LEADERS ARE PERSISTENT
FURTHER QUOTATIONS ON
LEADERSHIP AND PERSISTENCE
- PERSISTENT:
- Determination: “You may have to fight a battle more than once
to win it.” (Margaret Thatcher)^8
- Leaders are determined people. They “huff and puff until
they blow the house down.” Leaders don’t give up because they
know the difference between the impossible and the possible
often lies in determination.^9
- “Nothing great is done without great men,” Charles de
Gaulle wrote, “and these are great because they willed it.”
The successful leader has a strong will and he is not easily
deterred.^10
- A successful leader doesn’t give up; he doesn’t give in; he doesn’t
give away. He doesn’t give in to failure. He doesn’t give up to
opposition. He doesn’t give way to despair.^11
- To be successful a leader must persist. He takes the cold water
people throw on his ideas and sells it as ice cubes.^12
- Thomas Burton wrote: “The longer I live the more deeply
I am convinced that what makes the difference between one
man and another, the great and the insignificant, is energy,
that invincible determination, a purpose once formed, nothing
can take away. This energetic quality will do anything that
is meant by God to be done in the world, and no talent, no
training, no opportunity, no circumstances will make any man
a man without it.^13
- I wish for you a restlessness...Victor Frankl, the noted
psychiatrist, put it forcefully when he said, “The ‘is’ must
never catch up with the ‘ought.’ Leaders must keep studying,
learning, growing.”^14
- George Bernard Shaw described more than one person who
