Leaders Quotes - Page 7

If you create an environment of conflicts, I don’t think you will enjoy peace yourself.

The Anatomy of Conflict:If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there is no respect then there is no caring. If there is no caring then there is no understanding. If there is no understanding then there is no compassion. If there is no compassion then there is no empathy. If there is no empathy then there is no forgiveness. If there is no forgiveness then there is no kindness. If there is no kindness then there is no honesty. If there is no honesty then there is no love. If there is no love then God doesn't reside there. If God doesn't reside there then there is no peace. If there is no peace then there is no happiness. If there is no happiness ----then there IS CONFLICT BECAUSE THERE IS NO COMMUNICATION!

You are likely to lose the heat of your passion irrespective of how hot it was when you surrender yourself to a leader with lukewarm attitude.

Leaders don’t step on toes of dwarfs. They mount shoulders of giants.

It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.

If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.

Until you do your best, don't try to take a rest. Until you take a leap, don't try to sleep. Until you top, don't try to stop.

Before we ask where the leaders are, we should look in a mirror and ask the person we see “Why are you not leading”?

Academically brilliant persons usually make excellent managers and bureaucrats as they can efficiently implement the vision of the government or world leaders by following the prescribed methods. However, they may prove to be poor leaders, for they may not have taken the pain to understand the world on their own, and hence, cannot contribute any new thought or line of action to tackle new problems.

The fact that a seed is viable is not a proof that it’s going to bear good fruits. Some good seeds are destroyed by bad soils. So is leadership; everyone was born to lead, but not all become leaders!

A mere motivator sees potentials in people and tells them to take actions. A true leader sees the same potentials in the same people and influences them to optimize them under his God-lead inspirations.

Senior pastors cannot be those who think they can do everything but are willing to let a few people help them. Rather, they are those who know they can’t do everything, don’t want to do everything, and are not willing to do everything; they welcome others to come along-side with their gifts in order to form a powerful team for Christ.

The leaders have the responsibility to protect and hold in high esteem the law and virtues of the land.

Try not to leave your work for someone else to do. If possible, carry the work of someone and add it to yours. That's a trait of leaders!

It is never easy for any leader to choose between differentiation and equality. You are condemned either way. When you treat everyone equally, you are considered just by majority as equality benefits below average people and they seem to always be in majority. At the same time, you are also condemned because you can’t produce results with people having a crab mentality. However, if you choose to reward the excellence and punish the non-performer, you achieve the desired results but get condemned for being unfair, unjust, cruel and Darwinian.

All great leaders are known to have faith. They first develop faith in themselves, which means they connect their body, mind and intellect with their soul. They also connect their soul with the Universal Soul where all souls of the world are connected with each other. Leadership is thus a spiritual quality that comes from faith and trust.

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.

There are certain people in your life and work where the relationship is more important than who is right or wrong.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

Leaders don't cry for what country can do for them for free. They dream about what they can do for country at high cost.

People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.

Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.

Thinking in loneliness and speaking in public are the two things leaders are masters at.

A true leader is still a leader even when he takes up servants' duty, provided he maintains a human face and added integrity to his self-retained qualities.

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.

Know the strength of the followers and tap into their energy. Get others involved. Trust them to do their best. Finally, don't forget to praise the workers.

God wants us to be leaders in all levels of society and to be in charge of the society

God does not need just ability but availability

Leadership potential is in everyone; we all have it, but we all don't know it until we have a direct individual encounter with the Holy Spirit of God. The principal source of leadership influence is the Holy Spirit.

Spiritual authority is the direct result of God doing a greater work in the deeper areas of a leader’s life.

Christ is my model of leadership because he faced similar challenges we also face on earth today, but through it all He was victorious. To leaders are not overcome by challenges!

Winners learn from the past, live in the present, and lead into the future.

Highly engaged teams have highly engaged leaders. Leaders must be about presence not productivity. Make meetings a no phone zone.

You must remember that you are called to save and set others free, to raise and develop strong and powerful leaders, who will form the government of the nations for Christ

Vision unknown is self-abuse. Vision known is self-abuse discovery. But vision applied is self-liberation. Application is the key

Some bad friends are so crafty in such a way that by the time their mission is reveal, they have already executed portions of it.

Great men have great discipline.

Christ manifests his divine leadership in your sincere followership. Christ's followers become true leaders because Christ is the model of true leadership.

Step out of your comfort zone. Comfort zones, where your unrealized dreams are buried, are the enemies of achievement. Leadership begins when you step outside your comfort zone.

Humankind is the greatest resources. Don’t lose faith in the people.

Whatever comes to you in a cheap way will vanish in a cheap way. Be patient and earn it the hard way.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

Managers are people who know what they want.Leaders are people who get what they want.

The leader’s job is to show the way. The bottom line is that you can’t tell anything about the condition of the way if you've not traveled on it yourself!

Forgiveness and restoration are two difference acts. Forgiveness can lead to restoration but restoration is not hinged to forgiveness.

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

Leaders are optimistic. When you walk with leaders, the spirit of hope will ramble around you and you will feel like “yes, I can break barriers with few blows.

Avoid trying to win tough battles on the silver platter. If the struggle is tough the success is sweet.

If I advance follow me! If I retreat kill me! If I die avenge me!

Leaders create and maintain good interpersonal relationships with people they meet and work with. People who lead better relate better.

You will never be rewarded for the dreams you slept over day in day out. You will be rewarded for dreams you stay awake and achieved.

If you see a leader solving one conflict wisely, remember he is working hard to prevent 10 of such from happening!

We are endowed with different kinds of gifts for different kinds of services.

Consistency in right thinking and right doing is how you stay up in a down world.

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.

Leaders have the right to expect that others will compassionately recognize them.

Mentoring is passion for skills and knowledge-transfer to young people

When you give up because challenges arise, you are just too ignorant about the power of the gifts you carry within you.

You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people’s happiness suffocate.

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.