The 12 Principles Of Highly Successful Leaders

Steven Shallenberger

1.Be True To Character

• Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. -John Wooden

2.Use your imagination

• I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. 

-Dr. Seuss

3.Apply the power of knowledge

• Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. 

-Robin Morgan

4.Never give up

• When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. 

-Harriet Beecher Stowe

5.Find peace and balance

• Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress. 

-Melody Beattie

6.Live the golden rule 

• Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him. 

-William Wilberforce

7.Build and maintain trust 

• If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
• -Franklin D. Roosevelt

8.Quick to listen slow to wrath

• "Most people do not listen with the intent to understand, they listen with the intent to reply"

-Stephen Covery

9. Lead with vision

• Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

-Gail Devers

11.Do what matters the most

• Each morning ,we are born again, what we do today is what matters the most 

-buddha
 12. Be Accountable 

• More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't to busy denying them 

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