Leadership Quotes

A call to duty, a call for service.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you're not grateful for what you already have, why should you be blessed with more...

~ Germany Kent

Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves.

~ A.j. Darkholme

A leader helps others to reach their full leadership potential.

~ Artika Tyner

Self leadership requires us to lead and motivate ourselves. But it looks a heck of a lot like schizophrenia during a ropes course.

~ Ryan Lilly

The more we can embrace failure, the more we will be able to open to it and the more confident and resilient we will become.

~ Karen Kimsey-House

One asset every leader, shouldn't risk anything to lose at all cost, is team confidence.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Emperors are not made from cowards, they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain.

~ A.j. Darkholme

A strong confident person can rule the room with knowledge, personal style, attitude and great posture.

~ Cindy Ann Peterson

Overcoming challenges purifies you like gold to become bold.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Confidence confers on you the courage to conquer challenges.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.

~ Orrin Woodward

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

~ A.j. Darkholme

If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you’ll be successful. Once you start making a ‘Plan B’, you distract from ‘Plan A’, and the moment you start believing there are other options, you start settling for less.

~ A.j. Darkholme

People fail 2 ways: 1) don't know what to do 2) don't do what they know; therefore, great leaders must educate and inspire.

~ Orrin Woodward

I keep a vivid memory of failure in my back pocket, so no matter how much I accomplish I stay grounded.

~ Noel Dejesus

Success is mesmerizing, and blinding. Sometimes you need good old fashion failure to open your eyes.

~ Noel Dejesus

Relax your fears, let your ambition take the wheel for a while; it'll take you somewhere exciting that you've never been.

~ Noel Dejesus

As a leader, I am there to make the best decisions possible with the evidence at hand and to be able to justify that decision. If it goes wrong, we add to the evidence for making the next decision, but there is no reason for regretting failure, as failure is just the production of evidence.

~ Michael A. Wood Jr.

What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading.

~ Cameron C. Taylor

Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrifices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to get there.

~ Noel Dejesus

The successes and failures of yesterday are gone, today is a new day.

~ Noel Dejesus

Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive.

~ Noel Dejesus

Stress builds character and failure breeds motivation. I guess I'm a Optimist.

~ Noel Dejesus

Stagnation floods the mind with thoughts of failure and slowly drowns the will to succeed, always move forward.

~ Noel Dejesus

The road to success is full of pit stops, pitfalls, and self pity; my advice is simply don’t stop!

~ Noel Dejesus

Great leadership produces great success. Weak leadership produces failure.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

The enemy doesn't warn its target. Emergencies do not make appointments, and the greatest battles of life are often surprises.

~ Wayde Goodall

When a desire is deep, it reaches the subconscious mind and calls for cultivation of qualities that will help fulfill desires, and this is what transforms an ordinary person into a great leader.

~ Awdhesh Singh

When man is finally able to see himself and the world around him with clear cognition, he finds a picture far more pleasant. Visible in unmistakable clarity and devastating detail is man’s failure to be what he might be and his misuse of his world. This revelation causes him to leap out in search of a way of life and system of values which will enable him to be more than he has been. He seeks a foundation of self-respect, which will have value system rooted in knowledge and cosmic reality where he expresses himself so that all others, all beings can continue to exist. His values now are of a different order from those at previous levels: They arise not from selfish interest but from the recognition of the magnificence of existence and the desire that it shall continue to be.

~ Clare W. Graves

Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to ...

~ Gary Rohrmayer

All leadership begins from inside a person and must be developed and grown as they grow into emerging and enduring leaders

~ Thomas Narofsky

Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Tchingis, if you determine this is to be so, who can withstand you? You are poetry after an ugly day, and heal wounds I didn't know I had.

~ Bryn Hammond

Your darkest moments are not meant to be swept under the carpet, hidden from the world in the silent pursuit of perfection. The darkness you've overcome is your ticket into leadership. It's what you're meant to light up in the world.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Never let a man determine the woman you want to be.

~ Maranda Evans

Make a commitment to serve the needs of the ‘least of these’ and give voice to the voiceless.

~ Artika Tyner

All over the world there are students, teachers and parents that face serious challenges every day. They need help with real problems that have life-altering consequences—and a group of intelligent professionals brought together to advise and educate stakeholders in need of help ought to be able to do so without behaving like a middle school drama queen.

~ Tucker Elliot

Even under false accusation those who are in the right can afford to be calm and considerate. God is acquainted with all that is misunderstood and misinterpreted by men, and we can safely leave our case in His hands. He will as surely vindicate the cause of those who put their trust in Him as He searched out the guilt of Achan. Those who are actuated by the spirit of Christ will possess that charity which suffers long and is kind.

~ Ellen G. White