Leadership
693 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 640 from other voices.
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- People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
- People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it.
- People who feel good about themselves produce good results.
- People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
- Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
- Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
- Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.
- Position is a poor substitute for influence.John C. MaxwellCommonly attributed
- Power itself hath not one-half the might of gentleness.
- Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, no man good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power.
- Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
- Praise in public; criticize in private.
- Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
- Precept is instruction written in the sand, the tide flows over it and the record is gone. Example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.
- Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.
- Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the advantage of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.
- Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
- Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.John C. MaxwellCommonly attributed
- Regard a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal.
- Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
- Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.
- Remember that people are OK; it's just their behavior that is sometimes a problem.
- Respect a man, and he will do all the more.
- Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
- Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
- Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.
- Rules without relationship leads to rebellion.
- "Safety first" has been the motto of the human race for half a million years; but it has never been the motto of leaders. A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm.
- Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.
- Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.
- Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
- Silence — not dissent — is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept.
- So behave that the odour of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
- So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
- Sooner or later, you will need the courage to be disliked.
- Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticizing.
- Strong leaders earn loyalty. Weak leaders demand it.
- Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.
- Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
- Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave.