Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" There is just one reason that we are placed on this Earth. That reason is to love and be loved - in that order. "

Frances Hesselbein

Related Quotes:

" At a young age, I learned from my grandmother that I should respect all people. Her lessons were defining moments in my life and determined the type of leader that I would become. "

Frances Hesselbein

" Not long after I was married, World War II began. My husband John volunteered for the Navy and was sent to Pensacola for training as a Naval Combat Air Crew photographer. It seemed a strange assignment for a young newspaper editor and writer, already exempt, but off he went, saying goodbye to our 18-month-old Johnny and me. "

Frances Hesselbein

" I did not want to take a troop. I was the mother of a little boy. I knew nothing about little girls. "

Frances Hesselbein

" Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization's mission. "

Frances Hesselbein

" Carry a big basket. In other words, be open to new ideas, different partners, and new practices, and have a willingness to dump out the old and irrelevant to make room for new approaches. "

Frances Hesselbein

" It is what we do with our lives that counts. "

Frances Hesselbein

" I believe that tears should be very private, and no matter what issue or what situation, we should have a very dignified demeanor. "

Frances Hesselbein

" Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person. "

Frances Hesselbein

" Women are working for part or all of their adult lives now. The possibilities are limitless, but you need to prepare. "

Frances Hesselbein

" Some corporations are extremely well managed; some nonprofit organizations are. It has nothing to do with the sector. It has to do with quality of management. "

Frances Hesselbein

" Planning defines the particular place you want to be and how you intend to get there. It's a responsibility rather than a technique. "

Frances Hesselbein

" When I choose what I do, I ask, 'Does it make a difference?' "

Frances Hesselbein

Make A Difference

" At one time, there was a stereotype that your Girl Scout leader was the mother of a Brownie, but increasingly, we are having young businesswomen and professional women who are not mothers but care about children. "

Frances Hesselbein

" Simple questions can be profound, and answering them requires us to make stark and honest - and sometimes painful - self-assessments. "

Frances Hesselbein

" The real leader redefines or defines the mission in a very powerful way so that people understand it; it permeates the organization. "

Frances Hesselbein

" If you grow up in Germantown, Pennsylvania, as I did, 5:30 means 5:30. "

Frances Hesselbein

" I thought I'd never leave Pennsylvania. And I never imagined that I'd one day have the chance to lead the largest organization for girls and women around the world. "

Frances Hesselbein

" I always had this philosophy that only the best is good enough for those who serve girls. "

Frances Hesselbein

" I adored my grandparents and spent every weekend with Mama and Papa Wicks. They had seven children, so they needed a big house - and it seemed only logical to them to build into their house a pipe organ in a music room with a sixteen-foot ceiling. "

Frances Hesselbein

" In 1976, I was invited to interview for the CEO position of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. "

Frances Hesselbein

" An exceptional career is one that provides an opportunity to serve. It is a satisfying career in which you can't wait to get up in the morning to begin! You have a sense of purpose and mission. You know why you do what you do. It is a response to a call to serve. Once we do that, everything flows positively. "

Frances Hesselbein

" I didn't have a career plan. But what I did was, whenever there was a door open and a new opportunity, I always looked into it and took a chance and walked through the door. "

Frances Hesselbein

" There's something exhilarating about being in the mountains and talking about management and the future with Peter Drucker. "

Frances Hesselbein

" Good leaders make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. "

Frances Hesselbein

" It is not business, it is not government - it is the social sector that may yet save the society. "

Frances Hesselbein

" We are increasingly becoming a pluralistic nation. "

Frances Hesselbein

" Listening is an art. "

Frances Hesselbein

" One of the management imperatives in the '90s is managing diversity. Whatever the organization, when the constituents of that organization look at the board and management staff, they need to find themselves. "

Frances Hesselbein

" We do not know what lies ahead, yet whatever the challenge, leaders will rise, finding the heart, the language, the caring that embraces and sustains. "

Frances Hesselbein

" With a growing number of one-parent families in the country, the Girl Scout troop can be an indispensable and powerful positive factor. "

Frances Hesselbein