Leadership Quotes

Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears.

~ George R.r. Martin

In the end,” Callum said, his voice soft, gentle, “it all comes back to you. You protect them [your pack], you love them, you live for them, and someday, you die. That’s what it means, Bryn-girl, to be what we are [to be Alpha]. It’s lonely. It’s impossible. It’s all-consuming.” It is what it is.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.

~ Larry Crabb

The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?

~ John C. Maxwell

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.

~ Tom Rath

Stop counting your years and start enjoying your seasons.

~ John Paul Warren

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves, good leaders raise the bar for others, great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

~ Orrin Woodward

It’s not just picking the right friends. It is being the right friend.

~ John Paul Warren

Belief has the power to change your inner state and your outer world.

~ John Paul Warren

If you perceive right you receive right. If you perceive wrong you receive wrong.

~ John Paul Warren

Although individuals need not be well-rounded, teams should be.

~ Tom Rath

The world is full of stupid people. That's why we have rules. But with enough intelligence, a person can be above the rules. She can make rules.

~ Daniel Nayeri

Neoteny is more than retaining a youthful appearance, although that is often part of it. Neoteny is the retention of all those wonderful qualities that we associate with youth: curiosity, playfulness, eagerness, fearlessness, warmth, energy. Unlike those defeated by time and age, our geezers have remained much like our geeks – open, willing to take risks, hungry for knowledge and experience, courageous, eager to see what the new day brings. Time and lost steal the zest from the unlucky, and leave them looking longingly at the past. Neoteny is a metaphor for the quality – and the gift – that keeps the fortunate of whatever age focused on all marvelous undiscovered things to come.

~ Warren G. Bennis

To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.

~ Napoleon Hill

Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).

~ Tony Dungy

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

~ George Washington

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.

~ Eugene V. Debs

Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.

~ Karen Marie Moning

Your life is a trajectory. Every choice you make alters that trajectory, in a positive or negative way. Will you categorize that dinner with friends as a business expense? Will you be honest with your daughter? Will you take more credit than you’re due? These are just the small questions that we face every day, and little by little, the answers influence the trajectory of our lives and beings.

~ Donald Van De Mark

No great manager or leader ever fell from heaven, its learned not inherited.

~ Tom Northup

Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.

~ John C. Maxwell

Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I define my life not by the things I have done, but by the people I have loved.

~ John Paul Warren

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

~ Warren G. Bennis

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

~ Orrin Woodward

Most people don't care who's in charge as long as someone is.

~ Tanya Huff

As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership.

~ Amit Ray

Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility - toughness for accountability - flexibility to adapt changes with a compassionate & caring heart for self and others.

~ Amit Ray

You can’t move up in the staircase of leadership unless you are emotionally intelligent.

~ Amit Ray

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

~ Peter F. Drucker

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

~ Kelley Armstrong

When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.

~ Jerry Porras

When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up.

~ Malcolm X

Good leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own.

~ Roy Bennett

Compassionate leaders honor the complexity of human relationships, nurture authenticity and create common grounds for blooming great ideas of individuals.

~ Amit Ray

In essence, leadership is the sense of calling to a higher purpose.

~ Amit Ray

Compassionate leaders know their stakeholders and address their concerns, their hopes, dreams and fears.

~ Amit Ray