Top 100 Leaders Leadership Quotes
#1. We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?
Thomas Frank
#2. Great leaders are the first to say, "I was wrong. Let's make a change.
Beth Ramsay
#3. We want our leaders to be fair dinkum, as much among us as above us.
Peter Cosgrove
#4. Professionalism is always the enemy of authentic gospel leadership. Leaders
Tim Chester
#5. If you want to break through to higher levels of performance, you must allow yourself to be restructured.
William A. Adams
#6. Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.
Vanna Bonta
#7. People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success; that's the job of vision.
Israelmore Ayivor
#8. Followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope
Tom Rath
#9. Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.
John C. Maxwell
#10. Learn from your experiences and past mistakes, assimilate them and convert them to formulas to achieve sustenance first , and then work your way to success to be the leaders in the market.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#11. True leaders don't look at just the outward appearances in the selection of team members, they look at one's core values and heart.
Farshad Asl
#12. Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
Andy Grove
#13. Great leaders create great cultures regardless of the dominant culture in the organization.
Bob Anderson
#14. Luck favors the bold. Leaders must fearlessly exploit the Secret of Decisiveness. Act boldly at critical moments.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
#15. Whatever you are waiting for won't come to you; you have to go for it.
Israelmore Ayivor
#16. Organisations are innovating quicker than ever. Your members need to excel from being a team player to a team builder.
Janna Cachola
#17. Leadership is service, not position.
Tim Fargo
#18. People need to feel safe to be who they are - to speak up when they have an idea, or to speak out when they feel something isn't right.
Eunice Parisi-Carew
#19. Leaders today should be more conductors than solo artists.
Brad Lomenick
#20. Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
Tom Peters
#21. Although leaders and followers are closely linked, it is the leader who often initiates the relationship, creates the communication linkages, and carries the burden for maintaining the relationship.
Peter Northouse
#22. Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.
John C. Maxwell
#23. Move away from the mid-set that the fulfillment of the organization's mission, vision, and strategic plan is only the work of leaders.
Sue Tetzlaff
#24. I believe leaders should be questioning machine, rather than an answering machine.
Saji Ijiyemi
#25. The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders
are made rather than born.
Warren G. Bennis
#26. 21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers.
Paul Gibbons
#27. Leaders don't settle for less. When you do so, you rob humanity of what you are supposed to deliver!
Israelmore Ayivor
#28. When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.
Kelley Armstrong
#29. Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
Charles De Gaulle
#30. World Class leaders know the secret to motivating themselves and others is discovering what they will fight for when the going gets rough.
Steve Siebold
#32. People will know you for who you are, but will remember you for what you have done. True leaders make long lasting impacts!
Israelmore Ayivor
#33. You can't lead people if you can't lead yourself. Self-leadership qualities qualifies you to become a co-operate leader.
Israelmore Ayivor
#34. 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
#35. There are no reluctant leaders. A real leader must really want the job ... If you find the need for a leader and have to coax or urge your selection, you'll be well advised to pass him over. He's not the man you need.
Ira C. Eaker
#36. If you don't know what you value in life, then you won't be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future.
Shannon L. Alder
#37. A compassionate government does not need to pay too much attention to those who don't have needs. True leadership is to fulfill a need of the needy. People who have needs need attention indeed! Be a true leader!
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. Leaders..should influence others..in such a way that it builds people up, encourages and edifies them so they can duplicate this attitude in others.
Bob Goshen
#39. Leaders stand out. Good leaders succeed. Great leaders make a difference in the world.
Cheryl Richardson
#40. Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.
Andy Stanley
#41. The best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.
Tony Hsieh
#42. Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.
Seth Godin
#43. We live in a country where our young ladies who have recently attained the age of puberty cannot afford sanitary pads, but our men and women in public offices have ipads which they do not even know how to use.
Patrick L.O. Lumumba
#44. God is not interested in your ability. He is
interested in your availability. When you avail
your ability to God, you become a faithful leader.
Israelmore Ayivor
#45. Leadership is accomplishing something through other people that wouldn't have happened if you weren't there ... Leadership is being able to mobilize ideas and values that energize other people ... Leaders develop a story line that engages other people.
Noel Tichy
#47. Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position!
Israelmore Ayivor
#48. Inspiring leadership communication is not about great oratory or great charisma; rather it is about getting others to believe in themselves and believe in your cause, and then achieve more than they thought was possible.
