Leadership Quotes

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

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

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."

Above all, leadership is a position of servanthood.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Another idea that is changing is that the leader must be one who can make quick decisions. The leader to-day is often one who thinks out his decisions very slowly.

Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Slaves do what others want. Servants do what others need.

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

If leadership is the act of going beyond what is ... it begins by going beyond what is within ourselves.

We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.

I am not looking for perfection. I look for the best in me.

When you accepted your job, you were not chosen solely to fill a position on the organization chart; you were chosen to fill a responsibility.

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders lead by example, not by decree.

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

Leadership is developed daily, not in a day.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.

The love of Christ always helps us see beyond the faults of others.

Emotions are a critical source of information for learning.

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.

The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.

If we are to remain mission focused, as we must be if we are to be relevant in an uncertain age, the abandoning those things that do not further the mission is a leadership imperative.

Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.

People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.

In order to receive a pardon you must plead guilty.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.

If you as a pastor don't have a passion for evangelism then don't be surprised if your people done either.