Leadership Quotes
Each year's regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.
Fearing our confrontations is one thing... facing them unarmed is a completely different matter.
If you have the bad MOJO of a situation or a person riding you down you must first remove that saddle.
Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.
The role of leaders is not to get other people to follow them but to empower others to lead.
Never underestimate the power of a tweet.
Integrity, by its definition, means adhering consistently to a strong, reliable code of ethics, whatever that code is.
A true leader does not derive power from his position, but from his ethics, from people’s love for him, and from his knowledge, education and excellence in his field of work.
While mistakes may be local, in today’s connected world embarrassment is global
He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?
It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.
Battling busyness is a community response.
We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.
Better abolish pulpits then to appoint men who have no experiential knowledge of what they teach.
The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.
Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.
He (the Bible study leader) is blessed with a light touch and a firm hand.
George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence
Never base motivation or fear, entirely.
Unlike most politicians who follow their audience, (Robert) Kennedy tried to lead his.
Reagan understood an important distinction that (Lyndon) Johnson never grasped: being in control and being successful aren't always the same thing.
I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human.
A good officer learned to take care of the feet of his men first, and from there their stomachs and hearts. By that means, he could motivate their souls.
We can’t really explain what the goal of mentoring is, until we understand what the church is for.
Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.
Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.
The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.
A leader inspires others to dream more. The actions of a really good leader will show how to achieve that dream.
A good leader is one who reveals to you your own potential and then inspires and shows you how to reach your potential.
By learning more, by doing more, by becoming more, and by creating a common vision, a leader is a person who can inspire others to change for the better.
Leadership is an ability to have a great vision for the future and the ability to inspire others to follow.
Leadership is a process where a leader has a purpose oriented destination and lets the followers find the best way to get there with a common vision and goal.
Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over.
We are born with the need for a leader, someone to control the conflict between each individual's need. An alpha in the house, an alpha at work, an alpha in the church and in the White House.
A leader did not slump. A leader was in control. Even when he least felt like he controlled anything. Especially then.
An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader.
You show me a school with a principal behind the desk, and I'll show you a school without principal leadership. (Quoting Baruti Kafele)
Attempting the impossibility with a possibility God breaks the impossibility barriers.