Kevin Murray
#49. You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people's happiness suffocate.
Israelmore Ayivor
#50. True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.
Robert Townsend
#51. While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal ... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.
Debashis Chatterjee
#52. It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
Warren G. Bennis
#53. The best leaders don't know just one style of leadership - they're skilled at several, and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the circumstances dictate.
Daniel Goleman
#54. Intellectuals are rarely successful as leaders. They are so trapped in their ideals that they cannot venture out in the real world to win and lead.
Awdhesh Singh
#55. The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
Winston Churchill
#56. African leaders should not turn the continent into a giant collector of donations and loans from wealthy nations - they must find other plausible means to help established their economic security so as to minimize poverty. This incoherent blunder on the mainland must be scrutinized.
Duop Chak Wuol
#58. Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.
Scott Hammerle
#59. The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.
Lao-Tzu
#60. Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.
Orrin Woodward
#62. Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.
Brian Houston
#63. The leader's commandment is made up of pledges to solve local and global problems, and not to create more problems to add to the existing ones.
Israelmore Ayivor
#64. 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
#65. Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
Sam Walton
#66. The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.
Garry Wills
#67. Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
Young Jeezy
#68. In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#69. Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.
Myles Munroe
#70. Leaders need 5 core competences: soul, head, hand, heart, body. Where do you need to grow?
Aubrey Malphurs
#71. Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo.
Scott Hammerle
#73. Effective leaders allow God to shape them into the kind of people they need to be for each situation they encounter.
Jim George
#74. Those occupying leadership roles who completely lack integrity are what we call 'Blind shepherds'. They are not really 'bad' leaders, because they are not leaders at all: they are misleaders.
John Adair
#75. Great leaders don't just know the sweet spots of their people. They tap into and unchain the infinite potential imprisoned within their people...
Assegid Habtewold
#76. All good leaders are optimists. They always see opportunity where others see hardship
Jocelyn Murray
#78. Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea.
Laurie Beth Jones
#79. Effective leaders are good spotters. They are on the lookout for
potential leaders. They have the ability to look beyond other's deficiencies to
see their possibilities.
Gary Rohrmayer
#80. As we look ahead into the future, leaders will be those who serve others, actively listen, and daily empower.
Farshad Asl
#81. Somebody had said how only 15 paisa of the one rupee sent from the Centre reached the intended beneficiaries. The job of a leader isn't just to diagnose the disease but to treat it
Narendra Modi
#82. We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#83. Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
Carl Sagan
#84. If you find a community with less production and less inspiring inventions, then know it is a sign of lack of Business Leaders and full of General Managers do not know what they can manage or what they are managing.
Sameh Elsayed
#85. In response to [the Philistine] threat [in the ninth century B.C.], the Hebrews could no longer rely on the leadership of 'judges,' ad hoc military leaders (some of them, peculiarly, women; perhaps reflecting as feminists claim, and earlier matriarchal society).
Norman F. Cantor
#86. A person with passion will not look somewhere to see who is not doing it; they will focus and do what they can.
Israelmore Ayivor
#87. Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.
Stephen Covey
#90. Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.
Richie Norton
#91. Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.
John Paul Warren
#92. A leadership development plan has to address these three phases: Identifying emerging leaders Investing in the development of emerging leaders Entrusting responsibility to emerging leaders
Bill Hybels
#93. Successful leaders leaders lead with passion and compassion.
Farshad Asl
#94. When leaders learn and live good values, they make themselves more valuable and lift the value of other people. That is the foundation of positive leadership.
John C. Maxwell
#95. The ultimate test of a transformational leader is the ability to raise up a new generation of leaders.
Jim Louwsma
#96. Let go of a need for personal recognition. Heap kudos on others and they'll perform even better next time. Leaders are only as good as those who follow them and followers are at their best when leaders are quick to give credit for successes.
Steve Goodier
#97. True leaders have so much power they are willing to give it away. Power is not a fixed, quantifiable sum; instead it is an unlimited abstraction which grows as it is shared.
Marlene Caroselli
#98. Eaders should be looked upon as being 'in front', 'sharing' rather than 'showing' the way ... it is the followers who save leaders and therefore make them.
Michelle Grattan
#99. What you can't enforce, do not command.
Sophocles
#100. Most of us are not leaders today because, in our hearts we don't believe that is who we are.
Myles Munroe
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