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“If you can’t state your position in eight words or less, you don’t have a position.”

** Seth Godin.


“Have you invested as much this year in your career as in your car?”

** Molly Sargent.


“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

** Mahatma Gandhi.

 
“You can’t behave in a calm, rational manner. You’ve got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.”

** Jack Welch.


“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

** Napoleon.


“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”

 **  Oscar Wilde


The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. 

**  Dr. Seuss


“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”

** James Dean


“The two most powerful things in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture.”

** Ken Langone


“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

** Oscar Wilde


“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

** Charles Darwin


“We may not be interested in chaos but chaos is interested in us.”


** Robert Cooper


“Stay Hungry - Stay Foolish.”

** Steve Jobs


 “Groups become great only when everyone in them, leaders and members alike, is free to do his or her absolute best.”

** Warren Bennis


“The best thing a leader can do for a Great Group is to allow its members to discover their greatness.”

** Warren


“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.”

** Winston Churchill


“A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.”

** Chinese Proverb


“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you're a leader.”

** John Quincy Adams


"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."

** Michelangelo


"Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

**  Bernard M. Baruch


"You've gotta dance there's nobody watching, Love you'll never be hurt,Sing there's nobody listening, And live it's heaven on earth."

**  William W. Purkey


"A room without books is a body without a soul." 

**  Marcus Tullius Cicero


"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

**  Mae West


"So many books, so little time." 

**  Frank Zappa


"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life it goes on."

**  Robert Frost


"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another- What! You too? I thought I was the only one." 

**  C.S. Lewis


"It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it." 

**  Maurice Switzer


"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

**  Oscar Wilde


"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

**  Allen Saunders


"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
 
**  André Gide


"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
 
**  Marilyn Monroe


"A woman is   a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water."

**  Eleanor Roosevelt


"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
 
**  Albert Einstein


"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
 
**  Malcolm X


"A day without sunshine is  , you know, night."
 
**  Steve Martin


"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference." 

**  Elie Wiesel


"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
 
**  Friedrich Nietzsche


"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

**  Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
 
**  Garrison Keillor


"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."

**  Douglas Adams



"You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily."

**  Walter M. Miller Jr.


"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."
 
**  Paulo Coelho


"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
 
**  Mahatma Gandhi


"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
 
**  Dalai Lama XIV


"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most un ly places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
 
**  Roald Dahl


"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

**  E.B. White
 

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity."

**  Gilda Radner

 
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
 
**  Margaret Mead

 
"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light." 

**  Helen Keller


"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." 

**  Edgar Allan Poe


"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living." 

**  Jonathan Safran Foer


"Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness."
 
**  Lemony Snicket


"Calming ain't curing, is it, girl?  the woman asked aloud.  Keeping you hushed might keep me out of jail, but sure as the world, calming ain't curing."

**  Jonathan Odell


"I couldn't stop thinking about blue eyes and the way he smelled, his scent was a mix of liquor, winter fresh and Nautical sport."

**  Glenna Maynard


"In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls." 

**  Louise Erdrich

 
"I reached my hand up when he catches me by the wrist stopping me.  No touching,  he speaks so low it is barley a whisper. I gasped, damn what a turn on, I try reaching for his hair with my other hand when he stops me again. Roughly he tells me again,  No touching. "
**  Glenna Maynard


"Knowing you was meant by fate
As more I fight it the more I fall
Reaching your hand seems impossible
Even when I tell you how I feel
Never together we will be "

**  JAH for Karen


"Humility is naturally similar to humanity with both being deepily connected with the behavioural kindness as the first priority of morality. "

**  Anuj Somany


"The real friend is perceptibly same, but probably different from the best friend."

**  Anuj Somany


"Music not only changes our mood, but it also changes the way we think and our perception of the world. "

**  Anonymous


"Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them. "

**  Lou Holtz


"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. "

**  Dr. Seuss


"It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business."

**  Mahatma Gandhi


"If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business."

**  William J. H. Boetcker


"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."

**  Kahlil Gibran


"A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. "

**  Henry Kravis


"Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don’t think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it. "

**  David Ogilvy


"Drive your business. Let not your business drive you."

**  Benjamin Franklin


"Love is   a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time."

** Maya Angelou


"Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on men and women- A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age."

** Robert Frost


"Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed."

** Albert Einstein


"Men are what their mothers made them."

** Ralph Waldo Emerson


"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."

** Plato


"For most of history, ‘Anonymous’ was a woman."

** Virginia Woolf


"Women are made to be loved, not understood."

** Oscar Wilde


"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."

