"Leadership contains certain elements of good management, but it requires that you inspire, that you build durable trust. For an organization to be not just good but to win, leadership means evoking participation larger than the job description, commitment deeper than any job contract's wording. " Stanley A. McChrystal
"Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have."
John C. Maxwell
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse."
Adlai E. Stevenson II
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. Paul Hawken
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
William Arthur Ward
"Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men--the other 999 follow women."
Groucho Marx
"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things."
Ronald Reagan
"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."
George Patton
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
Peter F. Drucker
"The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones."
Brandon Sanderson
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."
Lao Tzu
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."
Albert Schweitzer
"Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. John F. Kennedy
"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them."
John C. Maxwell
"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
"Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another."
John C. Maxwell
"Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off."
Colin Powell
"A leader is a dealer in hope."
Napoleon
"You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out."
Steve Jobs
"Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?"
Margaret Thatcher
"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."
Robert E. Lee
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
Theodore Roosevelt
"I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers."
Tupac Shakur
"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see."
Henry David Thoreau