Quotes

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Speaking truth to those in power means saying out loud what everyone is thinking.

Simon Sinek1

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Nelson Mandela1

Success always takes help. Failure is done alone.

Simon Sinek0

We shouldn't take any credit for our talents, it's how we use them that counts.

Madeleine L' Engle, A Wrinkle in Time0

The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.

Jim Rohn0

If we are unwilling to take the risk to trust others, than others will be unwilling to take the risk to trust us.

Simon Sinek0

We trained hard — but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

Gaius Petronius Arbiter0

I'd rather feel uncomfortable pushing for better, than feel uncomfortable settling for less.

Simon Sinek1

A good leader lives by a set of rules. A great leader knows when to break them.

Gen McMahon, War Machine1

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill1

If you ever give up, you are lost. Fight with every breath, the last if you must, but don't give up, not ever.

Terry Goodkind, Stone of Tears0

If you don't respect yourself, no one else will respect you.

AFLeader0

The happiest moments in life come from making someone else happy.

AFLeader0

Good is the enemy of great.

Jim Collins0

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson1

Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in charge.

Simon Sinek1

When you're done learning, you're done leading.

Anonymous0

There is no wrong decision, only the failure to make one.

AFLeader0

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

John Quincy Adams1

There are three kinds of people: Those who are immovable, those who are moveable, and those who move them.

Li Hung0

Leadership is like a well-fitted suit or dress. One size does not fit all, but what fits another may also fit you, so take every opportunity to learn from the leadership style of others.

AFLeader0

We don't know them all, but we owe them all.

Unknown1

Someday sounds a lot like the thing people say when they actually mean never.

Dolores Abernathy, Westworld0

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Tony Blair1

“We will either find a way or make one.”

Hannibal0

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs, but by how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Gen George Patton0

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Aristotle0

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson0

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune.

Sam Walton0

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.

Isaac Newton0

There is no such thing as a mistake. There is only what you do and don't do.

Unknown0

The challenge of our unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of our accomplished past.

Simon Sinek0

A plane in the hanger is safe, but that is not what planes are built for.

AFLeader0

'Failing forward' is the ability to get back up after you’ve been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

John Maxwell0

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

John C. Maxwell0

Never mistake motion for action.

Ernest Hemingway1

Our reputations, our character, are the only things we leave behind when we depart this dear Earth.

John McCain0

The hardest part is starting. Once we get that out of the way, you'll find the rest of the journey much easier.

Simon Sinek0

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.

Harry Truman0

Our dialogue in America today has lost the respect for the views of those that disagree.

John McCain0

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr0

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.

Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare1

Leave your comfort zone behind.

Anonymous0

Great leaders don't try to be perfect, they try to be themselves. And that's what makes them great.

Simon Sinek0

They may forget what you said, they may forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Carl W. Buecher0

The organization of your personal space reflects the status of your mind.

AFLeader0

Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Thomas J. Watson0

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

John C. Maxwell0

The last thing people need is words. Actions speak for themselves.

AFLeader0

They may forget your words, but they will never forget your actions.

AFLeader0

You don't lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower2

Leadership is solving problems. The day [Airman] stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Gen Colin Powell1

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

Cesare Pavese1

We're Americans, and we never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history.

John McCain0

If serving is below you, Leadership is beyond you.

Anonymous0

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 DePree0

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt0

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 Tzu0

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Gen Colin Powell0

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley, Invictus1

There are no wrong decisions. There are only right decisions and lessons learned.

Simon Sinek0

In the end, it matters less that you can fight. What you fight for is the real test.

John McCain1

Always strive to do better than your best.

AFLeader0

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A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.

John C. Maxwell0

True leaders always practice the three R’s: Respect for self, Respect for others, Responsibility for all their actions.

Anonymous0

The truth of most truths is that they are perception and not, in fact, true.

Simon Sinek0

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

Gen James H. Doolittle0

It doesn't matter how much we know, what matters is how clearly others can understand what we know.

Simon Sinek0

The American Dream means giving it your all, trying your hardest, accomplishing something. And then I'd add to that, giving something back. No definition of a successful life can do anything but include serving other.

President George H.W. Bush0

If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.

Martin Luther King, Jr.0

How many hours you spend at work is less important than what you do with your time.

Anonymous1

Face tough challenges with a positive attitude. Emotions are contagious.

AFLeader1

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It takes a village to raise a [leader].

AFLeader0

Do not take time for granted. There is only now.

AFLeader0

Humor is the universal solvent against the abrasive elements of live; hatred corrodes the container it is carried in.

Senator Alan K. Simpson0

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.

Robert Townsend0

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says 'Go!' ... a leader says 'Let’s go!'

E.M. Kelly1

Light thinks it travels faster than anything, but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Terry Pratchett0