“I cannot give you……

……. a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure- which is: try to please everybody.”

– Herbert Bayard Swope

“Leadership is …..

…. an action, not a position.”

– Donald McGannon

 

“The challenge of leadership…..

…… is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humour, but without folly.”

– Jim Rohn

Rely on your own strength……

……. of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don’t take too much advice — keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

– Noah Porter

“I have three precious things…..

…. which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”

– Lao Tzu

“You did what…..

……..your heart told you to do. It is what leaders, not followers, do.”

– Tonya Hurley

“Anybody will do for you……

 

………but not for me. I must have somebody.”

– Abraham Lincoln

“The world is full…..

……of men who want to be right, when actually the secret of a man’s strength and his pathway to true honour is his ability to admit fault when he has failed. God wants to fill the church with men who can say they are wrong when THEY ARE WRONG. A man who is willing to humble himself before God and his family and say:”I was wrong.” will find that his family has all the confidence in the world in him and will much more readily follow him. If he stubbornly refuses to repent or admit he was wrong, their confidence in him and in his leadership erodes.”

– Jim Anderson

“True leaders understand…..

… that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.”

– Sheri L Dew

“People in any organisation….

…… are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.”

– Peter F Drucker