Quotes by Famous Leaders
Quotes by General Bill Creech
"Pride is the fuel of human accomplishment."
-- Gen. Bill Creech
"Any organization will be only as successful as
those at the bottom are willing to make it."
-- Gen. Bill Creech
"Think big about what you can achieve; think
small about how to achieve it. That's because you get things done
through individuals and small groups of individuals."
-- Gen. Bill Creech
"Wars are won, in the final analysis, by what
goes on at the front."
-- Gen. Bill Creech
"Many people believe that decentralization means loss of control. That's
simply not true. You can improve control if you look at control as the
control of events and not people. Then, the more people you have controlling
events -- the more people you have that care about controlling the events,
the more people you have proactively working to create favorable events --
the more control you have within the organization, by definition."
-- Gen. Bill Creech
Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
"It is far more important to be able to hit a target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want
done because he wants to do it."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
"Those who are fear'd, are hated."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"An honest man will receive neither money nor praise that is not his due.
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Learn of the skilful; he that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"How few there are who have the courage to own their own faults, or resolution enough to mend them!"
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Glass, china, and reputation, are easily crack'd, and never well mended."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Do not do that which you would not have known."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Gandhi Quotes
"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves
the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for the confession."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"It is unwise to be too sure one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded
that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"We must be the change we wish to see."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the
straight path."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare
of his fellow men."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their
mission can alter the course of history."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"The probability that we may fail in the
struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be
just."
-- Abraham Lincoln
Nelson Mandela Quotes
“One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.”
-- Nelson Mandela
“We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”
-- Nelson Mandela
“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”
-- Nelson Mandela
“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.”
-- Nelson Mandela
George C. Marshall Quotes
"It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the
fight that decides the issue. It's morale that wins the victory."
-- George C. Marshall
"Don't fight the problem, decide it."
-- George C. Marshall
"I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do."
-- George C. Marshall
Colin Powell Quotes
"Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It
is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about
people--motivating people to get the job done. You have to be
people-centered."
-- Colin Powell
"Trust is the essence of leadership."
-- Colin Powell
"Optimism is a force multiplier."
--Colin Powell
Quotes by Admiral Hyman Rickover
"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into
practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily
overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous
effort is required."
-- Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
"To complaints of a job poorly done, one often hears the excuse, 'I am not responsible.' I believe that is literally correct. The man who takes such a stand in fact is not responsible; he is irresponsible. "
-- Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to
do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them
while they do it."
-- Theodore Roosevelt