Leadership Quotes

Start local, think global & constantly raise the bar of excellence.

~ Onyi Anyado

There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.

~ Biz Stone

Without growth, organizations struggle to add talented people. Without talented people, organizations struggle to grow.

~ Ray Attiyah

Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

~ H.w. Brands

We are lost, but we're making good time.

~ Star Trek V

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.

~ Patrick O'brian

One presidential advisor to another: If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.

~ Tom Clancy

Every great leader has incredible odds to overcome.

~ Wayde Goodall

When a leader is at their limit the last thing they want to hear is that they need to change even more. Maintaining good rhythms of rest, exercise and fun create more energy for a leader to be willing and open for change.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

We must be present enough and receptive enough to “hear” with our whole being beyond just the words that are being spoken.

~ Henry Kimsey-House

He turned the presidency – and the President's House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and inquiry, of vibrant institution that played informal but important roles in the broader life of the nation, from science to literature.

~ Jon Meacham

He hadn’t asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a shape, he realized that he wanted to lead. If someone had to be lord of these people, he wanted to do it himself. Because doing it yourself was the only way to see that it was done right.

~ Robert Jordan

If you can lead yourself when nobody is following, people will follow when you are not leading

~ Saji Ijiyemi

The relational leader operates not by being known by everyone, but by authentically creating positive relationships with people around her.

~ Scott K. Edinger

Lead by Example,not by showing samples

~ Seyi Ayoola

A leader cannot avoid being hated. This hatred is directly proportional to his influence and power. A person who does not wish to be hated should avoid leadership roles.

~ Awdhesh Singh

A leader is criticised for whatever he does as all his actions benefit some and adversely affect others. When other people commit the same mistake, they can be forgiven or ignored, but never a leader, for his actions affect a large number of people.

~ Awdhesh Singh

Hatred is very powerful. It can overpower love. When a man burns in the fire of hatred, he cannot feel any love, and is willing to destroy his enemy even if it kills him. It is amazing to note that a leader who may be driven to act against another in hatred, may be showered with love in the process. People who share his hatred may love him for rising up to the challenge.

~ Awdhesh Singh

People don’t need you to fix them, they are not broken, just serve them.

~ Malti Bhojwani

There is a leader in every manager, there is not a manager in every leader.

~ Gert Van Mol

The very meaning of a leader is that people must follow him. If no one follows, you cannot be a leader even if you are the most intelligent, powerful and wealthy person in the world. Interestingly, you cannot become powerful or wealthy unless you are a leader. Further, anyone who acquires wealth or power automatically becomes a leader as people tend to follow such people.

~ Awdhesh Singh

The knowledge of the worker is often called ‘skill’, for it requires manual dexterity and training. The knowledge of the manager is ‘academic’ as it can be taught in colleges and universities. However, the knowledge of the leader is ‘creative’ which can generally not be taught, and must come from within.

~ Awdhesh Singh

I would rather be on the team of the Leader who prays to God for wisdom to guide the followers, than to be on the team of the leader who leads without prayer.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

A great leader is almost always a great follower for he knows what to learn and from whom.

~ Awdhesh Singh

A leader is one who travels the path carved out by him, and he ‘leads’ himself onward on that path. If his path is good and his goals are desirable, many more may follow him in their desire to achieve the same goal. Hence, followership is the effect of leadership and not its cause.

~ Awdhesh Singh

You do not become a leader because people follow you. Rather, people tend to follow you because you have leadership qualities. The journey of leadership often starts alone.

~ Awdhesh Singh

A leader is generally not more virtuous than most ordinary people. The opposite is usually true. Because people are reluctant to be led by those perceived as evil, a leader expertly creates a façade, behind which he hides all that may appear dirty. This is a difficult art where the leader has to wear two masks, one in public and the other in private—and no one should see the true face of a leader.

~ Awdhesh Singh

The actions of a leader are always criticised by scholars as well as common men. A scholar has no obligation to produce result, so he is free to rebuke leaders for not sticking to noble means. Common men envy leaders their position and power, thus feeling happy in vilifying them to pull them down to their own levels.

~ Awdhesh Singh

A true leader is responsible for his followers who have reposed their faith in his leadership. If an ordinary man fails, it is a personal failure. But when a leader fails, he shatters the entire ideologies, principles and morale of all those who followed him. The impact is much bigger and stakes are higher.

~ Awdhesh Singh

A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in her lifescape to make her mark on the world the way she wants to draw it.

~ Jaha Knight

Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others

~ Saji Ijiyemi

The key function of a leader is, to build more leaders.

~ Krishna Sagar

I believe leaders should be questioning machine, rather than an answering machine.

~ Saji Ijiyemi

Your organization needs you to be the lead, not the lid. If you're not growing as a leader, you've become the lid

~ Saji Ijiyemi

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

~ Arnold H. Glasow

A leader is heard, a great leader is listened too.

~ Jacob Kaye

The problem with being a leader is that you're never sure if you're being followed or chased.

~ Claire A. Murray

As Antiquus's son, I was next in line to be the leader of my village... But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action.

~ Tony Diterlizzi

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

~ Max Mckeown

A number of small decisions, each appearing insignificant in the moment and made in isolation of one another, can result in a negative outcome.

~ Vince Molinaro