Leadership Quotes
I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.
(We need) leadership that is tough enough to demand a great deal from everyone, and leadership that is tender enough to encourage the heart.
Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.
Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.
...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.
Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.
People don't mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart
Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water
I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.
You should never be so high and mighty you can't listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.
Nothing that I can do or say will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes — good will among men and peace on earth.
There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.
The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.
Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing
It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.
God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.
We need to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation. We have lost our way. And it begins with inspiration. It begins with leadership.
If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.
You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.
One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.
A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Whether you have a leadership title or not, you have the potential to either lead your organization beyond all expectations or inhibit its growth through entropy.
If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.
You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.
Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it
Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.
