Leadership Quotes - Page 33

Leaders are interested in gains. However, they acknowledge that there is no gain without pain. They embrace the pain.

Israelmore Ayivor

The ladder of leadership can only stand firm on the grounds of integrity. Any other ground makes it unstable till it falls.

Israelmore Ayivor

Africa PRODUCES what it does NOT CONSUME and CONSUMES what it does NOT PRODUCE.

Leaders don't venture without vision. They don't pray without plans. They don't climb without clues. They are always prepared.

Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.

Israelmore Ayivor

Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.

Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.

Israelmore Ayivor

Fear punches holes in your eyes so that you don't see the future clearly. Faith enlarges your vision to behold your destiny.

Israelmore Ayivor

By constant practices, deliberate repetitions and uninterrupted exercises, leaders go from zero to hero. They don't quit.

Israelmore Ayivor

If you're determined to stand, nothing can move you. If you're determined to move, nothing can stop you. Determination is the key!

Israelmore Ayivor

Failure is an open invitation to improve and engage your frustrations with a refined energy of triumphant effort.

There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.

A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president.

Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.' — Tom Martin, former VP of marketing

Heather Simmons

To the disrupters go the spoils.

Heather Simmons

Nobody thought the direct business model would work. But work it did, and spectacularly. Until it didn’t. And therein lies the tale.

Heather Simmons

If you fall into a pit, you need a ladder, not a hoe. You must climb up and not dig up. Leaders discover the right way out of limitations.

Israelmore Ayivor

We spend most of the time justifying the situation and not finding the real problem thus leaving minimal chance of solutions.

One thing we entirely forget when making decisions is the fact that the results concern and throw back to the decision maker not the one it seeks to please.

A leader who sows confidence will reap excellency and legacy. A leader who sows fear will reap stagnancy or complacency.

Israelmore Ayivor

Engaging solely to validate your opinion takes away from the character building process.

A goal shouldn't be limited to a title.

Leaders do not conform; they reform. If you conform, you are nurturing mediocrity. If you reform, you are breeding change.

Israelmore Ayivor

There is no law against delaying action to weigh it in thought.

Respect is not an obligation nor a favour, it takes a bigger person to give or show some whether it is returned or not.

John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.

John Taliaferro

John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.

John Taliaferro

Leaders don't walk in front, nor do they walk behind. They walk on completely different paths on the journey of intuition. The road that has never been taken. And so they lead.

Matthew Donnelly

Action is the bridge between thought and reality.

A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work.

Listen with the will to learn.

If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.

anytime you speak to anybody, remember somebody

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

All the progress in science can’t be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses—to smell trouble or just something fishy.

Experience and wisdom are more tangible than materialism.

Tough times don't last always. Your hard times are there to shape you and develop your character. It causes you to become more aware of life and you develop an attitude of gratitude. Don't lose hope because it gets better.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

With every step you take ask yourself, what do I really want?

Weak leadership will always hide behind ambiguity and rhetoric.

Amitav Chowdhury

The best leaders are well-rounded, able to draw on whatever skills suits the particular situation at hand. They are determined, insightful, shrewd, and, most important, able to command the attention of the people around them.

Bob Rae

Leadership is not a voice crying in the wilderness, aloof and apart. It requires an ability to command as well as to inspire, to learn in the process of collaboration and to build a team with a common purpose that can take action and execute the change they envision.

Bob Rae

An organization can only grow and set an exemplary model for development with the help of right talent pool.

Amitav Chowdhury

Be true to who you are. Don't let the world tell you who to be.

If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The accomplishments of the women in 'The Counselors' are a testament to the power and promise of the American Dream and are sure to resonate deeply with many young women who have the desire and the ability to make their own unique contributions to this legacy of progress. . . . Just as the women in this book were empowered by the efforts and example of those who came before them, a new generation will be inspired and encouraged by the spirit and achievements of this remarkable group.

Rapport is the link between meeting and communicating.

Nicholas Boothman

Jefferson determined the lodestar that lay hidden in the motivations of others

Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Moral action – humble and honest – is the tribute that power must at some point pay to reason.

He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Life-shaping institutions tend to start with an idea or revelation. They often become mostly about the preservation and expansion of authority, something they relinquish only with the greatest reluctance.

What most new entrepreneurs don’t realize is that before you can lead a business, or a family, or a ministry, or even just another person, you have to be the leader of yourself, first.

Kevin J. Donaldson

Connection" was the cement of the governing class.

Barbara W. Tuchman

In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them.

He was rebuilt, reconstituted by vengeance dressed up as high purpose.

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

Debasish Mridha

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

James Kouzes and Barry Posner

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

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