Leadership Quotes

To create oneself as a Leader the foundation of Integrity must be laid, built with character and aspirations of greatness

~ Bluenscottish

Think of strength, dream of strength, live of strength.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Marketing without sales is dead.

~ Richie Norton

We stand at an immense fork in the raod. One way is the path of generosity, dignity and a respect for other races and customs; the other leads most certainly to greed, suspicion, hatered and the old, bloody course of violence and waste - and now, God help us, to the very destruction of all the struggles and triumphs of the human race on this earth. My old friends and fellow townsmen: which will it be?

~ Anton Myrer

Great leaders are most often God’s spokesmen.

~ Jay Bryan Sandifer

Courageous people know that saying ‘no’ to one idea enables them to say ‘yes’ to another.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

His request to those listening was to start every day knowing that each minute lost is one that they will never get back and use that thought to drive them forward. This is what resonates most with this writer about our beloved Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid, he is a force of positive energy that the world is in dire need of. Therefore, when people ponder about what it is that makes the government of the United Arab Emirates different one can safely reach the conclusion that, Mohammed Bin Rashid is the difference.

~ Aysha Taryam

Real leaders focus resources in areas that provide the greatest opportunity rather than making across-the-board decisions.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Every posting, message, or email creates an impression, a public persona, from which other people make judgments. We make judgments about others, but how often do we turn that critical analysis on ourselves?

~ Kent Alan Robinson

Character – the inner world of motives and values that shapes our actions – is the ultimate determiner of the nature of our leadership. It empowers our capacities while keeping them in check. It distinguishes those who steward power well from those who abuse power. Character weaves such values as integrity, honesty, and selfless service into the fabric of our lives, organizations, and cultures.

~ Bill Thrall

Rephrase the words staff members into team members. Because the people in our team are far more than employees, or colleagues. We are a unit!

~ Janna Cachola

For every opinion, there is an equal and opposite opinion.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

You are always a gardener. What grow - and how it grows - is up to you.

~ Jones Loflin

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law...Do you understand the rights I have just read to you? With these rights in mind, do you wish to speak to me?” Most Americans adults have heard the Miranda rights from countless television and movie crime drams. The first statement of the Miranda rights is a simple but powerful declarative sentence. “You have the right to remain silent.” Not speaking will not be held against you, but the suspect is told that any words spoken “can and will be used against you in a court of law.” U.S. law provides the opportunity for reflection and protection against self-incrimination with the last sentence asking, “Do you wish to speak to me?” Reflect and ask yourself, it is wise to post or send an email containing that information?

~ Kent Alan Robinson

An organization's proprietary, internal information is constrained only by an understanding that stake-holders will keep organizational matters within the organization.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

A damaging email forwarded outside the organization is indicative of problems within the organization.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

The written word imparts a gravitas the spoken word lacks. The underlying assumption is that time and thought has been expended on what was written, even if that is not the case.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

A car crash at seventy-five miles an hour results in glass and steel strewn about the roadway. Emergency workers attend to the injured drivers, passengers and bystanders, and remove the wreckage. An electronic communication wreck lacks the visual drama, but imparts damage just as real and just as permanent. A momentary lapse in judgment may prove catastrophic for the writer, their family, coworkers, and stakeholders.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

Emails, texts and social media promise the writer the power to be heard…In a society where relinquishing control is viewed as weakness, power is relinquished through every message sent without forethought to the potential consequences.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

In the Darwinian environment of business, one's most provocative words are naturally selected by competitors to be hurled back at them at the most inopportune moments. Do not arm your adversaries.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

Neither inherently good nor evil, electronic communication platforms are 100 percent dependent on user input.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

...as we proceed to higher and higher levels of expertise, and as the stakes get higher and higher, the agonies of excellence reappear in new and frightening ways. A tiny minority gets through to the top, to memorable excellence or profound understanding. The rest of us stop at stages along the way, perhaps for a temporary rest, perhaps for a period of reassessment. But once we stop, we are unlikely to start up again. Security is suddenly far sweeter than enterprise. The sufferings of the ascent, so long endured by insuppressible aspiration, suddenly seem pointless.

~ Robert Grudin

To be fully in service to something one has experienced as real is the essence of leadership in a nonhierarchical age. A leader is the holder of a story, someone whose experience of its reality is deep enough so that she can hold the belief on behalf of others.

~ Charles Eisenstein

They'll tell you who they think you should be they'll even try to manipulate you into believing it but let me tell you something son, if I listened to who I was supposed to be - this, everything we are and do wouldn't be in existence. Be a leader, find yourself and make a life with it. Those who judge you and try to force the patterns of their beliefs onto you are envious they haven't the strength in themselves to do the same.

~ Nikki Rowe

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody knows that but you.

~ John Wooden

You are always a gardener. What grows - and how it grows - is up to you.

~ Jones Loflin

One reason I continue to oppose efforts to criminalize abortion is that I do not believe any government should have the power to dictate, through law or police action, a woman's most personal decisions.I consider that a slippery slope to state control of reproduction, and I'd witnessed the consequences of such control in China and Communist Romania.

~ Hillary Rodham Clinton

I don't need to be vocal about my intentions, I am just intentional about my actions.

~ Janna Cachola

Once a message has been sent electronically, the writer has ceded power not just to the recipient, but to whomever the recipient chooses to forward the information. To access electronic communication is to control it. The recipient, not the writer, has power over future dissemination of the writer’s words.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

Generous leaders are servant leaders. They always come with open hands and an open heart.

~ Farshad Asl

The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do with your attitude and how you treat people.

~ Germany Kent

You Are At Different Levels With Different People.

~ Syed Sharukh

Never embrace a version of the gospel that doesn't require you to do life with someone who isn't like you.

~ Reggie Joiner

Leadership isn't just about giving orders. A fool can give orders. A leader listens. He changes his mind. He acknowledges mistakes.

~ Brian Staveley

LOVE is Leadership through Optimism, Value, and Endurance.

~ Farshad Asl

Leadership is not only about producing results or measuring success with statistics. Leadership is doing something with significance that makes families, organizations, societies, nations, and the world a better place before you die.

~ Farshad Asl

LEGACY plays an important role in defining a good leader at any age.

~ Farshad Asl

Mr Mandela, who had given his whole life for justice and had never once thought of himself. How unlike these people were modern politicians, who thought only of power and tricks.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

Though sometimes you must have an unstoppable courage, it must be with a well defined humility for purposeful living! Humility is not just good for our lives; it also greatly saves our lives, integrity and true purpose! Don’t just think you are on top of the world just because you stand on the tallest building. When the building collapses, you may be far worse than they that walk besides the building who can run away upon seeing it collapsing!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah