Top 100 Leadership Excellence Quotes
#1. Leadership excellence means that you must be accepted as a leader, not forcing yourself upon those you lead. Outside of formal authority, it takes trust for people to accept your leadership. Proven consistent leadership choices and results will earn you invaluable points of trust.
Archibald Marwizi
#2. Your growth and involvement must begin to show lasting footprints as you exude maximum effectiveness and significance. Your leadership influence must translate into a source of inspiration for your peers and those who look at you as a leader.
Archibald Marwizi
#3. No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.
Babara Tuchman
#4. Everything you love, enjoy, respect or value will somehow find top priority, even without excessive conscious reminders. Show respect through the way you manage time, especially when others are involved or affected.
Archibald Marwizi
#5. Poverty might make you obscure, but if you continue churning out wisdom to solve more problems and challenges, you will neither remain poor nor die in obscurity.
Archibald Marwizi
#6. Stop, think and use your brain! Don't' rush through life. Take time to reflect as you define what success means to you. Always remember you are one of a kind!
Archibald Marwizi
#7. You become like that, what you admire most. By admiring excellence and practicing, it can boost you to become excellent.
Mark LaMoure
#8. A goal is not just an object on a pitch; it is also a milestone on your journey of excellence.
Onyi Anyado
#9. Aligning your values and beliefs to your behaviour, increases your chances of being effective at living a fulfilling life without the stress of guilt-consciousness, internal strife or internal conflict
Archibald Marwizi
#10. People and organisations should want to be associated with you as a brand. A sign of a depleted and irrelevant brand is unwillingness of your market or peers to associate with you.
Archibald Marwizi
#11. When people undermine your values, they've strong reasons. For example, they mistaken your passion for excellence as perfectionism...
Assegid Habtewold
#12. Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.
James C. Collins
#13. Most of the things to guarantee your death have already been done so you can spend the rest of your time focusing on the things that can guarantee your success and happiness.
Archibald Marwizi
#14. Work, and not wishing, is what brings motion and results from your vision. Don't be lazy. Try and try again, learn and practice, review and refine, then go back to implement again.
Archibald Marwizi
#15. Passion gives power while attitude designs excellence! You can do it because you have the passion; you can do it very well because you have the right attitude!
Israelmore Ayivor
#16. You first compete with yourself before competing against others; if you cannot beat your last best result, do not be surprised if it seems difficult to compete against external competitors.
Archibald Marwizi
#17. If the 'Journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step' - that is prescribed to - ALIGN
Priyavrat Thareja
#18. Who are you? Where are you coming from? What are your strengths and ambitions? What makes you happy and fulfilled? What are your inherent gifts and talents? Clearly define yourself.
Archibald Marwizi
#19. Personalising success means defining it in line with your defined mission and beliefs. This will help ignite a passion for the dream as well as develop underlying values and attitudes.
Archibald Marwizi
#20. At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?
Jeff Henderson
#21. If you don't value excellence, you won't achieve excellence.
Glenn C. Stewart
#23. Once you make the requisite personal commitment to make your success deliberate, that commitment must translate into a definition of higher personal standards meant to depict the true impression of what you have become or are becoming within.
Archibald Marwizi
#24. Train your emotions to listen to your fundamental empowering beliefs. Be principle-centred and values-driven.
Archibald Marwizi
#25. The world is always throwing challenges and questions - which ones does your mission and purpose respond to or seek to solve? Do you know your mission and have you clearly defined the life-issues you intend to address?
Archibald Marwizi
#26. Skills and special abilities will only grow if you practice more. You become a star-performer by doing. Let performance and production of desired results become a consistent habit associated with your personal brand.
Archibald Marwizi
#27. There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.
Marcus Buckingham
#29. What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading.
Cameron C. Taylor
#30. The major purpose of defining and understanding yourself is to be able to come up with an objective strategy to map your success.
Archibald Marwizi
#31. Your success must never be left to others. You must be able to visualize it and see it through your own eyes, whilst others assist you to see it better and make it clearer.
Archibald Marwizi
#32. You must practice the discipline of a champion before you win the actual contest. The appointment and opportunity must then come to confirm what you have already become.
Archibald Marwizi
#33. Begin to grow in wisdom and develop an informed approach to more global issues around you and along your path to success and significance.
Archibald Marwizi
#34. Build relationships and friendships by finding common experiences or interests instead of getting discouraged by noticeable differences.
