Leadership Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The ultimate leaders develop followers who will surpass them.

Leadership is like exercise. Do it everyday, the results take time but you will see them. It's the little things.

When someone asks for your time, and you put your phone away to talk to them... that's leadership.

Learning has replaced control as the fundamental role of management.

Our aspirations are really for women to be in half the leadership roles and men to be doing half the work of parenting.

I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done

We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to leadership.

Don't be afraid to ask the 'dumb' question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!

In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular.

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.

The future of marketing is leadership

Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.

Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.

The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.

'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say'

The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate. – When people ask you to tell them what to do, resist.

Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.

Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential.

It is often assumed that money is the only motivational factor. Wrong.Fear is also important. Save money. Use fear!

It's often said that leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want, and making them think it's what they want. This captures a lot of what Abraham Lincoln did.

PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.

Leadership is the art of invoking wisdom and right action out of the people needed to accomplish the goal.

Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.

If you have a full understanding of what we’re up against and the leadership of your country doesn’t, well, hello. That’s life in America today.

How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

That's what world leadership is: A willingness to point at bad guys and say they're the bad guys and to keep the bad guys from getting worse! That's leadership. Obama didn't want to go there.

It isn't personal per se to document what the Republican Party leadership is doing and how they're abrogating actual leadership.

[on Brexit] It's time for change. I just hope the right people give the right leadership.

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.

The sky's the limit for all Americans if we have the right kind of leadership.

Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.