Leaders Quotes

Rise of Science DenialismThe problem is, in a world where some people (even in the USA, where someone like Donald Trump was allowed to rise to the level of a serious presidential candidate in 2016) have descended to such levels of ignorance that science itself is dismissed by leaders, political and religious as ‘an agenda’, and frightening numbers of people cling to ignorance and superstition because it suits their conservative anti-human rights views and objectives.

~ Christina Engela

People deserve their leaders.

~ Kambiz Shabankareh

People who are ready to learn are those who will be the best to lead.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

If you create an environment of conflicts, I don’t think you will enjoy peace yourself.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Sometimes the only things preventing your dreams from becoming realities is the long time it is taking you to start.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don’t just have dreams. Take actions too. To make it possible, begin every dream with a simple action and your interest will beam out.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Be passionate about your dreams and never give sleep to your eyes until your good becomes better and your better becomes the best.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You will never be rewarded for the dreams you slept over day in day out. You will be rewarded for dreams you stay awake and achieved.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Until you let go of that bitterness in your heart, it will find a comfortable place to destroy your dreams, your sight and most times, your sleep.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don’t only think of which job to get and live on. Think about which problem to solve and the jobs will keep suggesting themselves.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Most great accomplishments do not look promising in the beginning. If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You can’t wake up one day and suddenly become a leader. You first discover that specific thing God created you for, develop it into something specific that the world will need, and then you have already leading started leading.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When the lenses in the eyes of a leader captures tomorrow, they don't print the passport size of it. They make enlargements.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Because of fear, most people don’t dream big. Because of fear, even those who dream big do not start working on them. Because of fear, those who start working on their dreams end up quitting too early.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The competency of people you mobilize to work with will determine the output you will receive. As a leader, always look for people who buy into your vision.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The failure of a person is wrapped in his ignorance about his strengths.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When picking a leader, choose a peacemaker. One who unites, not divides. A cultured leader who supports the arts and true freedom of speech, not censorship.

~ Suzy Kassem

Some leaders are born women.

~ Geraldine Ferraro

Leaders say no to corruption. Anyone playing a role in governance, and is not ready to do this is not a leader.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A true leader is a servant.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

At the end of the day, I do not care how many Democrats or Republicans are in office. What I do care about is whether our leader is truly serving THE PEOPLE or only his/her own pockets. Is our leader in tune with the concerns and needs of the man on the street - or only issues concerning private interests? Is this leader uniting or dividing the country? Milking or contributing to it? Building and preserving it -- or bringing it all down?

~ Suzy Kassem

No country can police corruption in other countries when it itself is not free from corruption. You cannot clean a dirty wall with dirty hands.

~ Suzy Kassem

Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor are grossly cruel.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Mothers and fathers are born everywhere. What the world needs are leaders.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Leadership by deception isn't leadership. It's fraud.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.

~ Dashanne Stokes

If this were a courageous country,it would ask Gloria to lead itsince she is sane and funny and beautiful and smartand the National Leaders we've always hadare not.When I listen to her talk about women's rightschildren's rightsmen's rightsI think of the long line of Americans who should have been president, but weren't.Imagine Crazy Horse as president. Sojourner Truth.John Brown. Harriet Tubman. Black Elk or Geronimo.Imagine President Martin Luther King confrontingthe youthful Oppie Oppenheimer. Imagine PresidentMalcolm X going after the Klan. Imagine President StevieWonder dealing with the Truly Needy.Imagine President Shirley Chisholm, Ron Dellums, orSweet Honey in the Rockdealing with Anything.It is imagining to make us weep with frustration,as we languish under real estate dealers, killers, and bad actors.

~ Alice Walker

Leaders who do not help the people must be replaced by the people.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

~ Stewart Stafford

To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intentions.

~ Suzy Kassem

Public men in America are too public. Too accessible. This sitting on the stoop and being 'just folk' was all very well for local politics and the simple farmer days of a hundred years ago, but it's no good for world affairs. Opening flower-shows and being genial to babies and all that is out of date. These parish politics methods have to go. The ultimate leader ought to be distant, audible but far off. Show yourself and then vanish into a cloud. Marx would never have counted for one tenth of his weight as 'Charlie Marx' playing chess with the boys, and Woodrow Wilson threw away all his magic as far as Europe was concerned when he crossed the Atlantic. Before he crossed he was a god -- what a god he was! After he arrived he was just a grinning guest. I've got to be the Common Man, yes, but not common like that.

~ H.g. Wells

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

~ Seth Godin

People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is as simple as that. Birds fly because they have wings and so when you can’t grow the wings, you can’t be called a bird. Leaders make impacts because they create new ideas and so if you can’t think of any new innovative ideas, you can’t be a leader.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

What it takes is the passion to lead and the commitment to that passion through a lifetime. A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.

~ Israelmore Ayivor