Quotes About Perspective

Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

Attitude creates your world and designs your destiny.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.

Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.

You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

There is nothing more powerful as attitude.

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.

And the most successful leader of all is one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which belong in his present picture but which are not yet there.

When your vision is a biblical vision, the people arguing with it are not arguing with you. They are arguing with God.

Don't even trust that you are able to unify what everyone is thinking; it is impossible

The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

It's not about you. It's about them.

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)

For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.

There's a lot of us who do not accept the culture of the bubbles.

We are far more effective on the inside looking out than the outside looking in.