Monday, February 22, 2010

Leadership in You, Introduction


Take the Lead...

We are all leaders in some way, whether we consider ourselves to be or not. Parents and teachers are leaders of children, athletes are mentors to those coming up in the ranks and writers are leaders of all the hearts and minds they touch. Perhaps most important, we are leaders of the self.

Use the quotes below as leadership tools to inspire your child. Pick inspirational leadership quotes that motivate your child to become a leader in your family and community, through integrity and generosity of spirit and vision.

Quotation 1:
"The task of leadership is not to put greatness in humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there." ~John Buchan~

Quotation 2:
"You know what makes leadership? It is the ability to get men to do what they don't want to do and like it." ~Harry S. Truman~

Quotation 3:
"First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, then organize others." ~Zhuge Liang~

Quotation 4:
"You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide." ~Antony Jay~

Quotation 5:
"Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow." ~Chinese Saying~

Quotation 6:
"A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason." ~Harold Geneen~

Quotation 7:
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus." ~Martin Luther King~

Quotation 8:
"Leadership, I think you must have that, particularly when a team's on the field, they look to you. In critical situations, they look into your eyes to see if you're there. If you're not there, they start quitting." ~Dan Marino, Sr.~

Quotation 9:
"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." ~Ralph Nader~

Quotation 10:
"Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint." ~Lewis H. Lapham~

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