Leadership Quotes

Why ships won't use roads, is why cars won't travel on oceans. When the position is wrong, the leader won't be right.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders gather scattered people with the positive influence of intimacy while misleaders scatter gathered people with the negative influence of intimidation.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The skills of a leader will determine how excellent he will perform. His attitude will determine how often he will do that.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A leader’s attitude tells how often he will be the winner, his character determines how long he will be the winner.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A leader isn't born after 9 months' conception. When talents are discovered, skills are mastered & values are developed, a leader is born.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you see a leader solving one conflict wisely, remember he is working hard to prevent 10 of such from happening!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

One of the greatest secrets of great leaders, 'they are not controlled by what they cannot do'. They directed by what they can.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you want to be a leader, don't stand on the toes of dwarfs. Mount the shoulders of giants and you will see further.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower was transformed from a mere person into a personage.

~ Lynne Olson

Freedom is willpower to act for a change.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Almost everything a leader fails to achieve is anything he fails to try. What is not attempted is what is difficult to do.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

To become a leader, renovate your mind with painting of peace and roof your heart with ceiling of love. No love, no leader!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It’s is good you are about something. But wait and ask, “why and how?”. Without “whys and hows”, not every energetic movement can be called progress.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders walk their talks. They don’t give theories that do not work. They have clarity into their dreams and insight into their directions!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders don't fall in gutters of fear; only negative ideas flow in that canal. There, you will see filthy things like doubts and disbelief.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I believe that we have reached a stage in life in the economic development of Africa where moving forward is perilous, moving backwards is cowardice and standing still is suicidal but we must persevere because winners do not quit and quitter never win.

~ Patrick L.o. Lumumba

Sometimes the reason God doesn't show up to win your battles is because he already put inside of you the power to end it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

~ Douglas Macarthur

People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry. George Reedy

~ Robert A. Caro

Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they’ve already done and go farther than they’ve reached.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leadership’s primary job is to enhance creative capacity by developing collectively effective leadership.

~ William A. Adams

They were following their prime minister, matching their government's mood.

~ William Manchester

Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

He not only had the gift of “reading” men and women, of seeing into their hearts, he also had the gift of putting himself in their place, of not just seeing what they felt but of feeling what they felt, almost as if what had happened to them had happened to him, too.

~ Robert A. Caro

I'm the boss. I gotta pretend to worry.

~ Code Black

The author points out that novices to total war, and this Hitler and the British press have in common, overreact to daily events and lose sight of overall strategy.

~ William Manchester

Officers came and went and were never a part of daily life.

~ David Halberstam

Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours - watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he have a chance he will pull down and pulverize that subaltern's tower, and make a little heap of dust of it.

~ Herman Melville

As the sun rises first on mountain-tops and gilds them with his light, and presents one of the most charming sights to the eye of the traveller; so is it one of the most delightful contemplations in the world to mark the glow of the Spirit's light on the head of some saint, who has risen up in spiritual stature.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The men were always wary of an officer who took form more seriously than function.

~ David Halberstam

The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

~ Robert A. Caro

You have great talent for great contribution to humanity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With Johnson, you never quite knew if he was out to lift your heart or your wallet. Roy Wilkins

~ Robert A. Caro

Take for instance, a society where the prevailing value system is that you only go into politics and leadership to serve and not to make money. In such a nation, people know that those who go into politics and leadership come out of it poorer than they went in.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The specialty in all life is expecting the exception, while ignorant of real acceptance, until unexpectedly you re-witness your own ignorance to 'be' the cause that awakens others. One does not do this yesterday, or today. You do this with expressing honesty everyday.

~ James Emlund

Politics look very simple to the outsider whether he is a businessman or a soldier – it is only when you get into it that all the angles and hard work become apparent. James Forrestal

~ David Pietrusza

The Bible states in Psalms 139:14 that you are fearfully and wonderfully made and that you are a wonderful work of art. That makes you uniquely special. It only makes sense for you to just be the special you that you were created to be period.

~ Dewayne Owens

The structure of our identity determines how we show up as a leader, how we deploy ourselves into circumstances.

~ William A. Adams

True leaders spend time reviewing their mistakes rather than having fantasies over their achievements! They look for every way to do the undone!

~ Israelmore Ayivor