Leadership Initiative Quotes

#1. Boss may be on, but leader can be anyone.

Ameya Agrawal

#2. The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority.

W. Edwards Deming

#3. Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Charlotte Bunch

#4. Our Animal Sanctuary initiative has many layers. We are aiming to create a place where abandoned and bullied creatures come together with bullied youth. We feel that bullies have leadership abilities, albeit these abilities are totally skewed and misdirected.

Ian Somerhalder

#5. The best way to predict future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln

Gary Chapman

#6. I read books to read myself.

Sven Birkerts

#7. The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.

Richard Llewellyn

#8. People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.'

Paul Mooney

#9. Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

Bo Bennett

#10. Every tomorrow is every today's future. The tomorrow that you do not plan for, is your future being planned by others.

Nael Gharzeddine

#11. When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.

Winston S. Churchill

#12. You have all the time there is between right now and whenever it's too late.

Daniel Abraham

#13. Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us - we feel compelled to use it where ever it is. Technology is neutral. How, when and where we use it is up to us.

Linda Stone

#14. Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many are coming to regard the leader as the man who can energize his group, who knows how to encourage initiative, how to draw from all what each has to give.

Mary Parker Follett

#15. Some of dese mornin's and it won't be long, you gointuh wake up callin' me and Ah'll be gone.

Zora Neale Hurston

#16. I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give.

Malala Yousafzai

#17. These are challenging and exciting times. No previous generation of Australians has ever had such an opportunity. No other country in the world has such an opportunity now. So long as we retain faith in ourselves, practise tolerance and reward initiative, we should be in no doubt about succeeding.

John Yu

#18. I think there are pieces of me you've never seen.

Tori Amos

#19. Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Jesse Jackson

#20. Any goal, no matter what size, can be achieved if it is tackled with courage, initiative, perseverance, and integrity.

Angie Morgan

#21. Earning is a product of learning. You're only one letter away from earning more.

Richie Norton

#22. When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

Andy Hargreaves

#23. When do I start? is the most refreshing thing I've heard in this whole war.

Steve Sheinkin

#24. Lincoln on Grant: He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.

Abraham Lincoln

#25. It was still a cold war at this stage, a phony war, nothing that could be truly won or lost. The wind stirred the branches of the tree. Sparks flew from the fire. The storm was coming.

Neil Gaiman

#26. My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

Norman Rockwell

#27. Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.

John Piper

#28. Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.

Louis D. Brandeis

#29. The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training.

Ortega Y Gasset, Jose

#30. At sunset, if I am near the water - and it is hard to be very far from it here -I pause to watch the splendid disc set the brine aflame and then douse itself in it's own fiery broth.

Geraldine Brooks