Leadership Quotes - Page 26

• The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Helping Others, People, Growth

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• My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Sarcastic, Fake People

  "Mitch All Together". Live album by Mitch Hedberg, December 9, 2003.

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• Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

  Samuel Ullman

  Life, Birthday, Letting Go

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• A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.

  Herb Kelleher

  Stronger, Company, Ifs

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• Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Happy

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• If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

  Jack Welch

  Change, Service Culture, Ends

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• You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.

  Tonya Hurley

  Heart, Brain, Followers

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• Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

  Frank Herbert

  Motivational, Inspiring, Father

  Frank Herbert (2010). “Dune”, p.327, Hachette UK

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• Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

  Patrick Ness

  Hate, People, Boss

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• A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.

  Rick Riordan

  Despair, Troops, Mouths

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• Too many kings can ruin an army

  Homer

  Kings, Army, Ruins

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• To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

  Andre Malraux

  Military, Vision, Command

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• A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

  Jack Welch

  Jobs, Smart, Organization

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• Leadership appears to be the art of getting others
  to want to do something you are convinced should be done

  Vance Packard

  Art, Done, Want

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• Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.

  M. Scott Peck

  Mean, Groups, Facts

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• Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.

  David J. Schwartz

  Optimistic, Creating, Mind

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.73, Penguin

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• You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Blow, Common Vision, Visionaries

  Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

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  The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Writing, Creativity, Positivity

  "The Tweaker" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. November 14, 2011.

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• Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Desire, Fit

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• Celebrate what you want to see more of.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.

  Vince Lombardi

  Volleyball, Use, Enough

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hope, Encouragement, Hero

  "History of Logan County and Ohio" by O.L. Baskin, (p. 577), 1880.

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• Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Funny, Sad

  "As I See Religion". Book by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1932.

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• I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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  Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Marriage

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