** Will Rogers


"Women don’t want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think – in a deeper voice.

** Bill Cosby


"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

** Timothy Leary


"Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on money- Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

** Mark Twain


"I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful."

** Warren Buffet


"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."

** Robert Frost


"Money won’t create success. The freedom to make it will."

** Nelson Mandela



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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

** Leo Rosten


We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

** Madame Swetchine


Success requires the vision to see, the faith to believe, and the courage to do.

** Author Unknown


Ambition, confidence, enthusiasm and success are produced by courage, faith, pride, and hard work.

** Harry F. Banks


Success is not a matter of desire, but the product of hard work.

** Jack Barringer


To succeed, one must possess an effective combination of ability, ambition, courage, drive, hard work, integrity, and loyalty.

** Harry F. Banks


Never mind what others do; better than yourself, beat your own record from day to do, and you are a success.

** William J.H. Boetckner


If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

** Maya Angelou


They never fail who die in a great cause.

** George Gordon Byron


The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

** Philip Caldwell


I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

** Bill Cosby


To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

** Ralph Waldo Emerson


The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

** Napoleon Hill


Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

** Robert Francis Kennedy


Be like a postage stamp: stick to one thing until you get there

** Margaret Carty


We have a 'strategic' plan. It's called doing things.

** Herb Kelleher, South West Airlines


Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not a sum of what we have been but what we yearn to be.

** Jose Ortega y Gassett


To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

** Ralph Waldo Emerson


We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

** Mary Sarton


Management has a lot to do with answers. Leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'

** Max DePree, Hermann Miller


Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves

** Joseph P. Thompson


This is the true joy in life ** being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy

** George Bernard Shaw


No legitimate business man ever got started on the road to permanent success by any other means than that of hard, intelligent work, coupled with an earned credit, plus character

** F.D. Van Amburgh


We come to feel as we behave

** Paul Pearsall


Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

** Samuel Johnson


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit

** Aristotle


The wisest mind has something yet to learn

** George Santayana


Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

** Calvin Coolidge


The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

** Christian Bovee


Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time

** Mark Twain


If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today

** Rotarian


No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible

** Stanislaus Lezczynski


Walk away from it [your problems] until you get stronger. All your troubles will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.

** Lady Bird Johnson


I've been failing for like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying' to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.

** Francis Ford Coppola


Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

** Napoleon Hill


The problems you have you experience in your mind. The solutions to those problems lie in the same place

** Dr. Wayne Dyer


Have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.

** Robert Moses


Fear is a fine spur.

** Irish proverb


Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

** Mark Twain


Clarifying expectations sometimes takes a great deal of courage. It seems easier to act as though differences don't exist and to hope things will work out than it is to face the differences and work together to arrive at a mutually agreeable set of expectations.

** Stephen R. Covey


I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

** Mother Teresa


You can dream, create, design, and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.

** Walt Disney


A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow

** Charles Brower


Strength lies in differences, not in similarities

** Stephen R. Covey


The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

** John Ruskin


It was much later that I realized Dad's secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a bishop or a college president. He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say.

** Sara Lawrence


The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

** Bertrand Russell


How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.

** Aristotle.


There's only one thing worse than the man who will argue over anything, and that's the man who will argue over nothing.

** Laurence Peter


We talk on principle, but we act on interest.

** Walter Savage Landor


Everything requires time. It is the only true universal condition. All work takes place and uses time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

** Peter Drucker


There are two kinds of people: those who finish what they start, and so on

** Robert Byrne


If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

** Ben Nicholas


If at first you don't succeed, you're running above average.

** M. H. Alderson


Ninety percent of what we call 'management' consists of making it difficult for people to get things done.

** Peter Drucker


The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

** Finley Peter Dunne


We are tomorrow's past.

** Mary Webb


Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

** Dietrich Bonhoeffer


Each day of your life, as soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy and successful day. It's the mood and the purpose at the inception of each day that are the important facts in charting your course for the day. We can always square away for a fresh start, no matter what the past has been. It's today that is the paramount problem always. Yesterday is but history

** George Matthew Adams


Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

** Mother Teresa


Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

** John F. Kennedy


The equation of leadership with positional power also reveals assumptions about the nature and shape of our organizations that are fast becoming obsolete. 

** Sally Hegesen


A leader is best when people barely know he exists.  But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say we did this ourselves!

** Lao Tse


The three most admired Leader characteristics; a. Communicates, allows input, is willing to listen; b. Is interested, appreciative, supportive, and considerate; & c. Displays honesty, integrity, and trustworthiness.

