Marvin J. Ashton Quotes

The great presidents are people who watch out for others.

Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others.

What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.

Some public officials are blessed - you can't acquire this, but you are blessed with the gift of empathy, being able to empathize with those who are suffering.

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring.

Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

Great leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself.

We all have the luxury of looking out for ourselves. Leaders also have the honor of looking out for others.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.

So the smart brain must be balanced with a warm heart, a good heart -a sense of responsibility, of concern for the well-being of others.

Kindness isn't just a virtue, its a necessity.

Your actions toward others are your bank deposit. It's easy to be good to nice people, but try to be caring to everyone. It is a test.

Do you value people who won't benefit you or only those who might contribute in some way to your success? Great team players truly value others as people, and they know and relate to what others value.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

Followers want to be taken care of. Leaders want to take care of others. We can all be leaders.

You don't have to be one of the Elders. You don't have to be well known. You just have to be determined to care about people. That's all it takes.

I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.

While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.

Having a personality of caring about people is important. You can’t be a good leader unless you generally like people. That is how you bring out the best in them.

The leadership spirit possess a natural love for all human beings.

Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

Why me?" she asked, holding on to him. "Because you cared," he whispered. "You cared so much for your people, it broke your heart to see the pack in ruins. You cared so much for your mother, you risked your life for hers. You cared enough to save someone who wanted you dead. And because you walk like a queen.

Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others are less: less than their own best selves and certainly less than he is. They exist to follow and flatter him, and to serve his purposes. A true prophet, I suppose, is like a good parent. A true prophet sees others, not himself. He helps them define their own half-formed dreams, and puts himself at their service. He is not diminished as they become more. He offers courage in one hand and generosity in the other.