Leaders Quotes

A compassionate government does not need to pay too much attention to those who don't have needs. True leadership is to fulfill a need of the needy. People who have needs need attention indeed! Be a true leader!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

True leaders do not make choices with reference to the opinion of the majority. They make choices based on the opinion of the truth and the truth can come from either the majority or the minority!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

True leaders are like statues, whether it rains or it shines, they never bend their necks to look backwards! They never run away from challenges!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leadership is built on true character! You lose your leadership when you fake your character. The degree of leadership potential a person can expose will depend on how potent he can maintain his true character!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You may gain a position, but that does not mean you've gained leadership. You may lose position, but that does not mean you've lost leadership! When you gain true character, you can leadership and when you lose it, you cease to be a leader!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Good leaders always bring about transformation... Bad leaders only maintain and preserve long standing mediocrity!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

...21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Christ is my model of leadership because he faced similar challenges we also face on earth today, but through it all He was victorious. To leaders are not overcome by challenges!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Unfortunately, most followers do not know that they can also become leaders because to them, leadership is confined to an assumed category of people who have authority or social prestige as their background pillows.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your character and attitude is what takes the lead in your leadership role and you follow them as a true leader. Poor character and attitude is eventually poor leadership.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

One of the most common areas where we fail is when we begin to think that genetic make-up of a person determines how far he can lead. Leadership is learnt and practiced!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Real kings and queens are people whose heads are crowned with dreams as they sit on the throne of passion. They rule with visions in the regalia of inspirations!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You cannot climb up to a true leadership position unless you use the ladder of integrity!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is said that if you want to change the world, take pen and write. I want to add that if you want to maintain that change, then be the ruler to rule the pen's lines. True rulers are true leaders; they maintain a change!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A leader without a clear vision and plans only abuses his power because visions, dreams and plans are the fulcrum along which the loads of success will spine by your own efforts. And where power is abused, there is manipulation instead of inspiration.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You are your own leader. Where are you driving yourself to now? You can't afford to go wayward! Rise up and break new territories and live life so well.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Yes. Oh no! I don't subject myself to a leadership that does not break new territories! It is the job of leadership to succeed in landing its limbs on new grounds.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your title is what you are; your visions are who you are. When you know who you are, then you will know where you can be useful most.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and to know this, check his sense of vision.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

As good surgical doctor works on a patient in the theater with varied kinds of surgical instruments, so a true leader also needs a clean bag of leadership characters that vary from task to task. One-way leaders are obvious failures!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you want to wait till your black hairs turn grey and your teeth start pulling out before you become a leader, you are either too fast to prove your ignorance, or you are too late to know who you are made of.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders are not known by their positions; they are known by their roles in those position. You have many gifts as a leader, but your dominant gift is what you will use to lead.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

True leaders are willing to die for their dreams. They don't oppress with ignorance; they impress with visions. They live like Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela...

~ Israelmore Ayivor

We can serve humanity with our divine passions and gifted skills.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A dream conceived from the inside-out eventually becomes reality. But a dream desired from the outside-in is subject to spoil and tragedy.

~ T.f. Hodge

No one will shake my conviction that those leaders of men, who are in the nature of carbuncles, of semi-conscious abscesses, who draw feverish crowds to them like noxious humours, have an innate knowledge of arrested time. They play with those vacant moments as though at a game of chequers. A fraction of suspended, frozen time, of inert time, jammed like a wedge into the most wonderfully oiled cogs of the most lucid of minds: and the whole mechanism is brought crashing to the ground, prepared to accept any authority, to endorse the most monstrous aberrations, especially collective ones.

~ Jacques Yonnet

The best ever spiritual coach you can ever have is Jesus Christ, our model of true leadership! You can do all things through Christ your and my spiritual coach!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A saint or monk can afford to be compassionate to all, but a leader or boss cannot always be kind. He may soon be without a job himself if he is unduly compassionate, and chances are, no one would show him any compassion then.

~ Awdhesh Singh

Now, are those engaged in the business of governing any different by nature from those they govern?Yes. They're prideful and tend to sexual misconduct. Also, the situation of being in government tends to drive you mad.But are they more virtuous or more intelligent? Or more compassionate?Ha!Let's call that one a 'no.

~ Nick Harkaway

Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

It is not your beauty, success or money that should define you; neither should your church calling, your charitable contributions or talents. Humility is the cornerstone of character, by which God judges our truth worth, and wisdom is the door he opens when we use it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is lack of contentment that leads to corruption.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your personal brand determines the kind of leadership influence you’ll provide.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The main factor that makes leadership potentials to become abused often is ignorance. Many people can merely spell their names in alphabets, but cannot pronounce their brands!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don't be a pleaser of people just because of the fear of the losing your position. You cease to be a true leader when you do so!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The vision of life is not a discovery; it's a work and whatever position you occupy demands work. Your life may not be built on your visions if you go high and find yourself doing the vice. Going higher should be a priority; but being aware of the reason for getting there should be the focus!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A “self-leader” is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You must be able to lead yourself before you can lead others.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

World Class leaders know the secret to motivating themselves and others is discovering what they will fight for when the going gets rough.

~ Steve Siebold