to be a stompdown dadgum good one.
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Your outlook affects your outcome
— John Paul Warren
(Patrick Henry) He understood that the home was the foundation of a stable society and that the authority a man "exercised within the larger society was rooted in the authority exercised at home." Thus ... the training ground for all sound leadership is the family.
— David J. Vaughan, Give Me Liberty: The Uncompromising Statesmanship of Patrick Henry
My life has far exceeded my expectations not because of my own personal efforts or mindset but because of my friends who have enriched my existence
— John Paul Warren
A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.
— Hans Finzel, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make
Leading people is like cookingDon’t stir too much It annoys the ingredients And spoils the food
— Rick Julian
Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty 
— Grace Murray Hopper
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
— Jack Welch
Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader’s arsenal
— Howard Gardner
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
— Henry Kissinger
So if you see no one like you, no one who agrees, don't worry. There are actually hundreds of people like you, and they're waiting for a leader. That person is you.
— Julien Smith, The Flinch
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
— John Buchan
God uses imperfect people for impossible tasks
— John Paul Warren
I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.
— Hyman George Rickover
Leaders draw out ones individual greatness
— John Paul Warren
Too many in the Church today are likes babies in the nursery,they put everything in their mouth.
— John Paul Warren
[Nicodemus] 'Magistra DeVega, can I ask for your help?'[DeVega] 'You can ask,' she said with her usual calmness, 'but the clerics haven't developed a cure for death by idiotic leadership.
— Blake Charlton, Spellbound
A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news. In places where people see a lot of obstacles, I see a lot of opportunities. A good businessman sees where others don’t see.
— Orji Uzor Kalu
live as temporal, serve as eternal
— John Paul Warren
A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.
— Orrin Woodward, LIFE
Leadership is not just some empty formulas but establishing deep connection at soul levels through service, integrity, passion, perseverance and equanimity.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
You are blessed, You are great. You are not alone. You are powerful.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
Great leader knows that under the turmoil of chaos and change, there is a beauty of patterns and designs.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.
— Marco Pierre White, The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
— Carl von Clausewitz
True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
— Warren G. Bennis, Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.
— Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.
— Howard Schultz, Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
The essential difference with Builders is that they've found something to do that matters to them and are therefore so passionately engaged, they rise above the personality baggage that would otherwise hold them down. Whatever they are doing has so much meaning to them that the cause itself provides charisma and they plug into it as if it was electrical current.
— Jerry Porras, Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters
Diplomacy is the delicate weapon of the civilized warrior."- Hun, A. T.
— Robert Lynn Asprin, Myth Conceptions
Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.
— Warren G. Bennis, Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
The president had shifted to the 'we' mode now, something he invariably did when a potentially unpopular decision was at hand. For the easy ones, it was always 'I.' When he needed a crutch, and especially when he would need someone to blame, he opened up the decisionmaking process and included Critz.
— John Grisham, The Broker
If you seek honor and respect you will not find it, for a leader is powerless to elevate himself. It is only when you serve others without regard for self, will honor, respect and lasting success be found.
— Stevenson Willis, Thes Proverbs of Leadership
It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Great leaders have three things; inner light, inner vision and inner strength.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
[T]hese leaders must not believe they are actually being watched, for their behavior in no way reflects the possible existence of a set of values or ethical laws that supersedes their own dominion.
— Arthur C. Clarke, The Garden of Rama
Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.
— Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.
— Thomas S. Monson
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
— Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Leaders..should influence others..in such a way that it builds people up, encourages and edifies them so they can duplicate this attitude in others.
— Bob Goshen
It's not about you. It's about them.
— Clint Eastwood
‎"You will never reach your dreams without honoring others along the way.
— John Paul Warren
If there were only success in your life, you would not learn anything. Leadership is experience and you are still young. You still have much to learn about our people and war; it should not come easy to you. If it did, you would be robbed of life's most valuable teacher.
— Rachel Higginson, Fearless Magic
In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man.
— B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
Many have exchanged the touch of God for the applause of men
— John Paul Warren
The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned — would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.
— Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Lobbing hand grenades on the bride of Christ takes zero talent or effort. I also think this really ticks God off. My five-year-old child complains and whines when things aren't the way she wants them, but courageous men and women roll up their sleeves and get busy. I want to be an active participant in putting back together the broken pieces.
