Leadership Traits Quotes - Page 2

An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader.

A call to duty, a call for service.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.

The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Winning doesn't necessarily mean you'll walk away with a trophy. Sometimes winning means you dared to show up at all to see the shocked look of your rivals.

Donavan Nelson Butler

Living in peace has transformative power!

True leadership is not defined by notoriety, power, prestige, status, or job title.

Leaders step up, even when they feel like hiding. And they do so because they care.

Great leadership has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies.

William A. Adams

In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

Leaderships about transforming lives and making a difference through innovation and purpose, grounded in values and integrity

Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.

The formula for successful leadership has changed little, if at all over the centuries. It isn’t leadership that changes over time, rather where the leaders need to take their people that changes.

People don’t follow you because you are nice, they follow you because they believe the place you are taking them is better than the place they are.

If your leadership is truly grounded in love, you’ll always land in the category of a good leader.

Glenn C. Stewart

Becoming a Leader of Character changes lives—our lives and the lives of the people we touch.

The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do with your attitude and how you treat people.

A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.

DaShanne Stokes

Any leadership that disempowers its followers cannot be entrusted to lead.

A leader’s goal is to improve on upon the past and if your goal is to remain where you are, doing the same things you have done times and times again, you can’t lead.

Israelmore Ayivor

If you want success as a leader in a complex environment read Commanding Excellence and follow it!

General Bryan ''Doug'' Brown

Effective decision-making can be seen as an optimal link between memory of the past, ground-realities of the present and insights of the future.

Amit Ray

Be the start of something that is good, revolutionary and powerful. Everything after that is a bonus!

Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better.

Great leaders have three things; inner light, inner vision and inner strength.

Amit Ray

Leadership is not just some empty formulas but establishing deep connection at soul levels through service, integrity, passion, perseverance and equanimity.

Amit Ray

You are blessed, You are great. You are not alone. You are powerful.

Amit Ray

As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership.

Amit Ray

Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility - toughness for accountability - flexibility to adapt changes with a compassionate & caring heart for self and others.

Amit Ray

You can’t move up in the staircase of leadership unless you are emotionally intelligent.

Amit Ray

It is as simple as that. Birds fly because they have wings and so when you can’t grow the wings, you can’t be called a bird. Leaders make impacts because they create new ideas and so if you can’t think of any new innovative ideas, you can’t be a leader.

Israelmore Ayivor

Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.

Israelmore Ayivor

Live a life of purpose. Be a voice to be reckoned with. Do not be lost in the midst of the crowd. Contribute your own quota to the transformation going on where God planted you.

Benjamin Suulola

To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intentions.

One of the most important qualities of a president is the ability to inspire, to bring people together for the common good.

DaShanne Stokes

When picking a leader, choose a peacemaker. One who unites, not divides. A cultured leader who supports the arts and true freedom of speech, not censorship.

Ineffective leadership, is the plight of followers who anoint power to the autocratic persons who's visions are not founded but are rather arbitrary in their nature.

A mindset that understands order, is a mindset that can understand leadership.

Some days of my vagabond life I read Arthur Schopenhauer and others Friedrich Nietzsche. I was a humble learner – an empty vessel - at the feet of the legends of human history. I was a seeker of truth, travelling through time while quenching my thirst for knowledge. And a humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow.

Be excellent in your own terms.

Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.

Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows corporations to outsource jobs for cheaper labor when there is a national employment crisis. Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies.

Pick a leader who will not only bail out banks and airlines, but also families from losing their homes -- or jobs due to their companies moving to other countries. Pick a leader who will fund schools, not limit spending on education and allow libraries to close. Pick a leader who chooses diplomacy over war. An honest broker in foreign relations. A leader with integrity, one who says what they mean, keeps their word and does not lie to their people. Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One who understands the needs of the farmer, the teacher, the doctor, and the environmentalist -- not only the banker, the oil tycoon, the weapons developer, or the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyist.

Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time criticizing the lives and work of others. Do what matters most to you and make a difference doing that.

Seven Ways To Get Ahead in Business:1. Be forward thinking 2. Be inventive, and daring3. Do the right thing4. Be honest and straight forward5. Be willing to change, to learn, to grow6. Work hard and be yourself7. Lead by example

Leaders cannot build a successful nation once they are yoked to these two evils, ignarance and greed.

Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.

Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep trying

Becoming a great leader doesn’t mean being perfect. it means living with your imperfections.

Do not allow your inner doubts to keep you from achieving what you can do.

When your intuition is strong, follow it.

Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.

Leaders cannot build a successful nation once they are yoked to these two evils, ignorance and greed.

Always assume your assumptions about others are wrong. Because often, they are