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Please enjoy these inspirational quotes by W. A. Nance.
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
Related topics: Motivational Business
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
The glue that holds all relationships together -
including the relationship between; the leader and the led
is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
- Brian Tracy
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus
but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Leaders are those who empower others.
- Bill Gates
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
leading by example creates a degree of
loyalty and overall success
that cannot be achieved through
issuing orders from a lofty office.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
The signs of outstanding leadership
appear primarily among the followers.
Are the followers reaching their potential?
Are they learning? Serving?
Do they achieve the required results?
Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
- Max De Pree
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust.
Service brings satisfaction.
Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- James Cash Penney
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
While most managers spend their time attempting
to predict the future accurately -
and while that's valuable -
the best managers are able to generate a future
which was not going to happen otherwise -
that is, a future which was not predictable.
- Werner Erhard
Never hold discussions with the monkey
when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill
Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy
I must follow the people.
Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli
Some single mind must be master,
else there will be no agreement in anything.
- Abraham Lincoln
The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver.
The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver,
the less he demands in slaughter.
- Winston Churchill
Leadership is the art of getting someone else
to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -
that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
This myth asserts that people simply either
have certain charismatic qualities or not.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Leaders are made rather than born.
- Warren G. Bennis
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi
Life is unlimited.
Your world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
Money that is spent or given away returns multiplied.
The more love that is given, the more love returns.
The more a helping hand is given, the more hands
are strengthened and empowered to help.
We can help each other to all be winners.
We can all have food, and jobs, and love, and happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dance like no one is watching,
love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like no one is listening.
Live life like it's heaven on earth.
- Anonymous (various attributions and alternate phrasings)
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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