… much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like many others in life has it exceptions.
– Winston Churchill
Tag Archives: conviction
The secret of…
… leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.
– Seth Godin
Contrary to…
… popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained or enthroned. Leadership is self-made, self-retained, self-inculcated and then exposed through a faithful, sincere and exemplary life.
– Israelmore Avivor
Leaders are not…
… as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. “Leadership qualities” are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders.
– John Holt
You…
Simplicity, patience, compassion…
Our chief want…
… is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
We will remember…
… not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
– Martin Luther King Jr
The final test…
… of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on
— Walter Lippmann
Of all sad…
… words of mouth or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been
– John Greenleaf Whittier
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