Top 100 Courage Leadership Quotes
#1. What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of the many unsung Women Sheroes of past and present.
Emory Douglas
#2. Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.
Thomas J. Stanley
#3. The one thing that's missing to create a fundamental shift in work capacity: courage. Leadership courage.
Bill Jensen
#4. The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.
James Fisher
#5. The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.
Molly Ivins
#6. You can't gather much if you won't go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns; they'll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they'll get.
Israelmore Ayivor
#7. Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits.
Gary Rohrmayer
#8. In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#9. Believing in your potential and calling upon your courage to change will fuel your professional growth and help you accomplish goals.
John Manning
#10. Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too.
Umair Haque
#11. The main quality of leadership ... is courage ! If you can dream it, you can do it!
Walt Disney
#12. Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome ... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).
Robert A. Heinlein
#13. We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.
Joe Paterno
#14. The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership.
Christopher Moore
#15. Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.
John Buchan
#16. The lift is about SPEED and COMFORT, but the stairs are about CERTAINTY! The lift may go wrong but stairs seldom do, you can always take the stairs. They are BOUND to take you UP and to the END as long as you continue to climb!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#17. The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
Martin Luther
#18. Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common
to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility
John McCain
#19. Leadership calls for both wisdom and courage; the wisdom to know what to do is only half the battle. We must be courageous enough to actually do it.
Kellen Roggenbuck
#21. May you have the courage to choose love over hate.
Leta B.
#22. Allowing yourself to follow the crevices of your heart lines is a messy process and not easy to characterize or rationalize into neat and tidy lists and boxes.
Maureen Chiquet
#23. The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.
Regis Debray
#24. Not every gift must you stretch your hands to take! Sometimes, just put your hands by your side and humbly and courageously say thank you!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#26. Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.
Orrin Woodward
#27. I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy; the second is economy. The third is daring not to be ahead of others. From mercy comes courage; from economy comes generosity; From humility comes leadership.
Laozi
#28. If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!
Brene Brown
#29. Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
Bill Hybels
#30. For a leader, courage, love, and passion for service are the virtues of life.
Debasish Mridha
#31. Great leadership has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies.
William A. Adams
#32. Integrity is the source of new solutions and innovations; courage is a means of halting progress down a wrong road.
Scott K. Edinger
#34. Think of strength, dream of strength, live of strength.
Abhijit Naskar
#35. For me, a male role model would be a man who, despite holding a leadership position, has the courage to say that he wants to reschedule a 7 p.m. meeting for 4 p.m. because he'd really like to be able to put his son to bed.
Kristina Schroder
#36. Courageous people know that old ways of doing things shouldn't stand in the way of a better solution.
Frank Sonnenberg
#37. The courageous attitudes of leaders ramble around coward followers and sooner or later, they become courageous too!
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. There are themes that somehow stir me and that I find very interesting. They're themes that deal with leadership, the nature of bravery and courage, and how to define those.
Stephen Lang
#39. I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.
Tony Blair
#40. If you do not have the courage & conviction to talk about yourself..
Who on Earth will ever listen to you or ever talk about you..NO ONE! Confidence has nothing to do with HUMILITY,it is pure CONVICTION!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#41. Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.
Michael D. Higgins
#42. Courage is the belief in self, and the possible ability to prevail in the face of adversity.
Tony Dovale
#43. People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.
Fennel Hudson
#44. The courage of leadership is giving others the chance to succeed even though you bear the responsibility for getting things done.
Simon Sinek
#45. 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
#46. This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.
David Halberstam
#47. Leaders exude courage by sacrificing their popularity for their values and beliefs.
Noel DeJesus
#48. When you see an obstacle approaching, grab your courage and speed up.
Angela Lynne Craig
#49. Any goal, no matter what size, can be achieved if it is tackled with courage, initiative, perseverance, and integrity.
Angie Morgan
#50. Whom the society deems worthless, once they discover their special inclination, it will change the very course of their lives as well as the shape of the very society that distastes them.
Abhijit Naskar
#51. Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Jesse Jackson
#52. Smile and Slay.
You have to slay it in life or life will slay you.
Janna Cachola
#53. President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship.
Wesley Clark
#54. Courageous leaders face unpleasant and even devastating situations with equanimity, then act firmly to bring good from trouble, even if their action is unpopular. Leadership always faces natural human inertia and opposition. But courage follows through with a task until it is done.
J. Oswald Sanders
#55. Though every human being on the planet has an inclination for leadership, most of us do not have the courage to cultivate it.
Myles Munroe
#57. leadership is about courage and the ability to overcome unsurmountable challenges,
Sudha Menon
#58. If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.
Marie Lu
#60. Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
Alan Autry
#61. Attitude is that little thing that will make the most difference in the accomplishment of your goals.
Roopleen
#62. The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.
Walt Disney
#63. Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.
Roopleen
#64. It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#65. Judgment is a fickle minds product...
A mind that doesn't have the courage to see beyond what it knows..
Waste of Mind, Time and all else..of others around them..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#66. Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
David Cameron
#67. Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
#68. Their greatest fear is you may step forward without fear.
Because your courage may become contagious.
Tom Althouse
#70. Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher; come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else's as your truth.
Germany Kent
#71. In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.
Mike Krzyzewski
#72. Whatever you do, do it as a master, not as a slave.
Abhijit Naskar
#74. MAHARAJA-Leaders are not born but are made with ultimate qualities of courage, wisdom, sacrifice and benevolence.
Bhargava Kodavanti
#75. Think crazily, even if others laugh at you. Act bravely, even if you are all alone.
Dilip Bathija
#77. Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.
Ron Fournier
#78. What I know about my country is that when America is challenged, we rise to the occasion. When we're fearful, we become divided. When we're courageous and have good leadership, we unite.
Keith Ellison
#79. You are a leader when your actions encourage someone to reveal himself with hope, courage, confidence and trust.
Debasish Mridha
#80. The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not natural or social "forces" - are the prime movers in human affairs.
George Roche III
#82. A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!
Israelmore Ayivor
#83. It is better to apologise later than to ask for permission now. It is called self leadership
Janna Cachola
#84. If you want to lead others into a strong future: You need to be keenly aware of how your own inner truths - biases, fears, courage, values and dreams - do or do not impact the daily work of others.
Bill Jensen
#85. Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel.
Abhijit Naskar
#86. Now more than ever, we need people with the qualities Walt had: optimism, imagination, creativity, leadership, integrity, courage, boldness, perseverance, commitment to excellence, reverence for the past, hope for tomorrow and faith in God. How
Pat Williams
#87. When someone is walking beside us, we have more courage to walk into the unknown and to risk the dark and messy places in our journey.
Karen Kimsey-House
#89. A leader without purpose, is a leader by accident
Gyan Nagpal
#90. Social Media begins with a story - your story.
Germany Kent
#91. It was not only that he was a great man, but, oh, there was such fun in being led by him.
Edward J. Renehan Jr.
#92. 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
#93. When you find a truth that surpasses your desire to fit trends and meet approval, you can be certain it's worth fighting to spread.
Caroline George
#94.
a man without birth, without courage, without conduct. For my part, I declare, sir, it shall never be said that I made such a man my master.
Sarah Vowell
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.
Jerry Porras
#99. Confrontation was the stuff of daily life.
T. J. Stiles
#100. Leadership is a matter of intelligence, trustworthiness, humaneness, courage, and sternness.
Sun Tzu
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