… ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
– William E. Gladstone
Tag Archives: Courage
Leadership is…
… the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.
-James L. Fisher
High sentiments….
… always win in the end, The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
– George Orwell
Take time…
…. to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
– Andrew Jackson
Every change…
…. looks like a failure in the middle
– Rosabeth M. Kanter
In the…
… simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes
– John Erskine
The main characteristics…
…. of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence
– James Fisher
Try not…
…to become a man of success but a man of value
– Albert Einstein
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
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
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