Lance Secretan Quotes

Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

When a leader reaches out in passion, he is usually met with an answering passion.

What is genius or courage without a heart?

To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.

Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.

A great leader has brains, vision, soul, values and a heart.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

You don’t address their brains. You address their hearts.

In order to move others, I must be moved.

If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.

At the end of the day, people will follow you or people will be energised by you if they buy into your vision or purpose. So the most important thing is to be true to yourself. That's why I would say to be a great leader - you, first and foremost, have to be a great human being. And sharing that purpose and sharing the values.

Honestly, my goal is just to let people hear my story and just like, feed everybody that could relate to my story in any way.

Own the leadership style that makes you you. If you are an empathetic leader by nature, embrace that.

Leadership requires the ability to engage and to create empathy for communities with disparate needs and ideas. Telling an effective story - especially in romantic suspense - demands a similar skill set.

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their heart. Consider Harriet Miers. If you think about Harriet Miers, of course her nomination is absurd. But the President didn't say he thought about his selection. He said this: "I know her heart." Notice how he said nothing about her brain? He didn't have to. He feels the truth about Harriet Miers.

Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

You can't lead anybody you don't love. You can't do it. It's not possible.

If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.

If we lose touch with our heart's wisdom, then no method avails; if we love, then nothing else is necessary.

Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

It doesn’t matter how strong or capable you are; if you don’t have a big heart, you will not succeed.