Top 36 Knowing Yourself Leadership Quotes
#1. It must start by knowing Time = Life. Spending your life on impulse will lead to a broke life, just like impulse buying leads to an empty wallet! How much value you place on your time reflects in the activities that consume your time.
Archibald Marwizi
#2. Knowing your value, speaking up, and not flying under the radar - this is what fearless leadership is about.
Carey Lohrenz
#3. Knowing that we can make a difference in this world is a great motivator. How can we know this and not be involved?
Susan Jeffers
#4. Very often we sit back thinking good things will happen, knowing that good things take time and hoping that someone else will do it. The world needs us!
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#5. By acknowledging our boundaries and limitations, we attain greater heights than we ever will by appearing to think we know everything.
Graham Speechley
#7. I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.
Margaret D. Nadauld
#8. Effective leadership is doing important things first. Effective management is knowing what is important.
Debasish Mridha
#9. What matters is working with a few close friends, people you respect, knowing that if times did turn bad these people would hold together.
Richard Branson
#10. If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
Warren G. Bennis
#11. Leadership meant knowing how to distill complexity into a comprehensible message to reach the hearts as well as the minds of the larger world.
Jon Meacham
#12. Leadership is knowing what you want and making it happen.
Miriam Colon
#13. The difficulty was not that of following a moral principle at personal cost; the difficulty was that of knowing what to do when there is more than one principal, and when the principles clash.
Elton Trueblood
#14. I don't want to be rich and famous but I want to die knowing I stood infront of a broken man and gave him one reason to smile again.
Nikki Rowe
#15. The most important aspect of leading is knowing oneself. Know yourself, know the people around you, and then get on with it.
Mervyn Davies
#16. The rulers of the earth are all worth knowing; they suggest moral reflections: and the respect that one naturally has for God's vice-regents here on earth is greatly increased by acquaintance with them.
Lord Chesterfield
#17. Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.
Warren G. Bennis
#18. When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict."
-The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding
Kirsten Siggins
#19. There is something more dangerous than the death of one's body. It is "the undiscovered self"; being alive without knowing why.
Israelmore Ayivor
#20. Ultimately, the fruit of faithful leadership is knowing we've pleased the audience of One.
Bob Kauflin
#21. There is no point knowing your mission if you cannot see the area of need for that mission.
Archibald Marwizi
#22. The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#23. Knowing what is right is not the same as doing what is right.
Christine Caine
#24. I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.
Tony Abbott
#25. Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.
John Piper
#26. Knowing how to do a job is the accomplishment of labor - showing others is the accomplishment of the teacher - making sure the work is done by others is the accomplishment of the manager - inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of the leader.
John C. Maxwell
#27. When we 'know' what is totally unacceptable..we learn to say 'No'..
Knowing the 'No' gives clarity about what to say 'Yes' to..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#28. If you want to know the real character of man, intentionally and timely give him the test of 3d's; delay, denial and disappointment
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#29. Knowing your feelings won't change the facts, but knowing the facts can change your feelings.
Marlene Chism
#30. Being a leader is not about finding ways to get others to serve you, but knowing how to serve your followers.
A.J. Darkholme
#31. Leadership is knowing what to do next, knowing why that's important, and knowing how to bring the appropriate resources to bear on the need at hand.
Bobb Biehl
#32. Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.' - Tom Martin, former VP of marketing
Heather Simmons
#33. Most employees are never made or allowed to understand the real meaning behind the work that they are doing. So, for how long can someone remain motivated about chasing something without knowing what he is chasing and why?
Abhishek Ratna
#34. I'm a firm believer in quiet confidence. By that I mean knowing inwardly that you are good, and not exhibiting a boastful attitude outwardly. If an athlete doesn't believe in himself, no one else will.
Dick Van Arsdale
#35. Remain aware of your weak points; not knowing or choosing to ignore them, means creating dangerous 'blind-spots' in the path to your success.
Archibald Marwizi
#36. The leader continually passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious.
John C. Maxwell
