Leadership Quotes
Most times, the leader’s ornament isn’t the smiles you see on their faces during the time of victory. It is the sweats we don’t see when they were struggling behind the scenes.
Ensure you have done each day’s portion of the heavy responsibilities resting on you. Never delay your success!
When you give up because challenges arise, you are just too ignorant about the power of the gifts you carry within you.
Never reject the opportunity to take the first step. The first step is the key to obtaining the experience you have longed for.
Never let hatred give you an escort. It will drag your attention from all fortunes along the way.
When making the problem go away is more important than solving the problem leadership begins to fail. The easy way vs. The character way.
Never underestimate the capacity of people to choose the easy way.
You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.
I'm not concerned with whether you got to the top. I want to know how far you climbed. That is where the real achievement is found.
Keep your promises and never be late in acting. Act right and do the right things at the right time.
Everyone appears to be courageous until bad weathers arrive, and then we know the true leaders.
Love people who hate you and their hatred won’t get grounds to gain roots.
If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.
There is no God in Buddha’s teachings. There is no religious ritual in Buddha’s teachings. All that there is, is simple “Karma” or “Work” – that is the “Dhamma” or “Duty” or “Religion” he preached.
Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?
Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.
No God, no messiah, no prophet can grant your wishes – it is only through your own efforts that you can make your wishes come true – it is only you who can grant your own wishes.
God does not need just ability but availability
The leader’s commandment is made up of pledges to solve local and global problems, and not to create more problems to add to the existing ones.
Bear it in mind that people who do not take actions are not and cannot be leaders. Leadership is action.
A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways.
You missed it when you pay more attention to the damaged car in the mechanic shop than the sick human being in the hospital.
One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, "His confidence and compassion increase every day.
A dream without an action is like a fish without gills. It can’t survive.
Until you step in the game and influence the skills, you will never change the score line.
Leaders face battles. They don’t run away from troubles.
Develop the muscles for hard work and never be an early quitter.
Avoid trying to win tough battles on the silver platter. If the struggle is tough the success is sweet.
Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
You can’t shower happiness on others without getting few drops back on yourself.
It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.
Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
You can’t afford to limit your joy. It has been proven several times that angry people are never happy people.
Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody knows that but you.
Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy.
Whatever comes to you in a cheap way will vanish in a cheap way. Be patient and earn it the hard way.
Leaders know how to set priorities. They focus on the task that requires the most rapid attention.
A star wants to see himself rise to the top.A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.
If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.
Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival.
Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change.
Most people who were educated have become the "problems" instead of problem solvers.
I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)
Don’t reduce your impacts to match what you earn.
The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority.
Do what you can with all love and passion irrespective of whether it pays you well or not. Joy in the result lives longer than the joy in the reward.
The essence of one life is empowering another life, and so your passion has to be linked to the liberation of other people’s happiness.