Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. — Theodore Roosevelt
Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration. — Jeffrey R. Immelt
Be a leader by example. Be confident and humble. Love the unloved.
A great team relies on its leaders and they have to make a difference at key moments. — Kylian Mbappe
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. — Brian Tracy
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success — Stephen Covey
The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders. — Vince Lombardi
A leader must inspire or his team will expire. — Orrin Woodward
Real teams are much more likely to flourish if leaders aim their sights on performance results that balance the needs of customers, employees, and shareholders. — Jon Katzenbach
Inspiring Leadership Quotes
Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could. — Steve Jobs
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life gives them vodka, and have a party. — Ron White
Leaders don't force people to follow. They invite others on a journey.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. — Ronald Reagan
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James A. Baldwin
Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front. — Nelson Mandela
Truly remarkable leadership is not just about motivating others to follow, it's about inspiring them to become leaders themselves and setting the stage for even greater opportunities for future generations. — Condoleezza Rice
Inspiring Management Quotes
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one. — Mark Twain
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back. — Harvey Mackay
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. — Mark Twain
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
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. That’s what this storm’s all about. — Haruki Murakami
Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet — Henry Mintzberg
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. — Stephen Covey
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. — Solomon
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. — Hans Selye
The degree of your anger over correction equals the measure of your pride. — John Paul Jackson
Inspirational Coaching Quotes
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm
Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We. — Phil Jackson
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
Successful leaders understand that true power comes not from exercising control, but from empowering others.
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise. — Lou Holtz
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today. — Mikhail Gorbachev
A leader is someone who demonstrates what's possible.
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. — Pat Riley
If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. — Chuck Noll
Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport. — James Naismith
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi
I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. — Marilyn Monroe
Leaders aren't born. They are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants. — Gichin Funakoshi
The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become. — Heraclitus
My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. — Bernard Law Montgomery
Victims love entertainment. Leaders love education.
Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully. — John A. Lejeune
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. — C. S. Lewis
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. — James A. Garfield
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. — Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational Teacher Quotes
Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever. — Walt Disney
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant? — Ibn Taymiyyah
Victims love entertainment, leaders love education.
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. — Frank Zappa
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. — William Arthur Ward
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. — Carl Rogers
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker. — Zig Ziglar
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having. — Frank Lloyd Wright
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. — Will Smith
Criticism is something we can avoid easily
by saying nothing, doing nothing,
and being nothing. — Aristotle
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel. — Johnny Depp
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. — Lao Tzu
Don't pursue a heart that you're not ready to be loyal to. — Trent Shelton
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain. — Charlie Chaplin
Every woman deserves a man to ruin her lipstick, not her mascara — Charlotte Tilbury
Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone — Margaret J. Wheatley
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. — Soren Kierkegaard
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. — Dalai Lama
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live. — Dalai Lama
Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself. — Unknown Author
If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours. — Ray Comfort
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage. — Francis of Assisi
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. — Banana Yoshimoto
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational History Quotes
you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. — Rosa Parks
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. — Marie Curie
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. — Mae Jemison
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. — Voltaire
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. — Thurgood Marshall
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. — Harriet Tubman
The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down. — Thurgood Marshall
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. — Mae Jemison
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. — Carter G. Woodson
Inspirational Education Quotes
The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way. — Howard Gardner
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel. — John Glenn
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. — John Dewey
Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile. — Mark Twain
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference. — Jane Goodall
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things. — Lev S. Vygotsky
God created war so that Americans would learn geography. — Mark Twain
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. — Leonardo da Vinci
Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. — George Carlin
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed. — Michelle Obama
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. — Nelson Mandela
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. — Rosalynn Carter
A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young. — John Dewey
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. — Sam Walton
There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution. — John Adams
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. — Joseph Stalin
He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others; and he who walks far ahead of his contemporaries is a leader, even though centuries pass before he is recognized as such. — Ibn Khaldun
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other. — Bertrand Russell
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. — Harry S Truman
The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow. — Colin Powell
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. — Hermann Goring
And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so. — Julius Caesar
The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture. If you do not manage culture, it manages you, and you may not even be aware of the extent to which this is happening. — Edgar Schein
We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women can save civilization. Women are persons. — Emily Murphy
Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended. — Saddam Hussein
I am the leader of one country which has two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, six republics, surrounded by seven neighbours, a country in which live eight ethnic minorities. — Josip Broz Tito
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. — John J. Pershing
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. — Vince Lombardi
A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before. — Nelson Mandela
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience. — Colin Powell
Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America. — Bernie Sanders
If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing yourself. It is painful, but necessary. To be a leader you have got to lead human beings with affection. — J. R. D. Tata
A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders. — Pele
The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness. — Omar N. Bradley
Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to the point–and couch your desires in such natural logic that no one can raise objections. Then move on. — Cyrus the Great
The servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first. — Robert K. Greenleaf
...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women. — Kofi Annan
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. — Harry S. Truman
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