When it comes to marriage,
women have their expectations. Any woman that is ready to say yes to any kind
of man is either desperate or lack self definition. Nobody is perfect but there
are certain qualities that a woman will see, that are personal to her, and she
will tell herself: yes this man is good for me. Why? It is because her life
depends on that choice.
As Nigerians, what are our
expectations? What are those developmental and growth needs that we have been
denied of? Who among those that are wooing us has the qualities to meet our
expectations and needs? These are some of the questions we need to ask
ourselves and answer before we say yes to any candidate.
2019 elections are fast
approaching and candidates are wooing us to accept and vote for them. They will
come with gifts of money, food items, promises, etc., which are not good
yardsticks for measuring their credibility. Are we again going to sway towards
them like hungry chickens just to eat our cake today and go hungry in the next
four or more years?
What shall it profit us to gain
the whole world (which of course they can’t give us), and lose our souls? Yes,
our souls; because when there is unemployment, some youths go into kidnapping,
prostitution, drug addiction, etc. When there is bad governance, the masses
loose the most and die the most.
This is the time to scrutinize
those that are wooing us to accept and vote for them come 2019 elections. Let
the following selected quotes on leadership guide us to chose and vote wisely.
The supreme quality for
leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is
possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an
army, or in an office - Dwight D. Eisenhower
A leader is one who knows the
way, goes the way, and shows the way - John C. Maxwell
Leadership is the capacity to
translate vision into reality - Warren Bennis
The art of communication is the
language of leadership - James Humes
Leadership is practiced not so
much in words as in attitude and in actions - Harold S. Geneen
Where there is no vision, the
people perish. —Proverbs 29:18
Leadership is lifting a
person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a
higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
—Peter Drucker
Never doubt that a small group
of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing
that ever has. —Margaret Mead
The most dangerous leadership
myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than
born. —Warren Bennis
To command is to serve, nothing
more and nothing less. —Andre Malraux
He who has never learned to
obey cannot be a good commander. —Aristotle
A leader takes people where
they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want
to go, but ought to be. —Rosalynn Carter
Leaders think and talk about
the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. —Brian Tracy
It is absurd that a man should
rule others, who cannot rule himself. —Latin Proverb
“It takes 20 years to build a
reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do
things differently.” – Warren Buffett, investor
“Perfection is not attainable,
but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi,
legendary Green Bay Packers coach
“Be faithful in small things
because it is in them that your strength lies.” – Mother Teresa, Catholic nun
and saint
“Great leaders are almost
always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to
offer a solution everybody can understand.” – Gen. Colin Powell, former U.S.
Secretary of State
“A leader . . .is like a
shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead,
whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being
directed from behind.” – Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa
“There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first
group; there is less competition there.” – Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister
of India
“Do you know that one of the
great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about
feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?” – Margaret Thatcher, former
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
“I’ve learned that people will
forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never
forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou, poet and civil rights activist
Do not go where the path may
lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo
Emerson, poet and essayist
“To be persuasive we must be
believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be
truthful.” – Edward R. Murrow, American broadcast journalist
Good leadership is built with the bricks of criticism. A true leader sees criticism as
grease to lubricate his elbow, and praise as a sign to work harder; He values
his critics more than his flatterers – Olive Chinyere Amajuoyi, a poet,
novelist and blogger
Ideal Olive says #votewisely
because our lives depend on our votes.
Written by Olive Chinyere
Amajuoyi
