Quotes About Development

Un líder es grande, no por su poder, sino por su habilidad de hacer surgir poder a otros.

Cuando Dios quiere educar a alguien, no lo envía a la escuela de la gracia sino a la de las necesidades.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe emphasized, "Treat a man as he appears to be and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he already were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.

anything really worthwhile in life takes time to build.

Spend 80 percent of your time on the most promising 20 percent of the potential leaders around you.

Cuando los líderes aprenden buenos valores y los viven, ellos mismos se hacen más valiosos e incrementan el valor de las demás personas.

All things are difficult before they become easy." That's wise advice.

Leadership is developed, not discovered. It's a process. Three

before I discovered that helping myself made me more capable of helping others. That's one of the reasons I tell people that to add value to others, they must make themselves more valuable. You can't give something you don't have. You can't tell what you don't know. You can't share what you don't feel. No one gives out of a vacuum.

stopping to reflect is one of the most valuable activities people can do to grow.

Effective leaders who reach their potential spend more time focusing on what they do well than on what they do wrong. To be successful, focus on your strengths and develop them. That's where you should pour your time, energy, and resources.

First we form habits, but then our habits form us. Change

We are all failures—at least, all the best of us are. —J. M. BARRIE

4. The Higher the Level of Leadership, the Greater the Sacrifice: The higher you go, the more it's going to cost you. And it doesn't matter what kind of leadership career you pick. You will have to make sacrifices. You will have to give up to go up.

to act on what you learn is all that really matters.

The problem promise: when you handle them well, problems promise to make you better.

The day that I realized I could no longer do everything myself was a major step in my development as a person and a leader. I've always had vision, plenty of ideas, and vast amounts of energy. But when the vision gets bigger than you, you really only have two choices: give up on the vision or get help. I chose the latter.

If you want to be a successful leader, learn to lead before you have a leadership position.

To maximize the value of momentum, leaders must: (1) develop an appreciation for it early; (2) know the key ingredients of it immediately; and (3) pour resources into it always.

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often. —WINSTON CHURCHILL

President Abraham Lincoln said, "I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Novelist H. G. Wells held that wealth, notoriety, place, and power are no measures of success whatsoever. The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have been and what we have become. In other words, success comes as the result of growing to our potential.

The truth is that leadership opportunities are plentiful and within reach of most people."3

In order to do anything new in life, we must be willing to leave our comfort zone. That involves taking risks, which can be frightening. However, each time we leave our comfort zone and conquer new territory, it not only expands our comfort zone but also enlarges us. If you want to grow as a leader, be prepared to be uncomfortable. But know this: the risks are well worth the rewards.