Leadership Capacity Quotes

#1. The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.

Wendy Kopp

#2. If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

Wendy Kopp

#3. We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.

Clarence Benjamin Jones

#4. Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got. He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation, I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.

Vicente Fox

#5. Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.

Mary Parker Follett

#6. Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.

Myles Munroe

#7. Myth 2: Leadership is about individuals. In fact, leadership is a distributed or collective capacity in a system, not just something that individuals do. Leadership is about the capacity of the whole system to sense and actualize the future that wants to emerge.

C. Otto Scharmer

#8. Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.

John C. Maxwell

#9. All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.

David Cooperrider

#10. No matter who you are, you have the nature and capacity for leadership.

Myles Munroe

#11. Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

Edwin H. Friedman

#12. Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.

Gustav Nossal

#13. Far too much horrific wast of human capacity is disguised as order, predictability, and minimizing uncertainty.

Bill Jensen

#14. The one thing that's missing to create a fundamental shift in work capacity: courage. Leadership courage.

Bill Jensen

#15. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren G. Bennis

#16. Leadership is the ability to make things happen.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#17. The Congress leadership always denied responsibilities to me both within the government and within the party organisation ... They would always tell me my image as a Hindu leader was a constraint on my capacity as a political leader.

Satpal Maharaj

#18. The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Cyril Falls

#19. What makes you succeed must be possessed where it cannot be taken away. The internal capacity to succeed is more important than the external and temporal manifestation of success.

Archibald Marwizi

#20. Missional leaders know that their church will only grow as large as its capacity to provide ongoing care through a network of small groups and ministry teams.

Gary Rohrmayer

#21. Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.

Vince Lombardi

#22. Just as water will not surpass the capacity of the container, a team's success will not surpass the capacity of the leader.

Orrin Woodward

#23. Never underestimate the capacity of people to choose the easy way.

William James Moore

#24. I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#25. The mind is a storehouse with great capacity, but is often filled with dubious knowledge and meaningless trivialities. In truth, much of this - though at times interesting and entertaining - is of insignificant value.

Stevenson Willis

#26. Leadership is the ability to recognize the special abilities and limitations of others, combined with the capacity to fit each one into the job where he will do his best.

J. Oswald Sanders

#27. You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.

Ban Ki-moon

#28. My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#29. At its best, leadership development is not an "event." It's a capacity-building endeavor. It's a process of human growth and development.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#30. Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

Ehud Olmert

#31. Human Dignity has five characteristics : A playful curiosity,a capacity for dreams, a sense of humor to achieve and correct those dreams, a certain flexibility and spontaenity of behavior, a capacity to fight for and save those dreams !

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#32. It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

Warren G. Bennis

#33. The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.

Benjamin E. Mays

#34. We must stop destroying human capacity. Now.
Too many of today's leaders are holding back the future because it comes wrapped in risks.

Bill Jensen

#35. Leadership is the capacity to turn vision into reality.

Warren Bennis

#36. The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.

Warren G. Bennis

#37. Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Warren G. Bennis

#38. The essence of leadership is the capacity to build and develop the self-esteem of the workers.

Irwin Federman

#39. Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.

John P. Kotter

#40. Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.

Warren G. Bennis

#41. Where there is no uncertainty, there is no longer the need for leadership. The greater the uncertainty, the greater the need for leadership. Your capacity as a leader will be determined by how well you learn to deal with uncertainty.

Andy Stanley

#42. Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

Andy Hargreaves

#43. It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and the actions of other human beings.

Tony Robbins

#44. Leadership's primary job is to enhance creative capacity by developing collectively effective leadership.

William A. Adams