Best leadership & difficult Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that. But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering your own best ways to travel with that pain will lead you to the joy that you long to have. They are your paths, your ways and while my experience and the experiences of others may inspire you, ultimately it will be the choices you discover and make for yourself that lead you to certain joy in the midst of your challenges.”

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Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.”

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Book:Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

“It's very difficult to evaluate a leader in a very short-term perspective because to be a leader you must be able to have a long-term perspective. You must be able to carry changes which take many years. And this is why you can really only see whether it has been a good leadership after some years have passed.”

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Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland

“Recognizing the good, not just in one's own personal circumstances, but in the world, makes anything possible. When I am asked about the important characteristics of leadership, being of good, positive mind is at the top of my list. If a leader can focus on the meritorious characteristics of other people and try to play to their strengths as well as find value in even the most difficult situation, she can inspire hope and faith in others and motivate them to move forward.”

“It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.”

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Book:Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

Source: Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

“Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.”

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Book:Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“Events and developments that we have observed in 2014, prove that this year will be very difficult for the world economy, but thoughtful economic policy, diversification and unity between the country's leadership and people guarantee that this year will be successful for us.”

“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”

Source: The Prince

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

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Author:Warren G. Bennis

“Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.”

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Author:Friedrich Schiller

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult”

“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.”

“The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of the government, for the good of the nation, for the good of humanity, and recognizes the qualities he has and what he can do within his own limitations. He cannot do, and should not attempt to do, the impossible, but he should not fail to attempt something that might be extremely difficult and may be possible.”

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Author:Arleigh Burke

“Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.”

Source: What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership

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