A mere motivator sees potentials in people and tells them to take actions. A true leader sees the same potentials in the same people and influences them to optimize them under his God-lead inspirations.
~ Israelmore Ayivor
It is not about whether you call yourself a leader or not. It is about what you have to show to people as a leader. Leadership is contagious, you carry it and share it.
The daring leader helps the people see a future state, greater than their own imagination, and worthy of pursuit.
~ Cheryl A. Bachelder
One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
The survival rate of your passion depends on the kind of person that leads you!
Leaders are hard workers. They never expect more out of the people around them than they are willing to give themselves.
~ Jim George
A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!
A Muslim must not hate his wife and if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with another that is good.
~ Anonymous
As a business leader you have to ask yourself, “Am I creating a consumer environment that is conducive to loyalty?” If the answer is no, FIX IT!
~ Steve Maraboli
The efforts of a leader will be emulated. Depending on the quality of appointed leadership, this can be medicine or poison to a living business.
The greatest way to ensure your company’s failure is to appoint leaders who see a divide between themselves and the team, who are more fixated on their elevated role than on the act of leading.
Every true leader is in the business of God. The good news is that God’s business does not yield loses. Most leaders fail because they claim to be in a business whose owner they never know!
You remain a follower for life when you pay for what people do while nobody pays you for what you do. Do something impressive and become a leader!
I believe a leader is inspired by his/her team to lead them.
~ Unarine Ramaru
If you don't get any motivation from your team, there is nothing wrong with those you lead but your form of leadership.
Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.
~ Hilarie Owen
It is the leader’s job to lead by example and enforce the values and the behaviors to set the culture for any company or work group. Show me a company in rapid decline, and I will show you someone in charge who doesn’t give a _____.
~ Beth Ramsay
A church leadership that cannot provide members with business ideas should stop demanding tithe from them. Plant greatness in the members and they pay greatly, Plant zero in them and they pay in negatives!
The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.
~ Masaru Ibuka
Leaders believe that falling is not failing, but refusal to rise up after falling is the real form of failure!
Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position!
The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions!
Just as every crop performs on its specific type of soil, and not all fishes can grow in every kind of water, so is leadership. You can’t lead where you can’t thrive; you can lead where you can survive!
To a leader, reputation is an option, but true character is a necessity!
Honour comes and goes, influence comes and stays, but none of them safeguards us against danger than the mentor of true leadership; Jesus Christ!
Never be anxious about maintaining the position you occupy. Be anxious about maintaining your good character and you will never lose your leadership influence!
Opportunities loiter in every corner. Everyone may see them, but it’s only great leaders that stop by to give them lifts!
Leaders don’t settle for less. When you do so, you rob humanity of what you are supposed to deliver!
You have many gifts, some will help you to connect the right people while others help you to get to the right places. But it takes your dominant gifts for you to be able to take the lead!
God has buried your leadership roles in your gifting. To take the lead, you got to unzip the gift bag. It’s your responsible to make it happen!
Leaders create a conducive environment for followers to accomplish their respective dreams. True leaders never fall for anything inferior!
The bottom line is that you can’t lead the person you can’t serve!
He who cannot serve cannot lead. It is by being a servant that you recognize that followers also have needs. True leaders are service oriented!
You don’t need to be an executive owner of a multi-billion international company to show that you are a leader, you need “a discovered self” to optimize and become a leader.
There is greatness in everyone already. The job of the leader is not to put greatness in anyone. The job of the leader is to make people discover and exploit the greatness already existing in them!
With a positive attitude, obstacles ahead of you have two options; either they give way for you to pass or they remain as you bore a hole through them and find your way. A leader with a positive attitude never gives up!
You become a leader when you believe in what you can do. The eagle believes it can soar, it doesn’t believe it can swim. The day the eagle will attempt to swim will be the day it will fail!
Great leaders are great servants because the only way of setting an example is by demonstrating an example. Service to mankind is the key to true leadership!
Every true leader is a true follower. Every true follower is a true leader. You are followed because of the dreams you pursue, you pursue others because of the dreams they follow!
Preparation is the key to leadership success. The more prepared you are the less your struggle to make it happen and the more your effectiveness!
