Tag Archives: Strengths

If you want….

….to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Leaders must be….

… tough enough to fight,

tender enough to cry,

human enough to make mistakes,

humble enough to admit them,

strong enough to absorb the pain,

and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.

– Jesse Jackson

Visionary people…

… face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution

– Bill Hybels

Courage is…

… what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen

– Winston Churchill

If you would….

… not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

– Benjamin Franklin

Whether our task…

…. is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed without the leadership of the strong and the engagement of all

– Kofi Annan

It is not…

… the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change

– Charles Darwin

My grandfather once….

… told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group. There is much less competition

– Indira Gandhi

I don’t think….

… that you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think that you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

– Patricia Ireland

The role of leaders….

….is to awaken the curiosity and creativity in others and have the strength to let go and allow the vision of others to exceed their own

– Nick Jessett