Leadership Quotes

[T]hese leaders must not believe they are actually being watched, for their behavior in no way reflects the possible existence of a set of values or ethical laws that supersedes their own dominion.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.

~ Jack Weatherford

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

~ Thomas S. Monson

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

~ Seth Godin

Leaders..should influence others..in such a way that it builds people up, encourages and edifies them so they can duplicate this attitude in others.

~ Bob Goshen

‎You will never reach your dreams without honoring others along the way.

~ John Paul Warren

If there were only success in your life, you would not learn anything. Leadership is experience and you are still young. You still have much to learn about our people and war; it should not come easy to you. If it did, you would be robbed of life's most valuable teacher.

~ Rachel Higginson

In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man.

~ B.f. Skinner

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned — would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

~ Charles Dickens

Lobbing hand grenades on the bride of Christ takes zero talent or effort. I also think this really ticks God off. My five-year-old child complains and whines when things aren't the way she wants them, but courageous men and women roll up their sleeves and get busy. I want to be an active participant in putting back together the broken pieces.

~ Mike Foster

Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.

~ Warren G. Bennis

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work ot make it better.

~ Barbra Pletcher

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

~ Thornton Wilder

In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he always knows what's up, like nothing can ruffle him.

~ Jeff Greenfield

the condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

~ Thornton Wilder

Women feel a need for a certain level of prior training and experience that men do not necessarily demand in order to jump into a new role. There's a need for women to trust themselves more...

~ Selena Rezvani

Count your blessings, discount you’re loses

~ John Paul Warren

Through real-life stories, Kristin Kaufman illustrates the core idea of being present in the moment and opening oneself up to new ideas in order to become an authentic leader in life.

~ Stephen R. Covey

No.” Allie stood her ground. “I’ll not go in.““Me, neither.” Jason slid from his horse. “If Allie ain’t going in, I’m not going in.”Wes glanced skyward. How was it possible for his near mute wife to pick up an echo? After four years in the Army, leading men, and two years of pushing cattle to market, it took Allie to make Wes realize that a leader wasn’t a leader unless he had a follower.“All right, where would you like to sleep tonight?

~ Jodi Thomas

In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images.

~ Adam S. Mchugh

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

~ Norman Schwarzkopf

They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.

~ Ray Bradbury

Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save yourself, you can give up too many of those qualities that are the essence of being alive, like innocence, curiosity, and compassion.

~ Ronald A. Heifetz

If done as God wants.' then leadership will surely include intercessory prayer. The saintly Bishop Azariah of India once remarked to Bishop Stephen Neill that he found time to pray daily, by name, for every leader in his extensive diocese. Little wonder that during his thirty years of eldering there, the diocese tripled its membership and greatly increase in spiritual effectiveness

~ J. Oswald Sanders

The mind is a storehouse with great capacity, but is often filled with dubious knowledge and meaningless trivialities. In truth, much of this - though at times interesting and entertaining - is of insignificant value.

~ Stevenson Willis

The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

The conservatives had started bringing demagoguery to the table on the [Afghan] war issue the previous fall [fall 2006]. Whenever opposition members criticized the war policy, assorted Tories accused them of being disloyal and of failing to support the troops....[Harper] was gaining the reputation of a leader who couldn't see a belt without wanting to hit below it.

~ Lawrence Martin

Effective decision-making can be seen as an optimal link between memory of the past, ground-realities of the present and insights of the future.

~ Amit Ray

Point me in the right direction, and shut the fuck up. I'm the one calling the shots now. Fall in line or fall down a fucking well.

~ Robert Kirkman

The choice to lead is nurtured by the willingness to rise above challenges of life.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Be the start of something that is good, revolutionary and powerful. Everything after that is a bonus!

~ Carlos Wallace

Never undermine the power of passion. You have a very high chance of achieving anything you are passionate about.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Try not to leave your work for someone else to do. If possible, carry the work of someone and add it to yours. That's a trait of leaders!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Contrary to popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained or enthroned. Leadership is self-made, self-retained, self-inculcated and then exposed through a faithful, sincere and examplary life.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.

~ Criss Jami

A true leader is still a leader even when he takes up servants' duty, provided he maintains a human face and added integrity to his self-retained qualities.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you want people to to think, give them intent, not instruction.

~ L. David Marquet

If you don’t know what you value in life, then you won’t be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both.

~ Jon Meacham