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The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change.
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort.
Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.
If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.
We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
The only real training for leadership is leadership.
While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.
The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.
Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.
Be the compromise you want to see in the world.
leaders seem to have a high tolerance for ambiguity. Recognizing that the brain does not work in a completely linear fashion, leaders demonstrate a comfort with the chaos of exploding ideas, many of them seemingly unrelated to the stimulus that caused them.
typically, our love for our leaders is one-sided: their successes become our own, while their failures are theirs alone.
Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.
Leadership both projects to the future and reflects upon the past. It bursts with possibilities, flaunts peculiarities, and occasionally defies probabilities.
The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.
America's cultural table is set by the people living in the three bubbles - New York Washington D.C. and Hollywood.
I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?
We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
The ultimate leaders develop followers who will surpass them.
I think there is a big and significant difference between being a leader and being a manager-leaders lead from the heart. You have to be analytical and flexible. Flexibility is one of the key ingredients to being successful. If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.
Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.
Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.
Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.
We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.
It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.
On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.
Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.
Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.
A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.
On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.
Professional trust is a process, not a state.
Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.
Only do what only you can do.
Charisma on stage is not necessarily evidence of the Holy Spirit.
We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.
Who are you and what breaks your heart?
People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.
All you can do is all you can do, but all you can do is enough.
One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.
For the first time in our history, the winners of the White House Turkey Pardon were chosen through a highly competitive online vote. And once again, Nate Silver completely nailed it. The guy is amazing.
In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.
Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it's been protected by our men and women in uniform - people who believed so deeply in America, they were willing to give their lives for it.
I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.
We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.
The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.
To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.
How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist.
Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end.
I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large.
People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.
Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.
I think you can measure how pathetic your life is by how much joy you get from learning about other people's faults and troubles.
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
The Republicans tend to choose the candidate who came in second place in the last election, and Democrats tend to move on. Ask President Ed Muskie how it worked out to be the front-runner. Ask President Howard Dean how it worked out.
An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.
I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.
Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing
The most inspiring leaders are those who... inspire the rest of us to be our best selves and to match our skills with our passions. They give us confidence to pursue our dreams.
I want to be a positive role model, especially for kids and Aboriginal people... When people see me, often all they see is another Australian athlete having a go. It isn't until they see the full Cathy Freeman picture that they realise how proud I am of my ancestry and heritage. I'd like a little more tolerance and acceptance of my culture and all the differing cultures that make up Australia.
Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.
We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.
If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.
Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.
Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we thought would dis-intermediate traditional sellers gave more people the tools to be sellers. It also changed the balance of power between sellers and buyers.
I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.
A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.
He looks like he needs worming.
Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.
When you accepted your job, you were not chosen solely to fill a position on the organization chart; you were chosen to fill a responsibility.
There is a direct correlation between the books you read and the success you achieve.
There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things.
People quit people before they quit companies.
When it comes to leading people, there is no problem that is unique to you.
You are the chief bucket filler, and the best way to fill buckets is with excellent communication.
I have always supported measures and principles and not men.
The five most important words a leader can speak are - 'I am proud of you' The four most important are - 'What is your opinion?' The three most important are - 'If you please' The two most important are - 'Thank You' And the most important single word of all is - 'You'
President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.
It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus.
1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.
