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Leadership Quotes by Vince Lombardi
- 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…
- It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and…
- A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the…
- Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that…
- No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
- Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance.…
- To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future,…
- Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in…
- When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.
- I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of…
- The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.
- It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
- Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay…
- Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve…
- Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
- Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
- The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must…
- Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use…
- Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow
- There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
- Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
More Leadership Quotes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang. — Mary Kay Ash
- Every silver lining has a cloud. — Mary Kay Ash
- Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. — Mary Kay Ash
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. — Chinua Achebe
- Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to… — Ibrahim Babangida