Personal Development Quotes

Self-leadership is about digging out your hidden endowment and making them known and useful to those who need it most.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Vision unknown is self-abuse. Vision known is self-abuse discovery. But vision applied is self-liberation. Application is the key

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders reject free opportunities they don't need, so that they can have time to create the expensive opportunities they need.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A boss says “go and make sure you do it”, a leader says “let’s go and make it happen”. Bosses control people, leaders involve them.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A person with low standards will forever be walking. A person with high standard will soon stop walking and start running. Later, they’ll soon stop running and start galloping. The next time you see him, he’s either flying or soaring.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders learn more from blames than praises. Praises make them know what’s already done well, blames show them what’s yet to be done well.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders try every possible means to leave the world better than they found it. They make an indelible impact and society remembers them for that.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don’t let the horrible nature of the waters prevent you from crossing the rivers of life. The more horrible the challenges we face, the sweeter the joy of conquering them.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders are raised through training and experience. Nobody was born naturally with hand-gloves of leadership. We come to life to search for it, discover it and optimize it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Live an exemplary life as a leader. When you are gone, you will still lead from the grave because your influence, impacts and inspirations will become and information for the living.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You can’t gather much if you won’t go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns, they’ll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they’ll get.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People do not recognize that you can do it when you merely tell them you can. Until they see you doing it, they won’t follow you. Leaders who are willing to go further alone today are those to be consulted for solutions tomorrow.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders look out for people who can criticize them constructively and rebuke them reasonably.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders create and maintain good interpersonal relationships with people they meet and work with. People who lead better relate better.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you have only answers and no questions, chances are high that you will never know new things.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Contrary to popular opinion, leaders aren’t created out of fame. Fame is just a shadow. When you enter dark times in, it leaves you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders know where they can function better. They don’t cry over what they cannot do.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Innovation is the art of creating a better, a more convenient and more comfortable way for the world to pass. Leaders leave footprints everywhere they go. They are impact makers and innovators.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders are optimistic. When you walk with leaders, the spirit of hope will ramble around you and you will feel like “yes, I can break barriers with few blows.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your followers are interested in going where you have gone before. Take them where you have been and let them know what took you there. They’ll learn by your example.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People who praise a leader even when he is doing the wrong things are the main reasons why his fall is near.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Whether it is in business life or in political roles, leaders rise up to offer the solutions to problems society faces. They act with the right actions at the right time.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders don’t fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn’t their desire to maintain but to improve.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The courageous attitude of a leader awakens the dormant attitude of followers. The dormant attitude of a leader weakens the passionate attitude of followers. Leadership determines everything.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don’t give him poem to recite; don’t give him a song to sing. Just engage him in an argument and you will know it for yourself who he is.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally. Action fixes images in their minds and they can carry those images for a long period.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A leader does not only discover what people can do better. He teaches, guides and mentor them to do it exceptionally well. When a seed comes into contact with a leader, fruits are produced.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Management informs. Leadership applies. The effective managers inform accurately. Effective leaders apply wisely.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders are farmers, they cultivate human beings by adding values to them till they are fully grown as successful people for harvesting.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The leader who listens is the one society needs most. They don’t force their commands on people. They pay attention to their demands and set the pace for the change that society truly needs.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The growth of an organization is not dependent on the number of employees in its register. It is dependent on the number of employees who show dedication and commitment to the vision of the organization.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leadership is about taking steps while management is about drawing the map on the steps to take. Managers simply plan, leaders simply execute!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The public personality of a leader is not what really matters. What he does out of the open stage really tells more about him than anything else.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!

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Leaders heal, they don’t kill. They unite, they don’t disintegrate.

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Everyone has a kind of limitation respectively. Leaders don’t allow their own to obscure them in a small corner.

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By means of positive imaginations, leaders bring the future to the present so that they can work on it before setting off to enter it.

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Everyone in the organizations is very important. From the sweeper to the security officer; from the messenger to the manager, everyone doing well at his post is a leader. The organization becomes a leading one when it’s made up of people leading in their roles.

~ Israelmore Ayivor