** Jim Lundy


Leaders are, in effect, change agents. They encourage others to take risks and, if they fail, the leader does not place blame, but rather, urges them to try again.

** Donald T. Philips


In the final analysis, the principles of leadership are nothing less than the principles of humanity; treating people with respect and dignity;, raising awareness; creating a vision and involving others; bonding together through alliances and teamwork; risking all; learning from mistakes; refusing to lose; inspiring rather than coercing; listening; compromising; caring; ever changing; and ever achieving.  

** Donald T. Philips


Now the general is the pillar of the State: if the pillar has mastered all points of war, the State wills be strong; if the pillar is defective, the State will be weak.

** Sun Tzu said


The masterful leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to proper methods and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success.

** Sun Tzu said


The highest form of generalship is to defeat the enemy’s plans; the next best is to keep the enemy’s forces divided; the next best is to attack the enemy’s army in the field; and the worst policy is to besiege walled

cities.

** Sun Tzu said


He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent, and thereby succeed in winning, may be called heaven born captain.

** Sun Tzu said


A general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

** Sun Tzu said


If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be Mutual.

** Sun Tzu said


The general who advances without seeking fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

** Sun Tzu said


To muster his army and bring it into danger may be termed the business of the general.

** Sun Tzu said


The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

** Sun Tzu said


What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

** Sun Tzu said

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

** Elbert Hubbard


A man with ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything. 

** Donald Kircher


He is able who thinks he is able.   

** Buddha


Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

** Baltasar Gracian,


A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.  

** Anon


Leaders are bridges that connect people to the future. They include others’ visions in their own, building alliances and partnerships based on shared aspirations.

** Caela Farren & Beverly Kaye


Effective leaders are passionate about the cause they are promoting and about their commitment to the greater or public good. 

** Sara E. Melendez


Leadership, ultimately, is an emotional bond, sometimes even a passionate commitment between followers and the leader and his or her goals.

** Judith M. Bardwick


Successful communities, even those with long traditions of organizational community leadership, will continue to broaden the circles of leadership to create a system for the community that is neither centralized nor decentralized, but rather polycentric.

** Suzanne W. Morse


The first responsibility of a leader is to define what can be. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor.  

** Max Depree


In effect groups, everybody takes leadership, and multiple leaders are a dynamic aspect of leadership. 

** John E. Tropman


In learning organizations (organizations that continually expand their capacity to create its future), leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. 

** Peter M. Senge


I have concluded that for me the central component of leadership is responsibility….And more often than not, it is that feeling of responsibility that inspires the best leadership.

** Kathryn Whitmore


Effective leaders give attention to both task and social, are both effective and efficient, possess both a concern for production and a concern for people.

** Peter M. Vail


Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.Tacitus in, Best Quotations for All Occasions Effective leadership and charismatic, visionary influence is not an extra, it is the way an organization and its

people move from today to tomorrow.

** George F. Simons


Artistic leaders help us see beyond today’s reality to forms that release untapped individual energies and improve collective performance.

** Lee Bolman & Terrance Deal


Leadership is thus a subtle process of mutual influence fusing thought, feeling, and action to produce cooperative effort in the service of purposes and values of both the  leader and the led.

** Lee Bolman & Terrance Deal


We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd. 

** Anon


No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

** William Blake


Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

** Les Brown


You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

** Henry Ford


To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

** Anatole France


The best way out is always through.

** Robert Frost


The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.

** Robert L. Schwartz


The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

** Harold Taylor


Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

** Mark Twain


If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, You can become it.

** William Arthur Ward


The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

** Martin Luther King, Jr.


Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

** Abraham Lincoln


Bluntness is a virtue.

** Allison Ling


The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

** Thomas B. Macaulay


When you choose your friends, don't be short** changed by choosing personality over character.

** W. Somerset Maugham


If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else

** Yogi Berra


Our aspirations are our possibilities

** Robert Browning


Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

** Col. Michael Friedsam


The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

** Lao- Tzu


Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find a way.

** Abraham Lincoln


Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.

** Les Brown


Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

** Stephen A. Brennan


Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

** Henry Ford


This one step choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.

** Scott Reed


The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

** Ben Stein


Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

** B.C. Forbes


Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

** Thomas Jefferson


No legacy is so rich as honesty.

** William Shakespeare


Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

** Joseph Sugarman


Great hopes make great men.

** Thomas Fuller


Hope is a waking dream.

** Aristotle


The men who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet to come, and that they themselves will help bring them about. Their minds are illuminated by the blazing sun of home. They never stop to doubt. They haven’t time.

