Developing The Leader Within You Quotes
"Leadership is influence. That’s it—nothing more, nothing less."
"Everything rises and falls on leadership. The world becomes a better place when people become better leaders."
"Leaders are not born. Well, okay, they’re born. I’ve never met an unborn leader."
"When opportunity comes, it’s too late to prepare."
"The best investment in tomorrow is to develop your influence today."
"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook."
"Leaders become great not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others."
"If you don’t believe in the messenger, you won’t believe the message."
"A life in which anything goes will ultimately be a life in which nothing goes well."
"Activity is not accomplishment, productivity is."
"The reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first."
"There are two things that are most difficult to get people to do: to think and to do things in order of importance."
"You can choose or you can lose. Proactive means choosing. Reactive means losing."
"Margin is the space that exists between our load and our limits."
"I am a great sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance."
"The reality is that leading ourselves is often the most difficult task we face every day."
"Though you cannot go back and make a brand-new start, my friend, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new end."
"Trust is a risk game. Leaders must be the first ones to ante-up."
"In leadership a pint of example equals a gallon of advice."
"God would rather us walk with an occasional limp than a continual strut."
"We set young leaders up for a fall if we encourage them to envision what they can do before they consider the kind of person they should be."
"The greatest enemy of tomorrow’s success is yesterday’s success."
"There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths."
"Problems introduce us to ourselves; problems introduce us to others; and problems introduce us to opportunities."
"Bury a person in the snows of Valley Forge, and you have a George Washington."
"What’s life’s heaviest burden? Having nothing to carry."
"You can learn a lot about yourself by the way you deal with problems."
"All people in an organization carry with them two 'buckets.'"
"The first law of holes says, 'When you are in one, stop digging.'"
"There’s always a way to solve a problem if you don’t give up."
"They didn’t see their problems as stumbling blocks. They were spurred on by problems."
"The best leaders are the best problem solvers."
"Downsides rarely have an upside unless you are ready for them on the front end."
"If you had to give yourself a report card on how you’re serving your people, how would you score yourself?"
"We all have blind spots, things we don’t see about ourselves."
"I ask this question, 'What is it like to be on the other side of the table from me?'"
"If I maintain a good attitude, they can help me to be self-correcting."
"If my own personal gain continually outweighs serving others, there is a problem with my leadership."
"There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being, to help someone else succeed."
"Servant leadership develops from the inside out."
"Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion."
"Every level of growth calls for a new level of change." - Gerald Brooks
"Growth stops when you lose the tension between where you are and where you should be."
"In times of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future."
"If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we are not really living."
"The illiterate of the future are not those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
"The Law of Diminishing Intent says that the longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never do it."
"Growth’s highest reward is not what we get from it, but what we become because of it."
"The secret of a person’s success is determined by what he or she does daily."
"Being 'average' is the lazy person’s cop-out; it’s lacking guts to take a stand in life."