Leader Quotes

Your Writing Teacher ‏@WritingChiefIf u don't get ur protagonist dirty, ur readers will get bored. Readers are wild, cliff-jumping, mud-wrestling savages. Become their leader. (anonymous on Twitter)

Your organization needs you to be the lead, not the lid. If you're not growing as a leader, you've become the lid

There are no more worlds to conquer!

Alexander the Great

A military leader thinks about casualties and losses, but a strategic one only aims the win.

A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.

Adams has shown a nearly inexhaustible desire, leavened with an equal amount of sheer talent- five decades' worth and counting- in an unrelenting effort to stabilize, strengthen, and improve the standing of indigenous peoples, minority groups, and the larger society as well. He is an exemplary Native activist, indeed.

David E. Wilkins

Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter!

Israelmore Ayivor

To be a leader, be an example that others may follow.

Debasish Mridha

If you follow the herd, people may mistake you for a cow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.

You can’t be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You can’t serve until you have stepped out of your comfort zone. And you can’t step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word.

Daniel studied her face. Have you ever thanked God for giving you the advantages he has? Advantages?All those things I've already mentioned. Your tall and strong, loyal and brave, kind and loving. You stand out in a crowd and your a leader. He wouldn't trust those qualities with just anyone. He must love you a great deal.

Being a leader is not about finding ways to get others to serve you, but knowing how to serve your followers.

As good surgical doctor works on a patient in the theater with varied kinds of surgical instruments, so a true leader also needs a clean bag of leadership characters that vary from task to task. One-way leaders are obvious failures!

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Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose.

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Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.

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Yes. Oh no! I don't subject myself to a leadership that does not break new territories! It is the job of leadership to succeed in landing its limbs on new grounds.

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If the problems you have this year are the same problems you had last year, then you are not a leader. You are rather a problem on your own that must be solved.

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You cannot climb up to a true leadership position unless you use the ladder of integrity!

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Real kings and queens are people whose heads are crowned with dreams as they sit on the throne of passion. They rule with visions in the regalia of inspirations!

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Never be afraid to speak your mind on relevant issues; good leaders stand for relevance and they are never afraid to face the facts head on. Bad leaders see the problems, close their eyes and do something else!

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Good leaders always bring about transformation... Bad leaders only maintain and preserve long standing mediocrity!

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...21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues!

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True leaders are like statues, whether it rains or it shines, they never bend their necks to look backwards! They never run away from challenges!

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Leadership is built on true character! You lose your leadership when you fake your character. The degree of leadership potential a person can expose will depend on how potent he can maintain his true character!

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You may gain a position, but that does not mean you've gained leadership. You may lose position, but that does not mean you've lost leadership! When you gain true character, you can leadership and when you lose it, you cease to be a leader!

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True leaders do not make choices with reference to the opinion of the majority. They make choices based on the opinion of the truth and the truth can come from either the majority or the minority!

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If I am to choose between "sleeping" and "being part of a leadership that pursues irrelevant agenda", I will choose "sleeping". Chasing of irrelevant agenda by a leadership sect is what made Nelson Mandela to call it "Long Walk to Freedom!

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The fact that a seed is viable is not a proof that it’s going to bear good fruits. Some good seeds are destroyed by bad soils. So is leadership; everyone was born to lead, but not all become leaders!

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The sweeper of the street is a leader in his own respect provided he does his job well with all love, diligence and attention than anyone would do when given the same broom sticks.

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Everyone can be a leader irrespective of their age, race, creed, nationality or political affiliation. Once you can figure out your talents and optimize them very well, at the right place and at the right time, you are a leader.

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Jesus’ promise of resurrection of believers came with a demonstration. He did it and said His followers who die will do same. This is leadership! It’s based on truth!

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There is greatness in everyone already. The job of the leader is not to put greatness in anyone. The job of the leader is to make people discover and exploit the greatness already existing in them!

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Leaders create a conducive environment for followers to accomplish their respective dreams. True leaders never fall for anything inferior!

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He who cannot serve cannot lead. It is by being a servant that you recognize that followers also have needs. True leaders are service oriented!

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Just as every crop performs on its specific type of soil, and not all fishes can grow in every kind of water, so is leadership. You can’t lead where you can’t thrive; you can lead where you can survive!

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Leaders believe that falling is not failing, but refusal to rise up after falling is the real form of failure!

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Every true leader is in the business of God. The good news is that God’s business does not yield loses. Most leaders fail because they claim to be in a business whose owner they never know!

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It is not about whether you call yourself a leader or not. It is about what you have to show to people as a leader. Leadership is contagious, you carry it and share it.

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Leadership is an art expressed by the demonstration of characters worthy of immitation, emulation and inspiration. It is neither a title nor a postion.

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A mere motivator sees potentials in people and tells them to take actions. A true leader sees the same potentials in the same people and influences them to optimize them under his God-lead inspirations.

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You can’t lead people to where you’ve not been yourself. When you all get stranded, you need the knowledge of someone who knows the way!

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader.

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

One of the most deadly causes of destruction of divine destinies is when a leader is failing, but he or she does not know it. Ignorance about your role is a death plot against people's successes.

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You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The new dumb, is now wisdom.

Anthony Liccione

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

He who want to be great must first be a servant.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Every penny that has always been earned with integrity by a person to lead life with a real simplicity has only perhaps helped to serve Almighty & protect and preserve humanity in the society.

Testy McTesterson

Freedom is the courage to resist anything, which obstructs your dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

You may abuse your energy when you do not know what it is meant to help you carry. An undiscovered self is an easy way to rob the world of leadership impacts.

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A positive attitude creates a passion that wakes a leader up. To the leader, attitude is more powerful than an alarm clock. Positive attitude in true leadership is what makes an alarm clock unnecessary!

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Stars are born out of dark moments.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Building castles in the air is only wise if you build a ladder to reach them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Turkeys can run with eagles but cannot fly with them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't downgrade your dreams to upgrade your relationships.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Blow by blow a giant is knocked down.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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