** Melvin J. Evans


There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

** Orison S. Marden


Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.

** Charles Sawyer


Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

** Mary Kay Ash



The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

** Kahlil Gibran,


No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

** Helen Keller


A will finds a way.

** Orison Swett Marden


Every exit is an entry somewhere.

** Tom Stoppard


The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

** Oscar Wilde


You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

** Ziggy


Attitude produces character, and character produces hope.

** Mark Brunett


Character is the real foundation for all worthwhile success

** John Hays Hammond


Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support, and opens a sure way to wealth, honor, and happiness.

** John Howe


Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

** Elmer G. Letterman


Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

** H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


To measure the man, measure his heart.

** Malcolm Stevenson Forbes


The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

** John Holt


Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

** Elbert Hubbard


Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

** Helen Keller


A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.

** Ken Keys


Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

** Dale Carnegie


If you have a lemon, make lemonade.

** Howard Gossage


Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

** Vaclav Havel


A leader is one who knows the way, shows the way, and goes the way.

** Author Unknown


A leader is a dealer of hope.

** Napoleon Bonaparte


Real leaders are ordinary people, with extraordinary determinations

** John Seaman Garns


Leadership is an action, not a position.

** Donald H. McGannon


A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.

** Jules Ormont


A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

** Anon


Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

** Warren Bennis


I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

** Sir Winston Churchill


Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

** Stephen Covey


The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is

a servant.

** Max De Pree,


Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

** Dwight D. Eisenhower


In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up,
and goes.

** John Erksine


One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

** John Glassgow


The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.

** Theodore Hesburgh


The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go ' ** a leader says, 'Let's go '

** E.M. Kelly


The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

** Blaine Lee


The great leaders are like the best conductors ** they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

** Blaine Lee


The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

** Walter Lippmann


The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

** Walter Lippman


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

** Andre Malraux, Man's Hope


The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.

** Fred A. Manske, Jr.


Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.

** Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf


No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

** Archibald Wavell


A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

** Francis Bacon


The way to miss success is to miss the opportunity.

** Victor Chasles


We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

** Walt Kelly


Opportunity has power over all things.

** Sophocles


An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

** Sir Winston Churchill


If it exists, it’s possible.

** John P. Grier


Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

** Ann Landers


The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

** Orison Swett Marden


Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.

** Bruce Marten


We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

** Pogo


The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

** Flora Whittemore


Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

** Percy Bysshe Shelley


Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.

** Henry Ward Beecher




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"It's not failure, but low aim is crime."

** Lowell


"Success is that old ABC ** ** ability, breaks, and courage."

** Charles Luckman


"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

** Beverly Sills


"The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything and it works."

** William Strong


"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."

** Henry David Thoreau


"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

** George E. Woodberry


"A study at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management found that compassion and building teamwork

will be two of the most important characteristics business leaders will need for success a decade from now."

** Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer


"Self- security will be a hallmark of the leaders and exceptional organizations of the future. Self** security in

an individual or a system brings a high ratio of coherence. Leaders or organizations with self** security can push

power and authority downstream and develop centers of innovation and excellence at all levels of the

organization."

** Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer


"To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are

against."

** Christina Baldwin


"The only test of leadership is that somebody follows."

** Robert K. Greenleaf


"Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about

inspiration—of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is

not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others.

It is an attitude, not a routine."

** Lance Secretan


"More than anything else today, followers believe they are part of a system, a process that lacks heart. If there

is one thing a leader can do to connect with followers at a human, or better still a spiritual level, it is to

become engaged with them fully, to share experiences and emotions, and to set aside the processes of leadership we

have learned by rote."

** Author Unknown


"Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves."

** Author Unknown


"Leadership is not magnetic personality—that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and

influencing people—that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a

person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."

** Peter F. Drucker


"American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people."

** Robert L. Payton


"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they

despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, We

did it ourselves."

** Lao Tzu


"An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general."

** Author Unknown


"Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can

become a leader among men."

** Lao Tzu


"Leadership is action, not position."

** Donald H. McGannon


"Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated."

** Fred Smith


"A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune."

** Anon


"Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing."

** Mary D. Poole


"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it."

** Marian Anderson


"The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor,

discipline, courage, self sufficiency and confidence."

** James L. Fisher


"Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to

posterity."

** Harold J. Seymour


"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not

attributes."

** Peter Ferdinand Drucker


"When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow—to the end

and at all costs."

** Harold J. Seymour


"A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his

public excited and breathless."

** Charles deGaulle


"A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in

themselves."

** Author Unknown


"A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers."

** Franklin D. Roosevelt


"Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader."

