Leadership Quotes

You are responsible for everything you TWEET and RETWEET.

~ Germany Kent

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

~ Abhijit Naskar

I wrote Beyond The Label to open up the aperture through which we look at the world. I want us to reconsider what it means to be a woman, a mentor, a wife, a mother.

~ Maureen Chiquet

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

~ Maureen Chiquet

Allowing yourself to follow the crevices of your heart lines is a messy process and not easy to characterize or rationalize into neat and tidy lists and boxes.

~ Maureen Chiquet

This book is for those of you who are tired of trying to squeeze into constrained categories, who long for a life without limits on who you are or who you will become.

~ Maureen Chiquet

The underlying issue in getting women to top positions is what kind of leadership we value and how we teach, assess, and promote “good” leaders in all organizations.

~ Maureen Chiquet

Be bold in pursuing what others believe is unrealistic because this will achieve more than being bland and unimaginative.

~ Janna Cachola

When your leadership and legacy are built on love, obstacles are overcome through love’s fruit of optimism, foundations are built solid and secure in love’s values, and success is achieved through the strength found in love’s endurance.

~ Farshad Asl

The more you've struggled, the more inspiring your story will be when you come out the other side. Do not give up. Today's struggle brings tomorrow's wisdom.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others. If you shun someone, the effect will trickle down through those who value your opinion.

~ Kelley Armstrong

The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.

~ David Kelley

Maybe he wasn’t there to lead so much as to provide an illusion to the others that they were being led.

~ Hugh Howey

Leadership is all about leading your life with a cause greater than yourself and continuously doing self-development.

~ Deepak Burfiwala

Fair-minded people earn the respect of their colleagues rather than demanding it.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

Relational congruence is the ability to be fundamentally the same person with the same values in every relationship, in every circumstance and especially amidst crisis. It is the internal capacity to keep promises to God, to self and to one's relationships that consistently express one's identity and values in spiritually and emotionally healthy ways. Relational congruence is about both constancy and care at the same time. It is about both character and affection, and self-knowledge and authentic self-expression. Relational congruence is the leader's ability to cultivate strong, healthy, caring relationships; maintaining healthy boundaries; and communicating clear expectations, all while staying focused on the mission.

~ Tod Bolsinger

Of course the servants had chosen not to follow me, I’d failed them already by refusing to be a man they could believe in.

~ Megan Whalen Turner

Those who criticize the innovative concept of multi-site churches must also remember that at one point stained glass and hymnals were new as well.

~ Braden Pedersen

You can’t lead without love, and more importantly, you can’t leave a legacy without love.

~ Farshad Asl

...The happy Warrior... 'tis he whose law is reason; who depends upon that law as on the best of friends; whence, in a state where men are tempted still to evil for a guard against worse ill, and what in quality or act is best doth seldom on a right foundation rest, he labors good on good to fix, and owes to virtue every triumph that he knows: who, if he rise to station of command, rises by open means; and there will stand on honorable terms, or else retire, and in himself possess his own desire; who comprehends his trust, and to the same keeps faithful with a singleness of aim; and therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait for wealth, or honors, or for worldly state; whom they must follow; on whose head must fall, like showers of manna, if they come at all:

~ William Wordsworth

Stop grovelling and start working.

~ Abhijit Naskar

You are born to build the society, not to follow it.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The world needs heroes. Be a hero and build your part of the world.

~ Abhijit Naskar

True Leaders take an Ordinary Person and turn them into an Extraordinary Performer.

~ Farshad Asl

You don't die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Throw away the newspapers. Discard all the useless debates and gossiping. Start working in silence. Start working on your passion. And make the news yourself.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Have patience and keep working. Everything will come alright in time.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Decisiveness is the number one quality of a dynamic leader, his ability to communicate a decision with passion and integrity is an art form.

~ Farshad Asl

Leadership without servanthood is like an ocean without water.

~ Farshad Asl

Innovative leaders today are digital conductors, problem-solvers, and culture influencers.

~ Pearl Zhu

Innovative thinkers are explorers and synthesizers of new world views or future views of the world.

~ Pearl Zhu

Courageous people know that old ways of doing things shouldn’t stand in the way of a better solution.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

A true revolution is about making those who are comfortable with corruption, uncomfortable. It's about pointing your fingers in the right direction and with nothing but the truth, will come power. A power not to exploit the Liberian people. But an ability to restore liberty, justice, and prosperity for all. - Henry Johnson Jr

~ Henry Johnson Jr

True leaders don't look at just the outward appearances in the selection of team members, they look at one's core values and heart.

~ Farshad Asl

...The happy Warrior... is he... whose powers shed round him in the common strife, or mild concerns of ordinary life, a constant influence, a peculiar grace; but who, if he be called upon to face some awful moment to which Heaven has joined great issues, good or bad for human kind, is happy as a lover; and attired with sudden brightness, like a man inspired; and, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law in calmness made, and sees what he foresaw; or if an unexpected call succeed, come when it will, is equal to the need: he who, though thus endued as with a sense and faculty for storm and turbulence, is yet a soul whose master-bias leans to homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes; sweet images! which, wheresoe'er he be, are at his heart; and such fidelity it is his darling passion to approve; more brave for this, that he hath much to love:—

~ William Wordsworth

A level 4 leader's greatest asset is his ability to engage, empower, and equip his people; this is what creates the momentum for a significant change in the organization. He invests 80% in his people and 20% in the process.

~ Farshad Asl

A journey to make real impact that changes lives, give meaning to life and living, and turns vision of the masses into realities demands a true focus, an utmost zeal and robustness and an unfailing tenacity to do whatever necessary within the powers and reach of a true leader, and with all needed dexterity, wit and wisdom, to make real impact have a meaning and give real liberation to the masses!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Simplicity is the language of leadership.

~ Farshad Asl

Sins of omission should be regarded as far more serious than sins of commission

~ Stephen Bungay

Telling people what to do is showmanship.Showing people how to do it is leadership.

~ Janna Cachola