Leader Quotes - Page 26

• Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  May, Common, Characteristics

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom, Robert C. Larson (1988). “The best of Ted Engstrom on personal excellence and leadership”, Here's Life Pub

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• As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom; a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

  Nelson Mandela

  Nimble, Shepherds, Opinion

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• The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.

  Rick Warren

  Organization, Vision, Tasks

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• Sourav is a great captain and we should be proud of such a leader.

  Kapil Dev

  Proud, Captains, Should

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• Ganguly is a very good leader. His return to the field brings a spring in the steps of the Indians. He is a great player.

  Ricky Ponting

  Spring, Player, Fields

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• We want accountability. We just buried a president [President Gerald Ford] who did not hold another president [President Nixon] accountable for war crimes and that's why we're in Iraq right now. Our leaders who get us into these messes are the ones who need to be held accountable.

  Cindy Sheehan

  War, Iraq, Accountability

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• We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge.

  Nelson Mandela

  Reality, Years, Achievement

  "Foes pay tribute as Mandela begins long goodbye" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 1999.

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• Crowds of men are like crowds of sheep. Not the best, but the first leader is usually followed.

  Frederick Schiller Faust

  Men, Sheep, Crowds

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• Each of us can be a leader. We need to remember that the mantle of leadership is not the cloak of comfort, but the robe of responsibility. Perhaps our service is to youth. If so, I caution: 'Youth needs fewer critics and more models.' One hundred years from now it will not matter what kind of a car we drove, what kind of a house we lived in, how much we had in the bank account, nor what our clothes looked like. But the world may be a little better because we were important in the life of a boy or a girl.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Girl, Responsibility, Boys

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• Leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods express a preference for "natural" methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.

  Richard Dawkins

  Population, Followers, Use

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.144, Oxford University Press

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• The second term of the Bush administration and first five years of the Obama presidency have been devoted to codifying and institutionalizing the vast and unchecked powers that are typically vested in leaders in the name of war. Those powers of secrecy, indefinite detention, mass surveillance, and due-process-free assassination are not going anywhere. They are now permanent fixtures not only in the US political system but, worse, in American political culture.

  Glenn Greenwald

  War, Years, Names

  "Washington gets explicit: its 'war on terror' is permanent". www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2013.

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• You can offer the ability to citizens to choose from one of the two parties and elect their leaders as much as you want. But "democracy" is an illusion - a sham - if the most significant acts taken by those leaders are kept concealed from the citizenry.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Party, Taken, Two

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• Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.

  Ray Comfort

  Jesus, Batteries, Sun

  FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Feb 05, 2013

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• Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who are set in this position of authority; and we must not allow anything to deflect us from this, however good the cause, however great the need.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  People, Church, Tasks

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1972). “Preaching and Preachers”, p.23, Zondervan

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• New Rule: There is no devil, so stop blaming your screw-ups on him. Last week, one of the biggest evangelical leaders in America, the Reverend Ted Haggard, was outed for drugs and extramarital gay sex with a male prostitute. Or as Fox News reported it, 'John Kerry hates our troops'.

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Hate, Gay

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• Mounting a campaign against plutocracy makes as much sense to the typical Washington liberal as would circulating a petition against gravity. What our modernized liberal leaders offer is not confrontation but a kind of therapy for those flattened by the free-market hurricane: they counsel us to accept the inevitability of the situation.

  Thomas Frank

  Typical, Campaigns, Hurricanes

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• In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions. It became painfully obvious that the executive branch of our government did not trust its military. It relied instead on a neoconservative ideology developed by men and women with little, if any, military experience. Some senior military leaders did not challenge civilian decision makers at the appropriate times, and the courageous few who did take a stand were subsequently forced out of the service.

  Ricardo Sanchez

  Senior, Military, Men

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• A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.

  Tony Abbott

  Doors, Midnight, Way

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• Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

  James Altucher

  Mean, Past, Kind

  Twitter post from Mar 10, 2018

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• Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.

  Tony Benn

  Class, Middle, Establishment

  Tony Benn (1987). “Out of the Wilderness: Diaries, 1963-67”, Hutchinson Radius

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• Often, we feel that we need a leader outside of ourselves -a Buddha, a Gandhi, or a Martin Luther King, Jr.- to show the way. But we have the Buddha inside of us. We have Gandhi and King inside of us as well. We are interconnected. We don't need to wait for some other person to be the change we want to see in the world

  Nhat Hanh

  Kings, Waiting, Needs

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• Highly successful leaders ignore conventional wisdom and take chances. Their stories inevitably include a defining moment or key decision when they
  took a significant risk and thereby experienced a breakthrough.

  Larry Osborne

  Successful, Keys, Decision

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• Jealous leaders measure their success by the failure of others.

  Andy Stanley

  Jealous

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• Insecure leaders think everything is about them, and as a result, every action, every piece of information, every decision is put through their filter of self-centeredness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Insecure, Thinking, Self

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Leaders who insulate themselves from others and choose to bear their burdens single-handedly are destined for loneliness and burnout. Leaders, like everyone else, need friends and perhaps in light of the load they carry, even more so.

  Richard Blackaby

  Loneliness, Light, Needs

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