LEADERSHIP QUOTES

THE WISDOM THAT COMES WITH MOVING ON

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Anonymous

What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new.

Frederick Douglass

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Johnny Cash

Close the door on the past . . . . Don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. – Anonymous Share on X

WHAT EMOTIONALLY MATURE LEADERS ACCEPT

Dorothy Height

If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.

Virginia Satir

Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you deal with it is what makes the difference.

Hortense Cannady

If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respect for other people's talents.

If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done. – Dorothy Height Share on X

TRAITS OF EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

Teddy Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

Theodore Roosevelt

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

John F. Kennedy

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. – Theodore Roosevelt Share on X

THE ROAD THAT LEADS TO SELF AWARENESS

Mahatma Gandhi

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

Ralph Ellison

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.

Lao Tzu

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. – Mahatma Gandhi Share on X

THERE'S NO DEVELOPMENT LIKE SELF-DEVELOPMENT

Sam Levenson

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

Lucille Ball

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Golda Meir

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself. – Sam Levenson Share on X

WALKING THE NARROW PATH TO CHANGE

John Pierpont Morgan

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Michael Jordan

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

George Patton

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. – John Pierpont Morgan Share on X

SURVIVING SETBACKS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS

Haruki Murakami, novelist/wakarimasita of Flickr/Wikipedia

Harauki Murakami

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.

Helen Keller

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Tony Dungy

Things will go wrong at times. You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response. Your options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better.

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. – Haruki Murakami Share on X

TAPPING INTO YOUR CREATIVE POTENTIAL

Albert Szent-Györgyi

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

Carl Jung

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Émile Chartier

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one we have.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different. – Albert Szent-Györgyi Share on X