Leadership Development Quotes

I have learned a lot about myself over the years, mostly because I was open to hearing feedback. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. I usually dislike someone before I like them. I’m sensitive—especially when I’m tired or feel I’m being misunderstood. This may sound like the “About Me” section on a bad online dating profile, but knowing this stuff has allowed me to keep my contacts, my reputation, and my sanity throughout a long and often stressful career. Being self-aware means knowing when you’re about to act bad—and then not acting bad.

~ Alyssa Mastromonaco

What you realize is that everyone has her own priorities—her own constituency. Often, being a leader is not about making grand proclamations or telling people what to do; it’s about balancing all these priorities and constituencies.

~ Alyssa Mastromonaco

You should always be prepared to defend your choices, whether just to yourself (sometimes this is the hardest) or to your coworkers, your friends, or your family. The quickest way for people to lose confidence in your ability to ever make a decision is for you to pass the buck, shrug your shoulders, or otherwise wuss out. Learning how to become a decision maker, and how you ultimately justify your choices, can define who you are.

~ Alyssa Mastromonaco

Let them ask who you are but do not let others dictate who you should be.

~ Hockson Floin

Money Can make things better but a perfect relationship makes your life complete.

~ Hockson Floin

The Shoes Should fit! you can't build a business that is not yours.

~ Hockson Floin

Leadership is not about gaining something from your actions. Gain is the outcome and should not be the purpose.

~ Mayur Ramgir

As you start your day, are you wondering what you will reap, or are you wondering what you will sow?

~ John C. Maxwell

Leadership needs continuous learning from experience. Every time you learn something new, you re-wire your brain.

~ Amit Ray

Don’t look for leadership just at the top of the tree. Listen to leadership wherever it is expressed.

~ Phil Dourado

Leadership is not about the power and status of one but the empowerment and service of all. That is what it should be and that is how it should be measured.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

You can’t effectively move up to the next stage of leadership yourself until your current stage leadership skills are solid and are being developed in your team members so they can take over as you move on.

~ Liz Weber

What is the cost of replacing and bringing up to speed one of your managers, supervisors, or front-line employees who left because they were frustrated with your organization’s leadership?

~ Liz Weber

Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Facts and intuition are false opposites.Leaders should listen to their intuition and instincts and allow others to do the same because they are sub-conscious, fast ways of processing, aggregating and then accessing evidence to reach a swift conclusion.Trust your gut.

~ Phil Dourado

Self is All. (First Principle of Humanism)

~ Abhijit Naskar

Mark you, no Krishna can clear your eyes and make you look with a broader vision upon life in your march upward and onward, until the Self within you morphs into Krishna – until the Self morphs into Buddha – until the Self turns into Christ.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Only you can save yourself.

~ Abhijit Naskar

There is an interplay between great leadership, events, trends, the organization, the people in it, the market 'out there' that goes far beyond one person exercising their will over others. That's not what leadership is any more.

~ Phil Dourado

empty out the toxins of life to avoid clogging

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Awake, O brave one! Arise, O lion-heart! Be the messenger that spreads compassion.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The spotlight does not change a person, it simply reveals what one has mastered in the darkness

~ Lazarus Takawira

I am sorry, I was wrong and it’s my fault, these are words only accustomed to humble leadership

~ Lazarus Takawira

Great leaders are most often God’s spokesmen.

~ Jay Bryan Sandifer

Every posting, message, or email creates an impression, a public persona, from which other people make judgments. We make judgments about others, but how often do we turn that critical analysis on ourselves?

~ Kent Alan Robinson

For every opinion, there is an equal and opposite opinion.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law...Do you understand the rights I have just read to you? With these rights in mind, do you wish to speak to me?” Most Americans adults have heard the Miranda rights from countless television and movie crime drams. The first statement of the Miranda rights is a simple but powerful declarative sentence. “You have the right to remain silent.” Not speaking will not be held against you, but the suspect is told that any words spoken “can and will be used against you in a court of law.” U.S. law provides the opportunity for reflection and protection against self-incrimination with the last sentence asking, “Do you wish to speak to me?” Reflect and ask yourself, it is wise to post or send an email containing that information?

~ Kent Alan Robinson

An organization's proprietary, internal information is constrained only by an understanding that stake-holders will keep organizational matters within the organization.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

A damaging email forwarded outside the organization is indicative of problems within the organization.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

The written word imparts a gravitas the spoken word lacks. The underlying assumption is that time and thought has been expended on what was written, even if that is not the case.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

A car crash at seventy-five miles an hour results in glass and steel strewn about the roadway. Emergency workers attend to the injured drivers, passengers and bystanders, and remove the wreckage. An electronic communication wreck lacks the visual drama, but imparts damage just as real and just as permanent. A momentary lapse in judgment may prove catastrophic for the writer, their family, coworkers, and stakeholders.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

Emails, texts and social media promise the writer the power to be heard…In a society where relinquishing control is viewed as weakness, power is relinquished through every message sent without forethought to the potential consequences.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

Neither inherently good nor evil, electronic communication platforms are 100 percent dependent on user input.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

Once a message has been sent electronically, the writer has ceded power not just to the recipient, but to whomever the recipient chooses to forward the information. To access electronic communication is to control it. The recipient, not the writer, has power over future dissemination of the writer’s words.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do with your attitude and how you treat people.

~ Germany Kent

You Are At Different Levels With Different People.

~ Syed Sharukh

No institution can become the cradle of leadership, until its teachers break their manacles of rugged dogmas.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Good leaders are always in the “act” of leading. They listen as much to others as they listen to themselves.

~ Maureen Chiquet

A humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Entitlement is such a cancer, because it is void of gratitude.

~ Adam Kirk Smith