** Tacitus


"Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve."

** Tom Landry


"Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs

of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice."


** Max DePree


"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that

he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that

gives their work meaning."

** Warren Bennis


"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

** John F. Kennedy


"No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the

degree to which its leadership is representative."

** Edgar Powell


"Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon."

** James L. Fisher


"Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

** Dwight D. Eisenhower


"Good leaders develop through a never** ending process of self** study, education, training, and experience."

** Author Unknown


"He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them."

** Author Unknown


"Leadership is action, not position."

** Donald H. McGannon


"There are many elements to a campaign.Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two."

** Bernd Brecher


"A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the person who finds the right things to do."

** Anthony T. Dadovano


"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."

** Talleyrand


"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."

** Walter Lippmann


"Great necessities call forth great leaders."

** Abigail Adams


"Leaders don't force people to follow—they invite them on a journey."

** Charles S. Lauer


"Children need love especially when they don't deserve it."

** Harold S. Hulbert


"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

** Ralph Nader


"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together."

** Jesse Jackson


"I have to get the most energy out of a man and have discovered that it cannot be done if he hates another man.

Hate blocks his energy and he isn't up to par until he eliminates it and develops a friendly feeling..."

** Knute Rockne


"The first step to leadership is servanthood."

** John Maxwell


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

** Max DePree


"Leaders are those who know what to do next, know why that is important, and know what
appropriate resources to bring to bear on the problem at hand. Then, through effective communication they

influence others to follow."

** Barry Bowater


"Good leadership is motivating and mobilizing others to accomplish a task or to think in ways that
are for the benefit of all concerned."

** Don Page


"Some men see the world as it is and ask why; others see the world as it might be and ask why not."

** Bernard Shaw


"Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

** Dwight Eisenhower


"Real leaders have no need to advertise their leadership except by their conduct, sympathy, understanding, and

ability. (taken from a book called Leadership). Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation.

Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

 ** John Wooden


"The price of greatness is responsibility."

** Winston Churchill


"From now on, any definition of a successful life must include serving others."

** President George Bush


"Our earlier belief that leadership comes about primarily through managerial ability has been replaced by an

awareness of skills needed for understanding people and dealing with their problems productively."

** Academic Leader,


"Women have for centuries been recognized as talented listeners, nurturers, motivators, and excellent

communicators. These very qualities that we once were told were unbusinesslike are precisely the qualities that

business needs most to tap human potential."

** Mary Cunningham Agee


"You don’t need to be brilliant to be a good leader. But you do have to understand other people ** how they feel,

what makes them tick, and the best way to influence them."

** Author unknown


"The leadership that frees people to be their best, affirms them in their diversity and includes them in the

dreams, decisions and benefits of the organization is a servant leader."

** James M. Childs, Jr.


"The size of a leader is determined by the depth of his convictions, the height of his ambitions, the
breath of his vision and the reach of his love."

** D.N. Jackson


"Don’t lose sight of the most important factors that lead to successful leadership: commitment, a
passion to make a difference, a vision for achieving positive change, and the courage to take action."

 ** Lorraine Matusak


"If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants."

** Sir Isaac Newton 


"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

** Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go,

but ought to be."

** Rosalynn Carter


"There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear."

** David Mahoney


"I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not."

** Lucille Ball


"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

** John F. Kennedy


"Big thinking precedes great achievement"

** Wilfred Peterson


"Never try to teach a pig to sing: it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."

** Paul Dickson


"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the

policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out."

** Ronald Reagan


"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning

against the right wall."

** Stephen R. Covey


"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world."

** John Le Care’


"I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort

under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism."

** Charles Schwab


"The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them."

** General Colin Powell


"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere."

** Lee Iacocca


"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


"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."

** John Maxwell


"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t

quit."

** Conrad Hilton, Hilton Hotels


"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not

attributes."

** Peter Drucker


"There is something that is much more scarce something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize

ability."

** Robert Half


"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common; it was the willingness to confront unequivocally

the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."

** John Kenneth Galbraith


"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

** Henry Kissinger


"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a

solution everybody can understand."

** General Colin Powell


"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

** Dwight Eisenhower


"Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate toward some goal which they come to find desirable. "

** Ordway Tead


"Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof** offs and eager beavers sooner or later will find

itself with more goof** oofs than eager beavers."

** Mick Delaney…


"There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or

desire a reality."

** Anthony Robbins


"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."

** Zig Ziglar


"If there is a trait which does characterize leaders it is opportunism. Succesful people are very often those who

steadfastly refuse to be daunted by disadvantage and have the ability to turn disadvantage to good effect. They

are people who seize opportunity and take risks. Leadership then seems to be a matter of personality and

character."

