Leadership Quotes

If you treat people to a vision of themselves, if you apparently overrate them, you make them become what they are capable of becoming.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

Sight is seeing with the eyes, vision is seeing with the mind.

~ Orrin Woodward

Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.

~ Bill Hybels

Boss may be on, but leader can be anyone.

~ Ameya Agrawal

Do you know great people are continually quoted while the average always misquote great people?

~ Onyi Anyado

Good leaders sacrifice for others to survive, bad leaders sacrifice others to survive

~ Saji Ijiyemi

These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered himself for one without any lot. All else were struck with admiration for the nobleness and with love for the goodness of the act.

~ Plutarch

One of the hallmarks of great teachers is that they rejoice when their students surpass them. Encouraging an atmosphere of questioning and inviting people to grow within your classroom isn’t necessarily easy, which must explain why people who want to create cults or die hard followers discourage questioning in general. They would rather have people reciting their dogma than asking hard questions.

~ Gudjon Bergmann

I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you.

~ C.s. Lewis

It’s not that I had more important things to do or that I didn’t want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successful—rather, it’s this horrible truth that life has taught me: misplaced hope is the most devastatingly painful thing you can give someone.

~ Tucker Elliot

Educators are in the news, too. Usually that’s bad. I had a favorite college professor. He used to tell us, 'If you make CNN as a teacher, you’re probably going to jail.

~ Tucker Elliot

Indira was surrounded by people who had given up hope, who blamed their own misery on the influence of Christianity and western cultures, and yet, literally in the midst of squalor, her family had created a place of real beauty. It really makes you stop and think. Uncle Google should be spitting out eight hundred million things American schools have done right. The fact things are so screwed up makes no sense. If you believe Uncle Google, then we’ve done the exact opposite from Indira’s family—in the land of hope and plenty we’ve created a place that’s ugly. We have so much. Can things really be so bad? Maybe we can’t fix our schools because as individuals we’ve never truly been broken. Or maybe Chinese lanterns make everyone wax philosophical.

~ Tucker Elliot

It was only a couple of chickens. Real chickens. The kind that walk around clucking and pecking. Which is what they were doing. Only no one else seemed to care, or even notice. This is normal? Obviously I had a little hiccup reading my notecards. Understandable. I was talking to forty orphans who had to share a dirt floor with two chickens. No one in college had ever prepared me for this scenario.

~ Tucker Elliot

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

~ William Zinsser

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.

~ William Zinsser

Helping teacher leaders come to understand their gifts is the first step in developing a specialty. Some leaders are great coaches and should focus on instructional leadership in a district or network where that is valued and supported. Great conceptual thinkers are good in startup mode but the daily grind of leading a school doesn't suit them. Other leaders thrive on the turnaround challenge. The dynamic blended future of education will allow more role specialization.

~ Tom Vander Ark

Leadership obeys the principle of Hooke's law to the very bone. It explains:When an elastic material is stretched, it returns to its original position. But when it's over stretched beyond its limit point, it loses its elasticity and becomes plastic, and later cuts or breaks.As a leader, in your leadership disposition, it behoves of you to acquaint yourself with this very leadership principle that edges forward. It's however, a human nature to adopt to an environment, so, leaders are humans, they tend to have this rapore with their followers which is somewhat a must needed. But the ability for such one to return and recollect to knowing his boundary makes a good leader. A phenomenon whereby he becomes drunk of platitudes, then it comes to a time where they (followers) dictate for him. And even sought and suggest plans without his consent or knowing, it has gotten to the point of plastic and break respectively.

~ Richmond Akhigbe

Success shouldn't be revenge or a way to overwhelm the naysayers. If that is your reason, you are far from being content.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Being positive in a negative situation is not naive. It's leadership.

~ Ralph Watson

I can't change you and you can't change me, but together we can work to change the world.

~ Germany Kent

The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.

~ Catherine Robinson-Walker

Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.

~ Ken Follett

Youths are the life blood of any nation.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

It’s time to care, it’s time to take responsibility, it’s time to lead, it’s time for a change, it’s time to be true to our greatest self, it’s time to stop blaming others

~ Steve Maraboli

Yea, he who is a true king of men, will not say to himself, 'Lo! I am worthy to be crowned with laurels;' but rather will he say to himself, 'What more is there that I may do to make the world the better because of my endeavors?

~ Howard Pyle

It is your life...OWN IT! Your life purpose empowers you and enables you to live life abundantly. Empowerment begins by taking responsibility for your life and being accountable for your actions. Empowerment is the courage to live passionately and purposefully each day

~ Thomas Narofsky

Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.

~ Jon Meacham

If you believe the world will be a better place because you have both the desire and the means to take charge, that's the time for you to jump in. It doesn't matter if you rise up to take the lead only once or twice in your entire working life or if you do it daily. There are so many moments when you can make a difference--by enriching an outcome, saving a great idea, defending the beleaguered or downtrodden, and not least, expressing your own gifts and wisdom.

~ Charlotte Beers

It's been hard for me at times...the responsibility and expectation that comes with being a leader. I'm not always the one I wish I could be, that I should be, but nonetheless, it is my place. If I were to ever show a commitment to something other than my leadership, which could jeopardize the function I have, I would be risking too many lives. I couldn't live with that.

~ Jessica Shirvington

The Complexities Of Life Caused By Bad Government Administration, Leadership, Parental Abuse And Mistakes Can Make A Child More Matured Than Their Age. It Happened To Me And It Is Still Happening To So Many Children World Wide. Most Especially, In Africa Where I Come From. This Is Why You See So Many African's Do All Sorts Of Bad Deeds For Surfacing And Surviving To Keep Body And Soul Together.

~ Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo

How ought we to love God, Father? he asked in a whisper.By loving men, my sonAnd how ought we to love men? By trying to guide them along the right pathAnd what is the right path?The one that rises- Nikos Kazanzakis, Christ Recrucified

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

Fearing our confrontations is one thing... facing them unarmed is a completely different matter.

~ Mark W. Boyer

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

~ David Halberstam

Serving others prepares you to lead others.

~ Jim George

someday goals become never days of achievement

~ Colin Myles

When you lower the definition of success to such a level that any person can reach it, you don’t teach people to have big dreams; instead you inspirit mediocrity and nurture people’s inadequacies.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I wake up starving for success, and no matter how much I accomplish I go to sleep striving for improvement; I refuse to let my enemies outwork me.

~ Noel Dejesus

Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

~ L. David Marquet

Read to lead in order to succeed.

~ Habeeb Akande

The role of leaders is not to get other people to follow them but to empower others to lead.

~ Bill George