Leadership Quotes

... The political leader must constantly appraise and reappraise the means through which 'he can hope to do justice to the responsibility that power imposes upon him' while at the same time pursuing political values with conviction.

~ Nicholas Gane

The sacrifice ‘of’ self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice ‘for’ self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The masses who complain about bad leadership must first check their unbiased choices.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You follow voice of masses, Possibly you suppress your inner voice.

~ Bikash Bhandari

Those who are not true leaders or elders will just affirm people at their own immature level, and of course immature people will love them and elect them for being equally immature. You can fill in the names here with your own political disaster story. But just remember, there is a symbiosis between immature groups and immature leaders, I am afraid, which is why both Plato and Jefferson said democracy was not really the best form of government. It is the safest. A truly wise monarch would probably be the most effective at getting things done.

~ Richard Rohr

To impart a moral responsibility to exercise fairness in leadership builds greater leaders of strong character.

~ Wayne Chirisa

In my view, leadership is the courage to take risks in defense of a position that is both legal and moral. The politician who tries to become a wise guy by becoming friends to everybody - corrupt or not - is not a leader.

~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one can lie at crucial moments.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Could we imagine that beauty itself doesn’t just exist in society’s version of aesthetic perfection? Beauty also emerges from places and things that tell us stories.

~ Maureen Chiquet

I’m glad that this team has a woman for a leader,” Onoria finally said. Regina didn’t quite know how to reply. “I’m fed up with men in charge not knowing what they’re talking about.” Onoria turned towards Regina. “Aren’t you?”“I don’t like people in charge that don’t know what they’re doing, male or female,” Regina said.

~ Alex Avrio

Creative thinking begins by embracing your naiveté and rejecting the obvious in favor of the unusual, the extraordinary, the evocative and or the new.

~ Maureen Chiquet

I can understand backward patriarchal reasoning coming from a male, but from a woman - and of all people, a leader of women? It says something profound about leadership - and, if anything - what it says about followers is not very flattering at all.

~ Christina Engela

Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.

~ Eleanor Brownn

When girls see women in leadership roles speaking out for what they believe in, they see it is possible for them, too. Instead of a faraway dream, their aspirations become real, concrete and achievable. Womanhood starts to look more inviting.

~ Tabby Biddle

It doesn't matter to me that my leaving will cost you money. It doesn't matter that my space will take time to fill. What matters is that I'm happy and if you're not willing to invest in me, then I'm willing to cost you money.

~ Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be.

~ Orrin Woodward

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

~ Seth Godin

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

~ Charles Dickens

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

Be the initiator of things you wish to see, but can’t see. Be the originator of things you wish you feel but can’t feel.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The leader’s joy is the success of change, the evidence of progress and the actualization of a better life.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Millennials, instead of a danger, are really a reflection of the society in which they grew up in, and in which all of us now live.

~ Crystal Kadakia

Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary.

~ Jeffrey Fry

The biggest roadblock to changing the world is believing that your voice doesn't matter.

~ Adam Kirk Smith

Leaders are not the ones with the right position or a proclaimed or given title, the actual leaders are the people who start acting, who step up, who do change, no matter in what way or how small!

~ Akilnathan Logeswaran

The action generated the possibility of a future different from the past. Bitter division was healed by way of bold, confident leadership.

~ Rom Watangu

When you choose to act on your problems, you cease to be a victim of circumstance and become a force of change; that's when you transition to not only being a survivor, but to being a leader or hero too, and an inspiration to those still in the victim's mindset.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I’d always heard people say and I’m sure you heard it too, “Change takes time.” But, my parents taught me the more important lesson, very silently but with even greater clarity, “Change takes time. But, it also takes people.” People who are willing to put in their everything. Change doesn’t happen by itself.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Coachable leaders are ready and willing to make the needed changes and adjustments in their lives.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

You can't stop Greatness; you can only try to delay it. And when you try to delay it, it just gets Greater because it gains new strength.

~ Tiffany Winfree

Love and Hate are two of the most used, abused, and misused words of mankind.

~ Tiffany Winfree

If you change your words to positive reinforcement, the negative reactions will lose their power

~ Bluenscottish

I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while.

~ Jim Bouton

Hell yeah! Twitter was proof that leaderless self-organizing systems could be true agents of change.

~ Biz Stone

It was due to his tact, to his judgment, to his sympathetic manipulation of human beings that the atmosphere had always been such a happy one... If there was a change, therefore, the change must be due to the man at the top.

~ Agatha Christie