Leaders show examples. They have something to offer and they’ll offer it by the process of how they got it. Anyone who has no examples to show may not lead better.
~ Israelmore Ayivor
The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!
The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts.
The speed at which progress rolls is not determined by the number of people who started pushing it, but by the number of people who are passionate to hold on doing so.
Leaders are lovers of change. Without change, growth is static. To lead, you have to appreciate change; else change will depreciate you!
The common goal of leaders is to increase the value and productivity of people. Leaders inspire others to do better than they would have done when not inspired.
The most essential requirement for leaders is neither age nor gender. It is neither certificates nor positions. It is the character that reveals trust and exemplary life.
People can destroy people, People can also decorate. The former are misleaders, the latter are leaders.
If you fall into a pit, you need a ladder, not a hoe. You must climb up and not dig up. Leaders discover the right way out of limitations.
Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence, they take corrections.
A leader who sows confidence will reap excellency and legacy. A leader who sows fear will reap stagnancy or complacency.
People can push people down, People can also push people up. The former are misleaders, the latter are leaders.
Leaders decorate the world, character is their paint. They live exemplary life and make the world better than they found it.
Leaders do not conform; they reform. If you conform, you are nurturing mediocrity. If you reform, you are breeding change.
Friends can speed up your steps or slow down your pace. Leaders choose friends wisely, they are aware of the consequences.
Leaders do not play a what if game. They believe it will be and work it to be! Success is scarce because fear is common.
Leaders' major question is why. If they lose, they ask why. If they win, they ask why. Their whys weave their wonders.
People are tired of being told that it's possible... It's time to show them how it can be possible. Leadership is demonstration.
Leaders are interested in gains. However, they acknowledge that there is no gain without pain. They embrace the pain.
The ladder of leadership can only stand firm on the grounds of integrity. Any other ground makes it unstable till it falls.
Leaders don't venture without vision. They don't pray without plans. They don't climb without clues. They are always prepared.
Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.
Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.
Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.
Fear punches holes in your eyes so that you don't see the future clearly. Faith enlarges your vision to behold your destiny.
By constant practices, deliberate repetitions and uninterrupted exercises, leaders go from zero to hero. They don't quit.
If you're determined to stand, nothing can move you. If you're determined to move, nothing can stop you. Determination is the key!
You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day.
Leaders do what is uncomfortable but helpful. They run away from the comfort that doesn't produce any help for the world.
Learning from failure boosts a leader's chance of staying ahead of his standards. Leaders who rise quickly after falling are always stable.
A leader does not reduce his speeds to meet the views of negative thinkers. He leaves them to do their job as he focuses.
People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression.
Leaders scan the future so it can be free of doubts and fear. They do so by not living a double standard life in the present.
Pride, anger and hatred are fruits from the same garden that poison the world when ripe. A leader cultivates no such fruits.
Leaders build the future with clays of the past. Every good moment gives them ideas, every bad moment gives them lessons.
Courage promotes leaders, fear demotes them. Most people who have difficulties climbing up success ladders are fans of fear.
Every great leader once fell down from a tall ladder. You don't become a star until you get the scar. Take that risk now.
Words do less than 10 things, but actions do more than 10 thousand things. Leaders don’t talk in vain; they follow with actions.
Greed squeezes your dreams into a portable size, so that failure can easily carry them to dump somewhere.
Many self-leaders lead the world even by being invisible. The world learns from them without sitting in their classrooms.
