INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : LEADERSHIP

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : LEADERSHIP
"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?" Benjamin Disraeli

"He that cannot obey, cannot command." Benjamin Franklin

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight Eisenhower

• The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. Kenneth Blanchard
• There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. Peter F. Drucker
• A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. Arnold H. Glasgow
• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter F. Drucker
• "It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself." Eleanor Roosevelt
• Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders. Tom Peters
• "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own." Benjamin Disraeli
• "You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership." Dwight Eisenhower
• "A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better." Jim Rohn
• "Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish." Sam Walton
• "Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep." Kenneth Blanchard
• "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." William Arthur Ward
• "The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I". And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I". They don't think "I". They think "we"; they think "team". They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done." Peter F. Drucker
• "In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power." Kenneth Blanchard
• "I always remember the axiom: a leader...is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind." Nelson Mandela

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : INTEGRITY

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : INTEGRITY

• One does evil enough when one does nothing good. German Proverb
• To have integrity is also to have character which is also the easiest way to run into conflict with those without either. Byron Pulsifer
• Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. Mark Twain
• Integrity can be difficult to maintain in a world that demands you change with the wind. Byron Pulsifer
• Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. Don Galer
• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. William Shakespeare
• To have integrity means that you don't agree with everyone you meet, nor do you succumb to pressure to be something that is in direct conflict with your core ethics. Byron Pulsifer
• Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. Buddha
• Character is higher than intellect. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. Indira Gandhi
• But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Albert Camus
• There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley
• We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. Bishop Desmond Tutu
• I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream - a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson
• We need to stress that personal integrity is as important as executive skill in businers dealings.. Russell E. Palmer
• No matter the time of day, no matter who is watching and no matter the situation, personal integrity doesn't take a holiday. Byron Pulsifer
• Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. David Star Jordan
• Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. J.C. Watts
• You cannot always do the right thing but you can always do whatever you do with integrity. Byron Pulsifer
• Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right. Isaac Asimov
• Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations. Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Oprah Winfrey

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