** John Viney


"Things may come to those who wait, but only what’s left behind by those that hustle."

** Abraham Lincoln


"Don’t wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it."

** Author Unknown 


"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who believed that something inside of them was superior to circumstance."

** Bruce Barton


"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them."

** John Maxwell


"The life which is unexamined is not worth living."

** Plato


"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."

** Anais Nin


"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

** Robert Francis Kennedy


"It’s never crowded along the extra mile."

** Wayne Dyer


"There is plenty of room at the top – but no place to sit down."

** Author Unknown 


"Clear your mind of can’t."

** Samuel Johnson


"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office."

** Dwight D. Eisenhower


"Beginning is half done."

** Unknown


"Presidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low and no** cost options. They can be surprisingly

effective."

** Donald Rumsfeld…


"A leader is a dealer in hope."
 
** Napoleon Bonaparte
 

"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"
 
** Benjamin Disraeli


"The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go

with it."
 
** Elaine Agather


"Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too."
 
** Robert Half


"Leadership is influence."
  
** John 


"The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare."
  
** Bobby Knight


"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."

** Arnold Glasow

 
"The only place success come before work is in the dictionary."

** Donald Kendall


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"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

** Muriel Strode 


"The best leaders are clear. They continually light the way, and in the process, let each person know that what they do makes a difference."
 
** Source Unknown 


"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be  thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."

** Jim Rohn 


"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self - restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

** Theodore Roosevelt 


"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."

** Peter Drucker 


"It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to  contribute."

** Bill Pollard 


"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."
 
** James Crook


"Here lies a man who knew how to enlist the service of better men than himself."

** Andrew-Carnegie’s-tombstone


"Don’t spend a $1.00’s worth of time on a $.10 decision."
     
** Author Unknown 


"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

** Thomas - Jefferson


"There are two ways to raise the level of leadership in your organization:  (1) train them and (2) trade them."
 
** John*Maxwell


"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal."

** Vince Lombardi 


"A boss creates fear, a leader confidence.  A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes.  A boss knows all, a leader asks questions.  A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.  A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group."

** Russell H. Ewing


"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority."

** Kenneth Blanchard  


"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives."
 
** Theodore Roosevelt 


"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."

** Lao-Tzu 


"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be."

** Rosalynn Carter 


"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."

** Arnold Glasow 


"I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a transformer in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader."

** Stephen R. Covey 


"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning."

** Warren Bennis 



"moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that"

** Warren Bennis 


"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will"

** Dwight D. Eisenhower 


"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them."

** John Maxwell 


"rations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there."

** David Gergen 


"As getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve."

** Tom Landry 


"The ultimate leader is one who is willin surpass him or her in knowledge and ability."

** Fred A. Manske, Jr. 


"You manage things; you lead people."

** Murray Hopper 


"A leader knows what's best to do; a manager kn The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive."
 
** Joe Batten 


"Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to and sustains it."
 
** Warren Bennis 


"Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.  The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd."
 
** R. S. Donnell 


"We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we sin the morning, and conservers at night."
 
** Ralph Waldo Emerson


"If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!"
 
** Francois De La Rochefoucauld


"There must be, within our Army, a sense of purpose. There must be a willingness to march a little farther, to carry a heavier load, to step out into the dark and the unknown for the safety and well–being of others."

** GEN Creighton Abrams


"Good leadership promotes professionalism—a renaissance of standards, involving quality of life, service, discipline and total commitment to our Army and the United States of America."

** MG Albert Akers


"Don’t begrudge the time you spend developing, coaching and helping your people to grow so they can carry on when you’re gone. It’s one of the best signs of good leadership."

** Bernard Baruch


"Use your people by allowing everyone to do his job. When a subordinate is free to do his job, he perceives this trust and confidence from his superiors and takes more pride in his job, himself, and the organization’s goals and objectives. Delegation of sufficient authority and proper use of subordinates helps develop future leaders. This is a moral responsibility of every commander."

** LTC Stanley Bonta


"The American soldier is a proud one and he demands professional competence in his leaders. In battle, he wants to know that the job is going to be done right, with no unnecessary casualties. The noncommissioned officer wearing the chevron is supposed to be the best soldier in the platoon and he is supposed to know how to perform all the duties expected of The American soldier expects his sergeant to be able to teach him how to do his job. And he expects even more from his officers."

** GEN Omar Bradley


"Fairness, diligence, sound preparation, professional skill and loyalty are the marks of American military leadership."

