Leadership Quotes - Page 70

There is no where that life problem can take you that God's presence cannot reach you. There is nothing that people can do to you that can keep God from getting to you.

Authenticity is the most fundamental, but challenging attribute for leadership.

I can't change you and you can't change me, but together we can work to change the world.

Show Us, Don’t Tell Us

If you just want to do something because it is a customary new year resolution, then soon enough the year will get a bit older, and the strength of your decision will also begin to wear off.

If you want to do something that really changes someone’s life, the best thing you can do is make the person you’re trying to help a participant in the process.

Sometimes, people don’t need our monies and our treasures. All they need is our encouragements to give them hope.

the quality of your mind depends on the quality of your thought

Staffers tend to mimic their bosses, to take their key from them.

Everyone has a right to a strong and independent future: All of us have the right, and personal obligation, to choose whether or not company-driven hardships and sacrifices, overall, are shackling or strengthening our future. And to keep that right, each of us must be our own best advocate.

Improvement combines effectiveness with simplicity.

Helping those less fortunate than us is a blessed opportunity to show thanks for the gifts of life that we ourselves enjoy.

How ought we to love God, Father?" he asked in a whisper."By loving men, my son""And how ought we to love men?" "By trying to guide them along the right path""And what is the right path?""The one that rises"- Nikos Kazanzakis, Christ Recrucified

Effective leadership is doing important things first. Effective management is knowing what is important.

The Human Self is the only friend and savior to all humanity.

If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.

Professionalism shouldn't be defined by a persons paycheck, role or title. It should be defined by a persons work ethic

Leadership is not a raw gift given to a group of people. It is the product of any type of gift everyone one has. It therefore means, any kind of gift is a leadership gift!

Practice holding labels lightly as leaders so you have greater range in your behaviors and are more adaptable and effective in a greater range of situations.

Don't try moving mountains God ordained you to climb.

Let's Not Just Be Heroes! Let's Be Heroes Who Lead!

True leaders don't look at just the outward appearances in the selection of team members, they look at one's core values and heart.

Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.

It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is you get up one more time than you were knocked down.

The leader who listens is the one society needs most. They don’t force their commands on people. They pay attention to their demands and set the pace for the change that society truly needs.

A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways.

One asset every leader, shouldn't risk anything to lose at all cost, is team confidence.

Some people only go to church for the social life. They like having all the friends in church or getting the praises of men by doing certain things, but they don’t go there to actually worship God. They go there so others can worship THEM instead.

... Gunpei Yokoi, asked his boss, 'What should I make?' Nintendo chief executive Hiroshi Yamauchi replied, 'Something great.'Game Over Nintendo's Battle to Dominate Videogames

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

If I should be available to everyone, I will eventually end up with nothing to give to anyone. So the greatest gift you can receive from me is my time. Count yourself lucky if I give you a minute of my hour.

The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.

Jesus modeled true leadership as both personal and hospitable.

Those who criticize the innovative concept of multi-site churches must also remember that at one point stained glass and hymnals were new as well.

Leadership comes at a cost.It’s called servant leadership.

Facts and intuition are false opposites.Leaders should listen to their intuition and instincts and allow others to do the same because they are sub-conscious, fast ways of processing, aggregating and then accessing evidence to reach a swift conclusion.Trust your gut.

Always judge a man by the coloring of his heart and only his heart. Truth can be found in his record of actions, not intentions.

The skills of a leader will determine how excellent he will perform. His attitude will determine how often he will do that.

You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.

Ideas love speed

Your title is what you are; your visions are who you are. When you know who you are, then you will know where you can be useful most.

The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.

Shereketa” is a Shona word ordinarily meaning to fidget, to be restless, and to show discomfort. Whilst this word has largely been used negatively, the Shereketa principle channels it into a different dimension to be used positively for success. Shereketa re–defined refers to deliberate movements, actions and adjustments inspired by the calling to excellence & success, driven by a conviction against and a growing discomfort with mediocrity. The movements and actions take place in two realms - the inner spirit/convictions of your heart and the outer execution platforms of your physical and material world (Shereketa within and Shereketa without).

Sins of omission should be regarded as far more serious than sins of commission,

In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man.

At the end of the day let there be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.

The reality is that the American people have no desire for an empire. This is not to say that they don't want the benefits, both economic and strategic. It simply means that they don't want to pay the price. Economically, Americans want the growth potential of open markets but not the pains. Politically, they want to have an enormous influence, but not the resentment of the world. Military, they want to be protected from dangers but not to bear the burdens of long-term strategy.

Part of leadership is preparing those who follow to someday go on ahead without you.

Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.

Good leaders make heroes of others.

It's funny when so many people I meet tell me that I'm a complicated and mysterious person they can’t understand. The problem isn't in me but in them. When I say something, I do it. The problem is that they don't believe I will, and they don't believe anyone can do what I say I will. That's their confusion. But actually, I'm a simple person, as I always match my own words. That's how you must see it. Just cut through "common sense" and move forward, and achieve! Let others worry about the how.

The beauty of obedience is that what God expects you to do, He also enables you to do.

When you walk in distinction, even the photocopying machine can’t replicate your unique quality.

Even though it may look like the wicked is gaining ground, God is still in control. We need to pray for our nations, pray for others, pray for forgiveness and mercy over people. We need to love no matter who we are talking to, whether they are Atheist, Moslems, Lesbians, Homosexuals or Pagans. We need to love them and share the love of God with them and not judge and see if we can rebuild our broken nations.

There can never be someone greater at being you than you.

Pick the paper off the floor, throw it in the trash, study—even if you think you already know the subject, say thank you for an act of kindness, and be the support you want to receive. You want to become a master of the mundane, making it easier to be a sorcerer of success.

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one can lie at crucial moments.

If people institute wrong institutions, wrong institutions do not just produce wrong people, but wrong people who understand and accept mediocrity as an institution

Our being is more important than our doing. We are human beings, acting as though we are human doings. In our frenzied doing, we are often not conscious of our state of being. Yet our deepest impact comes from our state of being because it is at the root of our intentions, our choices, and our behavior.

Innovative leadership is essentially anchored on the leader’s overall multifaceted resourcefulness and multidimensional competencies.