Leadership Quotes

Great leaders create memorable journeys

~ John Stein

Great journeys live long in the memory of those who participate in them

~ John Stein

Our being is more important than our doing. We are human beings, acting as though we are human doings. In our frenzied doing, we are often not conscious of our state of being. Yet our deepest impact comes from our state of being because it is at the root of our intentions, our choices, and our behavior.

~ Henna Inam

War is an option of difficulties.

~ James Wolfe

When you learn to say 'NO', you activate the faculty of 'CHOICE' in your mind ! Some of the times you are the chosen one..at other times you CHOOSE for yourself..and saying NO is a sign that one has graduated into becoming a wise CHOICEMAKER ......

~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

The only pressure I agree to, is my conscious and not peer pressure.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Life is a choice. Your choices each day determine what outcomes happen in your life. It is by choice, not by chance, that will determine your life. An Unstoppable Life begins by taking responsibility for your choices.

~ Thomas Narofsky

Life is a series of choices and all we can do is make them.

~ Kamal Ravikant

Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for the good of the whole.

~ Jon Meacham

When you feel good about the value you offer the organization, communicating and demonstrating your value to others is much easier.

~ Bonnie Marcus

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

~ Artika R. Tyner

What is your hands to make a difference in the world?

~ Artika R. Tyner

To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages blank, make some marks there. Many people are reading you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don't take purposeless people as your leaders. Their life is like an empty book with a nice cover paper and you have attempted to buy it. Of which use will it be to you for you to read blank pages.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Time, energy, and focus; these are the resources at your disposal each and every day.

~ Noel Dejesus

I am a neighbour king to stretch my branches over him, just as Toghrul sheltered me when I was a weed-stalk next to a strong tree.

~ Bryn Hammond

Nixon under pressure turned only to reporters from publications already favorable to him; Kennedy, in trouble, turned to those most critical and dubious of him, and if anything tended to take those already for him a bit for granted.

~ David Halberstam

They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they particularly treasured were missing.

~ David Halberstam

One of the ladies asked about that awful Bobby Kennedy, and Goldwater responded by speaking about the attorney general with touching affection. (Mary) McGrory recalled how Jack Kennedy behaved at a similar stage in his campaign: spouting statistics, attacking carefully chosen enemies and puffing all the right friends, quoting dead Greeks, never cracking a joke lest he remind the voters how young he was.

~ Rick Perlstein

A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.

~ Tom Clancy

The factor that made him so powerful was also his greatest liability.

~ Peter Heather

If you're a boss, and not a leader, your time is limited.

~ T.f. Hodge

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

~ James Macdonald

Vision and persistence will take you to the top of the leadership mountain, but only humility will keep you there.

~ Orrin Woodward

The immediate reactions of the two superpower leaders when confronted with the gravest international crisis of their careers were much the same, shock, wounded pride, grim determination, and barely repressed fear.

~ Michael Dobbs

Great leaders are the first to say, “I was wrong. Let’s make a change.

~ Beth Ramsay

The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what he DID NOT know.

~ David Halberstam

Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.

~ Thom S. Rainer

No one is charismatic. Someone becomes charismatic in history, socially. The question for me is once again the problem of humility. If the leader discovers that he is becoming charismatic not because of his or her qualities but because mainly he or she is being able to express the expectations of a great mass of people, then he or she is much more of a translator of the aspirations and dreams of the people, instead of being the creator of the dreams. In expressing the dreams, he or she is recreating these dreams. If he or she is humble, I think that the danger of power would diminish.

~ Myles Horton

The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, or in the series of his achievements, but in his attitude towards mankind and the conception which he sought to realize in action of the service owed by America to the rest of the world...Thomas Jefferson was a great leader of men because he understood and interpreted the spirits of men.

~ Woodrow Wilson

New beginnings can be painful ends. What your attitude is changes ends into new beginnings.

~ Maurice Duffy

The humble one is the better one.

~ Lik Hock Yap

ReThink culture, because it is the foundation of all strategic success.

~ Tony Dovale

ReThink your success mindset: In life, the stuff that really matters most, is invisible, but palpable.

~ Tony Dovale

The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training.

~ Ortega Y Gasset José

Being willing to listen to others and let them speak into our lives is a critical attitude leaders must have. It is not weakness to get good advice - it is strength to seek it out.

~ Wayde Goodall

It's not what you eat that will kill you as much as what is eating you.

~ Orrin Woodward

Qualifications or not without gratitude you not qualified enough to be a leader.

~ Unarine Ramaru

I am hopeful because love overflows from my heart. Gratitude for beauty and life leads my way.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Embrace the change you desperately need. Tear down your walls and show gratitude for little things.

~ J. Loren Norris