“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” — Publilius Syrus
“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Confront issues and challenges – not each Other.” — Suzanne Mayo Frindt
“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.” — Winston Churchill
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity.” — Warren Bennis
“Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.” – Horace
“One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” — Arnold H. Glasgow
“People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don’t act on life, they only react to it.” — Stedman Graham
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which have been overcome while trying to succeed.” — Booker T. Washington
“The hallmark of a well-managed organization is not the absence of problems, but whether or not problems are effectively resolved.” — Steve Ventura
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
Character
“Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.” — John Maxwell
“Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.” — John Maxwell
“I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a “transformer” in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.” — Stephen R. Covey
“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
“If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“It’s true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.” — John Maxwell
“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
“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.” — Norman Schwarzkopf
“Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.” — John Maxwell
“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 humor, but without folly.” — Jim Rohn
“The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.” — Publius Syrus
“The real leader has no need to lead — he is content to point the way.” — Henry Miller
“The three C’s of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone.” — Brian Tracy
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Resource: Leadership Quotes