Leadership Quotes

Every leadership role has a character driving force that will fulfill or decimate the ultimate purpose of the role.

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

HOW TO CHOOSE A GREAT LEADERChoose a leader who will invest in Building bridges, not walls.Books, not weapons.Morality, not corruption.Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance.Stability, not fear and terror.Peace, not chaos.Love, not hate.Convergence, not segregation.Tolerance, not discrimination.Fairness, not hypocrisy.Substance, not superficiality.Character, not immaturity.Transparency, not secrecy.Justice, not lawlessness.Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction.Truth, not lies.

~ Suzy Kassem

The body fades. A leader who would last relies on more.

~ N.k. Jemisin

A good leader doesn’t have to know everything. Nobody knows everything that’s why you surround yourself with people who are experts in different areas.“That’s what makes a good leader.

~ Patience Johnson

Effective leadership is doing important things first. Effective management is knowing what is important.

~ Debasish Mridha

Great leaders live and leave noble and indelible footprints. Any leader can start something. Any leader can do anything but, the real hallmark and a great measure of a great leader is not necessarily what happens now but, what happens later. The noble works of a true and a great leader stand the test of time and never vanish with time.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

... I believe that he will prosper most whose mode of acting best adapts itself to the character of the times; and conversely that he will be unprosperous, with whose mode of acting the times do not accord.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

If you cannot lead, do not mislead.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To be a real leader, serve with love.

~ Debasish Mridha

In the end, every startup is different. But in the beginning every startup is the same.

~ Richie Norton

Commitment precedes success. What you are committed to doing you will be successful at doing.

~ Dewayne Owens

Our real problem is not the pervasiveness of the darkness but a failure of the light. Light always dispels darkness. The glorious light of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ is still sufficient and available to those who reject self-reliance and return to His plan for biblical leadership. This return can reignite the radiance of the Gospel in transforming power.

~ Daniel Henderson

Great companies don`t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something better than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you`ll be stuck with whoever`s left.

~ Simon Sinek

Statecraft and kingship were not for the faint of heart

~ Sharon Kay Penman

Every time we decide to use our power to influence others, particularly if we`re gleeful and hasty, we damage the relationship. We move from enjoying a healthy partnership based on trust and mutual respect to establishing a police state that requires constant monitoring.

~ Kerry Patterson

We have good leadership only by chance, not by management.And we need to change that!

~ Amit Chatterjee

Don't be sad that one day or another you met someone who undermined your capabilities and sapped your energy, what that person did could be the strongest crucible that forged a great leader

~ Ahmed Elkadi

You must not wait to be elected into office, before you begin to serve. Begin to serve every where you are; in the home, community, school, university, work, hospital, church, market, society, nation and among many other places.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Leaders must served and not to be served as demonstrated by Jesus Christ, the Saviour.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

~ Walter Isaacson

Phronesis is a beautiful virtue, practise it and you shall reap the rewards…

~ Shana Pascoa

As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to the difference personalities make.

~ Walter Isaacson

No true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die. Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ludicrous fools who sometimes hoped to achieve some ideal by fiat, by their great desire for it. But usually by bullying all mankind into believing them.

~ Saul Bellow

Our generation of women is clearing the path for our daughters, granddaughters, women and girls down the line, to be safe to be the woman or girl they are.

~ Tabby Biddle

A hunt leader could not show fear, or let it linger in his stomach, for others would sense it soon enough, taste that fear and become possessed by it. They would hesitate when an order was given, and uncertainty would claim their life as readily as the blade of the enemy.

~ Raymond E. Feist

He listened to their opinions, stated his own, and supported them with reasons; and from his being constantly occupied with such meditations, it resulted, that when in command no complication could ever present itself with which he was not prepared to deal.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

Accept it as it is and be true to yourself, the real answer is in you. It is about saying no to whom and what no is due and saying yes to whom and what yes is due! A simple solution to most of the problems of mankind today is just Yes and No!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

... From want of foresight men make changes which relishing well at first do not betray their hidden venom, as I have already observed respecting hectic fever. Nevertheless, the ruler is not truly wise who cannot discern evils before they develop themselves, and this is a faculty given to few.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

... Whoever becomes master of a city accustomed to live in freedom and does no destroy it, may reckon on being destroyed by it. For if it should rebel, it can always screen itself under the name of liberty and its ancient laws, which no length of time, nor any benefit conferred will ever cause it to forget; and do what you will, and take what care you may, unless the inhabitants be scattered and dispersed, this name, and the old order of things, will never cease to be remembered...

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

... If instead of colonies you send troops, the cost is vastly greater, and the whole revenues of the country are spent in guarding it so that the gain becomes a loss, and much deeper offense is given since in shifting the quarters of your soldiers from place to place the whole country suffers hardship, which as all feel, all are made enemies and enemies who remaining, although vanquished, in their own homes, have power to hurt. In every way, therefore, this mode of defense is as disadvantageous as that by colonizing is useful.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

You may not lead by ordering, but you may lead by showing possibilities and the beauty of success.

~ Debasish Mridha

... none of them had it. They had no qualms about stealing, but they needed to be told. They liked to be told, and Viktor Chemmel liked to be the teller. It was a nice microcosm.

~ Markus Zusak

The journey to self discovery forges many paths, the footprints left behind are the memories of what was and the belief of what is.~bns

~ Bluenscottish

Print, it transpired, was not just an instrument of agitation and change: now it was equally necessary to win the peace.

~ Andrew Pettegree

Awesome ‪‎Leadership‬ is encouraging others to take initiative,challenge what is status quo improve it and feel pride in their commitment~bns~

~ Bluenscottish

The first thing I am going to tell my successor is, don't trust the military men – even on military matters. JFK

~ David Talbot

A leader does not develop leadership by gaining more followers. Great leaders make more leaders.

~ J.r. Rim

Leadership begins by asking how you can make things better?

~ Jeffrey Fry

A strange feeling: as if filaments trailed from Arin's body. A thousand fishing lines snagging attention. Here and there. Little tugs. People caught on the lines. The way sometimes people couldn't look him in the eye, and when they did they become fish trying to breath air. He wished it weren't like that.He knew it would be necessary.

~ Marie Rutkoski