Archibald Marwizi
#35. Money might be a reward (by-product) but should not always be the only goal of your efforts and enterprise.
Archibald Marwizi
#36. Success must be personalised, contextualized and internalized. Success means something different to each one of us. We each have a unique and peculiar mission in life.
Archibald Marwizi
#37. Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they've already done and go farther than they've reached.
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. We must be the ones to re-define the world class standards of excellence
Fela Durotoye
#39. Remain aware of your weak points; not knowing or choosing to ignore them, means creating dangerous 'blind-spots' in the path to your success.
Archibald Marwizi
#40. Plan for the sustainability of your success so that you do not drift back to failure and mediocrity.
Archibald Marwizi
#41. Who are you' is a question of both substance and position. In other words, what is the authority of your voice, service, product or performance in relation to the needs of those you intend to serve? Secondly, have you defined and demystified yourself enough to be accepted as the solution of choice?
Archibald Marwizi
#42. Do not be cursed by documented findings and so-called facts; invention itself is not yet an antique for the museum. Not every voice has the right to sponsor your beliefs and words.
Archibald Marwizi
#43. Your values, as guiding principles, will influence your attitude towards yourself, life, other people, work and even challenges or success itself. Your values are a product of your beliefs.
Archibald Marwizi
#44. Excellence reveals Integrity...
Mediocrity reveals the lack of it...
Dishonesty reveals the absence of it...
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#45. Leadership is bringing people into new realms of excellence and challenging them to become distinguished in their chosen field.
Onyi Anyado
#46. Do not seek success just for the sake of succeeding or for self-gratification. Seek a life of impact and significance.
Archibald Marwizi
#47. Consider your will to be the vision of your influence on earth after you cease to be a part of it. Crafting a lasting legacy means you start planning and making it possible now.
Archibald Marwizi
#49. Make adjustments and improvements to enhance the effectiveness of meetings or surpassing of your target. Learn to define, quantify and be specific about what, how and when you want to succeed in each area of your life.
Archibald Marwizi
#50. Without faith, it is impossible to succeed. It takes faith to grow, change or move out of your comfort zone. All external interventions become futile without the personal and internalized buy-in from the spirit-man who needs to change towards a given success destination.
Archibald Marwizi
#51. There should be a healthy 'stubbornness', assertiveness and confidence that comes from knowledge of your clear vision, mission, values and personal brand.
Archibald Marwizi
#52. You can use and see the power of words contributing towards your success, and this comes from having an empowering belief system. Living and functioning from an empowering belief system is the spring board for making your success more deliberate.
Archibald Marwizi
#53. Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.
Pat Conroy
#54. If you are not sure or you don't know something, politely ask. Asking is not a sign of being daft, but of confidence.
Archibald Marwizi
#55. You need to realize there will always be beliefs that seek to limit and others that seek to stretch you to your highest potential. Just because you cannot see or do something, does not mean it is not there or cannot be done.
Archibald Marwizi
#56. Be in love with what you do. Love wisdom. Love life. Love people. God is love.
Archibald Marwizi
#57. Attitude is the mind-set, the kind of thoughts you process and meditate on, to generate the kind of feelings you have towards life, people and issues. This is what makes you do what you do in the way you do it.
Archibald Marwizi
#58. Leadership is no longer about your position.
It's now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference
You can lead without a title
Robin Sharma
#59. It will take faith, to know success can still be attained regardless of unfairness or disadvantages availed by any system you operate within.
Archibald Marwizi
#60. Emotions or feelings stem from your attitude and they become the basis on which you decide or act. All decisions, choices and actions have some kind of underlying emotional influence. To change the way you feel about someone or something you must first change the way you think about them.
Archibald Marwizi
#62. Roll-up those sleeves and work until you see the fruit of your labour. It takes Passion, Resolve and a Productive Work Ethic, meeting with Opportunity, for you to succeed.
Archibald Marwizi
#63. Timing is a critical issue when it comes to succession. Passing the baton too early or too late could both cause irreparable damage. The timing just has to be right, but again you are responsible for creating or influencing the right conditions over the course of your leadership tenure.
Archibald Marwizi
#64. The reward for goal-setting is that as you achieve each goal, you feel in charge of your own destiny, with every moment taken up productively. Self-esteem increases and it becomes easier to remain motivated. So set those high goals and make clear plans for their execution.
