Leadership Pride Quotes

#1. Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.

Francis Chan

#2. Too many leaders fancy themselves on being philosophers, but not enough pride themselves on decisive action.

Noel DeJesus

#3. Never embarrass a student in front of others. Embarrass yourself often to relieve the tension, but do not paint them into a corner.

Harry Gilbert

#4. While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. Pride does not only come with great responsibility. It is buy one get one free. Great responsibility will require great resourcefulness.

Janna Cachola

#6. Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#7. Pride takes many forms, but spiritual pride is the most grievous. To become proud of spiritual gifts or leadership position is to forget that all we have is from God, all the position we occupy is God's appointment.

J. Oswald Sanders

#8. A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.

Tom Clancy

#9. It's a difficult thing to offer leadership to a people who have lost control over their future. But offer it I must. And when I look around me and see the dignity displayed by our last generation, see their elegance and their grace, it fills me with pride even as it tears at my heart.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#10. Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.

Vince Lombardi

#11. Made in America. Heck, let's make everything in America. Let's make pride and trust and teamwork more than chalk on a Harvard blackboard.

Chris Bent

#12. Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

Criss Jami

#13. His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.

Joseph J. Ellis

#14. By acknowledging our boundaries and limitations, we attain greater heights than we ever will by appearing to think we know everything.

Graham Speechley

#15. Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America's leadership in the world.

Gerald R. Ford

#16. If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

Jack Weatherford

#17. The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

John Stott

#18. We can be the very first generation which fails to see the logic or pride in defining ourselves by anything else but what is found within ourselves: our values

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#19. Pride refuses to be taught. Humility refuses not to be

Brad Lomenick

#20. Our pride, our ego, our fear of failing too often keeps us from achieving greatness, keeps us stuck in jobs we don't like, working with people we can't stand, engaging in pursuits we're not wholeheartedly passionate about.

Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution

#21. There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering.

Frank Herbert

#22. I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

Christopher Hitchens

#23. The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.

Jack Weatherford

#24. The immediate reactions of the two superpower leaders when confronted with the gravest international crisis of their careers were much the same, shock, wounded pride, grim determination, and barely repressed fear.

Michael Dobbs

#25. A leader or president that never rebukes violence, is like one that takes utter pride in it's rage

Andrew-Knox B Kaniki

#26. In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.

Mary Cunningham Agee

#27. Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

Omar N. Bradley

#28. Some people only go to church for the social life. They like having all the friends in church or getting the praises of men by doing certain things, but they don't go there to actually worship God. They go there so others can worship THEM instead.

Lisa Bedrick