Leadership Quotes

Politics is motion. John Sears

~ Rick Perlstein

If you want to do something that really changes someone’s life, the best thing you can do is make the person you’re trying to help a participant in the process.

~ John Stahl-Wert

Leaders don’t call unhappy followers “ungrateful people”. They see them as “lesson teachers”. They find out why they are unhappy, perhaps it could be as a result of their attitudes. That informs them to change!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

As a leader, you will see things you may never like to see; yours is to correct those things so that next time you open your eyes, you will see better things you wish to be seeing always. Leaders learn to right the wrong of society.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders don’t give excessive vocal orders. They humbly involve people and together cooperate with them to make a change happen.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The author says one of the sources of resilience is the ability to measure and perceive early warning signs so as to adapt.

~ Andrew Zolli

You can’t lead people if you aren’t going to focus on what’s relevant to you and them. Don’t worry about who is and who is not watching you. Consider what you have to watch.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There is strength in kindness.

~ #Name?

Peter must have thought, Who am I compared to Mr. Faithfulness (John)? But Jesus clarified the issue. John was responsible for John. Peter was responsible for Peter. And each had only one command to heed: Follow Me. (John 21:20-22)

~ Charles R. Swindoll

Let your passion become a passionate pursuit of Me. And as you follow, the sheep will follow.' (John 21:20-22)

~ Charles R. Swindoll

Achieving great things through training, tenacity & time doesn't make someone vain. It lessens vanity! Therefore, I have one question: is @realDonaldTrump vain?

~ Steve Cioccolanti

The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Leadership calls for both wisdom and courage, the wisdom to know what to do is only half the battle. We must be courageous enough to actually do it.

~ Kellen Roggenbuck

The greatest men stand on their values and pray on their knees.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we’re listening.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

WHEN SIN HINDERS YOUR WORSHIP.God will never delay His promise.You have delayed Him...However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth? Luke 18:8b

~ Mac Canoza

God will never delay His promise.You have delayed Him.

~ Mac Canoza

Live life to the fullest or foolest.

~ Mac Canoza

When listeners become leaders, the world changes.

~ Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

It is not enough to believe. Believe must lead to change of attitude and conduct.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

~ J.k. Rowling

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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

~ William Arthur Ward

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

~ Steve Jobs

Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.

~ Tina Fey

Power isn’t control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.

~ Beth Revis

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

~ Lao Tzu

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

~ George S. Patton Jr.

Management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things.

~ Peter F. Drucker

A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.

~ Brandon Sanderson

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

~ Aristotle

...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

~ Albert Schweitzer

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

~ Brandon Sanderson

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

~ Henry David Thoreau

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

~ Tom Peters

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

~ Abraham Lincoln

The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

~ Colin Powell

The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.

~ Kenneth H. Blanchard