Leaders Quotes

The best leaders want to leverage all the capabilities of the people in their organization.

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

A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Leaders set the context and create the conditions in which individuals and organizations thrive.

Leaders are builders. They build bridges to unite, not walls to divide.

Never underestimate the power of a tweet.

Leaders can set targets as high as they like, but when followers are not aware of the vision in place; it may just be another futile endeavor.

For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a readiness to look for a chosen one; as Carlyle pointed out, even the French, those great anti-venerators, those relentless beheaders of Great Men, worshipped Voltaire.

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

Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of their lack of courage and insecurities.

Shannon L. Alder

If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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

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Christ is my model of leadership because he faced similar challenges we also face on earth today, but through it all He was victorious. To leaders are not overcome by challenges!

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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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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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It’s unfair to see managers buying brand new cars for themselves when the salaries of their workers still remain unpaid! Good leaders are not selfish thinkers!

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Leaders are not worried about the respect and honour they can be given, but the impacts and influence they can give!

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Knowing God is not enough; you must make Him known to others. Through your living character, you tell more about the living God!

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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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He who want to be served must first know how to serve.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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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There is an overflowing grace, for every great work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The easiest thing for a person is to accept everything as it is and adjust with everyone in the surroundings by sacrificing or compromising originality, but it's also the worst thing if he proclaims that he has changed himself.

Testy McTesterson

We are endowed with different kinds of gifts for different kinds of services.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

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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Leaders are good messengers; they take the message from God and share it with others in the world. Jesus is a true example; He said “Here I am, send me Lord”!

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Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

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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Great battles that prevail in actions had been won or lost earlier in thoughts. When the mind resists change, it’s in vain the legs chase it!

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Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don’t die with your books in your mind unpublished!

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Craving for power, titles and promotion to high places is not a tool for carving impacts in the heart the world. High positions polluted by bad character are the poisons that dehydrate the world of positive virtues.

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Your special spiritual gifts and talents are your calling.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If we all work together there is no telling how we can change the world through the impact of promoting positivity online.

Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.

Shannon L. Alder

Our deeds and actions can change the heart of men.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It’s is good you are about something. But wait and ask, “why and how?”. Without “whys and hows”, not every energetic movement can be called progress.

Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders are solutions conscious. They don’t complain. You would find them repeating this common question; “how will it be done, and by who?

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Why ships won't use roads, is why cars won't travel on oceans. When the position is wrong, the leader won't be right.

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A leader isn't born after 9 months' conception. When talents are discovered, skills are mastered & values are developed, a leader is born.

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