G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.”
“Great leaders think beyond yesterday, deal with the issues of today and focus on addressing the problems of tomorrow.”
“Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.”
“Great leaders understand that investing in their employees' development is an investment in the company's future.”
“Great leaders understand that it is impossible to compartmentalize elements of life, so they create opportunities for people to grow in every area.”
Source: How to Hire and Keep Great People
“Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.”
Source: Developing the Leader Within You
“Great leaders understand the importance of assigning the right people to the right positions. If you put the wrong person in the wrong place, no matter how talented or earnest they are, they will never reach the peak of their potential. Their strengths will be underutilized and they may never measure up to your expectations. Reassign to get the best out of others and the situation.”
“Great leaders work closely with their followers, because their sole mandate is to know the needs of their followers and address those needs accordingly.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.”
“Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.”
Source: Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
“Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.”
“Great leadership has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies.”
Source: Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
“Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary.”
“Great leadership is a reflection of honest service”
“Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.”
“Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.”
“Great Leadership is known only when it goes missing
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“Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.”
Source: The Power of Character in Leadership: How Values, Morals, Ethics, and Principles Affect Leaders
“Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.”
Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.”
“Great leadership makes ordinary people into extraordinary people.”
“Great leadership usually starts with a willing heart,
a positive attitude, and a desire to make a difference.”
“Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.”
“Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps Chauncey B. Tinker was the most noted. To read one of his lectures was like reading a monologue of the great actress Ruth Draper--you missed the main point. You missed the drop in his voice as he approached the death in Rome of the tubercular Keats; you missed the shaking tone in which he described the poet's agony for the absent Fanny with him his love had never been consummated; you missed the grim silence of the end.”
“Great legacies do what they can to preserve the arts, and natural purity of the land and sea.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“Great liars are also great magicians.”
“Great life, great deeds.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.”
“Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.”
Source: Ideas of Good and Evil
“Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.”
Source: We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays
“great literature is literature that speaks to deep, fundamental human truths and experience in a way that is relatable to the reader and that may provoke engagement or facilitate insight into these truths and experiences. If these truths and experiences are about breaches of the normal, then surely horror has a place in literature, and in facts may proffer deep engagement with the most profound aspects of our existence. Sometimes only horror can say what needs to be said.”
Source: Stephen King and Philosophy
“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”
“Great literature makes a great life.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.”
“Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want.”
“Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)
“Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.”
Source: Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
“Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.”
“Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.”
Source: Complete Works
“Great lives never go out; they go on.”
“Great losses are great lessons.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Great love -- the kind that illumines and transforms us -- always includes a keen awareness of limitation as well. Though love may inspire us to expand and develop in new ways, we can never be all things to the one we love, or someone other than who we are. Yet once accepted, limitation also helps us develop essential qualities, such as patience, determination, compassion, and humor. When love comes down to earth -- bringing to light those dark corners we would prefer to ignore, encompassing all the different parts of who we are -- it gains depth and power.”
Source: JOURNEY HEART PB
“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.”
“Great love endures time, heartache, and distance. And even when all seems lost, true love lives on.”
“Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man Whose nature multitudinously mixed-- Each ardent impulse grappling with a thought-- Resists all easy gladness, all content Save mystic rapture, where the questioning soul Flooded with consciousness of good that is Finds life one bounteous answer.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.”
“Great love isn't two people finding the perfect match in one another. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match.”
“Great love leaves little doubt.”
“Great love only comes once in a lifetime, if you're lucky.”
Source: The Dress Shop of Dreams
“Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.”
Source: Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel