Food For Thought Quotes - Page 14

The most essential requirement for leaders is neither age nor gender. It is neither certificates nor positions. It is the character that reveals trust and exemplary life.

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A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.

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Leaders show examples. They have something to offer and they’ll offer it by the process of how they got it. Anyone who has no examples to show may not lead better.

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The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!

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You can’t lead people if you can’t lead yourself. Self-leadership qualities qualifies you to become a co-operate leader.

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Everyone in the organizations is very important. From the sweeper to the security officer; from the messenger to the manager, everyone doing well at his post is a leader. The organization becomes a leading one when it’s made up of people leading in their roles.

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

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Leaders are optimistic. When you walk with leaders, the spirit of hope will ramble around you and you will feel like “yes, I can break barriers with few blows.

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The courageous attitude of a leader awakens the dormant attitude of followers. The dormant attitude of a leader weakens the passionate attitude of followers. Leadership determines everything.

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People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally. Action fixes images in their minds and they can carry those images for a long period.

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Management informs. Leadership applies. The effective managers inform accurately. Effective leaders apply wisely.

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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.

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The growth of an organization is not dependent on the number of employees in its register. It is dependent on the number of employees who show dedication and commitment to the vision of the organization.

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Leadership is about taking steps while management is about drawing the map on the steps to take. Managers simply plan, leaders simply execute!

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Vision unknown is self-abuse. Vision known is self-abuse discovery. But vision applied is self-liberation. Application is the key

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A person with low standards will forever be walking. A person with high standard will soon stop walking and start running. Later, they’ll soon stop running and start galloping. The next time you see him, he’s either flying or soaring.

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Don’t let the horrible nature of the waters prevent you from crossing the rivers of life. The more horrible the challenges we face, the sweeter the joy of conquering them.

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Leaders are raised through training and experience. Nobody was born naturally with hand-gloves of leadership. We come to life to search for it, discover it and optimize it.

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Leaders create and maintain good interpersonal relationships with people they meet and work with. People who lead better relate better.

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Innovation is the art of creating a better, a more convenient and more comfortable way for the world to pass. Leaders leave footprints everywhere they go. They are impact makers and innovators.

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Leaders don't pray to God to fill their potholes. They ask God for shovels so they can do it by His grace. Pray practically.

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

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Clarity repositions you to quit nice activities that take you nowhere in order to pursue risky tasks that take you somewhere.

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Leaders get to tall heights by taking short steps. Being faithful, diligent and consistent with little steps is the secret to mounting greater heights.

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Leaders with high esteem are high performers.

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Achievements take leaders' name everywhere. Character keeps those names wherever they reach. A leader with no trust soon fades no matter how far he goes.

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The most risky day in the world will be the day the bird will decide to swim and the fish will decide to fly. Stay glued to what you can do.

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This fact is that the heaviest and more burdensome load ever is neither the cement bag nor the iron rod. It is hatred.

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A self-leader looks around for problems, and then thinks deep to device solutions to them.

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And don’t forget, if you are very intelligent but load yourself with bad characters, nobody will follow you.

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A leader’s goal is to improve on upon the past and if your goal is to remain where you are, doing the same things you have done times and times again, you can’t lead.

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Avoid trying to win tough battles on the silver platter. If the struggle is tough the success is sweet.

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If you’re going to give up after few attempts, bear it in mind that your struggles are going to be wasted.

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Most times, the way isn’t clear, but you want to start anyway. It is in starting with the first step that other steps become clearer.

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When you are silent on the truth, you have given a transport fare for the lie to travel and spread fast.

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A dream without an action is like a fish without gills. It can’t survive.

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Until you step in the game and influence the skills, you will never change the score line.

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A leader is a thorn in the flesh of oppressive people. They never feel comfortable when a leader stands up.

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If you are going to hide yourself and you will not stand against the work of the bad people, you have given them an endorsement.

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Silence is very dangerous, especially when your words can be the only source of healing at a moment.

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If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.

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I was taught that the most hardworking nurse is found at the dirtiest part of the clinical ward.

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People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.

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Don’t complain of terrible circumstances. It has been proven several times that they are the sources of celebrated trophies.

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No one has the right to pee on your dreams!

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You don’t need a huge number of people with little passions to get a good job done. You rather need few people with huge passion.

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You missed it when you pay more attention to the damaged car in the mechanic shop than the sick human being in the hospital.

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Leaders know how to set priorities. They focus on the task that requires the most rapid attention.

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You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The truth is that God knows love will be needed in volumes, this is why he made his grace abundant. Leaders are lovers. Misleaders are haters!

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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.

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Never let hatred give you an escort. It will drag your attention from all fortunes along the way.

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You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.

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When dark situations arise, it is opportunity for you to reveal the leader in you. Rise and deal with them.

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Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?

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If you are an aspiring leader and you have not yet gone through any trouble, prepare for one. It is by going through the hard times that you become harder against the storms of life.

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The sea may catch fire, the planets may collide in space, the sun may quench off its heat, but what we understand is that our peace is like a river in our souls; it's surface may wave about in turbulence, but it's bottom is cool and gently calm!

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Death has only one hand glove... so it takes away the body, but leaves behind the impacts. Difference makers live twice; in body and in impacts... The former is temporal but the later lasts long!

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What the fertilizer does to the germinating plant is what happiness does for a depressed soul... What anger does to a person is what an acid does to its container!

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Don't lose hope. If your hope gets lost, the other side called "failure" begins to win! The quickest medicine to heal a depressed soul is to command; "arise my soul and praise the Lord". Hope is the clothe piece in which wraps a healthy soul!

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As a leader, you will see things you may never like to see; yours is to correct those things so that next time you open your eyes, you will see better things you wish to be seeing always. Leaders learn to right the wrong of society.

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