Leadership Quotes

For Aboriginal leaders, the social and moral obligation that comes with community leadership is life-long. Those who lead, who have authority, must care for and look after those who come behind.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more inspiring role model than a man who respects and cherishes women and champions their leadership.

The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

Find the right people, not the best people.

The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture.

Leadership can't be forced or contrived. It has to be your personality.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Every human has a seed of greatness buried in a gift needed by the world.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

But there is one thing most companies struggle to standardize, and ironically, it's the most important part of our efforts to gain and sustain results. It is leadership.

The greatest mistake we can make is to stay on the ground after falling.

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

80% of the people who come into a Christ-following relationship is because a friend, co-worker, family member or neighbor invited them to church.

You can't teach court savvy

Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.

I'll never give up on a player regardless of his ability as long as he never gives up on himself. In time he will develop.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .

Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.

Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it.

We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.

The price of LEADERSHIP is RESPONSIBILITY....and part of that responsibility is to STAY POSITIVE whether you feel like it or not.

I became the leader because of my father's leadership and I was considered as powerful as same as my own father.

If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for

A bold onset is half the battle.