Leadership Quotes - Page 16

Great leaders are great servants because the only way of setting an example is by demonstrating an example. Service to mankind is the key to true leadership!

Israelmore Ayivor

Preparation is the key to leadership success. The more prepared you are the less your struggle to make it happen and the more your effectiveness!

Israelmore Ayivor

True leaders are ready to sweat when making rehearsal, than to cry tears when actually practicing. To save the tears, be ready to sweat!

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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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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!

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To know the purpose of a product, you must pay attention to what the manufacturer said about it. What God said about you is that you must have dominion over all other creation. Just pay attention and take the lead!

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The leader’s job is to show the way. The bottom line is that you can’t tell anything about the condition of the way if you've not traveled on it yourself!

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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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There are four types of environments; the one that can help destroy you, the one that can help improve you, the one that can destroy the improved you and the one that can improve the destroyed you. Watch out and be vigilant!

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Honour comes and goes, influence comes and stays, but none of them safeguards us against danger than the mentor of true leadership; Jesus Christ!

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Never be anxious about maintaining the position you occupy. Be anxious about maintaining your good character and you will never lose your leadership influence!

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People will know you for who you are, but will remember you for what you have done. True leaders make long lasting impacts!

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Opportunities loiter in every corner. Everyone may see them, but it’s only great leaders that stop by to give them lifts!

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Leaders don’t settle for less. When you do so, you rob humanity of what you are supposed to deliver!

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You break the legs of your leadership chair when you chase after other people’s assignments instead of pursing yours!

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It is not the person who is being taken out of a trouble that gains experience on how to deliver people from troubles. It’s the person who does the deliverance that gains more experience. Leadership is service!

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God has buried your leadership roles in your gifting. To take the lead, you got to unzip the gift bag. It’s your responsible to make it happen!

Israelmore Ayivor

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

Israelmore Ayivor

Service introduces you to the leadership throne. Service to mankind is the vision on which leadership is mounted. You serve and in your service, you train more leaders by becoming an example!

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The bottom line is that you can’t lead the person you can’t serve!

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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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If you haven’t found yourself yet, it’s difficult to help someone to discover himself. False leaders make more false leaders!

Israelmore Ayivor

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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Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position!

Israelmore Ayivor

The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions!

Israelmore Ayivor

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

Israelmore Ayivor

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!

Israelmore Ayivor

The worst ever offence you can commit against your time is to think that “time spent making plans is time being wasted!” Leaders don’t think that way!

Israelmore Ayivor

To a leader, reputation is an option, but true character is a necessity!

Israelmore Ayivor

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

Israelmore Ayivor

If you first take a minute, an hour or a month to let go of feeling annoyed, frustrated or critical of the person or situation that may be driving you crazy, you set yourself up for much greater leadership and personal success.

Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.

There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.

Marcus Buckingham

Strategy is about shaping the future.

Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now - but instead what continues to grow long after you're gone

Tom Rath

What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths - and can call on the right strength at the right time.

Tom Rath

To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight.

Denise Moreland

followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope

Tom Rath

Practice transforms a skill into an art

Siddharth Joshi

The best way to kill competition is to partner it

Siddharth Joshi

To guard our character with unwavering commitment, our best protection comes from being humbly aware of our vulnerability.

Lee Ellis

Courage is leaning into the doubts and fears to do what you know is right even when it doesn’t feel natural or safe.

Lee Ellis

An honorable leader must demonstrate a willingness to reveal his or her ‘inner self’ to their team. It builds trust and trust is essential. It’s also a sign of strength and authenticity, and people are attracted to those who are ‘real’ and authentic.

Lee Ellis

Leaders can choose to grow and change, but generally the most powerful predictor of future performance is past behavior. Evaluate them realistically.

Lee Ellis

Affirming others isn’t ‘flattering’ them—it’s when you genuinely and consistently acknowledge their efforts and accomplishments, both large and small. Make affirmation a habit and watch what happens!

Lee Ellis

Leaders devoid of crucible experiences are likely to be overly confident about their ideas, and surprisingly more susceptible to fears; this is also true of children who are overly sheltered from facing challenges and experiences that help build their character. Courageously facing our fears in the difficult times gives us both humility and real confidence.

Lee Ellis

Voters—here’s the real challenge: we don’t need empty promises made by politicians whose only goal in life is to get elected or re-elected. We need leaders with attributes that qualify them to lead us through the difficult challenges we’re facing.

Lee Ellis

Over-communicating is the glue that holds a high-performing team together and keeps them focused in the same direction. And, it circles back to clarity. Without good, consistent communication, you don’t have clarity.

Lee Ellis

Good teams are committed to the team mission and to each other personally. Good leaders inspire and build this commitment and trust.

Lee Ellis

Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it’s finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or “finishing the drill” in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.

Lee Ellis

Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn’t a realistic expectation.

Lee Ellis

We all want to ‘count for something’–to make a difference. And, accountability helps us get where want to go in terms of achieving our goals and fulfilling our responsibilities.

Lee Ellis

As is often the case with children, the rule of ‘monkey see, monkey do’ plays out in the workplace. It’s hard to be good role model, and it’s one of the greatest challenges of leadership.

Lee Ellis

…some leaders don’t want to celebrate with their team because they are afraid—yes, afraid that if they celebrate, people will quit working hard and lower the standards. I say don’t let your fear take you out.

Lee Ellis

Leaders must be good listeners. It’s rule number one, and it’s the most powerful thing they can do to build trusted relationships.

Lee Ellis

Leadership must come from all of us -- the private, public, and civil sectors.

Careers are developed one conversation at a time - over time.

Beverly Kaye Julie Winkle Giulioni

Good leaders know who they are—their strengths, weaknesses, passions, talents, and values. And, developing leaders always starts with self-awareness.

Lee Ellis

Fearful leaders side-step issues instead of dealing with them, cover up mistakes instead of owning up to mistakes; they skulk back into the shadows and hope that the crisis—whatever it is—will somehow blow over instead of facing their fears. Worse, they resort to lies and deception to cover up the truth.

Lee Ellis

Many in business feel they have to live up to a machismo archetype of the big-swinging-dick business leader

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