Leaders Quotes

Effective leaders have the ability to serve and appreciate others while at the same time enabling them to achieve greatness.

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Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion.

~ S. E. Entsua-Mensah

Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.

~ Richie Norton

Leaders should always be the initiators of reconciliation.

~ Adam Livecchi

A confident leader is like a duck. Above the water, he is calm and poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity.

~ Todd Stocker

Added pressure and responsibility should not change one's leadership style, it should merely expose that which already exists.

~ Mark W. Boyer

People with power do not regulate their behavior as much. They become egocentric and preoccupied with their own self-interest, which eclipses their awareness of the interests of others.

~ Dean M. Schroeder

Leadership defined: An equal and dual commitment to both results and relationships without compromising one for the other.

~ Al Ritter

If prophets are real, they are not leaders but followers.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Politicians obfuscate. It gets them re-elected. If no-one can understand what is going on, then the perception is that we need someone to guide us through the fog. Many people want to be led. A few people even think that they need to be led.

~ Sieg Pedde

Effective leaders make it easy for people around them to tell the truth, to be candid and open.

~ Al Ritter

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leadersare made rather than born.

~ Warren G. Bennis

There are certain people in your life and work where the relationship is more important than who is right or wrong.

~ Al Ritter

The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.

~ Gary Patton

True Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.

~ Matthew Norman

I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!

~ Bill Cosby

Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.

~ Fela Durotoye

If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.

~ Bill Hybels

Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.

~ Terry Goodkind

Richard rubbed his temples. He had a headache from lack of sleep. Don't you understand? This isn't about conquering lands and taking things from others; this is about fighting oppression.The general rested a boot on the gilded rung of a chair and hooked a thumb behind his wide belt. I don't see much difference. From my experience, the Master Rahl always thinks he knows best, and always wants to rule the world. You are your father's son. War is war. Reasons make no difference to us; we fight because we are told to, same as those on the other side. Reasons mean little to a man swinging his sword, trying to keep his head.

~ Terry Goodkind

The old world was destroyed because of its own greed and secretiveness. Those least evolved rose to the top, as happens here. Your leaders, as you call them, are all people with damaged senses of self-worth. The damaged goods run the civilization. That’s why it cannot last. Abraham Lincoln was damaged goods?The need to lead is a symptom.

~ Whitley Strieber

Senior pastors cannot be those who think they can do everything but are willing to let a few people help them. Rather, they are those who know they can’t do everything, don’t want to do everything, and are not willing to do everything; they welcome others to come along-side with their gifts in order to form a powerful team for Christ.

~ Sue Mallory

There are no perfect leaders.

~ Max Mckeown

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

~ Orrin Woodward

Great charismatic leaders don't just say what voters want to hear, they say what voters want to say.

~ C.l. Gammon

To get leaders to become stakeholders in ministry and to understand the DNA of your church, you must invest in them, equip them, and raise the bar of accountability.

~ Sue Mallory

I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

We are attempting to build, within our movement, non-exploitative ways of relating to one another based on trust and concern rather than political expediency. We have serious personal/political intentions in breaking down hierarchical and elitist structures, and for experimenting with leaderless groups and collective decision making. In dealing with the media these revolutionary principles and practices are destroyed. The media works to create leaders, it knows no way of relating to us on our own terms. Being interviewed and presented as a leader is a real ego trip--the media brings out the most counter-revolutionary traits in people. Elitism, dissension and division are the ultimate results.

~ Nancy Ferro

He who would rule must hear and be deaf see and be blind.

~ German Proverb

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman but I have the heart and stomach of a King and of a King of England too.

~ Elizabeth I

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

~ Robert Lindner

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

~ Thomas À Kempis

It is said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things and himself of anything.

~ Dean William R. Inge

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nothing is more difficult and therefore more precious than to be able to decide.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

To get others to come into our ways of thinking we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow in order to lead.

~ William Hazlitt

With a good conscience our only sure reward with history the final judge of our deeds let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

~ John F. Kennedy

Achilles absent was Achilles still.

~ Homer