Leadership Quotes

I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

Your true value is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.

There are no office hours for leaders.

You can't receive forgiveness unless you let God deal with your deceit.

God blesses us more so that we can be more of a blessing to others.

My words itch at your ears till you understand them

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.

Successful people keep moving, even when they are discouraged and have made mistakes.

A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.

Attention is the currency of leadership.

A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.

Cheerleading is life, you must give it your all, and always strive to be on top. It teaches you so much, from how to be a team player, leadership, dedication, confidence, and many other qualities.

The more excited and committed you are to your work, the more excited and committed will be the people around you. The leader always sets the tone for the department or organization.

...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.

The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.

When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.

Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership does not have the authority to guide us.

Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.

If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.

I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.

...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.

What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here and took it away, took it away and replaced it.

If the challenge is far beyond their skill level, they tend to get frustrated; if it's far below their skill level, they tend to get bored. Leaders need to strike the right balance.

Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.

Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.

A duplicitous country with a duplicitous leadership is going to give us more duplicity. And that duplicity is going lead us off an abyss. That's going to happen.

Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.

I do have the strength. Leadership, leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with the threat of our time.

You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

Above all, leadership is a position of servanthood.

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.