** GEN Omar Bradley



"A leader should possess human understanding for others. Men are not robots and should not be treated as though they were machines. I do not by any means suggest coddling. But men are highly intelligent, complicated beings who will respond favorably to human understanding and By this means their leader will get maximum effort from each of them. He will also get loyalty—and in this connection, it is well to remember that loyalty goes down as well as up."

** GEN Omar Bradley


"leader must be self–confident."

** Omar Bradley


"A leader must possess imagination.

** Omar Bradley


"Battles are won by the infantry, the armor, the artillery, and air teams, by soldiers living in the rains and huddling in the snow. But wars are won by the great strength of a nation—the soldier and the civilian working together."

** GEN Omar Bradley


"War is an art, to attain perfection in which much time and experience, particularly for the officers, are necessary."

** John Calhoun


"An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a deer."

** Chabrias


"If you cry ’Forward’, you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don’t you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and a revolutionary; they will go in directions precisely opposite?"

** Anton Chekhov


"To create great armies is one thing; to lead them . . . is another."

** Sir Winston Churchill


"At the top there are great simplifications. An accepted leader has only to be sure of what it is best to do, or at least have his mind made up about The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole–axed."

** Sir Winston Churchill


"All my life, both as a soldier and as an educator, I have been engaged in a search for a mysterious intangible. All nations seek it constantly because it is the key to greatness, sometimes to survival. That intangible is the electric and elusive quality known as leadership."

** GEN Mark Clark


"You owe it to your men to require standards which are for their benefit even though they may not be popular at the moment."

** GEN Bruce Clarke


"When things go wrong in your command, start searching for the reason in increasingly larger concentric circles around your own desk."

** GEN Bruce Clarke


"You must be able to underwrite the honest mistakes of your subordinates if you wish to develop their initiative and experience."

** GEN Bruce Clarke


"Rank is given you to enable you to better serve those above and below you It is not given for you to practice your idiosyncrasies."

** GEN Bruce Clarke


"Regardless of age or grade, soldiers should be treated as mature individuals They are men engaged in an honorable profession and deserve to be treated as such."

** GEN Bruce Clarke


"I know of no better reputation for an officer or noncommissioned officer to have with his men than he is a good manager and does not waste his soldiers’ time."

** GEN Bruce Clarke


"Do not expect to get squad, platoon, company, battalion, brigade, division, or corps commanders as replacements who are fully trained. If such people are available in the replacement system, they will probably be promoted before they arrive. Plan to coach them as needed in your standards and way of doing things."

** GEN Bruce Clarke


"Leadership needed in ordinary units is different from that required by elite units."

** GEN Bruce Clarke


"Good leadership in a platoon can only be practiced in the climate of good commandership in the units above."

** GEN Bruce Clarke


"The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered."

** Clausewitz


"To lead an untrained people to war is to throw them away."

** Confucius


"It is, indeed, an observable fact that all leaders of men, whether as political figures, prophets, or soldiers, all those who can get the best out of others, have always identified themselves with high ideals."

** GEN Charles DeGaulle


"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."

** GEN Dwight Eisenhower


"In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner’s chains."

** GEN Dwight Eisenhower


"Soldiers will not follow any battle leader with confidence unless they know that he will require full performance of duty from every member of the team."

** GEN Dwight Eisenhower


"The trained American possesses qualities that are almost unique. Because of his initiative and resourcefulness, his adaptability to change and his readiness to resort to expedient, he becomes, when he has attained a proficiency in all the normal techniques of battle, a most formidable soldier. Yet even he has his limits; the preservation of his individual and collective strength is one of the greatest responsibilities of leadership"

** GEN Dwight Eisenhower


"Our troops are capable of the best discipline. If they lack it, leadership is faulty."

** GEN Dwight Eisenhower


"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."

** GEN Dwight Eisenhower


"As always, it will be the army with the best leaders, and therefore with the most courageous, loyal, and devoted men, that will be victorious."

** MG H. E. Ely


"No study is possible on the battlefield; one does there simply what one can in order to apply what one knows. Therefore, in order to do even a little, one has already to know a great deal and know it well."

** Ferdinand Foch 


"The real secret of leadership in battle is the domination of the mass by a single personality. Influence over subordinates is matter of suggestion. Discipline acquired during peace and the power of personal example are both used to exact great sacrifices."

** GEN Baron von Freytag–Loringhoven


"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. This is the first lesson to be learned."

** Thomas Huxley


"God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men."

** Thomas


"I would lay down my life for America, but I cannot trifle with my honor."

