Leadership Advice Quotes

#1. He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.

Richard Brookhiser

#2. I sought the advice and cooperation from all those around me- but not permission.

Muhammad Ali

#3. Service is a sacred strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders are denying the dire reality we are facing. Leadership can come form anywhere.

Kumi Naidoo

#5. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#6. Make sure your priorities line up with your values.

Michael Barbarulo

#7. Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.

Aaron Schock

#8. I wish you much more grace for all your works.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Leadership starts with understanding responsibility, not ability. Leadership is a Stewardship, not a show.

Rick Warren

#10. Success is a matter of choice, not chance ~ Deepak Mehra

Deepak Mehra

#11. When you empower your people, your business will be grow.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#12. When poor people get involved in a long conflict, such as a strike or a civil rights drive, and the pressure increases each day, there is a deep need for spiritual advice. Without it, we see families crumble, leadership weaken, and hard workers grow tired.

Cesar Chavez

#13. One of the lessons of leadership worth emphasizing is that you want to get to know other great leaders and take their advice. At some point in your development, it's only people who've been in the seat of having to be leaders who can help you in a deep way.

Jim Yong Kim

#14. We have to work and serve humanity while we have the grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. I'd like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice.

Heather Bresch

#16. A true Leader asks advice, when he has time to think; but he never asks advice in a crisis. He acts.

Herbert Newton Casson

#17. That's good advice for any young person to remember who aspires to leadership in corporate or public life. Develop a thick skin when it comes to the press. Remember you're never as bad-or as good-as the press says you are.

William Schreyer

#18. Great leaders inspire greatness in others.

Lolly Daskal

#19. Being willing to listen to others and let them speak into our lives is a critical attitude leaders must have. It is not weakness to get good advice - it is strength to seek it out.

Wayde Goodall

#20. You must not wait to be elected into office, before you begin to serve. Begin to serve every where you are; in the home, community, school, university, work, hospital, church, market, society, nation and among many other places.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

Sheryl Sandberg

#22. Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#23. The road to success is full of pit stops, pitfalls, and self pity; my advice is simply don't stop!

Noel DeJesus

#24. Manager! Have brain - use it!

Gerry Geek

#25. It's not about who you think you know, but about who actually knows you.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#26. Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership.

Rick Warren

#27. Leadership is neither showmanship nor dictatorship. Leadership is a stewardship and a partnership.

Rick Warren

#28. Seek advice, but make sure it's from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities.

John C. Maxwell

#29. Be Practical. That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#30. Where do business leaders turn for advice to improve their leadership skills? Many successful leaders like Dan Cathy, President and COO of Chick-fil-A turn to the Bible. Speaking at Trinity College in Illinois, "Cathy discussed how scripture dictates Chick-fil-A's business plan.

R.J. Stepansky

#31. Coaching is one of the most effective leadership styles that can transform, empower and unlock people's potential. Ask more, advice less, elevate your impact forever.

Farshad Asl

#32. If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

Sheryl Sandberg

#33. A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.

Evan Thomas

#34. Change is not always easy when patterns in our lives have existed so long.

Lolly Daskal

#35. You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

Steve Jobs

#36. You shouldn't blindly accept a leader's advice. You've got to question leaders on occasion.

Richard Branson

#37. Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands.

Dan James

#38. For many members of Congress, the time for choosing is near - do what the party leadership demands, or do what the people have asked you to do. If my colleagues don't mind some advice from a newcomer, I'd suggest going with the will of the people.

Scott Brown

#39. If we don't communicate, we certainly can't get much done and if we don't communicate authentically, what we get done is less effective.

Michele Jennae

#40. The major factor that makes a great leader to fail emerge from the decision of people who surround him/her.

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