first.” Once the team believes that, they will put their leader, and the company, first as well.

If you want your ministry to have ‘it’, more important than anything else we’ve discussed, you must have ‘it’. When it has filtered through your heart – the rare combination of passion, integrity, focus, faith,...

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are

Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him...

Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.

You have many gifts; some will help you to connect the right people while others help you to get to the right places. But it takes your dominant gifts for you to be able to...

The reality is that the American people have no desire for an empire. This is not to say that they don’t want the benefits, both economic and strategic. It simply means that they don’t want...

Service introduces you to the leadership throne. Service to mankind is the vision on which leadership is mounted. You serve and in your service, you train more leaders by becoming an example!

Unfortunately, most followers do not know that they can also become leaders because to them, leadership is confined to an “assumed” category of people who have authority or social prestige as their background pillows.

Too many kings can ruin an army

We cannot prevail by our own might or strength, we need to plug on to the source of our strength so that we will remain resourceful always.

A leadership disposition guides you to take the path of most resistance and turn it into the path of least resistance.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to …

Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears.

Forgiveness means that you are willing to give someone else a second chance to breathe in new life in his body. That is one of the greatest attribution of a Leader.

Leadership is a word and a concept that has been more argued than almost any other I know. I am not one of the desk-pounding types that likes to stick out his jaw and look...

Success may be measured by things (prosperity, property, positions, possessions) but GREATNESS (Leadership) can only be measured by PEOPLE.

Come to the edge, He said.They said: We are afraid.Come to the edge, He said.They came. He pushed them,And they flew . . .”— Guillaume ApollinairetFrench poet

I define my life not by the things I have done, but by the people I have loved.

You reveal your character by what you do with what you have.

There are no self made heroes or leaders. No matter how rugged or self assured, everyone requires a cast of players – friends, mentors, lovers, critics, villains and supporters – who call, invite, seduce, goad...

He turned the presidency – and the President’s House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and inquiry, of vibrant institution that played informal but important roles in the broader...

The best leaders are humble enough to realise their victories depend upon their people.

Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether...

Willingness to learn is important, willingness to act on what you learn is critical.

If you don’t consume power, it consumes you.

Be true to your authenticity and innovate with brave ammunition.

(On being in a position of leadership) Even if it’s your dog, you’ve got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.

When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn’t a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people...

Make sure your priorities line up with your values.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way

Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.

Be determined to be determined.

Two thirds of leadership is encouragement.

It’s not what you eat that will kill you as much as what is eating you.

Whoever convinces himself that he is not worthy of first position has doomed himself to failure from the very beginning.

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

As the demands of the positions differed, and as I grew in age and experience, I found that I had changed as a leader. I learned to ask myself two questions: First, what must the...

Procrastination and fear are the enemies of success; the war is lifelong, but the battles are daily.

If leadership is the spinal cord of success then discipline is its lumbar vertebrae.

A man who tells you to follow him, will turn his followers into his company. While a true leader, who does not tell you to follow him, will sit in the company of his followers.

The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care....

Through action anti-advocates are made believers, even though that isn’t a goal, Right! Your goal is and should always be to fulfill your own expectations and exceed them.

If you treat people to a vision of themselves, if you apparently overrate them, you make them become what they are capable of becoming.

The individual and small-unit initiative carried the day. Very little, if any, credit can be accorded company, battalion, or regimental commanders for their tactical prowess and/or their coordination of the action.

Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion.

Intelligence analysts should be self-conscious about their reasoning processes. They should think about how they make judgments and reach conclusions, not just about the judgments and conclusions themselves.

Leaders need to sacrifice “power-over” to get “power-to”.