Leaders Quotes - Page 3

If you want to break through to higher levels of performance, you must allow yourself to be restructured.

Sometimes, people don’t need our homes to live in or our bodies to lean on. All they need are our hands to lift them up.

The success of any country relies on the commitment of its leaders to serve others.

If you don’t know what you value in life, then you won’t be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future.

The leader’s joy is the success of change, the evidence of progress and the actualization of a better life.

Lead from the front — but don t leave your base behind.

Leaders draw out ones individual greatness

Leaders do not play a "what if game". They believe it will be and work it to be! Success is scarce because fear is common.

So if you see no one like you, no one who agrees, don't worry. There are actually hundreds of people like you, and they're waiting for a leader. That person is you.

If you don’t know what your barriers are, it’s impossible to figure out how to tear them down.

Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.

A dream without an action is like a fish without gills. It can’t survive.

It is said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things and himself of anything.

To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intentions.

If I am to choose between "sleeping" and "being part of a leadership that pursues irrelevant agenda", I will choose "sleeping". Chasing of irrelevant agenda by a leadership sect is what made Nelson Mandela to call it "Long Walk to Freedom!

Don’t let your principles sit idle on a plaque. Bring them to life.

A true leader is a servant.

There is more for us to gain through love than hate.

Leaders are not worried about the respect and honour they can be given, but the impacts and influence they can give!

Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.

The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts.

Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.

I have what takes to get the job done.

You must put all your heart into everything you do.

Don’t set your own goals by what other people make important.

Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark.

The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style.

A true dreamer is one who knows how to navigate in the dark”.

The most essential requirement for leaders is neither age nor gender. It is neither certificates nor positions. It is the character that reveals trust and exemplary life.

No country can police corruption in other countries when it itself is not free from corruption. You cannot clean a dirty wall with dirty hands.

You don’t need a huge number of people with little passions to get a good job done. You rather need few people with huge passion.

Leadership is about taking people from a good place to a better place where they would not regret to be.

You can’t afford to limit your joy. It has been proven several times that angry people are never happy people.

The real warriors in this world are the ones that see the details of another's soul. They see the transparency behind walls people put up. They stand on the battlefield of life and expose their heart's transparency, so other's can finish the day with hope. They are the sensitive souls that understand that before they could be a light they first had to feel the burn.

When leaders lack self-awareness, they doubt themselves; uncertain about their abilities; unclear about the direction to take on each turn, and more...

Just as every crop performs on its specific type of soil, and not all fishes can grow in every kind of water, so is leadership. You can’t lead where you can’t thrive; you can lead where you can survive!

People deserve their leaders.

The main way people waste time is by complaining of their past wasted time. Leaders respond even if it seems to be late.

One of the most common areas where we fail is when we begin to think that genetic make-up of a person determines how far he can lead". Leadership is learnt and practiced!

Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?

One of the most deadly causes of destruction of divine destinies is when a leader is failing, but he or she does not know it. Ignorance about your role is a death plot against people's successes.

For those who have learned what suffering is early on, you have prepared ahead of the pack so that you can take care of the pack.

What I want from you comrade, what the world wants from you, O dearest, are the neurons of steel, within which dwells a mind of the same material of which the thunderbolt is made.

Some leaders are born women.

Leaders say "no" to corruption. Anyone playing a role in governance, and is not ready to do this is not a leader.

Leaders don't venture without vision. They don't pray without plans. They don't climb without clues. They are always prepared.

True leaders are like statues, whether it rains or it shines, they never bend their necks to look backwards! They never run away from challenges!

Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.

You are serving someone for the rest of your life, not knowing a time must come when you must also be served.

A leader without a clear vision and plans only abuses his power because visions, dreams and plans are the fulcrum along which the loads of success will spine by your own efforts. And where power is abused, there is manipulation instead of inspiration.

It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.

A leader is one who chooses the interest of his followers over his personal ignominy. He can beg, steal and even snatch for the followers. He suffers individual loss for the sake of the gain of his followers. That makes him a leader whom people follow because they themselves do not have the courage to do so. People do not mind if someone else does all the dirty jobs for them while they can enjoy the fruits without getting their own hands dirty.

Ballot papers don’t determine who leads; they determine who takes which position. As to whether that person occupying the position will lead or will manipulate, character must come to prove it.

Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!

No one will shake my conviction that those leaders of men, who are in the nature of carbuncles, of semi-conscious abscesses, who draw feverish crowds to them like noxious humours, have an innate knowledge of arrested time. They play with those vacant moments as though at a game of chequers. A fraction of suspended, frozen time, of inert time, jammed like a wedge into the most wonderfully oiled cogs of the most lucid of minds: and the whole mechanism is brought crashing to the ground, prepared to accept any authority, to endorse the most monstrous aberrations, especially collective ones.

Leaders who do not help the people must be replaced by the people.

Leaders are deep thinkers. They don’t relax for problem to lay eggs before they attempt dealing with them.

I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've gotCould see all kinds of things other people could not!So then why get upset if somebody like meTries to look at the world just a bit differently?

The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture to help make the United States a more functional democracy as they were on employing Black culture to 'vindicate' Black people.

We live in a country where our young ladies who have recently attained the age of puberty cannot afford sanitary pads, but our men and women in public offices have ipads which they do not even know how to use.