Archibald Marwizi
#65. Just like watering the field will cause both the desired seed and the undesirable weed to germinate, the opportunities for your mission in life will be equally presented with real-life threats.
Archibald Marwizi
#66. Teach faith as a non-negotiable - What should your family be aware of? Why should they be aware of these things? How will they become aware? When and at what stages must they become aware?
Archibald Marwizi
#68. Plan from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.
Archibald Marwizi
#70. Success can never be enjoyed if there is no congruity or alignment of your beliefs, values and how you behave in attaining your achievements.
Archibald Marwizi
#71. There is no point knowing your mission if you cannot see the area of need for that mission.
Archibald Marwizi
#72. The question is, do you have deliberate plans for your life? Do you have intentions with you time? God planned that there should be a time for everything and for every season, meaning you can plan for everything and every season in your life! You may ask, 'Is that possible?" I say, "It's up to you!
Archibald Marwizi
#73. We can only continue to promote invention, creativity and success by asking of ourselves, our situations and problems some key questions. What questions are you asking today?
Archibald Marwizi
#74. The person who will end up enjoying success, is the one who planned for it and who knew why they are seeking to succeed.
Archibald Marwizi
#75. Excellence doesn't come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress.
Abhijit Naskar
#76. What are the beliefs that give life, spirit and passion to your dream and which values will guide your decisions and actions for you to be fulfilled by your own success?
Archibald Marwizi
#77. Serving God should elevate our level of excellence in every part of our lives.
Brad Lomenick
#78. Leveraging your personal strengths means you will also need to become clearer about those strengths. It is easier to build on what you are already good at than start from your weaker areas. Take time to list down your strengths and reflect on them.
Archibald Marwizi
#79. What are the obvious temptations and inclinations that consistently call me or entice me to go against my personal beliefs, values and standards? You don't need a prophet for this!
Archibald Marwizi
#80. Cease from envy, prejudice and unhealthy competitiveness. Never abandon your own mission and brand to pursue the seemingly exciting mission or vision of another.
Archibald Marwizi
#81. The key to success is to first know thyself. The definition of success by another person must not paralyse you or make you think less of your potential to succeed in your own way.
Archibald Marwizi
#82. Whatever you possess as an advantage over others, must be meticulously executed to produce desired results and progress.
Archibald Marwizi
#83. The reality of life and an imperfect world dictates that things cannot be held constant to guarantee your success; you have to wiggle your way through a planned path within a maze, to attain your goal.
Archibald Marwizi
#84. Positioning yourself and effective branding should not be left to sports and movie stars. Your need a personal coach, manager or mentor otherwise your expertise, skills or talent will not go far. You might have what it takes but sometimes you lack strategy and some finer elements.
Archibald Marwizi
#85. The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence.
Paul Gibbons
#86. Your personal brand must exude who you are, what you stand for, specifies your target market, what value you intend to add to them and the unique offering through which you will do that.
Archibald Marwizi
#87. Understand you are neither inferior nor superior; you are just the best of who you are supposed to be. You have set standards for yourself and are ready to meet them.
Archibald Marwizi
#88. Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.
Lawrence M. Miller
#89. But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.
Andy Hertzfeld
#90. Make sure your reading, studying or research are always adding value to the defined vision, mission, beliefs and values that form your unique personal brand.
Archibald Marwizi
#91. A leader, who divides his own people, contaminates his platform and begins to destroy his own territory.
Archibald Marwizi
#92. People stop trying when there's no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre.
Frank Sonnenberg
#93. The unfairness of judging others comes in that we judge them on the basis of our own values and beliefs, yet we can never exactly stand on common ground.
Archibald Marwizi
#94. You do not reduce or eliminate your concerns by crying, shouting or proving you are the victim of whatever happened in your life.
Archibald Marwizi
#96. Allow others to talk about themselves instead of being obsessed about telling them or bragging about yourself and your possessions and achievements. Show a genuine interest in others and allow them to tell their story so you can share the conversation.
Archibald Marwizi
#97. A visionary is a leader of excellence who sees what others do not see, who achieves for now and plans for the future, who positively impacts different generations and raises up other visionaries.
Onyi Anyado
#98. Serving my generation with excellence will mean my generation can in turn lead with excellence.
Onyi Anyado
#99. Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence
Fela Durotoye
#100. As I tell my children, 'If you are going to do something, do your best while you're doing it.
Michelle Moore
