Leaders lead themselves first and foremost. Only then can they act as example and inspiration to others.
– Christopher Babson
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- Think, dream and expect great things. For would you rather be correct in your perception? Or would you rather be exceptional in your life? – Christopher Babson
- Your life today is, for the most part, a manifestation of the stories you told yourself in the past. – Christopher Babson
- Be careful what you look for and expect in life, because you will either find it or create it. – Christopher Babson
- Growth or stagnation? There is no in-between. Life always seeks more of itself and death picks up the slack. – Christopher Babson
- If you don’t know exactly where you are going (and why),that is exactly where you will end up. – Christopher Babson
- If you don’t know exactly what you want, that is exactly what you will get. – Christopher Babson
- Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost. – AE Samaan
- Successful leaders leaders lead with passion and compassion. – Farshad Asl
- Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves. – Eleanor Roosevelt
- Tomorrow’s leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre – from the heart – Rasheed Ogunlaru
- I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it. – Eugene V Debs
- We know how to lead projects, but we forget how to lead people, because we forgot how to lead ourselves. – Alin Sav
- Too many leaders fancy themselves on being philosophers, but not enough pride themselves on decisive action. – Noel DeJesus
- Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls. – Walt Whitman
- We all deserve to be treated with nothing but respect. In order to command respect from others, we must first and foremost respect ourselves. – JulieAnne
- Your dreams are the golden gate to a life of inspiration. The more you allow yourself to dream of your ideal future, the stronger your inspiration. – Mensah Oteh
- inspiration is not a thing, its every thing, open your eyes and inspiration is everywhere. – LL Caulton
- Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. – Romain Gary
- My words are not the inspiration, I am the inspiration. – Amit Kalantri
- Creativity vs. inspiration: inspiration makes a copy, creativity makes something completely new. – Hannah Garrison
- Seek God’s inspiration first, then you will become an inspiration to someone else. – James Tamara
- LOVE should be the inspiration when Lover is the Surprise, and when LOVE is the Surprise , then Loved one must be the inspiration! – Madan Mohan Mahapatra
- You don’t have to wait for an inspiration to fulfil your dream because a dream is an inspiration itself. – Euginia Herlihy
- A writer should never wait for inspiration but be the inspiration. – Debasish Mridha
- Missional leaders not only feel the burden of God’s mission but they also act on the burden and act upon it sacrificially. – Gary Rohrmayer
- Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others. – Stewart Stafford
- The role of leaders is not to get other people to follow them but to empower others to lead. – Bill George
- True leaders demonstrate initiatives-They lead the way for others to follow – Ikechukwu Joseph
- Thought leadership is when a leader’s thoughts are being used by leaders to lead others. – Onyi Anyado
- Good leaders are always in the -œact- of leading. They listen as much to others as they listen to themselves. – Maureen Chiquet
- World Class leaders know the secret to motivating themselves and others is discovering what they will fight for when the going gets rough. – Steve Siebold
- If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid. – Rand Miller
- Notwithstanding how long you shall keep thinking about it, action is what will make it a reality! When you dream, act! When you act, act well! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- An act of love is not an act for you and not for me. It is an act for you as well as for me. Love is for us. – Vironika Tugaleva
- Until you truly learn how to act well, you shall always act only for your actions to teach you how to act well – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem … – Aldous Huxley
- Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration. – Israelmore Ayivor