#leaders

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#spiritual-maturity #leadership

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#challenging #challenging-authority #comedian #comedic #comedy

If people are not making mistakes, they are not trying new things. If they are making the same mistake twice, they are not learning new things! ↗

— Walter C. Wright Jr.

#learning #mistakes #teamwork #leadership

If you're going through hell, keep going ↗

— Winston Churchill

#leadership

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#leadership #politics #leadership

Stop counting your "years" and start enjoying your "seasons". ↗

— John Paul Warren

#john-paul #johnpaulwarren #leadership #pastor #pastor-john-paul-warren

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated. ↗

— Bob Riley

#away #budding #democracies #due #half

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#atmosphere #competing #competitive #day #each

And I extend this to so many of our corporate leaders. I ask you to draw your eye down to our glorious professional leaders in the commercial arena, in this most material of ages. How many of them should be in charge of anything, let alone other people? ↗

— Adam Nevill

#age

The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. ↗

— Jack Weatherford

#control #ghengis-khan #historical-person #leadership #mongols