Leadership Quotes

Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.

You can only govern men by serving them.

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

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

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

With every episode of struggle, there is a learning opportunity.

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

A lot of guys look toward me for leadership. I feel like I can provide some of that.

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

Anytime you commit sin and God deals with you, you have the opportunity to confess it. If you don't confess it, you only have one option but to cover it up.

Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea.

In order to receive a pardon you must plead guilty.

Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Who is in your life asking you the tough questions?

It all comes down to this: If you want one year of happiness, grow grain If you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees If you want 100 years of happiness, grow people

The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance.

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.

A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.

When a person gets to know his Creator, and finally comes to know himself, then his leadership is born.

Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.

Struggle is the father of all things, virtue lies in blood, leadership is primary and decisive

The secret to greatness is in serving everyone else.

I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now - and now is when you should do it.

Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference.

The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.

If you're truly obsessed over customers, it'll cover a lot of errors.

It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done. And then try to bring those things in to what you're doing.

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

We're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business - the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.

We live our lives based on who we think we are.

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.

There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the world stage.

Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.

Always let your employees come to work with a smile.

Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think.

You don't have to be sick to get better.

Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?

I look for lessons in every experience. It adds to my leadership abilities.

You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.