Leadership Quotes

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

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

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

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

Who is in your life asking you the tough questions?

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

Have Fun Storming the Castle!

Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

Leadership is not achieved by an individual. Leadership is bestowed by the group.

What blame did Jesus have when He took the full blame for your sin?

You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like.

People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging oneself.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

Leadership Is Performance. You Have To Be Conscious Of Your Behavior, Because Everyone Else Is.

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

You have to have a government that does give both money and energy to function in a leadership role modeling giving for the people. Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership.

The job of leadership today is not just to make money, it's to make meaning.

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you.

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

God's definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.

Masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

We are going to have to do something about all this violence, or people are going to keep buying tickets.

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.

Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.

What you can't enforce, do not command.

I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.

Thank you Jesus you are a stone mover. And you can move any stone away.

If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

The unique ability to take decisive action while maintainign focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Leadership is the ability to get individuals to work together for the common good and the best possible results while at the same time letting them know they did it themselves.

If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.

If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.

A leader’s most powerful ally is his or her own example.

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.