Top 66 Humility Leadership Quotes
#1. I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.
Hyman George Rickover
#2. A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.
Tom Clancy
#3. Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.
George F. Will
#4. Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.
Criss Jami
#5. They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.
Stephen L. Carter
#6. 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
#7. The first time I was privileged to meet president Mandela was during his visit to Malawi ... shortly after he was released from prison. I was amazed by his humility and his great sense of leadership ... Mandela's character has shaped my life.
Joyce Banda
#8. Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider.
Harold Bloom
#9. By acknowledging our boundaries and limitations, we attain greater heights than we ever will by appearing to think we know everything.
Graham Speechley
#10. People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry. George Reedy
Robert A. Caro
#11. He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?
Geraldine Brooks
#12. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee Hock
#13. Vision and persistence will take you to the top of the leadership mountain, but only humility will keep you there.
Orrin Woodward
#14. Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.
Francis Chan
#16. He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.
Charles Dickens
#17. David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants.
Geraldine Brooks
#19. Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.
Thom S. Rainer
#20. The factor that made him so powerful was also his greatest liability.
Peter Heather
#21. There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.
Robert M. Gates
#22. I keep a vivid memory of failure in my back pocket, so no matter how much I accomplish I stay grounded.
Noel DeJesus
#23. The bottom line is that you can't lead the person you can't serve!
Israelmore Ayivor
#24. His was a quiet but persistent charisma.
H.W. Brands
#25. Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.
Ron Suskind
#26. Your passion may determine what you can do, but your attitude redefines how far you can go while you do what you can. Your attitude leads you and you lead other people!
Israelmore Ayivor
#28. Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.
Charles Dickens
#29. Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.
Andrew Murray
#30. Nixon under pressure turned only to reporters from publications already favorable to him; Kennedy, in trouble, turned to those most critical and dubious of him, and if anything tended to take those already for him a bit for granted.
David Halberstam
#32. The common soldiers did not blame him for his excessive grief. They knew him. They knew his flaws. Indeed, I think they loved him all the more because he was flawed, as they were, and did not hide his passionate, blemished nature.
Geraldine Brooks
#33. There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.
George H. W. Bush
#34. Governing is not a hero's profession. It is a profession of compromises.
Rick Perlstein
#35. She began to notice his servant's heart, his humility, and his leadership. This attraction felt different from her prior experiences of liking guys. "Before it had always been, 'Here's the guy I want!' But this time I thought, 'Here's a man I could follow.
Joshua Harris
#36. Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world".
Harold Holzer
#37. For leaders, wars are filled with guesses.
John Ferling
#38. We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most ambitious goals and reach our fullest potential.
A.J. Darkholme
#39. Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved.
H.W. Brands
#40. 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
#41. Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in humility and in the perfectly disciplined will. This is the distinction between great and little men.
Vince Lombardi
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.
James MacDonald
#45. When your sense of respect for others..
Your humility despite a chance at arrogance..
is MISCONSTRUED, MISUNDERSTOOD AND JUDGED..
Put a stop , pull the brakes..Some people do not deserve it!!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#46. Jesus was always on the front-lines washing dirty feet. Humility soon is shelved in ministry and we start thinking to much of ourselves. It is hard to effectively minister in Christ name when we look down on someone, but if we are washing their feet we look up to them giving them value and worth.
Jonah Books
#47. Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
Yousef Munayyer
#48. A true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.
Evan Meekins
#50. Humility is always one play away.
Tim Foley
#51. Influence requires humility. The essence of influence is others. The key word is relationships.
Johnny Hunt
#52. If you're a boss, and not a leader, your time is limited.
T.F. Hodge
#53. They possess the self- effacing virtues of people who are inclined to be useful but don't need to prove anything to the world:
David Brooks
#54. The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.
Paul C. Nagel
#55. 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
#56. A Board can be harmonized through leadership humility, insightful business understanding, trustful culture, and learning agility.
Pearl Zhu
#57. Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#58. The immediate reactions of the two superpower leaders when confronted with the gravest international crisis of their careers were much the same, shock, wounded pride, grim determination, and barely repressed fear.
Michael Dobbs
#59. Leadership was not an act of bravery but rather forbearance and the strength to move forward with humility in the belief of what is righteous
Soroosh Shahrivar
#60. Inside that Colonel, there's a private that needs to be cuddled and held just like the rest of us." Hawkeye
M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team
#61. They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they particularly treasured were missing.
David Halberstam
#62. Don't be overly proud of your accomplishments and success. Recovery is never complete. You 're engaged in a life-long process. Continue each day to love and serve God with humility
Binye Vincent
#63. John's standard maneuver to ask someone to help him, especially in a moment of crisis,
William R. Forstchen
#64. Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.
Rick Perlstein
#65. Pride refuses to be taught. Humility refuses not to be
Brad Lomenick
#66. Great leaders are the first to say, "I was wrong. Let's make a change.
Beth Ramsay
