Top 57 Leadership Challenge Quotes
#1. There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.
Jim Rohn
#2. There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.
Kevin Rollins
#3. The principles of stewardship and servant leadership challenge you to look at leadership differently. Consider these values.
Archibald Marwizi
#4. The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning
not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#5. 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
#6. This is a major strategic challenge affecting not only our military, but ultimately, America's leadership in the global world order, we are at a point where our national aspirations are at risk of exceeding our available resources.
Martin Dempsey
#7. Voters - here's the real challenge: we don't need empty promises made by politicians whose only goal in life is to get elected or re-elected. We need leaders with attributes that qualify them to lead us through the difficult challenges we're facing.
Lee Ellis
#8. You cannot expect people to seriously consider your idea without accepting the possibility that they will challenge it. Accepting that process of engagement as the terrain of leadership liberates you personally.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#9. The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership - it is practicing their understanding of leadership.
Marshall Goldsmith
#10. Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.
Tony Blair
#12. Research has shown the challenge caused by Climate change is mainly man-made due to abdication of leadership and personal responsibility in taking care of the environment. Will you be part of the army replenishing the earth and promoting proper stewardship of its resources?
Archibald Marwizi
#13. The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to change myself, then I will understand the challenge of trying to change others. This is the ultimate test of leadership.
John C. Maxwell
#14. In order to master the ability to lead, develop and deliver innovation at speed systematically, you must challenge your assumptions and expectations that influence your actions.
K. Melissa Kennedy
#16. Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.
Gaylord Nelson
#17. So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.
Al Oerter
#18. The highest calling of leadership is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others. We need a leader who will lead the resurgence of this great nation and unlock its potential once again.
Carly Fiorina
#19. Friends describe me as someone who likes to sing and dance along the edge of the roof. I try to encourage young women to be willing to take risks, to stand up for the things they believe in, and to step up and accept the challenge of serving in leadership roles.
Wilma Mankiller
#20. Leadership deals with people and their dynamics, which are continually changing. The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.
John C. Maxwell
#21. Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#22. Do not define your success in the context of just one situation or challenge you are currently battling or pursuing.
Archibald Marwizi
#23. If the challenge is far beyond their skill level, they tend to get frustrated; if it's far below their skill level, they tend to get bored. Leaders need to strike the right balance.
Teresa Amabile
#24. Leaders don't wait. They shape their own frontiers. The bigger the challenge, the greater the opportunity.
Carlos Wallace
#25. At a time of change and challenge at home and abroad, these investments will enhance the security of Americans, assure the future American leadership, and help build the foundations of peace, stability, and prosperity in the years ahead.
Hillary Clinton
#26. Challenges in life always seek leaders and leaders seek challenges.
Wayde Goodall
#27. Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.
Louis Farrakhan
#28. The challenge therefore, as you strive for success, is to make it a habit to live your life on purpose. You must learn to make deliberate plans and then practice the art and science of doing things on purpose.
Archibald Marwizi
#29. Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.
Laszlo Bock
#30. By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.
Bill Walsh
#31. Great leaders are inspired by a challenge, a need, a problem, an issue that needs to be corrected.
Del Suggs
#33. Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
Jesse Jackson
#34. The challenge has always been that "good people" don't know how to win elections
Fela Durotoye
#35. I believe that positive energy and optimism help us to take up any challenge in life and to succeed in even the most difficult tasks. I also believe that positive energy is contagious: we can transmit it to others.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#36. The challenge for a mentee is not only to learn what he doesn't know, but also to unlearn what he thinks he knows.
Orrin Woodward
#37. Why would I be willing to challenge my Republican leadership? Because my allegiance will always be to the Constitution and the American people first and foremost, not to my political party.
Matt Salmon
#38. Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.
Andy Stanley
#39. 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
#40. It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That's real leadership.
Jody Williams
#41. The greatest challenge of Leadership maintaining personal conviction in a globalized world.
Myles Munroe
#42. The primary challenge for any aspiring public office bearer is to have a well-defined cause and diligently represent that cause until a significant impact is witnessed. Adhering to value-based leadership principles must be at the top of the priority list for public office aspirants.
Archibald Marwizi
#43. The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Jim Rohn
#44. The present Indian government, however, is neither able or willing to accept the challenge and to provide the leadership in breaking the resistance of urban and rural interests.
Paul A. Baran
#45. It is the challenge for every leader to develop and invest in those he depends on, to ensure his or her vision is realized in the way it has been put upon the leader's heart. These key people will enhance the success or taint the leadership image and brand of the visionary.
Archibald Marwizi
#46. Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
Jim Rohn
#47. The federal government needs a strategic approach that includes strong leadership and the ability to manage weather related risks. The challenge of developing such an approach is complex: It must not only encompass all levels of government but must also be developed in a bipartisan manner.
Matt Cartwright
#48. What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.
Andy Hargreaves
#49. The challenge for us is to find some response that actually inspires change rather than clinging to the old ways that cause resentment, and more importantly, distract from the real problem.
Adele Faber
#50. Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go - backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#51. If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will take the subversive leadership of academics and practitioners who keep reminding students of the profession's responsibilities.
Samuel Mockbee
#52. To enact a vision of human flourishing based on the qualities of life that Jesus modeled will invariably challenge the given structures of the social order. In this light, there is no true leadership without putting at risk one's time, wealth, reputation, and position.
James Davison Hunter
#53. Find your own authentic leadership style; your own unique way of listening to, helping and engaging with your front line. Challenge the often formidable psychological distance between basement and boardroom. Your people will thank you, and so will your customers.
Chris Van Gorder
#54. Our greatest individual challenge in life is self-discipline. The self-discipline of a healthy diet, daily exercise, controlling our thoughts, selflessly serving others, and living a life of integrity.
Bradford Winters
#55. I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.
Steven Spielberg
#56. In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.
Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution
#57. We all of us have a reputation, something we are known for, and sometimes it may be different from what we would like to be known for. At the core of this is the simple but fragile heart - our integrity - which is always under challenge, under tests both trivial and profound every day of our lives.
Peter Cosgrove
