Become a Great Leader: Quotes to Guide You - page 16

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
I think Americans suspect, without even being able to articulate it, that we're at the end of the American century; that we're at the end of the 100 or 125 or 150 years when we were the undisputed arbiter and leader of the world.
If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.
The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and does not believe in data that it has not internally generated.
Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.
 Andrew Carnegie
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.
It takes people who have a widespread series of experiences to develop future leaders. It takes people who aren't afraid to challenge and move forward.
 Julian Bond
Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.
 Jesse Jackson
The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.
 Daniel H. Pink
It\'s not that I\'m so smart, it\'s just that I stay with problems longer.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
I was able to look at football as something that God was allowing me to do, not something that should define me. I couldn't take my identity from this sport.
 Tony Dungy
Nurturing has the ability to transform people's lives.
Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.
A leader moves ahead but not so fast that the others can't keep up.
 Esther Peterson
I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.
Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him.
A leader in America or anyone who says they truly care about this nation without taking some kind of action is either a liar or insane. In either case, they are unfit to lead.
 Mark Ruffalo
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, 
well-timed, sincere words of praise. 
They\'re absolutely free and worth a fortune
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune
 Sam Walton
Winning leaders are almost always motivated when the chips are down.