Leadership Quotes - Page 45

Emails, texts and social media promise the writer the power to be heard…In a society where relinquishing control is viewed as weakness, power is relinquished through every message sent without forethought to the potential consequences.

If you are a leader or someone who works for the interest of a community, first make sure that you understand the interest of the people who make up that community. In this way, you will have a good chance of minimizing, perhaps, avoiding the us versus them mentality.

Leaders take actions. Attacking your plans with blows of actions will not cost you painful but temporal bruises. Never leave goals untouched.

No man's advice can change you unless you speak to yourself. Bible school or seminars can't change you, going to church can't change you except you decide to change.Psalm 139:23 - 24

No one is charismatic. Someone becomes charismatic in history, socially. The question for me is once again the problem of humility. If the leader discovers that he is becoming charismatic not because of his or her qualities but because mainly he or she is being able to express the expectations of a great mass of people, then he or she is much more of a translator of the aspirations and dreams of the people, instead of being the creator of the dreams. In expressing the dreams, he or she is recreating these dreams. If he or she is humble, I think that the danger of power would diminish.

There must be a season for everything that measures what success means to you, there must be a deliberately scheduled time slot for the things that are important to you. Wishing is not enough, deliberate plans followed by deliberate actions make it possible.

They'll tell you who they think you should be they'll even try to manipulate you into believing it but let me tell you something son, if I listened to who I was supposed to be - this, everything we are and do wouldn't be in existence. Be a leader, find yourself and make a life with it. Those who judge you and try to force the patterns of their beliefs onto you are envious they haven't the strength in themselves to do the same.

Leadership is a skill learned through many venues.

When you lower the definition of success to such a level that any person can reach it, you don’t teach people to have big dreams; instead you inspirit mediocrity and nurture people’s inadequacies.

Future strong is filled with disruptive heroes. Are you one?

No true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die. Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ludicrous fools who sometimes hoped to achieve some ideal by fiat, by their great desire for it. But usually by bullying all mankind into believing them.

Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend.

He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.

Do you know that you can be surrounded by all these blessings, all these relationships, goodness, provisions, opportunities? But if you don't know how to turn the blessing into praise, it will turn into pride and your life will never be filled with joy because your heart has holes in it.

If you have time, you need a vision. If you have money you need a purpose.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself that the right person can change the world.

Every leader must be challenged to educate their followers and capacitate them with knowledge, tools and a voice to champion their own causes and become actively involved in setting the agenda for citizen participation in social transformation. Don’t create a dependent constituency; develop and lead other leaders who demonstrate a growing personal responsibility for their own success as well as for those around them.

People will know you for who you are, but will remember you for what you have done. True leaders make long lasting impacts!

Courage is leaning into the doubts and fears to do what you know is right even when it doesn’t feel natural or safe.

Leadership isn't about age but rather, leadership is about influence, impact & inspiration.

Organizing a coup was not the same as wanting one.

When you do it, you are not another dreamer

In the end all the puzzles of your life will be solved ,until then... laugh at the scepticism, live for the moment and remember everything happens for a reason.

Karma is the 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.

Courage is the belief in self, and the possible ability to prevail in the face of adversity.

Those who mock at you, shall one day worship you.

Sometimes, changing circumstances also changes relationships.

Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them.

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.

Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing

..be able and willing to action regardless of all trauma, all the No’s, and non-supporters one could headache and pain on.

The reality of life and an imperfect world dictates that things cannot be held constant to guarantee your success; you have to wiggle your way through a planned path within a maze, to attain your goal.

Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy

The shores safety keeps many from the oceans treasures.

Even if the creative brilliance sparks only once, it needs to be accelerated and developed so it has self-sustaining strategies to continue adding value to both the initiator and those it serves.

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman but I have the heart and stomach of a King and of a King of England too.

The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone through what it requires to become president.

You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken.

People follow leaders by choice. Without trust, at best you get compliance.

Trust and believe in the vision of your mind that others cannot yet see. While others abide by the creed that seeing is believing, you must know that believing is seeing.

A leader’s first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.

People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.

One who conquers fear conquers his greatest enemy.

Appreciation and recognition are qualities that most leaders forget, but desperately need, to build a positive, passionate and engaged workplace.

Only the king that has succeeded in subduing his senses is competent to resist his foes.

Effective decision-making can be seen as an optimal link between memory of the past, ground-realities of the present and insights of the future.

Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.

Let your projects be independent organisms. They will develop their own beautiful architecture.

If you find a community with less production and less inspiring inventions, then know it is a sign of lack of Business Leaders and full of General Managers do not know what they can manage or what they are managing.

Begin to grow in wisdom and develop an informed approach to more global issues around you and along your path to success and significance.

Christians believe in a big God but do small things and this is a big insult to God.

You are only as authentic as the substance you have inside you. Having others take your examinations or doing your assignments and projects is to reduce the level of authenticity of your qualification as well as your personal brand. Master your chosen area of study to the highest level and demonstrate that you have full knowledge as a specialist. Let the depth of your knowledge make you sought after and respected. Define yourself and be authentic.

The best friend of truth is time while the best friend of a leader is results.

Be a solution provider and not a part of the problem to be solved

The greatest futility! says the congregator, "The greatest futility! Everything is futile!" What does a person gain from all his hard work- At which he toils under the sun? A generation goes and another cometh forth, but the earth remains the same.

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

Every great leader can take you back to a defining moment when they decided to lead

The author characterizes Hamilton's tone in the Federalist papers by saying that he never spoke of problems but of being at the last stage in the crisis.