Leadership Quotes
It is easier to fall off the ladder once you on top, the balance is being aware of your environment.
People are tired of being told that it's possible... It's time to show them how it can be possible. Leadership is demonstration.
Leaders are interested in gains. However, they acknowledge that there is no gain without pain. They embrace the pain.
The ladder of leadership can only stand firm on the grounds of integrity. Any other ground makes it unstable till it falls.
Africa PRODUCES what it does NOT CONSUME and CONSUMES what it does NOT PRODUCE.
Leaders don't venture without vision. They don't pray without plans. They don't climb without clues. They are always prepared.
Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.
Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.
Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.
Fear punches holes in your eyes so that you don't see the future clearly. Faith enlarges your vision to behold your destiny.
By constant practices, deliberate repetitions and uninterrupted exercises, leaders go from zero to hero. They don't quit.
If you're determined to stand, nothing can move you. If you're determined to move, nothing can stop you. Determination is the key!
Don't confuse one leader's bluster for muster or another leader's meekness for weakness.
You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day.
Leaders do what is uncomfortable but helpful. They run away from the comfort that doesn't produce any help for the world.
Learning from failure boosts a leader's chance of staying ahead of his standards. Leaders who rise quickly after falling are always stable.
A leader does not reduce his speeds to meet the views of negative thinkers. He leaves them to do their job as he focuses.
Leaders scan the future so it can be free of doubts and fear. They do so by not living a double standard life in the present.
Pride, anger and hatred are fruits from the same garden that poison the world when ripe. A leader cultivates no such fruits.
Every great leader once fell down from a tall ladder. You don't become a star until you get the scar. Take that risk now.
Greed squeezes your dreams into a portable size, so that failure can easily carry them to dump somewhere.
Honesty is doing what you know or believe is right. Integrity is doing what is right and truthful.
Leaders find something to die for, not something to live on. If you haven't found something to die for yet, you can't lead.
Environment has its own ways of limiting us tightly. But leaders have their own ways of escaping those limitations narrowly.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.
The art of diplomacy is finding a reasonable route among imperfect alternatives.
Leaders don't pray to God for money. They simply ask for His grace to solve problems. By solving problems, the money comes.
Your relationships will either empower you to overcome obstacles, or put fears in you so you can run away from them.
The desire to swim in deeper waters is what gives a greater experience. Nothing new comes out of being ordinary. Leaders take risks.
What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.
Until you do your best, don't try to take a rest. Until you take a leap, don't try to sleep. Until you top, don't try to stop.
Leaders inform, inspire and improve people. They educate, empower and enrich the value of their followers. They make impacts.
A leader in 10 minutes can unlock your potentials which in reality would have taken you 10 years to do without them.
Leaders don't cry for what country can do for them for free. They dream about what they can do for country at high cost.
People buy into leaders through the 3R's of Leadership: Relationship, Reason, and Results.
Leaders gather scattered people with the positive influence of intimacy while misleaders scatter gathered people with the negative influence of intimidation.
The skills of a leader will determine how excellent he will perform. His attitude will determine how often he will do that.
A leader isn't born after 9 months' conception. When talents are discovered, skills are mastered & values are developed, a leader is born.
If you see a leader solving one conflict wisely, remember he is working hard to prevent 10 of such from happening!
If you want to be a leader, don't stand on the toes of dwarfs. Mount the shoulders of giants and you will see further.
In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage.
To become a leader, renovate your mind with painting of peace and roof your heart with ceiling of love. No love, no leader!
Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams.
It’s is good you are about something. But wait and ask, “why and how?”. Without “whys and hows”, not every energetic movement can be called progress.
People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy
Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they’ve already done and go farther than they’ve reached.
They were following their prime minister, matching their government's mood.