Leaders Quotes - Page 13

Now, are those engaged in the business of governing any different by nature from those they govern?""Yes. They're prideful and tend to sexual misconduct. Also, the situation of being in government tends to drive you mad.""But are they more virtuous or more intelligent? Or more compassionate?""Ha!""Let's call that one a 'no.

…golf was no longer the most interesting sport to the corporate czars because they found playing with natural balls much more satisfying.

As a leader, your main responsibility is to remove any barriers that stand in the way.

The failure of a person is wrapped in his ignorance about his strengths.

Success comes from people (leaders) who are motivated by the change, not who need to be motivated by the change.

The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and to know this, check his sense of vision.

Church leaders raised on rationalism lead ministries where the supernatural, the Vertical, is suppressed and where God Himself is at best an observer and certainly seldom, if ever, and obvious participant in church.

... War is the sole art looked for in one who rules...

When the lenses in the eyes of a leader captures tomorrow, they don't print the passport size of it. They make enlargements.

Not money, not fame and not positions can transform an enemy into a friend but rather, it is love that can do such a job.

Leadership is built on true character! You lose your leadership when you fake your character. The degree of leadership potential a person can expose will depend on how potent he can maintain his true character!

If you are going to hide yourself and you will not stand against the work of the bad people, you have given them an endorsement.

Don’t let any situation intimidate you, defeat you, or conquer you. you are stronger and smarter than anything that challenges you.

You can’t wake up one day and suddenly become a leader. You first discover that specific thing God created you for, develop it into something specific that the world will need, and then you have already leading started leading.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.

Do not be obsessed with expensive things.Instead, be obsessed with excellence.Things don't make you excellent.However, excellence will make you expensive.

If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop love to serve your country better.

If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.

Be the initiator of things you wish to see, but can’t see. Be the originator of things you wish you feel but can’t feel.

The best leaders want to leverage all the capabilities of the people in their organization.

Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. It's why the whole world is falling apart.

Leaders can set targets as high as they like, but when followers are not aware of the vision in place; it may just be another futile endeavor.

Focus on how far you have come in liferather than looking at the accomplishments of others.

The world needs something from you, my friend. It needs the heart that is deep as the ocean and infinite as the outer-space. Can you provide that my friend! Can you make your will so large and your conscience so sharp that in front of which, a thousand Everests and a thousand Kilimanjaros would bow!

When you come into the presence of a leader of men you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

The old world was destroyed because of its own greed and secretiveness. Those least evolved rose to the top, as happens here. Your leaders, as you call them, are all people with damaged senses of self-worth. The damaged goods run the civilization. That’s why it cannot last." "Abraham Lincoln was damaged goods?""The need to lead is a symptom.

Sign of a leader - Believe in others.....

Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don’t die with your books in your mind unpublished!

Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel.

Exceptional leaders are fearless in setting expectations in clear language.

Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of their lack of courage and insecurities.

Leaders create awareness in their followers about the great potentials they carry and how to release them for the benefit of all. Leaders are motivators,

Leaders set the context and create the conditions in which individuals and organizations thrive.

The most successful businesses have leaders that see the correlation between customer service and sales… not as separate departments, but as complimentary components for growth.

Those who see poverty looking for human slaves to capture, will tell you they saw him holding the handcuffs of laziness.

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.

Greed squeezes your dreams into a portable size, so that failure can easily carry them to dump somewhere.

I hate that leaders have the power to rule over the weak, transforming them into something they are not. But is that really true? Or just an excuse we use to be weak and not stand up for what is right?

Selfless Actions; expand our life outside of us, enable us admired leaders and make our actions that live beyond our lifespan.

Leaders should always be the initiators of reconciliation.

To lead is a privilege, not an entitlement. It doesn't make you better than anyone; it helps you bring out the best in everyone. Accolades don't inspire a leader's vision; they've set their sights on the success of others. Leaders bypass shortsightedness and focus on the big picture. Leaders who always stand righteously never stand alone.

A leader is someone who influences outcomes and inspires others.

I did not know of any single soul who succeed in life without a mentorship.

You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The truth is that God knows love will be needed in volumes, this is why he made his grace abundant. Leaders are lovers. Misleaders are haters!

Preparation is the key to leadership success. The more prepared you are the less your struggle to make it happen and the more your effectiveness!

If we all work together there is no telling how we can change the world through the impact of promoting positivity online.

Think of strength, dream of strength, live of strength.

If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it.

People need to feel safe to be who they are—to speak up when they have an idea, or to speak out when they feel something isn't right.

Fear punches holes in your eyes so that you don't see the future clearly. Faith enlarges your vision to behold your destiny.

Leaders don’t settle for less. When you do so, you rob humanity of what you are supposed to deliver!

Self-reliance is an America virtue but not a biblical value. Solomon wrote, "The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice." (Proverbs 12:15) The word 'listen' carries with it the meaning of seeking out as well as receiving advice. A lot of pain can be prevented if leaders would just check in with their coach before a making a big decision.

... When Princes devote themselves rather to pleasure than to arms, they lose their dominions.

He who loves his job, will own it.

Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams!

Sometimes, people don’t need our monies and our treasures. All they need is our encouragements to give them hope.

Leadership is not a raw gift given to a group of people. It is the product of any type of gift everyone one has. It therefore means, any kind of gift is a leadership gift!

Practice holding labels lightly as leaders so you have greater range in your behaviors and are more adaptable and effective in a greater range of situations.

It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is you get up one more time than you were knocked down.