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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.
Those who are skilled in combat do notbecome angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Big thinking precedes great achievement.
Pride is the fuel of human accomplishment.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
We only learn our limits by going beyond them. I propose that we all commit ourselves to the process of Constant and Never ending Improvement.
If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.
I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
In fair weather prepare for foul.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the world stage.
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
