Ego And Leadership Quotes & Sayings

A few mistakes don't worry me; what worries me is when you make the mistakes and then forget your role on the team and start to worry about your ego. — Digger Phelps

What are you talking about? You don't know anything about me."
Her back came up against the door. Bracing his hands above her head, he leaned down and spoke harshly against her ear. "Don't I, gorgeous? I know you like a lot of tongue when you kiss. I know you hold your breath just before you come. I know your beautiful ass fits into my hands perfectly. I can still feel it there. — Tessa Bailey

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful. — Carl Jung

Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom. — D. Nicole Williams

Getting your ego out of the way has an even deeper organizational impact. — Ken Jennings

In both places [Paraguay and Newfoundland] people rise despite everything - both are pretty tough environments. — John Gimlette

A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president. — Ron Suskind

There is a difference between Confidence and Arrogance..
Both look alike but stem from two very different sources..
One comes from Self Belief and the other comes from Ego.. — Abha Maryada Banerjee

Leadership takes continuous, counterintuitive, ego-minimizing work. — Anonymous

All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego. — Criss Jami

Imagine if all the car makers in the world were to sit down together to design one extremely simple, embellishment-free, functional car that was made from the most environmentally-sustainable materials, how cheap to buy and humanity-and-Earth-considerate that vehicle would be. And imagine all the money that would be saved by not having different car makers duplicating their efforts, competing and trying to out-sell each other, and overall how much time that would liberate for all those people involved in the car industry to help those less fortunate and suffering in the world. Likewise, imagine when each house is no longer designed to make an individualised, ego-reinforcing, status-symbol statement for its owners and all houses are constructed in a functionally satisfactory, simple way, how much energy, labour, time and expense will be freed up to care for the wellbeing of the less fortunate and the planet. — Jeremy Griffith

To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team. — John C. Maxwell

The real power of effective leadership is maximizing other people's potential which inevitably demands also ensuring that they get the credit. When our ego won't let us build another person up, when everything has to build us up, then the effectiveness of the organization reverts to depending instead on how good we are in the technical aspects of what we do. And we have stopped leading and inspiring others to great heights. — John Dickson

They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon. — Stephen L. Carter

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Dialogue isn't a competition to be the smartest or the most correct person in the room; it is a collaboration to find the truth. — Oli Anderson

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling. — John Hickenlooper

In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially "grown up" and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things. — Linda Fisher Thornton

The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them; in other words, those who are unacquainted with the institution are the only persons who passed censure upon it. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I feel like America would enjoy this pun about me... and closets. — Kelly Thompson

If you're a boss, and not a leader, your time is limited. — T.F. Hodge

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

Mothering well is a prayerful art. - Lori McConnell, Restoring Hope in a Woman's Heart — Stasi Eldredge

Teamwork and trust trump ego and arrogance in building high performance sustainable successful teams. Rethink your team building ideas — Tony Dovale

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title. — Robin S. Sharma

The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what he DID NOT know. — David Halberstam

Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will. Understand that they are very ambitious; but their ambition, first and foremost, is for the company's success. They realize that the most important step they must make to become a Level 5 leader is to subjugate their ego to the company's performance. When asked for interviews, these leaders will agree only if it's about the company and not about them. — James C. Collins

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed. — Ruth J. Simmons

We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone. — Oli Anderson

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

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