Top 100 Leaders Change Quotes
#1. We don't recruit volunteers; we release leaders. Volunteers do good things but leaders change the world.
Craig Groeschel
#2. We have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society - satellites, social media, the Internet - you have this kind, this kind of society moving forward, and you are running this closed regime; this is not sustainable. This cannot continue.
Ali Babacan
#3. You see, Mr. President - real leaders don't follow polls. Real leaders change polls.
Chris Christie
#4. Broken-hearted leaders change things that go beyond their generation.
Andy Stanley
#5. With proactive support and full engagement of top leaders, Change Management can become an enjoyable voyage to discover the new landscape of businesses.
Pearl Zhu
#6. Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Jesse Jackson
#7. Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change.
Orrin Woodward
#8. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better." Harry S. Truman
Shar McBee
#9. Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better.
Chuck Schumer
#10. For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
Conrad Black
#11. Great leaders are the first to say, "I was wrong. Let's make a change.
Beth Ramsay
#12. Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.
John P. Kotter
#13. Climate change has never received the crisis treatment from our leaders, despite the fact that it carries the risk of destroying lives on a vastly greater scale than collapsed banks or collapsed buildings.
Naomi Klein
#14. Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.
Andy Stanley
#15. Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.
Seth Godin
#16. We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
Mark Skousen
#17. 21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers.
Paul Gibbons
#18. Leaders are not the ones with the right position or a proclaimed or given title, the actual leaders are the people who start acting, who step up, who do change, no matter in what way or how small!
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#19. Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
Seth Godin
#21. Leaders don't try to make people unhappy. However, leaders just know, progress is always preceded by change." "And some people don't like change,
Mark Miller
#22. Leaders can choose to grow and change, but generally the most powerful predictor of future performance is past behavior. Evaluate them realistically.
Lee Ellis
#23. It became my mission to work with young people to help show them the way, not save them! But help them understand that there are choices that can be made that will make the difference for the rest of their lives.
Jose A. Aviles
#24. Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they've already done and go farther than they've reached.
Israelmore Ayivor
#25. Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking action to address climate change, and we expect them to do their part this December in Paris at the U.N. climate talks.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#26. The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions!
Israelmore Ayivor
#27. Leaders are fascinated by the future. You are a leader if, and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress, and deeply dissatisfied with the status quo." He
Carmine Gallo
#28. Peter Joseph is asking the questions and proposing the possible solutions that we should be demanding from the elected leaders of this crazy world.
His brilliant analysis of this ridiculous system we're operating under is one of the most important voices for change in this generation.
Joe Rogan
#29. Leaders don't watch but make things happen-initiate change
Ikechukwu Joseph
#30. The core of a scientific lifestyle is to change your mind when faced with information that disagrees with your views, avoiding intellectual inertia, yet many of us praise leaders who stubbornly stick to their views as "strong."
Max Tegmark
#31. When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.
Chip Conley
#32. Most of the European leaders look at themselves as having to follow the United States, because if the US opposes them, there will be a regime change.
Michael Hudson
#33. There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.
Pope Francis
#34. In unstable times, growth comes from leaders who create change and engage their organizations, instead of from managers who push their employees to do more for less.
Seth Godin
#35. All of us are not always smarter than one of us, leaders need to distinguish between the wisdom of crowds and the madness of crowds.
Paul Gibbons
#36. It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.
Edward De Bono
#37. Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.
John C. Maxwell
#38. It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.
Ela Bhatt
#39. Never underestimate the power of people who are determined to change life and work with all their might towards it. They are the ones who turn into leaders and revolutionize the world around us.
Peter White
#40. Success comes from people (leaders) who are motivated by the change, not who need to be motivated by the change.
Amit Chatterjee
#41. Even a brief interaction can change the way people think about themselves, their leaders, and the future. Each of those many connections you make has the potential to become a high point or a low point in someone's day.
Douglas Conant
#43. Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of optimism, after all. We elect leaders who promise hope and change. We are the shining city on a hill. But what happens when the lights go out?
Kathleen Parker
#44. Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.
Peter Schuyler
#45. Market leaders continually chart the changing waters.
Peter Barron
#46. I have stopped waiting on our leaders. We have been forced to fear the system. But unless we change our ways and the way we see each other, we won't move forward.
Nneka
#47. Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
Larry Page
#48. Change or you will be changed: leaders who neglect the good of their people will be forsaken. Leadership is a service, not a gateway to privilege.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#49. From the systems point of view, it is evident that one of the main obstacles to organizational change is the - largely unconscious - embrace by business leaders of the mechanistic approach to management.
Fritjof Capra
#50. Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#51. We need leaders, we need political leaders and we need business leaders, and my hope for this book is that it helps create that next generation of business leaders that will lead us into the future.
