Leadership
693 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 640 from other voices.
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- Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.
- Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
- Never underestimate the power of a good story.
- Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
- No important truth can be impressed upon the minds of any large number of people by being said only once.
- No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
- No man is wise enough or good enough to be intrusted with unlimited power.
- No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
- No matter how educated, talented or rich you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all.
- No matter what our personal circumstances may be, if we ourselves become a source of light, then there will be no darkness in the world.
- No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.
- No one may become a real leader in any walk of life without practicing the habit of doing more work and better work than that for which he is paid.
- No path of flowers leads to glory.Jean de La FontaineSourced
- No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
- No such thing as a 'non-leader.' Every day offers every one of us scads of leadership opportunities.
- Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.
- Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck," says a Chinese author, "leads the flock to fly and follow.
- Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Nothing is as fast as the speed of trust. Nothing is as fulfilling as a relationship of trust. Nothing is as inspiring as an offering of trust. Nothing is as profitable as the economics of trust. Nothing has more influence than a reputation of trust.
- Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one in adversity.
- Nothing is so infectious as example.
- Now the man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.
- Now the noblest influence on earth is that exerted on character; and he who puts forth this, does a great work, no matter how narrow or obscure his sphere.
- On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.
- One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.
- One example is worth a thousand arguments.
- One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.
- One man with courage makes a majority.
- One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.
- One of the major requisites for Leadership is the power of quick and firm DECISION!
- One person of integrity can make a difference.
- Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.
- Organizations exist only to serve. Leaders exist only to serve.
- Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. And these others have also their sphere of influence. So that a single act of mine may spread in widening circles through a nation or humanity.
- Our assets walk out of the door each evening. We have to make sure that they come back the next morning.
- Our job in life is to make a positive difference, not prove we're right.
- Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.
- Patience and gentleness are power.
- People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.