James M Kouzes Quotes

#1. Only those leaders who act boldly in times of crisis and change are willingly followed.

James M. Kouzes

#2. When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.

Amy Poehler

#3. Leadership isn't the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It's a process ordinary people use when they're bringing forth the best from themselves and others. Liberate the leader in everyone, and extraordinary things happen.

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#4. Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to the people who are perfect. But many of us are finding out that trying to be perfect is costly.

Debbie Ford

#5. The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present.

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#6. Do real and permanent good in this world.

Andrew Carnegie

#7. I could take this home, Marilyn. This is something teenage boys might find of interest.

Dan Quayle

#8. A leader with integrity has one self, at home and at work, with family and with colleagues. He or she has a unifying set of values that guide choices of action regardless of the situation.

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#9. There's a fine line between masturbating while you look out a window, and masturbating while you're looking in a window. I'll give you a hint: one of 'em is super illegal.

Dave Attell

#10. You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.

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#11. There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

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#12. Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.

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#13. You think you're charging up that memory? Is that what you think? You are going to be so sorry when I dream about my experience of eating chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream yesterday. Now that was exciting.

Carolyn Crane

#14. They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

Patricia Ireland

#15. We have to recognize that however smart we are, we're not smarter than everyone else combined ... We can't lose sight of the fact that no matter how important our own contributions are, we couldn't have gotten anywhere without the help and hard work of lots of other people.

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#16. My dad is my support, and he is the best support that I could ever have.

Thora Birch

#17. It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done.

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#18. You can't lead others to places you don't want to go yourself. If you don't feel a burning passion for something, how in the world can you inspire and encourage others to share it?

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#19. The day you think you know, your death has happened - because now there will be no wonder and no joy and no surprise. Now you will live a dead life.

Rajneesh

#20. The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A story is a narrative on an event or series of events, just like history.

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#21. Exemplary leaders know that if they want to gain commitment and achieve the highest standards, they must be models of the behavior they expect of others.

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#22. Of course, I get angry. Of course, I get sad. I have a full range of emotions. I also have a whole smorgasbord of ways of dealing with my feelings. That is what we should give children. Give them ... ways to express their rage without hurting themselves or somebody else. That's what the world needs.

Fred Rogers

#23. Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Paul Gauguin

#24. Today we are on the brink of another extraordinary revolution. The Information Age is already over and an exciting new epoch is taking its place. Remember, the key point is this: When wealth is derived from a new source - say information rather than industry - a new economic era is born.

Patricia Aburdene

#25. Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better.

Carlos Wallace

#26. If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk.

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#27. Leaders must know where they are going if they expect others to willingly join them on the journey.

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#28. If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.

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#29. There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream

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#30. Do what you say you will do.

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#31. I do not mind at all that [Newton] is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.

Christiaan Huygens

#32. It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent the future, we try to get a mental picture of what things will be like long before we have begun the journey. Visions are our windows on the world of tomorrow.

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#33. The Kouzes-Posner First Law of Leadership: If you don't believe in the messenger, you won't believe the message. Leaders

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