Ego Leadership Quotes

#1. It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

Ruth J. Simmons

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

Ron Suskind

#3. To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.

John C. Maxwell

#4. Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.

Robin S. Sharma

#5. Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#6. Leadership takes continuous, counterintuitive, ego-minimizing work.

Anonymous

#7. Teamwork and trust trump ego and arrogance in building high performance sustainable successful teams. Rethink your team building ideas

Tony Dovale

#8. They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.

Stephen L. Carter

#9. The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what he DID NOT know.

David Halberstam

#10. Getting your ego out of the way has an even deeper organizational impact.

Ken Jennings

#11. The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them; in other words, those who are unacquainted with the institution are the only persons who passed censure upon it.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#12. Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom.

D. Nicole Williams

#13. A few mistakes don't worry me; what worries me is when you make the mistakes and then forget your role on the team and start to worry about your ego.

Digger Phelps

#14. Our pride, our ego, our fear of failing too often keeps us from achieving greatness, keeps us stuck in jobs we don't like, working with people we can't stand, engaging in pursuits we're not wholeheartedly passionate about.

Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution

#15. Dialogue isn't a competition to be the smartest or the most correct person in the room; it is a collaboration to find the truth.

Oli Anderson

#16. If you're a boss, and not a leader, your time is limited.

T.F. Hodge

#17. All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.

Criss Jami

#18. There is a difference between Confidence and Arrogance..
Both look alike but stem from two very different sources..
One comes from Self Belief and the other comes from Ego..

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#19. We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone.

Oli Anderson

#20. Some people only go to church for the social life. They like having all the friends in church or getting the praises of men by doing certain things, but they don't go there to actually worship God. They go there so others can worship THEM instead.

Lisa Bedrick

#21. In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially "grown up" and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.

Linda Fisher Thornton