A Wise Leader Quotes

#1. Success, cannot be attained alone. Any person's time and power is limited. A wise leader enlists others in working toward organizational goals.

Gichin Funakoshi

#2. Any group has a sense of who it is and what is values, but this sense often remains beneath the surface. A wise leader can discern these unspoken beliefs and articulate them.

Diane Dreher

#3. A wise leader always sees the best in people even in difficult situations.

Sunday Adelaja

#4. A wise leader doesn't just follow but discover the path.

Pearl Zhu

#5. Reform is usually possible only once a sense of crisis takes hold.... In fact, crises are such valuable opportunities that a wise leader often prolongs a sense of emergency on purpose.

Charles Duhigg

#6. As a good gardener prepares the soil, so a wise leader creates an environment that promotes community ... community involves a common place, a common time, and a common purpose. Just getting people in the same place at the same time does not produce a team. Community requires a common vision.

Diane Dreher

#7. There would be a general reclaiming of fallen buttons and misplaced spectacles, of neighbors and kin, till time and error and accident were undone, and the world became comprehensible and whole.

Marilynne Robinson

#8. The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.

George Eliot

#9. Leadership is a group project, and all of us are necessary to fill it. Wise leaders will realize this and encourage their groups to develop their own evolving leadership potential.

Arnold Mindell

#10. Rashness in a leader causes failure; the sailor of a ship is calm, wise at the proper time. Yes, and forethought: this too is bravery.

Euripides

#11. Hush," said January. "We may be old, but we're not silly. Satan is a catchall term. It gives identity to our theory of a centralized leadership. Call him what you want, a maximum leader, a caudillo. A Genghis Khan or Sitting Bull. Or a council of wise men, or warlords. The concept is sound. Logical.

Jeff Long

#12. In my view, leadership is the courage to take risks in defense of a position that is both legal and moral. The politician who tries to become a wise guy by becoming friends to everybody - corrupt or not - is not a leader.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#13. We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.

Twyla Tharp

#14. The wise leader's plans, considerations of advantage and of disadvantage will be blended together.

Sun Tzu

#15. Show your infectious smile and infect everyone with joy.

Debasish Mridha

#16. If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.

Peter Singer

#17. Besides, after all the shite you lot did over the past few years, you need to be prayin' to God.

L.A. Casey

#18. No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.

J.K. Rowling

#19. You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less

Patrick Ness

#20. Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it.

Phil Cousineau

#21. The Infinite Way is not a message, it is an experience.

Joel S. Goldsmith

#22. In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.

Frederick Lenz

#23. A fool is wise in his own eyes.

Solomon

#24. You cannot tell a river in which direction it should flow, but you can steer your boat.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#25. But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children.

Dick Bruna

#26. I'm a leader. I'm the leader of this team, and they look for me at any point in the game, and that's not just scoring-wise, I do other things.

LeBron James

#27. To be a leader, take action and be an example. To be an adviser, be wise.

Debasish Mridha

#28. And there are so much easier ways to destroy a woman. You don't have to rape her or kill her; you don't even have to beat her. You can just marry her. You don't even have to do that. You can just let her work in your office for thirty-five dollars a week.

Marilyn French

#29. We have new tools that can give the audience a sense of not only being there, which is the key element in an IMAX film, but also seeing things in a way that they won't see on television or in feature films.

Greg MacGillivray

#30. The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.

Laozi

#31. Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

Samuel Johnson

#32. A true leader always feels that it's truly wise to be considered a fool by those who are not actually nice, and actually not nice to be considered a wise by those who are truly fools.

Anuj

#33. It's a stupid leader who can't turn follower when somebody offers him a wiser course

Orson Scott Card

#34. A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued - a time when the losses of the present must be accepted - and cut - to preserve the gains and providence of the future.

A.J. Darkholme

#35. The humble one is the better one.

Lik Hock Yap

#36. He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Chanakya

#37. The wise leader speaks rarely and briefly. After all, no other natural outpouring goes on and on. It rains and then it stops. It thunders and then it stops.

John Heider

#38. Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.

Bill Hybels

#39. A leader is simply one who leads, and a bad leader can lead an army into Hell. I want these boys to be heroic, brave and wise.

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