James White Fellow Of INSTAAR
#52. The fall of the nation, there is no;
Faithfulness,
Kindness and
Knowledge of God in your sacred land.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#53. Leaders would be born in this movement, unlikely heroes whose impact on food production would change a nation, and possibly the world.
~Seeds of Transition
Carolyn Holland
#54. Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.
Paul Gibbons
#55. Leaders make things better and that requires change.
Andy Stanley
#56. You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.
Jose Manuel Barroso
#57. Leaders can change the tenor of the workplace and create harmony in motion toward a favorable result. So every time you say to your team, "Let's rock and roll," make sure you have already set up the stage to where they can actually perform like rock stars.
Thomas Huynh
#58. Every new level of growth we hope to experience as leaders calls for a new level of change. You cannot have one without the other. If you want to be a better leader, get ready to make some trades.
John C. Maxwell
#59. Great upheavals produce shock waves that widen cracks in political, economic, and security orders. Sometimes the old orders break. Yet it can be in the power of leaders and peoples to shape the directions of change.
Robert Zoellick
#60. Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.
Orrin Woodward
#61. Leaders who ignore change risk extinction.
Pat Williams
#62. At the end of the day, what qualifies people to be called "leaders" is their capacity to influence others to change their behavior in order to achieve important results.
Kerry Patterson
#63. You don't have to live with whatever life throws you--or whatever you've gotten yourself into...
You can choose to Change Your Story!
Kirstin Leigh
#64. If we are lucky enough to have good leaders at the top, change will happen quickly. Unfortunately,
Chetan Bhagat
#65. So today, we call upon the world leaders to change their strategic policies in favor of peace and prosperity. We call upon the world leaders that all of these deals must protect women and children's rights. A deal that goes against the rights of women is unacceptable.
Malala Yousafzai
#66. Power relations between men and women must change profoundly, men must be partners in the pursuit of gender equality, in their decision-making roles, as heads of state, CEOs, religious and cultural leaders, and as partners and parents.
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
#67. The whole point of all of this - why we are here, why the world is here, and why we have the political system and leaders that we do - is to achieve change. This is the purpose of life.
Yehuda Berg
#68. Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
Joseph Nye
#69. Ordinary people have an extremely important role to play in fighting climate change. Not only can you make your home more energy efficient, drive less, and eat more local food - you can also tell your leaders to take climate action.
Frances Beinecke
#70. Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#71. Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.
Al Gore
#72. Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes.
Johan Cruijff
#73. Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress.
John C. Maxwell
#74. Our great privilege as worship leaders is to help people see through the eyes of faith how great God has actually revealed himself to be. He doesn't change. We do.
Bob Kauflin
#75. Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo.
Scott Hammerle
#76. The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?
Dennis C. Blair
#77. Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation.
Bonnie Marcus
#78. The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.
Warren G. Bennis
#79. It is possible for ministry leaders to desire greatness in ways no different from anyone, anywhere in our culture. Attaching Jesus's name to these desires doesn't change the fact that they look just like the cravings of the world.
Zack Eswine
#80. Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.
John P. Kotter
#81. It is our duty as states, citizens, and industry leaders to make the energy transition a reality with the ultimate aim of reconciling two major priorities: to meet ever-increasing demand and to confront the complex issue of climate change.
Christophe De Margerie
#83. I call for the need of world leaders to address climate change and reduce the increasing risk of disasters- and world leaders must include mayors, townships and community leaders.
Ban Ki-moon
#84. Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change
Peter Drucker
#85. Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better.
Carlos Wallace
#87. The Keystone XL pipeline is a threat to our nation. It would increase pollution and intensify climate change for generations to come. We must raise our voices and demand our leaders reject this dirty scheme.
Frances Beinecke
#88. While victims condemn change, leaders grow inspired by change.
Robin Sharma
#89. I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.
Vanessa Kerry
#90. Rural places have hemorrhaged their best and brightest children, their intellectuals, thinkers, organizers, leaders, and artists-those who would create change and who would parent another generation of thinkers. All gone.
Our seeds are disappearing.
Janisse Ray
#91. When I came into the CEO office, I basically changed the entire management team. We knew that we had to change the company, so we needed a new set of leaders.
Hans Vestberg
#92. Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it. They cause the events that others have to react to. They make change.
Seth Godin
#93. If you want real, significant, sustainable change, you need talented, committed local line leaders. If the line manager is not innovating, then innovation is not going to occur.
Peter Senge
#94. You can preach heresy at a lot of churches, and people will not object. Leaders can lead double lives, and people will let it be. But, change the order of service, and it's time for a fight.
Ed Stetzer
#95. When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
Ofra Strauss
#96. Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.
Orrin Woodward
#97. When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.
Paul Gibbons
#98. REAL Leaders are experts at bringing out the best in others ... Thinking , feelings and actions. They improve their teams' thinking skills and Mindsets.
Tony Dovale
#99. And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see. Ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary things.
Barack Obama
#100. Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.
Israelmore Ayivor
