Quotes About Growth

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.

the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.

How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.

The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership - it is practicing their understanding of leadership.

Leaders grow; they are not made.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

It is the responsibility of leadership and management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in their work environment.

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

After you plant a seed in the ground, you don't dig it up every week to see how it is doing

Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity

Whether you have a leadership title or not, you have the potential to either lead your organization beyond all expectations or inhibit its growth through entropy.

A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is.

What helps people, helps business.

Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.