Tag Archives: Attitude

I am a man…

… of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times

– Everett Dirksen

The manager…

… asks how and when; the leader asks what and why

– Warren Bennis

To get others…

…. to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead

– William Hazlitt

Cautious…

…careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences

– Susan Anthony

Everything…

…. that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves

– Carl Jung

Leadership consists…

… not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint

– Lewis H. Lapham

In 1893….

…. a young man was re-sitting the entrance examination to become an officer in the British Army for the third time. His name was Winston Churchill….

If you…

… believe lack of authority prevents you from leading effectively, it is time to rethink your understanding of leadership

– Mike Bonem and Roger Patterson

Courage is…

…. the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others

– Winston Churchill

It always….

…seems impossible until it is done

– Nelson Mandela