The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore HesburghRead
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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
In the long run men hit only what they aim at.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be
Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
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