Become a Great Leader: Quotes to Guide You - page 36

If you want to build a ship, don\'t drum up people to collect wood and don\'t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A great leader has the ability to instill within his people confidence in themselves.
Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.
 Barbara Ehrenreich
It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.
 John Grierson
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
God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.
 John Powell
Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.
 Don Shula
I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
 Angela Davis
The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led.  This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.
The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.
 Omar N. Bradley
Newt Gingrich is an incredible leader. He is a leader of our time, and he's going to lead us into the future. And we're going to accomplish the things that we've all dreamed of.
 Tom DeLay
The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.
 Arthur Guiterman
It would just be nice if we had leaders in Washington who could unequivocally take a stand on behalf of democratic movements in other parts of the world. And even this is true for even Brother Barack Obama.
We all remember that [Donald] Trump was one of the leaders of the so-called birther movement trying to delegitimize the presidency of our first African-American president Barack Obama, which is an outrage.
 John Lewis
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
 Warren G. Bennis
If we do what we do without panicking, we can accomplish great things.
 Tony Dungy
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
 Lance Armstrong
I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.
I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
 Warren G. Bennis