— Mike  Foster
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
— Warren G. Bennis, Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work ot make it better.
— Barbra Pletcher
Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
— Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March
In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he always knows what's up, like nothing can ruffle him.
— Jeff Greenfield, Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan
the condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.
— Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March
Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity
— Reed Markham
Women feel a need for a certain level of prior training and experience that men do not necessarily demand in order to jump into a new role. There's a need for women to trust themselves more...
— Selena Rezvani, The Next Generation of Women Leaders: What You Need to Lead But Won't Learn in Business School
Count your blessings, discount you’re loses
— John Paul Warren
Through real-life stories, Kristin Kaufman illustrates the core idea of being present in the moment and opening oneself up to new ideas in order to become an authentic leader in life.
— Stephen R. Covey
No.” Allie stood her ground. “I’ll not go in.““Me, neither.” Jason slid from his horse. “If Allie ain’t going in, I’m not going in.”Wes glanced skyward. How was it possible for his near mute wife to pick up an echo? After four years in the Army, leading men, and two years of pushing cattle to market, it took Allie to make Wes realize that a leader wasn’t a leader unless he had a follower.“All right, where would you like to sleep tonight?
— Jodi Thomas, To Kiss a Texan
In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images.
— Adam S. McHugh, Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.
— Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save yourself, you can give up too many of those qualities that are the essence of being alive, like innocence, curiosity, and compassion.
— Ronald A. Heifetz, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading
If done "as God wants.' then leadership will surely include intercessory prayer. The saintly Bishop Azariah of India once remarked to Bishop Stephen Neill that he found time to pray daily, by name, for every leader in his extensive diocese. Little wonder that during his thirty years of eldering there, the diocese tripled its membership and greatly increase in spiritual effectiveness
— J. Oswald Sanders
The mind is a storehouse with great capacity, but is often filled with dubious knowledge and meaningless trivialities. In truth, much of this - though at times interesting and entertaining - is of insignificant value.
— Stevenson Willis, Thes Proverbs of Leadership
The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Sasha: "It's not your fault. You were doing what you thought was best to keep them safe. It isn't easy, making those kinds of decisions. I know that. And I also know the difference between you when you're trying to be the leader and you when you get to just be a boy."Wells: "It's funny you should say that,""Say what?""That you see the difference between me as a leader and me as a person.""I believe I said boy." she corrected.~Chapter 21 Pg: 228
— Kass Morgan
The conservatives had started bringing demagoguery to the table on the [Afghan] war issue the previous fall [fall 2006]. Whenever opposition members criticized the war policy, assorted Tories accused them of being disloyal and of failing to support the troops....[Harper] was gaining the reputation of a leader who couldn't see a belt without wanting to hit below it.
— Lawrence Martin, Harperland: The Politics Of Control
Effective decision-making can be seen as an optimal link between memory of the past, ground-realities of the present and insights of the future.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
Point me in the right direction, and shut the fuck up. I'm the one calling the shots now. Fall in line or fall down a fucking well.
— Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 26: Call to Arms
The choice to lead is nurtured by the willingness to rise above challenges of life.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Be the start of something that is good, revolutionary and powerful. Everything after that is a bonus!
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Never undermine the power of passion. You have a very high chance of achieving anything you are passionate about.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
Try not to leave your work for someone else to do. If possible, carry the work of someone and add it to yours. That's a trait of leaders!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
Contrary to popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained or enthroned. Leadership is self-made, self-retained, self-inculcated and then exposed through a faithful, sincere and examplary life.
— Israelmore Ayivor
All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
A true leader is still a leader even when he takes up servants' duty, provided he maintains a human face and added integrity to his self-retained qualities.
— Israelmore Ayivor
If you want people to to think, give them intent, not instruction.
— L. David Marquet
If you don’t know what you value in life, then you won’t be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future.
— Shannon L. Alder
Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both.
— Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
— Vannevar Bush
After Peter came to recognize his own inadequacy, his utter inability to fulfill his destiny apart from obedience to his only true responsibility, he became a rock-solid leader. As his story unfolds in the book of acts, we can clearly see that when Peter kept his eyes on Jesus and followed Him, others followed to. And they followed by the thousands. Needed today: more Peters.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.
