Quotes About Action

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.

The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.

If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice.

Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank.

Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.

Leadership is Idealism in Action.

... three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required and a fervent belief in its correctness.

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

Leadership is not a title. It's a behavior. LIVE it

Leadership is character in action.

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

Leadership is all about getting results.

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

Under my leadership the Liberal Democrats would not be making polite interjections from the sidelines, we would be hammering on the doors of power.

It isn't personal per se to document what the Republican Party leadership is doing and how they're abrogating actual leadership.

The best way to learn is by doing; never ask others to do what you're not willing to do yourself.

A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.

Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.