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I hope you find these W. A. Nance Quotes inspiring and motivational.
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus
but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
The glue that holds all relationships together -
including the relationship between; the leader and the led
is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
- Brian Tracy
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust.
Service brings satisfaction.
Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- James Cash Penney
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Never hold discussions with the monkey
when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Leaders are those who empower others.
- Bill Gates
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
leading by example creates a degree of
loyalty and overall success
that cannot be achieved through
issuing orders from a lofty office.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -
that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
This myth asserts that people simply either
have certain charismatic qualities or not.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Leaders are made rather than born.
- Warren G. Bennis
While most managers spend their time attempting
to predict the future accurately -
and while that's valuable -
the best managers are able to generate a future
which was not going to happen otherwise -
that is, a future which was not predictable.
- Werner Erhard
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
The signs of outstanding leadership
appear primarily among the followers.
Are the followers reaching their potential?
Are they learning? Serving?
Do they achieve the required results?
Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
- Max De Pree
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some single mind must be master,
else there will be no agreement in anything.
- Abraham Lincoln
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver.
The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver,
the less he demands in slaughter.
- Winston Churchill
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu
I must follow the people.
Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli
Leadership is the art of getting someone else
to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked
than it is loved by the good.
- The Buddha
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears,
when benevolence is lost right conduct appears,
when right conduct is lost, expedience appears.
Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth;
it is the beginning of disorder.
- Lao Tzu
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
There is a natural aristocracy among men.
The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
- Thomas Jefferson
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer
silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
- Albert Einstein
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington
It is only the poor who pay cash,
and that not from virtue,
but because they are refused credit.
- Anatole France
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