— Depak Chopras
Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.
— Orrin Woodward, LIFE
Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.
— Orrin Woodward, LIFE
Today this courtyard was filled with great warriors. What is more? But it was not filled with great men who have the heart to rule a kingdom. Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one's hand. But not every man knows how to lead.
— Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more.
— Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets
He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern and tempered energies of manhood and the sombre sagacity of age; accomplishing so much, precisely because it imagined and hoped so little.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement.
— Gail Collins, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
(Vice President) Garner has taken his personal smallness, his lack of generosity, and forged it into a political principle. He has no imagination, no convictions, and he substitutes political cynicism for social understanding.
— Hamilton Basso
Our greatest limitation isn't the leader of the lives
—  it is the spirit within us.
You don’t become the person you wish to become
—  you become the person you choose to become. True leadership does not come true wishes
a leadership is a position of action process of abolition,completion of mission,over come oppositionand submission of duties
— akhil aravind
How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.
— Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.
— Iveta Cherneva
Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.
— Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Victim fall in love with excuses
— Robin S. Sharma, The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life
Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?”Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested,“But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.”“Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.
— Abraham Lincoln
The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.
— Dee Hock, One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
To have reservations is to show true leadership. To have certainty without question, to lead people to battle with no qualms, or to prosecute without hesitation are qualities of a tyrant.
— Laura Kreitzer, Abyss
No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.
— Andrew Murray, Humility
Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
— Hymann Rickover
Men of God are not just born, they are formed
— John Paul Warren
One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better
— Larry Niven
The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.
— Lee G. Bolman
Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands.
— Dan James
His special gift was the ability to see the essence of a worthwhile suggestion and to relate it to what was already in existence or planned. Then he would encourage and shape the new project, repeatedly redesigning the curriculum so that a new department or course could have a comfortable place in which to grow and offer it benefits.
— Charles Bracelen Flood, Lee The Last Years
I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success.
— Hyman G. Rickover
One of the fundamental aspects of leadership, I realized more and more, is the ability to instill confidence in others when you yourself are feeling insecure
— Howard Schultz, Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.
— Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
As I have earlier noted, the most important things in life and in business can’t be measured. The trite bromide 'If you can measure it, you can manage it' has been a hindrance in the building a great real-world organization, just as it has been a hindrance in evaluating the real-world economy. It is character, not numbers, that make the world go ‘round. How can we possibly measure the qualities of human existence that give our lives and careers meaning? How about grace, kindness, and integrity? What value do we put on passion, devotion, and trust? How much do cheerfulness, the lilt of a human voice, and a touch of pride add to our lives? Tell me, please, if you can, how to value friendship, cooperation, dedication, and spirit. Categorically, the firm that ignores the intangible qualities that the human beings who are our colleagues bring to their careers will never build a great workforce or a great organization.
— John C. Bogle, Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.
— Howard Schultz, Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader."- Capt. Bligh(ret.)
— Robert Lynn Asprin, Another Fine Myth
A critical element in nearly all effective social movements is leadership. For it is through smart, persistent, and authoritative leaders that a movement generates the appropriate concepts and language that captures the frustration, anger, or fear of the group's members and places responsibility where it is warranted.
— David E. Wilkins, The Hank Adams Reader: An Exemplary Native Activist and the Unleashing of Indigenous Sovereignty
His (Lenin's)humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he seems to have had little love for, or even interest in, humanity in particular. He saw the people with whom he dealt, his comrades, not as individuals but as receptacles for his ideas. On that basis, and no other, they were judged. He judged man not by their moral qualities but by their views, or rather the degree to which they accepted his.
— Paul Johnson, Modern Times
All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though. . . . These were leaders who saw strength in ordinary people and showed them how to break tyranny.
— Noël Coward
Some are born leaders, some achieve leadership, and some have leadership thrust upon them. Which of these are you, or would you rather not bother?
— Maurice Flanagan
Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...
— Bob Woodward, Obama's Wars
Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader.
— James Gould Cozzens, The Just and the Unjust
We shall all respect the principle of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act oppression to any portion of the people
— Alexander Mackenzie
Be your self at your personal best
— John Paul Warren
It was not only that he was a great man, but, oh, there was such fun in being led by him.
