Quotes About Growth

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

It was in the mid-70's, '74 or '75 I started doing leadership conferences for pastors and in '79 I wrote my first book "Think On These Things".

Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.

Fortunately poorer countries, such as China, are showing leadership and beginning to demonstrate to the world how to invest in low-carbon growth.

The ultimate leaders develop followers who will surpass them.

I didn't have to step up into a leadership role, ... I just had to be there and help out where I could. But this year I had to be more of the man.

My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.

With leadership the question at the beginning of the day is, 'how far can we take this...how big can we grow it...and how fast can we get there?'

Leadership is like exercise. Do it everyday, the results take time but you will see them. It's the little things.

Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.

In leadership we teach we teach;Don't send your ducks to eagle school because it wont help.Ducks finishes eagle school,sees his first rabbit, makes him a friend.

Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.

I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.

Walking makes us take problems in our stride.

Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.

Leadership deals with people and their dynamics, which are continually changing. The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.

Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.

I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

Some say you forgive and forget. Not true. You can't forget but you walk forward in forgiveness.

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.

Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.