** John Paul Jones


"Communications, or the ability to inform people what you expect of them in understandable terms and the ability to transmit to them your interest in them, is the key to successful leadership."

** GEN Harold K. Johnson


"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

** John Kennedy


"The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country."

** GEN Douglas MacArthur


"In war there is no substitute for victory."

** GEN Douglas MacArthur


"The military commander is the fate of the nation."

** Helmut Von Moltke


"every single soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole."

** Field Marshall 


"There are no bad regiments; there are only bad colonels."

** Napoleon 


"Duty—the sublimest word in the English Language."

** Horatio Nelson


"Each of us is led, some of us are leaders. The competence we demand in our leaders must be our model when we lead.Where are you?"

** GEN Glenn K. Otis


"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. The badge of rank which an officer wears on his coat is really a symbol of servitude to his men."

** GEN George Patton


"each, in his appropriate sphere, will lead in person. Any commander who fails to obtain his objective, and who is not dead or severely wounded, has not done his full duty."

** GEN George Patton


"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood."

** GEN George Patton


"If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself."

** GEN George Patton


"Leadership is the thing that wins battles.... It probably consists of knowing what you want to do, and then doing it and getting mad as hell if anyone tries to get in your way. Self–confidence and leadership are twin brothers."

** GEN George Patton


"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory."

** GENGeorge Patton


"Each in his appropriate sphere, will lead in person."

** GEN George Patton


"A country and government such as ours are worth fighting for, and dying for, if need be."

** GEN W.T.Sherman


"It is not enough for the world to know that I am a soldier."

** GEN W. T. Sherman


"A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring."

** Sir  Phillip  Sidney


"You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do." 

** Henry-Ford


"People do not follow programs, but leaders who inspire them."
 
** John-White


"During World War I, while inspecting a certain area, General John J. Pershing found a project that was not going well, even though the second lieutenant in charge seemed to have a pretty good plan. General Pershing asked the lieutenant how much pay he received. On hearing the lieutenant’s reply of  141.67 per month, Sir, General Pershing said:  Just remember that you get $1.67 per month for making your plan and issuing the order, and $140.00 for seeing that it is carried out."

** GEN Omar Bradley


"In war there is no second prize for the runner–up."
                                                    
** GEN Omar Bradley


"1982:Leadership in a democratic army means firmness, not harshness; understanding, not weakness; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism."

** GEN Omar Bradley 1953


"Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it."

** GEN Omar Bradley


"Military organizations and success in battle depend upon discipline and a high sense of honor."

** GEN Omar Bradley


"The Nation today needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country’s debt to them."

** GEN Omar Bradley


"Remember, a good leader is one who causes or inspires others, staff or subordinate commanders to do the job."

** GEN Omar Bradley


"Furthermore, no leader knows it all (although you sometimes find one who seems to think he does!). A leader should encourage the members of his staff to speak up if they think the commander is wrong. He should invite constructive criticism. It is a grave error for the leader to surround himself with a ‘yes’ staff."

** GEN Omar Bradley


"I would caution you always to remember that an essential qualification of a good leader is the ability to recognize, select, and train junior leaders."

** GEN Omar Bradley


"Leadership:  The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

** wight-Eisenhower-


"A good leader is a guy who can step on your shoes without messing up your shine."

** Author Unknown 


"Be a yardstick of quality.  Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected."

** Stephen-Jobs


"People and rubber bands have one thing in common:  they must be stretched to be effective."

** John-Maxwell


"When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people’s excuse for failure."
 
** Robert-Townsend


"Good leaders must first become good servants."

** Robert-Greenleaf


"Being in power is like being a lady.  If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t."

** Margaret-Thatcher


"You’re only as good as the people you hire."
 
** Ray-Kroc


"A leader is a dealer in hope."
 
** Napoleon-Bonaparte


"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it."


** Andrew-Carnegie


"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision."
 
** Helen-Keller


"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind."
 
** Seneca


"It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed."
 
** Harvey-Firestone
 

"When the best leader’s work is done the people say, We did it ourselves."

** LaoDTsu


"The essence of leadership is a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet." 

** Theodore-Hesburgh


"Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves and by which they are willing to be judged."

** Fred-Smith


"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."
 
** Jonathan-Swift


"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world."
 
** John-le-Carre


"The first rule of winning:  Don’t beat yourself."
             
** Football-Adage


"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision."
 
** John-Maxwell


"If you see a snake, just kill it.  Don’t appoint a committee on snakes"

** Ross-Perot


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