— Edward J. Renehan Jr., The Lion's Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War
Your mission statement, vision statement, core values, and service standards provide a clear focus for all while keeping your team humble and hungry. It creates that family environment in which your employees enjoy coming to work and dealing with the challenges they face each day.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
If your culture is how you do business internally, your brand is what people believe about you externally.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
You can’t be “it” for everyone. In fact, if you try to please everyone, you will please no one, especially yourself.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
You’ve got to get your team to not only understand your company brand, but also to understand their personal brand.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Even if you delegate that responsibility, ultimately you are the one responsible for howyour brand is portrayed.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Never take lightly that becoming an employer puts another person’s ability to provide for their life in your hands.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Train your new employee properly. Sounds so obvious, and yet it often doesn’t happen.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Treat your employees like you would want to be treated if you were an employee.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Comprehension is the ability to follow an explanation.Understanding is the ability to be able to lead if needed.
— Cody Edward Lee Miller
A leader is someone who figures out the way, then gets out of the way so others can lead.
— Toni Sorenson
It is better to be a Number Two in a working system, than be a Number One yet lack capacity to make the system work.
— Dele Ayo Bankole
How to uplift others. It’s not a pie, it’s a cake. It’s not a ladder, it’s a bridge.
— Richie Norton
LEADERSHIP is your org chart turned upside down.
— Richie Norton
The magnificence of light can only be seen when it strikes an obstacle. Likewise, the magnificence of a leader is in how he deals with problems.
— Charbel Tadros
If the only way for you to get people to do your bidding is through force or intimidation, you are neither a leader nor a boss: you are an a**hole.
— Charbel Tadros
Yes, You Can!You Can Turn Your... ...Adversity into Your Advantage...Mess into Your Message...Test into Your Testimony...Pain into Your Possibilities ...Setback into a Major Comeback...Gift into Greatness ...Passion into Profit...Success into Significance ...Limitation into Creativity Most importantly, you can and will turn your dreams into reality!
— Farshad Asl
If there isn't a struggle, there's no stretch, and therefore no growth. Easy doesn’t change you and comfort won’t challenge you. Coasting isn't a strategy.
— Farshad Asl
Leadership comes at a cost.It’s called servant leadership.
— Farshad Asl
But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of what they created by their demands. Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.
— Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
Customer service has everything to do with consistency, systems, training, and the habits you and your team create.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Everything you attract into your life is a reflection of the story you believe and keep telling yourself.
— Farshad Asl
Love for others is the foundation of leadership.Simplicity is the language of leadership.Authenticity is the true character of leadership.
— Farshad Asl, The No Excuses Mindset: MasterMind Edition
Ideal humane leadership begins with a real demonstration of love, continues relating with acceptance of fellow humankind and consciously follows that through with every opportunity.
— Tracey Bond
Do something in your life which will make millions of people attend your funeral. Have a worthy life.
— Mayur Ramgir
Following trends on social media will not lead to social consciousness.
— Carlos Wallace
Neither mislead nor misguide.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Leadership is the art of influencing people to execute your strategic thinking
— Nabil Basma
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
— John F. Kennedy
Your company culture is made up of the family rules ofyour business that establish consistent expectations among all.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
When you create a company culture, you are drawing your lines in the sand for you, first & then for anyone else who does business with you.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
All businesses begin and end with their company culture.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
You want how you do business to be consistent among all team members, including partners, management, employees, and even vendors.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
The what to do can be taught
—  the how to do it is not as easy to pass on to someone who simply doesn’t “get it.
Your company culture is the internal foundation on which everything in your business builds.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
To gain your share of the market, you must show how your company is different and how your culture produces a unique experience for your customers, leaving no room for competition. And that, Bombshell, is your brand.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Your brand is what your customers andpotential customers think about you
—  your culture is who you say you are and how you do business.
When you have a strong company culture it will shine through your brand and you can authentically say, “This is what our brand is about.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Creating a company culture is the first operational step in becoming a bold, brave fempreneur. It creates certainty, a road map and stability.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Your mission statement outlines why your company exists. It doesn’t have to be all fancy-pants, just a clear statement of what you do.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
While a mission statement speaks to why a company exists, a vision statement communicates what you want to accomplishin the future.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Values are the measuring stick for howyou make decisions in business: goal setting, employee conduct, recognition, discipline—everything.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
The ability to kill someone doesn't make you a leader, and it doesn't make someone great. There's nothing great about dying or taking a life.
