posted by admin on Jun 6
running for ASB secretary, and want to use a good leadership qoute in my speech. Got any good ones. Please say who said them.
Thanks
What, then, defines leadership?
It is the activity of mobilizing people to tackle the toughest problems and do the work necessary to solve them.
source: me
Democracy is not average people selecting average leaders. It is average people with the wisdom to select the best prepared. David Brooks
"If you don't have the time to do it right, where do you think you're going to find the time to do it over?"
The true nature of a person is seen not in momentary heroics, but in the ..humdrum of day to day living."–Max Lucado, On the Anvil
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Winston Churchill
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. — Will Rogers
The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of man. Henry David Thoreau.
I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." - Antoine de Saint Exupery
A prime function of the leader is to keep hope alive. –John Gardner
Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Robert K. Greenleaf, founder of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership in Indianapolis, said, "The great leader is seen as a servant first, and that simple fact is the key to his greatness."
Leadership is both something you are and something you do. A mentor is not a person who can do the work better than his followers; he is a person who can get his followers to do the work better than he can. — Fred Smith
A leader is a person with a magnet in his heart and a compass in his head. — Vance Havner
The supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Advice from Ross Perot about how to treat your people:
“Never ask anyone to do what you haven’t done before and wouldn’t do again. That’s a pretty fundamental rule in leadership…treat them like you treat yourself. Things you don’t like, they don’t like. You don’t like to be jerked around, they don’t either. You don’t like to be talked down to, and they don’t either. You would rather work with somebody than for somebody. So would they. You hate people who pound on your head after you gave everything you had and failed… It’s that simple.”
“It is the job of a leader to make it easy for people to do the right thing, difficult to do the wrong thing.”
He that would be a leader must be a bridge. — Welsh Proverb
You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process. Barbara Colorose
Know yourself.
Don't accept your dog's
admiration as evidence
that you are wonderful.