Leadership Quotes

The ultimate leaders develop followers who will surpass them.

A good leader takes care of those in their charge. A bad leader takes charge of those in their care.

Leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.

We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.

Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead.

Leadership is not a rank, it's a choice.

Leadership is not a rank or a position, it is a choice - a choice to look after the person to the left of us & the person to the right of us.

Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.

Leadership is about making people feel safe. When someone feels heard, they feel safe.

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.

The responsibility of leadership is not taken, it is given. Only when others choose to follow us can we truly lead.

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.

Leadership is not communicating what we need. Leadership is communicating what we can contribute.

We communicate much more through our presence than the words.

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

I gotta tell you, I do not envy whoever they try to put in David Letterman's chair. Folks those are some huge shoes to fill, and some really big pants.

A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of the external situation.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations

Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed feel somewhat miscast in their role.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.

There are themes that somehow stir me and that I find very interesting. They're themes that deal with leadership, the nature of bravery and courage, and how to define those.

Donald Trump's meeting with the president of Mexico comes after months of bashing that country and its political leadership. Trump has called the Mexican government corrupt and dishonest.

My style of leadership is to lead with the lightest touch that I possibly can.

I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

One of my favorite quotes from Thomas Edison is, "If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would astound ourselves." I believe leadership is a journey of learning and growing.

Anybody will do for you, but not for me.

It is very simple to be likeable in Washington. You just go along to get along. You just do what your leadership wants.

America has receded from the world. Today our friends and allies don't trust us. And our enemies don't fear us. I think we should get back, number one, to American leadership in the world.

The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Make sure your daughter's goal is her goal, not your goal.

He is a thermostat leader, not a thermometer...He does not react to the environment he's in. He changes every environment he's in.

I've got to be first. ALL the time.

We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets.

Leadership is not about being important, it's about serving something important.

Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed.

When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to serve him for a long time

If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.

O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!

Challenging American leadership is not at stake.

I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons.

Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.

I don't think either team can win it.

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.