Leadership Characteristics Quotes - Page 3

Ineffective leadership, is the plight of followers who anoint power to the autocratic persons who's visions are not founded but are rather arbitrary in their nature.

Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows corporations to outsource jobs for cheaper labor when there is a national employment crisis. Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies.

Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?

Powerful leaders use their position of power to empower others.

Having margins in your life strips away external voices and allows that person to remember and honor the true self within.

Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.

To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.

What you hold in your consciousness tends to manifest—the inner game runs the outer game.

Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better.

Put your name on the mailbox.

Mark you, no Krishna can clear your eyes and make you look with a broader vision upon life in your march upward and onward, until the Self within you morphs into Krishna – until the Self morphs into Buddha – until the Self turns into Christ.

There is nothing worse for a young convert than to be thrust into leadership without mentoring and ongoing coaching because the devil relishes these vulnerable souls.

Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one’s beloved extended community.

There are no self made heroes or leaders. No matter how rugged or self assured, everyone requires a cast of players - friends, mentors, lovers, critics, villains and supporters - who call, invite, seduce, goad and encourage them to finally step into their true power. We are all heroes and leaders in some way, and we all need each other.

When picking a leader, choose a peacemaker. One who unites, not divides. A cultured leader who supports the arts and true freedom of speech, not censorship.

When you don’t have time to do your job, that’s a good indication you’re playing the wrong game.

Effective leaders make it easy for people around them to tell the truth, to be candid and open.

As a leader, it’s critical to take the time to reflect in order to create a powerful vision for the company.

Seven Ways To Get Ahead in Business:1. Be forward thinking 2. Be inventive, and daring3. Do the right thing4. Be honest and straight forward5. Be willing to change, to learn, to grow6. Work hard and be yourself7. Lead by example

When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.

Because discipline is misunderstood or not as valued as it has been, the United States—and some might argue the world—is experiencing a cultural leadership crisis.

Awake, O brave one! Arise, O lion-heart! Be the messenger that spreads compassion.

I am not smart, I pay attention.I am not considerate, I listen.I am not patient, I make time. I’m not lucky, I work hard.

Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.

You Are At Different Levels With Different People.

Great leaders create great cultures regardless of the dominant culture in the organization.

If a leader wants his people to do something, he himself must firstly do it!

Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.

A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.

Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.

Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.

All the calculus, quantum mechanics and languages in the world are worthless pieces of information, if they are not brought to the service of the society.

The leader must have both – the courage to take the people to a daring destination and the humility to selflessly serve others on the journey.

A leader has a great duty. You have to perform beyond the expectation of the people.

Authentic leadership is leading adaptively from your core, choosing who you’re most inspired to be to serve the greatest good in this moment.

I believe in what you see is what you get, but I also believe in what you see is getting better!

Only you can save yourself.

Education is not the amount of information that is pushed into the brain and causes havoc there, undigested all through a lifetime. Education must be a symposium of life-building, character- making and assimilation of ideas in the pursuit of building a more harmonious, peaceful and truly civilized world.

Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.

One cannot lead well until one learns to follow well.

A humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow.

Leaders inspire accountability through their ability to accept responsibility before they place blame.

The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.

If you want to be drunk, become drunk with an idea. If you want pleasure, have pleasure from the pursuit of your passion. If you want to be indoctrinated, then be so by the natural law of humanism.

Great business leaders of our time stand above the crowd not because of what they do, but what they don’t do.

Remember the many compartments of the heart, the seed of what is possible. So much of who we are is defined by the places we hold for each other. For it is not our ingenuity that sets us apart, but our capacity for love, the possibility our way will be lit by grace. Our hearts prisms, chiseling out the colors of pure light.

Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.

What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.

Each year's regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.

Attitude is your number one weapon against mediocrity.

There are few second chances when it comes to establishing your leadership legacy.

True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.

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’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.

He was one of life’s great helpers, for he cleaned up foul places and made them sweet.

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

A crisp, clean $100 bill that is crumbled up, thrown to the ground, stepped on and rubbed in the dirt still maintains its value.Life may crumble you, throw you to the ground, step on you and rub you in the dirt, but you still maintain your value.Just as a crumbled up $100 bill still has purchasing power, your life still has purposeful power; and nothing or no one can ever take that away from you.

Inspiration shouldn't respond to time, rather the other way around. Time must be altered to inspiration, "Timing is wrong" NO! Timing is never wrong. Sacrifice and the likes gets thrown in at this point.

Just do what you were going to do, before you said you were going to do it.

A visionary is a leader of excellence who sees what others do not see, who achieves for now and plans for the future, who positively impacts different generations and raises up other visionaries.