Leadership Quotes

The leader who listens is the one society needs most. They don’t force their commands on people. They pay attention to their demands and set the pace for the change that society truly needs.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It's all right to drill your crew, but why not drill the passengers.

~ Erik Larson

When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The growth of an organization is not dependent on the number of employees in its register. It is dependent on the number of employees who show dedication and commitment to the vision of the organization.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leadership is about taking steps while management is about drawing the map on the steps to take. Managers simply plan, leaders simply execute!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The public personality of a leader is not what really matters. What he does out of the open stage really tells more about him than anything else.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People who follow you want to know in their hearts what you are willing to sacrifice for them. Your followers don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care for their welfare. Leading to succeed begins with servant leadership.

~ Dewayne Owens

Feeling threatened by others' choices pulls us all down. Instead, we should funnel our energy into breaking this cycle.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Women can enter (...) negotiations with the knowledge that showing concern for the common good, even as they negotiate for themselves, will strengthen their position.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

For leaders, wars are filled with guesses.

~ John Ferling

His level of experience is nearly transcendent.

~ Davis Miller

Leaders heal, they don’t kill. They unite, they don’t disintegrate.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Everyone has a kind of limitation respectively. Leaders don’t allow their own to obscure them in a small corner.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

By means of positive imaginations, leaders bring the future to the present so that they can work on it before setting off to enter it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Everyone in the organizations is very important. From the sweeper to the security officer; from the messenger to the manager, everyone doing well at his post is a leader. The organization becomes a leading one when it’s made up of people leading in their roles.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You will never overcome your self righteousness if you continue to believe that God prefers you over other people. The moment you feel entitled is the moment you feel superior and distance yourself from a humble heart that believes God knows what he is doing.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The simplest way to silence your critics as a leader is to do what they claim you can’t do. However, be careful they don’t set you up to take fatal risks to please their criticisms.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The common soldiers did not blame him for his excessive grief. They knew him. They knew his flaws. Indeed, I think they loved him all the more because he was flawed, as they were, and did not hide his passionate, blemished nature.

~ Geraldine Brooks

As wars dwindled to skirmishes and our strength grew, so David was able to spend less time with military commanders and more with the engineers and overseers who were fanning out throughout the land, digging cisterns, making roads, fortifying, connecting, and generally making a nation out of our scattered people.

~ Geraldine Brooks

Leaders are deep thinkers. They don’t relax for problem to lay eggs before they attempt dealing with them.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The ultimate profit from all of my businesses is to be happy and to make all of the customers happy.

~ Debasish Mridha

There is no greater truth than this: God created you for success. He gave you all the physical, mental, and spiritual DNA to succeed. He loves you through your mistakes and loves you enough to correct you when you step out of line. If you have not done it lately, Grab on to His great big hands of love and let Him take you places you have never dreamed of going. He’s that AWESOME!

~ Dewayne Owens

The greatest part of our existence enfold in service of humanity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Resilient communities relied on informal networks of deep trust to contend with and heal disruption.

~ Andrew Zolli

I have lived most of my life in soldiers’ camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk.

~ Geraldine Brooks

I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions.

~ Geraldine Brooks

There is no greater truth than this: God created you for success. He gave you all the physical. mental, and spiritual DNA to succeed. He loves you through your mistakes and loves you enough to correct you when you step out of line. If you have not done it lately, Grab on to His great big hands of love and let Him take you places you have never dreamed of going. He’s that AWESOME!

~ Dewayne Owens

He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.

~ Erik Larson

Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.

~ Geraldine Brooks

Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.

~ Geraldine Brooks

When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.

~ Geraldine Brooks

No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.

~ Geraldine Brooks

This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so.

~ Geraldine Brooks

David was at his best in group settings, soldier enough to join in the raucous jests, king enough to make it matter that he remembered some moments of bravery or sacrifice, and praised each man accordingly.

~ Geraldine Brooks

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

~ Geraldine Brooks

David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic.

~ Geraldine Brooks

A sign of a good leader is not his position but his vision.

~ Debasish Mridha

If soldiering did not interest him, the soldiers themselves were another matter. He loved to sit with the men and draw out their first-hand stories of past campaigns.

~ Geraldine Brooks

You can’t lead people if you can’t lead yourself. Self-leadership qualities qualifies you to become a co-operate leader.

~ Israelmore Ayivor