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Leadership Quotes - G'sLeadership quotes from: Indira and The Mahatma Gandhi, Ulysses S. Grant, Goethe, General Charles de Gaulle, David Lloyd George, John William Gardner and many others: "All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."— John Kenneth Galbraith "Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned."— Harold Geneen "Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following you."— Henry Gilmer "Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps" - David Lloyd George "I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example. I want to make sure there is no discrepancy between what we say and what we do. If you preach accountability and then promote somebody with bad results, it doesn't work. I personally believe the best training is management by example. Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do."— Carlos Ghosn "It doesn't take great men to do things, but it is doing things that makes men great" - Arnold Glasgow "The true measure of a man is not the number of servants that he has, but the number of people he serves" - Arnold Glasgow "Not a shred of evidence exists in favour of the idea that life is serious" - Brendan Gill "To govern is always to choose among disadvantages" - Charles de Gaulle "You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless" - Charles De Gaulle "The people we get along with, trust, feel simpatico with, are the strongest links in our networks" - Daniel Goleman "Be yourself, who else is better qualified" - Frank J Giblin II "I will listen to anyone's convictions, but please keep your doubts to yourself" - Goethe "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being" - Goethe "Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." - Goethe "You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself" - Galileo "Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitudes and in actions." - Harold Geneen "I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people." - Indira Gandhi "Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well" - John W Gardner "History never looks like history when you are living through it" - John W Gardner "If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are" - John W Gardner "If you really want something, work hard, take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way" - Jane Goodall "Josh Billings said, "It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too." Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems. " - John W Gardner "Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage" - John W Gardner "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. " - John W Gardner "Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor" - John W Gardner "One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure" - John W Gardner "Seven days without laughter makes one weak" - Joel Goodman "Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them" - John W Gardner "Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are" - John W Gardner "Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents. " - John W Gardner "The best of all governments is that which teaches us to govern ourselves" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught" - John W Gardner "The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything." " - John W Gardner "The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. " - John W Gardner "The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. " - John W Gardner "The prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive" - John W Gardner "The right man is the one who seizes the moment" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy" - John W Gardner "True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents" - John W Gardner "We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems" - John W Gardner "Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach" - John W Gardner "The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none" - Kahlil Gibran "Be the change you want to see in the world" - Mahatma Gandhi "The future depends on what we do in the present" - Mahatma Gandhi "The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within" - Mahatma Gandhi "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong" - Mahatma Gandhi "You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind" - Mahatma Gandhi "You must be the change you wish to see in the world" - Mahatma Gandhi "All changes are created in a moment - with a simple choice" - R T Gorham "We became uncompetitive by not being tolerant of mistakes" - Roberto Goizueta "Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn't drive them. Ambition and values drive them" - Sumantra Ghoshal "Competent people are the most resistant to change" - Seth Godin "You have to create tension between reality and aspiration" - Sumantra Ghoshal "You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist" - Seth Godin "I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution" - Ulysses S. Grant "The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving" - Ulysses S. Grant "I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate" - Vincent van Gogh "If you hear a voice within you saying, "You are not a painter," then by all means paint...and that voice will be silenced" - Vincent Van Gogh "Love is something eternal--the aspect may change but not essence" - Vincent Van Gogh "Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity" - Vincent van Gogh "I skate where the puck is going to be, not where it has been" - Wayne Gretzky To return to the Leadership Quote Page To return to the Winston Churchill Leadership Home Page
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