Top 1200 Greatness And Leadership Quotes & Sayings

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

I decided to write Leadership BS because I was irritated by the hypocrisy in the leadership literature and the fact that many of the people writing leadership books exhibited behavior that was precisely the opposite of what they advocated and also what they claimed they did. Stories did not seem to be a good foundation on which to build a science of leadership.

Every team has leadership. The leadership is the best players. But there's positive leadership, and there's negative leadership.

Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.

There was this mischaracterization that I ran for leadership to be the guy to get conservatives to vote for leadership. I said I would be a conservative voice at the leadership table.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar, the maker of meanings ... he is the true artist, the true pathfinder.

Leadership can't be claimed like luggage at the airport. Leadership can't be inherited, even though you may inherit a leadership position. And leadership can't be given as a gift - even if you've been blessed with an abundance of leadership skills to share with someone else. Leadership must be earned by mastering a defined set of skills and by working with others to achieve common goals.

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

What is greatness? Greatness is when you have found out that you are not great, but everything else is.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.

The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness.

Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

America's greatness has always been demonstrated by our moral leadership.

Leadership and greatness comes to those who follow-through. Who stand for near-flawless execution.

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

When you practice leadership,The evidence of quality of your leadership, Is known from the type of leaders that emerge out of your leadership.

I'm convinced that the greatness that matters more is the greatness people achieve through helping each other, through collaborating, more than the greatness that's achieved by grabbing all you can or getting all you can or building all you can.

I believe in highlighting the 'greatness' that I see in every single woman that I come across. There is such beauty in variety. It may not always be evident, when you look at a woman, where her greatness lies. But the truth is that the greatness of women is reflected in the very essence of who we are.

I have found that leadership is leadership is leadership. It applies whether you are in government or in corporate life or in non-profit life.

Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time leading yourself-your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers. If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

Leadership can change its mind; leadership can open its eye. Leadership can even be replaced.

Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.

Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited!

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others.

The demands of leadership have changed. The highest levels if leadership require mastery of a new task: job creation. Traditional leadership through politics, military force, religion, or personal values won't work in the future like it has in the past.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

Greatness isn't something you should always be chasing. There's greatness within all of us, and I think that's what we forget.

We are distracted from our greatness because are greatness is what scares us. Right where you are…God is.

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs.

You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership

Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.

When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing--or maybe greatness is the thing we want to have so that other people will want to have us, or maybe greatness is merely the grail for our unhappy, striving selves, the thing we think we need but don't and can't get anyway.

The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.

The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.

Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

I think America is in trouble, but it's not beyond repair. But it's going to take leadership who sees the greatness of this country and who believes that, once again, we can be one nation under God.

The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.