Leadership Shorts

• It’s OK to lend a helping hand – the challenge is getting people to let go of it. Anonymous


• Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers not their minds. Anonymous


• It’s right to be content with what you have but not with what you are. Author Unknown


• Leading is about the relationship between the leader and the lead and trust is at its core. John Maxwell


• To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. George MacDonald


• Everyone needs someone who feels really listens to him. C. Neil Strait


• To believe is to eliminate the fear of missed expectations. Jeremie Kubicek


• We are all faced with a series of great opportunities—brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.-John William Gardner


• Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. Chinese Proverb


• If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much.—Charles Lutwidge Dodgson


• Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are. George Elliot


• Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. Vincent van Gogh


• To the man who only has a hammer in the tool kit, every problem looks like a nail. Abraham Maslow

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