Leaders try every possible means to leave the world better than they found it. They make an indelible impact and society remembers them for that.
~ Israelmore Ayivor
Don’t let the horrible nature of the waters prevent you from crossing the rivers of life. The more horrible the challenges we face, the sweeter the joy of conquering them.
Leaders are raised through training and experience. Nobody was born naturally with hand-gloves of leadership. We come to life to search for it, discover it and optimize it.
Live an exemplary life as a leader. When you are gone, you will still lead from the grave because your influence, impacts and inspirations will become and information for the living.
You can’t gather much if you won’t go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns, they’ll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they’ll get.
People do not recognize that you can do it when you merely tell them you can. Until they see you doing it, they won’t follow you. Leaders who are willing to go further alone today are those to be consulted for solutions tomorrow.
Leaders look out for people who can criticize them constructively and rebuke them reasonably.
Leaders create and maintain good interpersonal relationships with people they meet and work with. People who lead better relate better.
If you have only answers and no questions, chances are high that you will never know new things.
Contrary to popular opinion, leaders aren’t created out of fame. Fame is just a shadow. When you enter dark times in, it leaves you.
Leaders know where they can function better. They don’t cry over what they cannot do.
Innovation is the art of creating a better, a more convenient and more comfortable way for the world to pass. Leaders leave footprints everywhere they go. They are impact makers and innovators.
Leaders are optimistic. When you walk with leaders, the spirit of hope will ramble around you and you will feel like “yes, I can break barriers with few blows.
Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.
Your followers are interested in going where you have gone before. Take them where you have been and let them know what took you there. They’ll learn by your example.
People who praise a leader even when he is doing the wrong things are the main reasons why his fall is near.
Whether it is in business life or in political roles, leaders rise up to offer the solutions to problems society faces. They act with the right actions at the right time.
Leaders don’t fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn’t their desire to maintain but to improve.
The courageous attitude of a leader awakens the dormant attitude of followers. The dormant attitude of a leader weakens the passionate attitude of followers. Leadership determines everything.
To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don’t give him poem to recite; don’t give him a song to sing. Just engage him in an argument and you will know it for yourself who he is.
People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally. Action fixes images in their minds and they can carry those images for a long period.
A leader does not only discover what people can do better. He teaches, guides and mentor them to do it exceptionally well. When a seed comes into contact with a leader, fruits are produced.
Management informs. Leadership applies. The effective managers inform accurately. Effective leaders apply wisely.
Leaders are farmers, they cultivate human beings by adding values to them till they are fully grown as successful people for harvesting.
The leader who listens is the one society needs most. They don’t force their commands on people. They pay attention to their demands and set the pace for the change that society truly needs.
When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you.
The growth of an organization is not dependent on the number of employees in its register. It is dependent on the number of employees who show dedication and commitment to the vision of the organization.
Leadership is about taking steps while management is about drawing the map on the steps to take. Managers simply plan, leaders simply execute!
The public personality of a leader is not what really matters. What he does out of the open stage really tells more about him than anything else.
Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!
Leaders heal, they don’t kill. They unite, they don’t disintegrate.
Everyone has a kind of limitation respectively. Leaders don’t allow their own to obscure them in a small corner.
By means of positive imaginations, leaders bring the future to the present so that they can work on it before setting off to enter it.
Everyone in the organizations is very important. From the sweeper to the security officer; from the messenger to the manager, everyone doing well at his post is a leader. The organization becomes a leading one when it’s made up of people leading in their roles.
The simplest way to silence your critics as a leader is to do what they claim you can’t do. However, be careful they don’t set you up to take fatal risks to please their criticisms.
Leaders are deep thinkers. They don’t relax for problem to lay eggs before they attempt dealing with them.
You can’t lead people if you can’t lead yourself. Self-leadership qualities qualifies you to become a co-operate leader.
Between a plan and it’s achievement is a leader in the middle. With his one arm he makes the plan. With the other one he carries them through.
Leaders know the great deal of productivity that comes out of a strong self-esteem. They help others to develop this esteem so that productivity can increase.
A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.
