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Nuggets of Wisdom

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership.
-Dwight Eisenhower

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone. -Seneca

The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success. -John Maxwell

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.  -Helen Keller

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand. -Tribe Unknown

Good leaders abhor wrongdoing of all kinds;
sound leadership has a moral foundation. -Proverbs 16:12

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
-Zig Ziglar

I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.
-Lone Man (Isna-la-wica) Teton Sioux

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.
-Ken Blanchard

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”
-Billy Graham

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
-Zig Ziglar

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
-Dakota

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. -Zig Ziglar

Without consultation, plans are frustrated, but with many counselors they succeed.
-Proverbs 15:22

Where there is no vision, the people perish.
-Proverbs 29:18

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.
-Lewis Carroll

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
- C. S. Lewis

Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something.
-Maricopa

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
-Warren Bennis

When a leader listens to malicious gossip, all the workers get infected with evil
-Proverbs 29:12

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
-Sir Winston Churchill

Good leaders cultivate honest speech; they love advisors who tell them the truth
-Proverbs 16:13

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.
-Lakota

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
-Reverend Theodore Hesburgh

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-General George Patton

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
-Stephen Covey

Leaders who know their business and care keep a sharp eye out for the shoddy and the cheap.
-Proverbs 20:8

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.
-John J Pershing

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
-Cherokee

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
-John Maxwell

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
-Theodore Roosevelt

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
-Billy Graham

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
-Warren Bennis

Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.
-John Maxwell

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win which is one of the essentials to success.
-Napoleon Hill

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.
-Herbert B. Swope

My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change, whether they thanked me or cursed me.
-John Maxwell

A goal properly set is halfway reached.
-Zig Ziglar

The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
-Abraham Lincoln, Annual message to Congress, December 1, 1862

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to let them know that you trust them.
-Booker T. Washington

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
-Abraham Lincoln

Credibility is a leader’s currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.
-John Maxell

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.
-Russell H. Ewing

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
-Charles M. Schwab

If you are going to help people reach their potential, they need to be recognised and rewarded. Everyone needs that.
-Jacqueline Norcel

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune.
-Sam Walton

People change when they hurt enough that they have to, learn enough that they want to, or receive enough that they are able to.
-John Maxwell

The people who are lifting the world onward and upward are those who encourage more than they criticize.
-Elizabeth Harrison

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
-Navajo

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
-Samuel Johnson

The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
-Charles Schwab

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
-Babe Ruth

Nobody rises to low expectations.
-Calvin Lloyd

We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. The days are always dark enough. There is no need for us to emphasize the fact by spreading further gloom.
-George M. Adams

Wisdom comes only when you stop looking for it and start living the life the Creator intended for you.
-Hopi

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