Leaders Quotes - Page 4

Your followers are interested in going where you have gone before. Take them where you have been and let them know what took you there. They’ll learn by your example.

Thought leadership is when a leader's thoughts are being used by leaders to lead others.

If you want to be a leader, don't stand on the toes of dwarfs. Mount the shoulders of giants and you will see further.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

I don’t see any dearth of women leaders, it’s a question of what we consider a woman leader.

Serving my generation with excellence will mean my generation can in turn lead with excellence.

The world needs courage and conscience that can penetrate into the darkest mysteries and secrets of the universe.

Leaders are not just personalities or identities we follow, they are ideas, everything belongs to them gives you a feel which forces you to rethink about your own-self (Life) and tracks (Purpose of life) you are walking on, even their remembrance gives you an energy which is powerful enough to shape your reality, even the realities of those who hate them.

The VoiceThere is a voice inside of youThat whispers all day long,"I feel this is right for me,I know that this is wrong."No teacher, preacher, parent, friendOr wise man can decideWhat's right for you--just listen toThe voice that speaks inside.

Sow the seeds of weakness and inferiority in the kids and they’ll grow up to be inferior, crawling, insignificant insects. Sow the seeds of courage and they’ll become brave-heart leaders who will one day change the course of human history.

Never reject the opportunity to take the first step. The first step is the key to obtaining the experience you have longed for.

Legends are born in solitude. Idiots are born in packs.

When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty.

The simplest way to silence your critics as a leader is to do what they claim you can’t do. However, be careful they don’t set you up to take fatal risks to please their criticisms.

Service to humanity is service to God.

Learning from failure boosts a leader's chance of staying ahead of his standards. Leaders who rise quickly after falling are always stable.

What differentiates victors and victims are visions and vigor. Victims won't get the vim to step out of their situations.

A man who tells you to follow him will turn his followers into his company, while a true leader who does not tell you to follow him, will sit in the company of his followers.

Until you let go of that bitterness in your heart, it will find a comfortable place to destroy your dreams, your sight and most times, your sleep.

Politicians obfuscate. It gets them re-elected. If no-one can understand what is going on, then the perception is that we need someone to guide us through the fog. Many people want to be led. A few people even think that they need to be led.

Leaders reject free opportunities they don't need, so that they can have time to create the expensive opportunities they need.

It is no longer just engineers who dominate our technology leadership, because it is no longer the case that computers are so mysterious that only engineers can understand what they are capable of. There is an industry-wide shift toward more "product thinking" in leadership--leaders who understand the social and cultural contexts in which our technologies are deployed.Products must appeal to human beings, and a rigorously cultivated humanistic sensibility is a valued asset for this challenge. That is perhaps why a technology leader of the highest status--Steve Jobs--recently credited an appreciation for the liberal arts as key to his company's tremendous success with their various i-gadgets.

Don’t just have dreams. Take actions too. To make it possible, begin every dream with a simple action and your interest will beam out.

If there is any society where the leaders lack the knowledge and the importance of justice, then oppression will be a common neighbor of the citizens.

Don’t wait for someone else to do it so you enjoy. You can’t do it yourself. Just try it.

You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.

Leaders face battles. They don’t run away from troubles.

Leaders are not born, but made as a result of hard work

The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!

With a decision and a defined purpose, you can begin work.

Leadership is inherent in our nature and is fundamental to our origins, our human makeup –and our destiny.

A call to duty, a call for service.

Rest and comfort are two different things. Rest is a planned temporary time to refresh and refocus the leader. Comfort is when you settle into unproductive routines and accept satisfactory or unsatisfactory results.

Arise O lion-heart! Awake, O great soldier! Misery has come upon the world. It is wailing for help. It is wailing for redemption. Won’t you do anything, my friend!

It is better to serve than be served.

Love people who hate you and their hatred won’t get grounds to gain roots.

You must not wait to be elected into office, before you begin to serve. Begin to serve every where you are; in the home, community, school, university, work, hospital, church, market, society, nation and among many other places.

...21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues!

When we limit ourselves by being the person we “should” be, we limit our aliveness. We may achieve success but not fulfillment because we are not living out all the important truths about ourselves, truths we need to slow down to excavate.

The most risky day in the world will be the day the bird will decide to swim and the fish will decide to fly. Stay glued to what you can do.

It’s never wrong to be rich, but I want to believe, success is not limited to riches; it involves influence. If your riches don't create any impact, you are missing it.

Leadership is about taking steps while management is about drawing the map on the steps to take. Managers simply plan, leaders simply execute!

Leaders spend time reviewing their mistakes rather than having fantasies over their achievements! They look for every way to do the undone!

Your character and attitude is what takes the lead in your leadership role and you follow them as a true leader". Poor character and attitude is eventually poor leadership.

Every great leader once fell down from a tall ladder. You don't become a star until you get the scar. Take that risk now.

Between a plan and it’s achievement is a leader in the middle. With his one arm he makes the plan. With the other one he carries them through.

If you compromise your core values, you go nowhere.

Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.

Opportunities loiter in every corner. Everyone may see them, but it’s only great leaders that stop by to give them lifts!

Leaders are not the ones with the right position or a proclaimed or given title, the actual leaders are the people who start acting, who step up, who do change, no matter in what way or how small!

I – the eternal idea of oneness, have said this before – and now in the century 21st, say once again - Awake, my friend! Arise, my friend! Start walking my friend! And do not stop until you bring the change you wish to see in your society!

You can decide to refuse to allow people who aim at hating you to achieve their aims.

Just as you won’t enjoy the fruits of the tree you dislike, so you won’t even wait to learn from people you hate.

Leaders don’t fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn’t their desire to maintain but to improve.

Graciousness in serving and being served marks the lives of leaders who have made the largest impact on my life.

When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you. A leader’s skills take him to people, but his character brings people to him.

To become a leader, renovate your mind with painting of peace and roof your heart with ceiling of love. No love, no leader!

Leaders are good messengers; they take the message from God and share it with others in the world. Jesus is a true example; He said “Here I am, send me Lord”!

May we continue to serve one another in love.

If I could remove one thing from the world and replace it with something else, I would erase politics and put art in its place. That way, art teachers would rule the world. And since art is the most supreme form of love, beautiful colors and imagery would weave bridges for peace wherever there are walls. Artists, who are naturally heart-driven, would decorate the world with their love, and in that love — poverty, hunger, lines of division, and wars would vanish from the earth forever. Children of the earth would then be free to play, imagine, create, build and grow without bloodshed, terror and fear.