Good morning, Team! It’s Friday!

We all love a good quote but who can ever remember the right one at the right time?

I enjoy being reminded of a salient point packaged up in a repeatable format with confident delivery.  Sometimes that means you have to have it repeated several times. Here is my latest contribution by way of repetition of well articulated ideas by some of my favorite leadership figures.

 

•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

 

•A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
Douglas MacArthur

 

•No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie

 

•All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith

 

•If you’re going through hell, keep going.

Sir Winston Churchill

 

•Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

General Colin Powell

 

•If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams

 

•Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy

 

•What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

Stephen Covey

 

•Whatever you are, be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

 

•You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

•A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

George Patton

 

•The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

Dwight Eisenhower

 

•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

 

•Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren Bennis

 

•Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Jack Welch

 

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

Theodore Roosevelt

 

•The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Kenneth Blanchard

 

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

John Maxwell

 

•Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Peter Drucker

 

42 Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. 43 Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, 44 and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.
45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Mark 10 42-45 NIV

 

Hopefully you resonate with some, if not all, of these quotes and they inspire you to do something leader-like today.

Have a blessed weekend!