Avenues to Leadership

Avenues to Leadership 

Leadership Quotes for College Students *

• If you want to be listened to, you should put time in listening.
  - Marge Piercy, Born 1936, American poet, novelist and activist.
• There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwords: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
  - Maria Edgeworth, 1767-1849, Anglo-Irish novelist
• Those who hug illusions seldom embrace opportunity.
  - Unknown
• The shortest answer is doing.
  - English proverb
• Since I cannot remove it, I think I'll improve it.
  - Unknown
• Some people are so good at learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
  - Sam Levenson, American educator-humorist
• The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
  - Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794, English historian
• I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
  - Frank A. Clark, Born 1911, Writer
• All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
  - Ellen Glasgow, 1873-1945, Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist
• Success sees to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
  - Conrad N. Hilton, 1887-1979, American businessman
• There are three types of leaders:
  Those who make things happen;
  Those who watch thing happen; and
  Those who wonder what happened.
  - An old American military saying
• Anybody can lead when things are going great. The mark of a true leader is discovered when they are chaotic.
  - Trudy Bourgeois, Business Consultant
• The key for me is not to react to the loss but rather to evaluate, as objectively as possible, why we lost.
  - April Heinrichs, Born 1964, Head coach of the 2005 US Women's National Soccer Team
• The absurd man is he who never changes.
  - Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, 1796-1867, French satirical poet
• It's been my experience that the only people who don't admire excellence in the work of others are those who are insecure, jealous, or have some self-interest in seeing a person perform poorly.
  - Cal Ripken, Jr., Born 1960, American Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
• The young wish to give their elders the full benefits of their inexperience.
  - Unknown
• Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
  - Admiral Hyman Rickover, 1900-1986, U.S. Navy Four-Star Admiral
• Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
  - Merry Browne, Author (I would appreciate more information about today's author.)
  

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• If you think you're leading and no one is following you, then you're only taking a walk.
  - Proverb
• The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we at when we created them.
  - Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, Scientist, physicist, Nobel laureate
• Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
  - Nicholas Murray Butler, 1862-1947, American philosopher, diplomat, and educator
• Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is aimless. Vision with action will achieve.
  - Attributed to Joel Arthur Barker, technology and business futurist and author
• A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.
  - Lister Sinclair, 1921-2006, Canadian broadcaster, playwright and polymath.
• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
  - Naguib Mahfouz, 1911-2006, Egyptian writer
• You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
  - Leo Durocher, 1905-1991, Major league baseball player and manager