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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES 
"Setting People and Organizations Up for Success"™
In this section we thought
it would be important to share with you some quotes of Great men
and women who were/are leaders during their time. Some you may
know and many you might not have ever heard of.
As you continue in this process of developing your leadership
skills, some of these quotes may be just that little inspiration
that you need to keep going. So take an opportunity to read the
quotes and if you have a favorite one that is not listed send
it to us and we will make every effort to list it
in this QUOTES section.
“We
cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn
as much as we can to be the best that we can. The key word is
education-that’s knowledge-education with maximum effort.”
Bill Cosby
Leadership
At Its Best, enjoy the quotes. Read On . . .
- You can’t hold a man down without staying down with
him
Brooker T. Washington
- The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the
color line
W. E. B. Du Boss
- With out training, they lacked knowledge.
With out knowledge, they lacked confidence
With out confidence, they lacked victory.
Julius Caesar
- Getting good player is easy. Getting them to play together
is the hard part.
Casey Stengel
- Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about
what
you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash
Harriet Rubin
- Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without
strategy, is the noise before defeat.
Sun Tzu
- No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity
in
tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T Washington
- I for one believe that if you give people a thought understanding
of what confronts them and the basic cause that produce it,
they’ll create their own program,
and when the people create a program, you get action.
Malcolm X
- You’re either part of the solution or part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver
- The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make
a positive difference.
David Satcher
- It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and
put ourselves
at the top of our commitment list.
Marian Wright Edelman
- You give me the right people, and I don’t much care
what organization
you give me. Good thing will happen. Give the wrong people,
and it doesn’t
matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.
Colin Powell
- We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we
shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
- When it comes to the cause of justice, I take on prisoners
and I don’t
believe in compromising.
Mary Frances Berry
- Power never takes a back seat – only in the face of
more power
Malcolm X
- Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and
it never will.
Frederick Douglas
- Children have never been very good at listing to their elders,
but they
have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin
- Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F Kennedy
- I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow
a vacuum.
Bishop Desmond Tutu
- Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something
you
want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D Eisenhower
- Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest
is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure
thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie
- The final test of a leader is that they leave behind them
in other people
the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann
- To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our
American democracy.
Thurgood Marshall
- The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak
is to support
the rights of people you don’t agree with.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
- Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars on poverty
are
fought to map changes.
Muhammad Ali
- The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
W. E. B. DuBoss
- If a man hasn’t discovered something that he is will
die for, he isn’t fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver
more that they promise, not the ones who promise more than they
can deliver.
Mark A Clement
- A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their
own way.
Swahili proverb
- Exceptional leaders cultivate the Merlin-like habit of acting
in the present
moment as ambassadors of a radically different future, in order
to imbue their organizations with a breakthrough vision of what
it is possible to achieve.
Charles E Smith
- To lead the people, walk behind them.
Lao Tzu
- Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in
the eye without flinching, but also without attempting to play
God.
Henry Kissinger
- The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys
have gone to sleep.
Maynard Jackson
- If you’re going to play the game properly, you’d
better know every rule.
Barbara Jordan
- We must all learn to live together as Brothers. Or we will
all perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Either we must attain freedom for the whole world of there
will be no
world left for any of us.
Walter White
- If you’re afraid to die, you will not be able to live.
James Baldwin
- The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more
than a
thousand men with a mere wishbone
William J H Boetcker
- I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can
borrow.
Woodrow Wilson
- The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not
more followers.
Ralph Nader
- Leaders deal in hope.
Napoleon
- No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies
your right to grow.
Alice Walker
- If you don’t know where you come from, it’s difficult
to asses where you are. It’s even more difficult to plan
where you are going
Joseph Lowery
- We’ve got to have a legacy of leadership. We’ve
got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are
going to confront twenty-first-century realities.
Jewell Jackson McCabe
- A good leader is not the person who does things right, but
the person
who finds the right things to do.
Anthony S Dadovano
- We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging
principles.
Jimmy Carter
- 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
- Thoughts have power. Thoughts are energy. And you can make
your world
or break your world by your thinking.
Susan L. Taylor
"Setting
People and Organizations Up for Success"™
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