Traits Quotes
In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served
Leaders step up, even when they feel like hiding. And they do so because they care.
True leadership is not defined by notoriety, power, prestige, status, or job title.
You don’t want emotional walls to separate you from your spouse
A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart
It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future.
Winning doesn't necessarily mean you'll walk away with a trophy. Sometimes winning means you dared to show up at all to see the shocked look of your rivals.
The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family.
The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change.
The warrior guided by the spirit serves humanity, the warrior without, serves the ego
Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader.
Again he thought of his own losses, and he wondered why it was that the things a person had lost— or might lose— defined him more than the things he yet possessed.
The essence of warrior traits are demonstrated by : integrity with self, and honesty with others
Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike.
Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.
Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.
Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should we not seek continuity with other animals for our 'noble' traits as well?
An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader.
The most disgusting human trait is bias, because it typically leads to propaganda, hate and violence.
The most disgusting human trait is bias because it ends of leading to propaganda, hate and violence.
Emotion is not what makes us weak. It's what makes us human, The ability to care, even if people often do not.
It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has the most character.
Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.
Solitude helps the soul remember that life andwork have two completely different meanings. It remindsus that we were created for greatness in relationship withothers, not task lists and spreadsheets.
A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.
--a man without birth, without courage, without conduct. For my part, I declare, sir, it shall never be said that I made such a man my master.
The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is a great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family.
You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a few faults.
You are not a murderer. I find it difficult to think of that as a personality flaw.
The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?
There is nothing worse for a young convert than to be thrust into leadership without mentoring and ongoing coaching because the devil relishes these vulnerable souls.
The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.
Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.
There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.
Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.
Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.
The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.
Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.
When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.
Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.
What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.