Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things – of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.
– Sheri Dew
Tag Archives: conviction
Conviction….
Conviction, commitment, credibility: the three pillars of morally courageous leadership.
– General John Michel
Self-security will be….
Self-security will be a hallmark of the leaders and exceptional organisations of the future. Self-security in an individual or a system brings a high ratio of coherence. Leaders or organisations with self-security can push power and authority downstream and develop centers of innovation and excellence at all levels of the organization
– Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer
One person….
One person with commitment accomplishes more than
a thousand with an opinion.
– Orrin Woodward
You have…
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
Leave…
Leave your mark where others can only dream of going
– Anon
Consensus…
Consensus: The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?’
– Margaret Thatcher
Difficulties….
Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.
– Nelson Mandela
Leaders….
Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they’ve never seen before, something that does not yet exist.
– Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Any intelligent man…
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
– E.F. Schumacher
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