— Adam Burch, Song of Edmon
Empowerment includes growth mindset, positive thinking, acceptance of new challenge, learning and positive self-image.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
As you get connection with the higher source, your creativity increases
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
Mindfulness improves your capacity for self-discovery and empowerment.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
Create gaps between stimulus and reaction and the gap will show you the path.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
When you can, show them, when they can't teach them and when you do remember the only deed worth doing is the one that helps another up.
— Bluenscottish
Part of knowing how to be prepared comes from being self-aware—being able to anticipate what you’ll need (or screw up) and planning accordingly. I know I am rarely, if ever, the smartest person in the room. And that’s totally OK. What’s not OK is (1) not recognizing that and (2) not coming ready to participate in a meaningful way.
— Alyssa Mastromonaco, Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House
Letter to the tech giants:When fame and abundance kiss somebody’s feet before that person is wise enough, he or she is very likely to lose track of what’s necessity and what’s luxury. And modern society is filled with examples of such intelligent stupidity – stupidity that is carried out by apparently smart humans. Because being smart is not the same as being wise. The world has enough smartness, but not enough wisdom to bring that smartness into proper productive practice – and I mean productive practice not sophisticated practice – there is a difference. A person smart enough to visualize a Falcon rocket engine can easily pinpoint the locations of various organizations that spread terrorism, yet the person chooses to explore the space further instead of prioritizing the technological advantages to first fix real issues of the human society that inflict harm to the humans every walk of the way.The world is a miserable place not because we have lack of resources, but because those who have an abundance of resources do not have the slightest idea of true human need. The resources needed for colonizing Mars if put to proper practice can fix the world’s global warming issues – it can fix the world’s climate change issues – it can fix the world’s terrorism issues, yet people are more interested in the pompous idea of living in Mars for whatever reason, instead of paying attention to improving human condition on earth. I am not against technological advancement, for I am a scientist, but my soul aches when I see smart people are dumb enough to chase after illusory glory of doing something different and innovative instead of focusing the powers of their soul on cleaning up the misery business on earth. You can, yet you don’t. Why?Smartness without wisdom is stupidity. You are smart – yes indeed – but I am sorry – you are stupid at the same time. How can you dream of having a cheese burger on Mars when your own kind on Earth is suffering! How can you think of taking rich kids into the orbit just so they can admire the beauty of earth from the heavens, when that very earth is infested with the primordial evils of human character! Awaken the human within you my friend, and pay attention. Awaken the human within and let it consume all the miseries from the world that you live in. Say a member of your family falls ill, would you ignore his or her misery completely just because you want to make life more comfortable for others than it already is, or would you first try everything in your capacity in order to heal your loved one!Be wise my friend, for it is not enough to be smart. You are smart – there is no doubt about that – so utilize that smartness for humanity and heal your own kind. Heal your kind with your capacity my friend. It is wailing for healers – not some delusional faith healers, but real tangible healers. Would you not do anything! Would you not give your soul to fix the broken soul of this world! Arise my friend, Awake my friend and work for humanity, not to make it sophisticated, but to make it peaceful first. Remember, humanity first, then everything else. Peace first, sophistication later. Harmony first, luxury later.
— Abhijit Naskar
Peace first, sophistication later. Harmony first, luxury later.
— Abhijit Naskar
Arise my friend, Awake my friend and work for humanity, not to make it sophisticated, but to make it peaceful first.
— Abhijit Naskar
I have learned a lot about myself over the years, mostly because I was open to hearing feedback. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. I usually dislike someone before I like them. I’m sensitive—especially when I’m tired or feel I’m being misunderstood. This may sound like the “About Me” section on a bad online dating profile, but knowing this stuff has allowed me to keep my contacts, my reputation, and my sanity throughout a long and often stressful career. Being self-aware means knowing when you’re about to act bad—and then not acting bad.
— Alyssa Mastromonaco, Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House
What you realize is that everyone has her own priorities—her own constituency. Often, being a leader is not about making grand proclamations or telling people what to do; it’s about balancing all these priorities and constituencies.
— Alyssa Mastromonaco, Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House