Leadership Quotes - Page 9

leaders don't watch things but make things happen-initiate change

Ikechukwu Joseph

You show me a school with a principal behind the desk, and I'll show you a school without principal leadership. (Quoting Baruti Kafele)

William Sterrett

An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader.

We are born with the need for a leader, someone to control the conflict between each individual's need. An alpha in the house, an alpha at work, an alpha in the church and in the White House.

A leader did not slump. A leader was in control. Even when he least felt like he controlled anything. Especially then.

Brandon Sanderson

When you know the destination, the path is easy.

Ratmir Timashev

Leadership is a process where a leader has a purpose oriented destination and lets the followers find the best way to get there with a common vision and goal.

Debasish Mridha

Leadership is an ability to have a great vision for the future and the ability to inspire others to follow.

Debasish Mridha

Be a leader who is driven by purpose but not by position or power.

Debasish Mridha

By learning more, by doing more, by becoming more, and by creating a common vision, a leader is a person who can inspire others to change for the better.

Debasish Mridha

To be a leader be an example and lead the way.

Debasish Mridha

When you empower others to be great, you become a great leader.

Debasish Mridha

A good leader is one who reveals to you your own potential and then inspires and shows you how to reach your potential.

Debasish Mridha

Innovative wisdom with purpose defines a leader.

Debasish Mridha

A leader inspires others to dream more. The actions of a really good leader will show how to achieve that dream.

Debasish Mridha

A leader may lead, but you have to follow to reach the destination.

Debasish Mridha

Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.

Richard Llewellyn

The desire we so often hear expressed today for “episcopal figures,” “priestly men,” “authoritative personalities” springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick need for the admiration of men, for the establishment of visible human authority, because the genuine authority of service appears to be so unimpressive.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.

We can’t really explain what the goal of mentoring is, until we understand what the church is for.

Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.

Augustine of Hippo

Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.

Rebecca Goldstein

The Roman Church has grown and grown, fueled by immigration but also renewed by two pontiffs who have seemed to understand what Tocqueville knew: People want guidance for their souls once they are convinced they have them.

The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer.

Reagan understood an important distinction that (Lyndon) Johnson never grasped: being in control and being successful aren't always the same thing.

Jonathan Darman

I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human.

A good officer learned to take care of the feet of his men first, and from there their stomachs and hearts. By that means, he could motivate their souls.

Newt Gingrich and William R Forstchen

Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air. And having been a schoolteacher he knew how to get their hands up. He began, in his speeches, to ask questions.

If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

When an actor reaches down into his emotional well and pulls up a deeply personal response, the audience can sense something special is going on. They may not know exactly what they're seeing, but they recognize it as authentic.

Never base motivation or fear, entirely.

Unlike most politicians who follow their audience, (Robert) Kennedy tried to lead his.

Thurston Clarke

Even in a hostile press conference with hostile questions there was drama, and he could benefit from the drama and the hostility. He mastered the greatest art of television, appearing to be spontaneous without in fact being spontaneous.

David Halberstam

George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence

Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.

Jennifer Senior

He (the Bible study leader) is blessed with a light touch and a firm hand.

Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal.

Linda Fisher Thornton

The difficulty was not that of following a moral principle at personal cost; the difficulty was that of knowing what to do when there is more than one principal, and when the principles clash.

Elton Trueblood

While mistakes may be local, in today’s connected world embarrassment is global

Integrity, by its definition, means adhering consistently to a strong, reliable code of ethics, whatever that code is.

Scott K. Edinger

A true leader does not derive power from his position, but from his ethics, from people’s love for him, and from his knowledge, education and excellence in his field of work.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Be true to yourself-at the core of your leadership are your values and morals.

The role of leaders is not to get other people to follow them but to empower others to lead.

Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

L. David Marquet

Read to lead in order to succeed.

I wake up starving for success, and no matter how much I accomplish I go to sleep striving for improvement; I refuse to let my enemies outwork me.

When you lower the definition of success to such a level that any person can reach it, you don’t teach people to have big dreams; instead you inspirit mediocrity and nurture people’s inadequacies.

Shannon L. Alder

Every single achievement you make, every single life you change and every single skill you acquire brings you one step closer to becoming a better leader. Every day you can improve the leader in you to become a better person and a greater leader.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

someday goals become never days of achievement

Serving others prepares you to lead others.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

David Halberstam

Fearing our confrontations is one thing... facing them unarmed is a completely different matter.

How ought we to love God, Father?" he asked in a whisper."By loving men, my son""And how ought we to love men?" "By trying to guide them along the right path""And what is the right path?""The one that rises"- Nikos Kazanzakis, Christ Recrucified

Nikos Kazantzakis

The Complexities Of Life Caused By Bad Government Administration, Leadership, Parental Abuse And Mistakes Can Make A Child More Matured Than Their Age. It Happened To Me And It Is Still Happening To So Many Children World Wide. Most Especially, In Africa Where I Come From. This Is Why You See So Many African's Do All Sorts Of Bad Deeds For Surfacing And Surviving To Keep Body And Soul Together.

Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo

Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.

If you believe the world will be a better place because you have both the desire and the means to take charge, that's the time for you to jump in. It doesn't matter if you rise up to take the lead only once or twice in your entire working life or if you do it daily. There are so many moments when you can make a difference--by enriching an outcome, saving a great idea, defending the beleaguered or downtrodden, and not least, expressing your own gifts and wisdom.

Charlotte Beers

It's been hard for me at times...the responsibility and expectation that comes with being a leader. I'm not always the one I wish I could be, that I should be, but nonetheless, it is my place. If I were to ever show a commitment to something other than my leadership, which could jeopardize the function I have, I would be risking too many lives. I couldn't live with that.

Jessica Shirvington

It is your life...OWN IT! Your life purpose empowers you and enables you to live life abundantly. Empowerment begins by taking responsibility for your life and being accountable for your actions. Empowerment is the courage to live passionately and purposefully each day

Thomas Narofsky

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