Personal Leadership Quotes

• Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Business, Vision

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• People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center of a person's life.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Technique, Foundation

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.163, Mango Media Inc.

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• Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Leadership, Business, Character

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• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Executive's Portfolio of Model Speeches for All Occasions". Book by Dianna Daniels Booher, 1991.

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Life Changing, Helping Others

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• The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

  Max De Pree

  Leadership, Responsibility, Reality

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Dream, Sorry

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  Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

  Sam Walton

  Motivational, Leadership, Educational

  Attributed in "The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time" by Leslie Pockell, November 23, 2004.

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• The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Personality, Future Leaders

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.371, Routledge

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• Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.

  Stephen Covey

  Art, Philosophy, Issues

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Observing many companies in action, I am unable to point to a single instance in which stunning results were gotten without the active and personal leadership of the upper managers.

  Joseph M. Juran

  Action, Results, Stunning

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• Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Cheer

  Barack Obama's Remarks at Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Phoenix Awards Dinner, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 24, 2011.

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• On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Hope, Country

  "Obama: 'Fear' drives voters" by Carol E.Lee, www.politico.com. October 16, 2010.

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• We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Work, Nice

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• The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Choices, Facts

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Running, Country

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• If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Jobs, Patriotic

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Family, Retirement

  Daily Labor Report, Issues 169-189, Bureau of National Affairs, 2010.

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• America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

  Barack Obama

  America, Justice, Mind Blowing

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Strong, Elements

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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