Leadership Quotes - Page 56

Money might be a reward (by-product) but should not always be the only goal of your efforts and enterprise.

Maybe he sells fear because he's got nothing else to sell.

the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

The more desperate the situation, the more opportunity for miracle. If you need something from God, you need to be at the right place, the right position and at the right time

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.

Let go of a need for personal recognition. Heap kudos on others and they’ll perform even better next time. Leaders are only as good as those who follow them and followers are at their best when leaders are quick to give credit for successes.

You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it.

The concept of leadership is abused by people who think a person becomes a leader when he grows grey hair, put into a position and expected to function. Everyone has a leadership potential carried within in a specific area of his or purpose. Leadership is universal and built on trust.

I don't care if you dream big or small. Do shit.

Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.

Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

Truth is the greatest marketing campaign.

You can use and see the power of words contributing towards your success, and this comes from having an empowering belief system. Living and functioning from an empowering belief system is the spring board for making your success more deliberate.

Leadership is the ability to help people and organizations surpass themselves.

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

In God’s Kingdom there are no overnight sensations or flash-in-the-pan successes.Anyone who wants to be used of God will experience hidden years in the backside of the desert. During that time the Lord is polishing, sharpening and preparing us to fit into His bow, so at the right time, like “a polished shaft” He can launch us into fruitful service. The invisible years are years of serving, studying, being faithful in another person’s ministry and doing the behind-the-scenes work. The Bible says, ‘God is not unjust; he will not forget your work’ (Hebrews 6:10 NIV 2011 Edition). Be patient; when the time is right He will bring forth the fruit He placed inside you.

Before tomorrow becomes your legacy, come the choices you must make today.

You live, work and lead others in the most exciting time, ever! Are you strong enough?

Your past is handing you a tool you can use to leap into your future: the crucible moments from your own life. The power you need is in looking back to look forward.

For those of you who are begging God for a breakthrough, this is not the way of getting something from your heavenly father, you don't have to beg him for what He already bought for you, you don't have to beg Him for what He died to give you. You don't have to convince people, you don't have to convince anybody if God likes to do a work in your life, it is done.

When you get to the junction of double mindedness in purposefulness, remember the will of God.

Ask yourself...If I walk a tight rope,will I fall ,If I shake my balance of thought will it deter me and if I stay focused will I succeed?.~bns

You can only destroy something that I have but you can't destroy something that I am.

We pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our life is astonishment and fear, and we are not worthy to obtain mercy.

When your intuition is strong, follow it.

In the world of business, being slow is a losing move.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass

The worst question ever asked, is the one which is never asked.

Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader’s arsenal

The greatest leaders are the greatest servants.

Comfort zone: simply means the routine of one’s daily life – it is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.

In good organizations, leaders are treated with a sense of appreciation and respect by employees; in great organizations, employees are treated with the same esteem by leaders.

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part on the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him.

Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven’t been clever enough to reduce ‘it’ to its essence.

Strategy can turn a losing battle into a winning battle.

If you are too good to look after God’s trash, you are not good enough to look after God’s treasure.

Impossible is a perception based upon a limiting mental illusion. Possible is the belief in the potential of unseen possibility,

Leaders walk their talks. They don’t give theories that do not work. They have clarity into their dreams and insight into their directions!

All leadership in the Kingdom is by example.

Inferior and Superior life lives in the interior of a person.

Strong combat leadership is never by committee. Platoon commanders must command, and command in battle isn't based on consensus. It's based on consent. Any leader wields only as much authority and influence as is conferred by the consent of those he leads. The Marines allowed me to be their commander, and they could revoke their permission at any time.

With Johnson, you never quite knew if he was out to lift your heart or your wallet. Roy Wilkins

The person of creatures is living, the purpose of living is service, a service that implants legacy.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command

Embracing failure is the stepping stone to success

Divorce = Rebirth: forget the past, replan your life, improve your appearance & REJUVENATE!

Anything that doubt me can´t doubt my God. Any situation that is too high for me can never be too high for my God.

Negative prophecies are reversible. The Lord reveals to conquer. You are created to reverse any negative with your prayers and the word of God.

One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say.

You can’t move up in the staircase of leadership unless you are emotionally intelligent.

The best way to overcome your weaknesses is to turn them into strengths.

The experience of the expert is an advantage to them only for as long as it enables them to learn faster than the novice

Don’t keep those people in your life who are completely negative in approach. Eventually these people will stress you out and be the source of your downfall.

To be given loyalty is to be infused like a gemstone, to be granted the frightful license to destroy not only one's self, but all within one's care.

A leadership comfort zone brings stagnancy, deprives one of innovation, stifles growth and frustrates both the leader and the team they lead. Your personal preferences like leadership style, communication style, prejudices, habits and mannerisms must be effectively managed so that they do not work against you. You have to be careful that your strengths do not end up becoming a hindering comfort zone. Seek to lead, driven by a cause.

One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires.

You need to use you imagined view of the future you dream of, then paint the statement in words, to state that clear dream of your desired future.

If you despise your people,you will disregard them.If you hate your people,you will harm them.If you esteem your people,you will serve them.If you love your people,you will even die for them.

The system that aims at educating our boys and girls in the same manner as in the circus where the trainer teaches the lion to sit on a stool, has not understood the true meaning of education itself. Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians’ heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.

Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.