Great thoughts for leading every area of your life
A Leadershipology, a term Keith Craft coined, is a thought distilled into a sentence, with the power to change a life. This is his personal collection of Leadershipologies: 1,700+ of his own and 11,900+ from the great leaders and thinkers of history.
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- Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.
- He that has patience may compass anything.
- Jealousy is the apprehension of superiority.
- The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
- Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
- To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is … the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
- The art of being kind is all the world needs.
- Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.
- I have always been fond of the West African proverb "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
- Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others.
- Time is the simplest thing, and the most precious, for it cannot be made.
- Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts
- Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.
- Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
- When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
- Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
- A young man makes of a position exactly what he chooses, either a millstone around his neck or a stepping-stone to larger success.
- Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
- Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
- Whatever the work is, do it well – not for the boss, but for yourself.
- We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
- If your habits don’t line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream.
- It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
- Indecision and delay are the parents of failure.
- Let a man sanctify the Lord God in his heart and he can thereafter do no common act.
- Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
- Our deeds are seeds of fate, sown here on earth, but bringing forth their harvest in eternity.
- A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
- If I can put one touch of a rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
- You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that’s under your control and the other isn’t.
- Nothing can work me damage except myself.
- If you want to make the days of your life really matter, then you must love something.
- No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.
- From the lowest depth there is a path to the loftiest height.
- Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
- Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures – character.
- Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go; They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe.
- Victims have big TVs. Leaders own large libraries.
- We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?
- What we are depends entirely upon the images we hold before our mind’s eye.
- Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.
- Act as if every day were the last of your life, and each action the last you perform.
- When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time
- By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
- Love will be impatient of sin, but patient with the sinner.
- No man is born into this world whose work is not born with him; there is always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will; and blessed are the horny hands of toil.
- You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.