Leadership Quotes

A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.

Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.

I would love to meet Martin Luther King. His fearless attitude, leadership, and self-awareness changed our world.

The price of leadership is criticism.

Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Leadership is a role you have to earn in order to be effective.

Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

Leadership is about uncertainty. Deal with it

Courage is essential to leadership.

What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.

When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.

When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens.

Leadership isn't making all the decisions. It is making sure the right decisions are made.

People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.

I don't think leadership demands yes or no answers; I think leadership is providing the forum for making the right decision, which doesn't demand unanimity.

If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.

When we don’t take God too seriously, others don’t take our leadership too seriously!

I don't have all the answers. I need your help, your guidance, and your leadership to tackle the challenges before us.

Effective communication is the best way to solve problems.

What is really disappointing about this president is not just lack of leadership, but his tendency to always place the blame for his lack of leadership somewhere else

Why Me? Why You? Why His? Why Hers, Why Mine? or Why Theirs? It should be We and Ours.

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.

One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

I think leadership is both a trained thing and a natural gift.

It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.

So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst.

I have great faith in the military. I have great faith in certain of the commanders, certainly. But I have no faith in Hillary Clinton or the leadership.

Under [Betsy DeVos] leadership, we can deliver a world-class education and school choice to all families.

The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.

Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles in agriculture, eliminating hunger and inequity.

Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.

The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

We are far more effective on the inside looking out than the outside looking in.

If you are in a leadership position, do not rely on your title to convince people to follow you. Build relationships. Win people over. Do that and you will never be a lonely leader.

Surround our children with a message of honor

When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.

Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children.