Press on and keep pressing. If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk—CRAWL.
Messages are more often heard when the communicator is honest, sincere, and succinct. In other words, say what you mean, and mean what you say.
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that a drop of honey catches more flies than a gal...
Leadership never ascends from the pew to the pulpit, but invariably descends from the pulpit to the pew.
Articulate and define what has previously remained implicit or unsaid;
Ultimately, a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus. I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity.
One of his first initiatives for the church, for instance, was to set up a serious evangelistic campaign that would be carried on throughout his first full year. This campaign, he wrote in a letter of...
Never crush a man out, thereby making him and his friends permanent enemies of your organization.
Creative power can pull down mountains of evil and level hilltops of injustice.
Partly as a result of the president’s inaction, by 1956 nearly every southern state had enacted legislation that declared the Brown ruling null and void.
I catch the idea by two senses. But when I read aloud I hear what is read and I see it, and hence two senses get it and I remember it better, if I do not understand it better.
Trust, honesty, and integrity are exceedingly important qualities because they so strongly affect followers. Most individuals need to trust others, especially their boss. Subordinates must perceive th...
Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can’t murder murder, he said. Through violence you may murder a liar but you can’t establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you...
There comes a time when one must take the position that it is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Teams bring together a broader mix of skills that exceed those of any single individual. 2. Teams jointly develop and strive toward clear goals. 3. Teams can adjust with greater speed and effectivenes...
Pettiness, spite, and vengeance are emotional reactions considered to be beneath the dignity of a leader.
James MacGregor Burns wrote that the Leader’s fundamental act is to induce people to be aware or conscious of what they feel – to feel their true needs so strongly, to define their values so meaningfu...
It is your duty to advance the aims of the organization and also to help those who serve it. If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens you can never regain their respect and esteem
If subordinates, or people in general, know that they genuinely have easy access to their leader, they’ll tend to view the leader in a more positive, trustworthy light.
The marches in Albany concentrated on city hall where they had little leverage and no votes. All of our marches in Albany, said Martin, were to the city hall trying to make them negotiate, where if we...