Leadership Quotes - Page 15

All power lies in free expression.

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. And all that cometh is vanity.

As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership.

A leader’s purpose is to provide knowledge and generate trust through kindness. This will provide a foundation that allows others to make choices, right or wrong, and grow in a positive manner from the experience.

Once a message has been sent electronically, the writer has ceded power not just to the recipient, but to whomever the recipient chooses to forward the information. To access electronic communication is to control it. The recipient, not the writer, has power over future dissemination of the writer’s words.

If the problems you have this year are the same problems you had last year, then you are not a leader. You are rather a problem on your own that must be solved.

Map out lofty goals… include reasonable checkpoints along the way... refine, improve, and enhance your behavior in alignment with your goals…. that is the dynamic of true leadership and the formula for success.

Your decision not to join the crowd may be what God is waiting for to grant you revelation on how to deliver your family, your country, business, profession or even your church!

We need leaders who can meet and adapt to new challenges, build strategic partnerships, build and sustain human capital organizations, and have the courage to act and react to the challenges

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

The natural result of utilizing different perspectives is that people are more engaged because they feel their opinions are important.

Leadership is influencing others through modeling.

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.

Shape your mindsets or your mindsets will shape you.

No matter how much I care for you, you have to do your own growing – it’s your personal responsibility. Muscles do not grow by reading but by lifting weights. Exam grades do not improve by wishing but by studying.

May God guide and lead us to a glorious future.

You can't be richer than your trust in your partners.

Leadership embodies a spirit of encouragement. It is difficult to lead people where they are not enthusiastically encouraged to go.

There must be a demand, there must be an urge and there must be a will and where there is a demand and a will, there will also be a way.

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

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

Most people are interested in success, but not COMMITTED to success, which is why 85%+ of people seldom achieve their desired level of success.

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

As a leader you should look in the mirror and ask yourself would I follow you ensured of a victory.

Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.

Leadership is simple, if the leaders starts to serve first.

Effective leaders are good spotters. They are on the lookout forpotential leaders. They have the ability to look beyond other’s deficiencies tosee their possibilities.

We live in a society where every business has a huge scope. Even if you open a shop selling snakes people will buy it. Thinking they will direct them to their neighbors house.

If you change your words to positive reinforcement, the negative reactions will lose their power

followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope

Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save yourself, you can give up too many of those qualities that are the essence of being alive, like innocence, curiosity, and compassion.

Turkeys can run with eagles but cannot fly with them.

Tomorrow’s workforce is flopping the relationship lens: They see companies as vehicles to achieve their goals and dreams — vehicles that can amplify their passions, achievements and community relationships beyond what they could have done on their own or elsewhere. Companies that they will join are seen as communities that explore and resource and fund making a difference in the world in ways that align with their personal approach and values.

Creative thinking begins by embracing your naiveté and rejecting the obvious in favor of the unusual, the extraordinary, the evocative and or the new.

Everyone that enters through Him is secured and the person shall find pastures for himself. Jesus really cares!

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

Don't apologize for expressing passion.Don't back down when it comes to your integrity.Don't let anyone undermine your standards for the sake of ease.Be a character of excellence, NOT excuses.

Maybe he wasn’t there to lead so much as to provide an illusion to the others that they were being led.

Life is a do-it-yourself project.

A set of excellent questions themselves is perhaps like a poem, both philosophical and intellectual.

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.

To the degree you experience a love deficit you will also manifest a leadership deficit.

I beseech thee, O Lord, let me have understanding: For it was not my mind to be curious of the high things, but of such as pass by us daily.

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

Regular and concentrated training makes an expert.

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.

The two fundamental skills of any leader are creativity and initiative. Creativity to find solutions and initiative to take action on them.

Whatever you do, do with integrity. Wherever you go, go as a leader. Have courage to lead. Whenever you serve serve with caring. Whenever you dream, dream with your all. And innovate, never give up. ~Curt Carlson, America's Richest Families: A Forbes Compendium Of Stories Since 1977

Being positive in a negative situation is not naive. It's leadership.

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law...Do you understand the rights I have just read to you? With these rights in mind, do you wish to speak to me?” Most Americans adults have heard the Miranda rights from countless television and movie crime drams. The first statement of the Miranda rights is a simple but powerful declarative sentence. “You have the right to remain silent.” Not speaking will not be held against you, but the suspect is told that any words spoken “can and will be used against you in a court of law.” U.S. law provides the opportunity for reflection and protection against self-incrimination with the last sentence asking, “Do you wish to speak to me?” Reflect and ask yourself, it is wise to post or send an email containing that information?

Open mind → Learning → Knowledge → Baseline for leadership

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

We are lost, but we're making good time.

Always remember: everything you do uses a portion of someone else's life.

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.