Leadership Quotes - Page 35

An ambitious amateur will rise above a complacent master.

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.

Karma is a balance sheet of life which debits and credit all your deeds.YourWhich is audited by our creator and actions are based on what we accumulated in it.

Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.

Exceed, succeed, outdo, overdo, all with a smile.

You Either Trust Someone or You Don’t

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.

In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, "He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreality, a certain frivolity, distractedness, over-interest in words and phrases.

If you first take a minute, an hour or a month to let go of feeling annoyed, frustrated or critical of the person or situation that may be driving you crazy, you set yourself up for much greater leadership and personal success.

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.

High Performance Teams create cultures of caring, connection, commitment, collaboration and clear consistent communication

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!

Leadership is not about the power and status of one but the empowerment and service of all. That is what it should be and that is how it should be measured.

A great leader never fears criticism and welcomes them with openness and love as if they are the beauty of the journey.

What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths - and can call on the right strength at the right time.

Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative.

The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field.

It is time to euthanize change management.

God's voice will be heard in the cave but only His visions will be revealed to you on the mountain. (A bit deep). God will always love you and will always speak to you but when you lose your perspective, you won't see his plan.

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Don't sabotage your energy, focus on expanding your energy bubble.

Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power.

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.

If you pull a plant out of the soil, you dont need to kill it. It will wither on its own. If you take a fish out of the water, you dont need to kill it. It will suffocate and eventually die. Likewise, if a man takes himself out of connection with God, you dont need to impose destruction on him. He will die spiritually, and its only a matter of time before he dies physically. Do not lose your connection this festive season and beyond. Whoever stays attached to the Source will have life

Are you conscious of the scent or odour emanating from your mouth, arm pits, stockings or elsewhere? Are you friendly to your environment? Is your dressing, hair style and make up in line with your defined mission and values? How can you start managing your image and brand for a consistently good impression all the time? Does your image reflect your aspirations?

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

Quality is all about taking care of the details.

Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.

When quitting is done correctly, it isn't giving up - it's making room for something better.

God rewards every act of obedience to His Will.

Vision is a future state of beings.

Never embrace a version of the gospel that doesn't require you to do life with someone who isn't like you.

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!

Business should never be merely transactional -it should be transformational

We can only continue to promote invention, creativity and success by asking of ourselves, our situations and problems some key questions. What questions are you asking today?

He who believes not in your quest should not sail with you, so that he won't sink your ship.

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

Ordinary leaders move mounds,good leaders move hills,but great leaders move mountains.

Always follow your dreams with confidence and conviction, don’t fall for the trap of dream killers

Knowledge if churned like milk, results in the butter of wisdom.

You should lead and serve by example without a title because people will and should remember you by and for your actions and accomplishments for doing good not by your title or positions.

Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

Whatever you do, do it as a master, not as a slave.

To gain your share of the market, you must show how your company is different and how your culture produces a unique experience for your customers, leaving no room for competition. And that, Bombshell, is your brand.

Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people

If your ministry can't work without you, then it is no longer Christ-centered. Minister toward Jesus, not yourself.

In life, all things are not constant or equal, the inequalities are so loud; change and uncertainty are the order of the day. It is these changes, inequalities and uncertainties that make it more imperative that you deliberately plan your way to success.

A true leader is not meant to be greeted with unanimous praise by his people. A leader is meant to be questioned, to be suspect, to be hated. If he is not, then one can easily assume that either he has not challenged his abilities as a leader by making a decision that creates a split between the people, or he is forcing his subjects to bow before him.

Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now - but instead what continues to grow long after you're gone

Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are.

Despite several millennia of building best business practices, despite all the analysis and planning, and forced discipline and structure, what makes us human will never be cleaved from how work gets done.

What we are most passionate about becomes our legacy.

The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them; in other words, those who are unacquainted with the institution are the only persons who passed censure upon it.

A hunt leader could not show fear, or let it linger in his stomach, for others would sense it soon enough, taste that fear and become possessed by it. They would hesitate when an order was given, and uncertainty would claim their life as readily as the blade of the enemy.

In a Consciously Conscious Revolutionary Workplace, people are promoted based upon skillset, AND more importantly MINDSET

Stay in your lane.