Top 100 Leadership Is Not Quotes
#1. Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#2. The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.
Molly Ivins
#3. You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done.
Peter Thiel
#4. Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will," or "I will not," and mean it?
John William Heisman
#5. Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.
Grace Lee Boggs
#6. I do have the strength. Leadership, leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with the threat of our time.
Jeb Bush
#7. The Internet is disrupting every media industry ... people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.
Jeff Bezos
#8. Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.
Pope Francis
#9. If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS ... they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is just not about Syria, this is about our homeland. And if we get attacked because he has no strategy to protect us, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages.
Lindsey Graham
#10. We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley
Harold Holzer
#11. Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to have a great leader without a Great Group.
Warren G. Bennis
#12. Leadership is a journey, not a destination. It is a marathon, not a sprint. It is a process, not an outcome. (quoting John Donahoe)
Bill George
#13. In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional.
Judith M Bardwick
#14. The difference between an "Atypical CIO" and a "Stereotypical CIO" is not about the physical identity but at the mindset level.
Pearl Zhu
#15. The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger
#16. Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits.
Gary Rohrmayer
#17. The 'No Excuses' mindset is not only composed of net worth, but also self worth and network.
Farshad Asl
#18. A Consciously Conscious Revolutionary Workplace mindset, is People Firsts, to ensure that it's not a prostitute of our children's future.
Tony Dovale
#19. Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
Yousef Munayyer
#20. Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now - but instead what continues to grow long after you're gone
Tom Rath
#21. The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.
Rick Warren
#22. Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
Deepak Chopra
#23. Being a leader is not about forever, it is about moments ... it is about THIS moment and what you do with it!
Scott Neilson
#24. While you're worrying about becoming famous, there is someone out there putting in work and not wasting a second of their time. Which person will you be?
Torron-Lee Dewar
#25. The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well.
Mo Ibrahim
#26. It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership ... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#27. A true leader is one who creates a favourable environment to bring out the energy and ability of his team. A great leader creates more great leaders, and does not reduce the institution to a single person.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#28. Leadership is defined not by the position you hold but by the people who follow you.
Charlene Li
#29. In every siutation , there is a FINE LINE between what is right and what is not so right.THAT is the MOMENT when one has to stop and look which way to go!! These MAGICAL MOMENTS determine the DIRECTION of our lives !
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#30. We have a problem with women in leadership across the board. This leadership gap - this problem of not enough women in leadership - is running really deep and it's in every industry. My answer is we have to understand the stereotype assumptions that hold women back.
Sheryl Sandberg
#31. The speed at which progress rolls is not determined by the number of people who started pushing it, but by the number of people who are passionate to hold on doing so.
Israelmore Ayivor
#32. I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
Yitzhak Shamir
#33. When your sense of respect for others..
Your humility despite a chance at arrogance..
is MISCONSTRUED, MISUNDERSTOOD AND JUDGED..
Put a stop , pull the brakes..Some people do not deserve it!!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#34. Do not hire those who are incapable.
Do not fire those who are capable.
A small, devoted army is greater
than a large, indifferent one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#36. The leader's commandment is made up of pledges to solve local and global problems, and not to create more problems to add to the existing ones.
Israelmore Ayivor
#37. PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.
Ambrose Bierce
#38. Governing is not a hero's profession. It is a profession of compromises.
Rick Perlstein
#39. 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
#40. You need strong leadership to effectuate change, and the easiest way is to keep everything status quo. And sometimes changes are necessary. If not, you build up too much potential energy.
Ronnie Chan
#41. Simply thinking creatively is not the same as being innovative, and only those who risk breaking out of their comfort zone by putting thought into action will discover the profusion of opportunity that exists.
Michael Lum
#42. Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.
Ehud Olmert
#43. When things are not going right, where are the leaders to pull this team together? That leadership sometimes, you just can't find it. If one of your leaders is the guy who throws five interceptions [in one game], you have an issue.
Marshall Faulk
#44. Knowing what is right is not the same as doing what is right.
Christine Caine
#45. Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.
Sparky Anderson
#46. True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.
Stephen Covey
#47. True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.
Sheri Dew
#48. In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.
Adam Schiff
#49. A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations.
Suzy Kassem
#50. I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.
Howard Schultz
#51. As a player, remember that the bench is not a prison, but an extension of the first group. Concentrate on the quality of your play when you do get into the game. If you play 20 minutes, play the best 20 you can possibly play.
Stan Albeck
#52. The way of the Christian leader is not the way of upward mobility in which our world has invested so much, but the way of downward mobility ending on the cross.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#53. I think America is in trouble, but it's not beyond repair. But it's going to take leadership who sees the greatness of this country and who believes that, once again, we can be one nation under God.
Mike Huckabee
#54. The tiny cost of failure ... is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
Seth Godin
#55. The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell
#56. The definition of strong leadership is not about making decisions that are popular. Making popular decisions is easy - you don't need to be a leader to do that. The definition of strong leadership is to make decisions that are unpopular, but are nevertheless sound.
Henry Blodget
#57. Leadership reveals itself in the big moments, but is forged in the small. It is the exponential and compounding product of our many incremental behaviors and actions; all of which arise out of our choices in values, beliefs & emotions. Choices all. Not a one is thrust upon us.
Christopher Babson
#58. Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.
Douglas Brinkley
#59. A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
#60. Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
Irene Rosenfeld
#61. Bucket filling is in the eye of the bucket holder, not the bucket filler. Fill their buckets with things that are important to them ... not you.
David Cottrell
#62. Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.
Ravinder Tulsiani
#63. I'm not concerned with whether you got to the top. I want to know how far you climbed. That is where the real achievement is found.
William James Moore
#64. The single greatest demotivator of a team is having members who are not carrying their load.
David Cottrell
#65. A sign of a good leader is not his position but his vision.
Debasish Mridha
#66. The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate
it's either in their DNA or it's not.
Richard Branson
#67. Lincoln did not admire those who think it is a mark of sophistication to sneer at patriotism. He believed that God has a will for a country and that is honest man should rejoice in the effort to try to remake his country after the Divine pattern, insofar as that pattern is revealed to him.
Elton Trueblood
#68. To embrace God is to embrace change. God does not operate by a predictable paradigm. He works through flux and chaos - and so should we. When crises come, don't panic - innovate! That's the essence of leadership.
Pat Williams
#69. Real leadership is not seeking the applause from followers; real leadership is applauding the followers who become leaders.
Onyi Anyado
#70. Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.
Andy Stanley
#71. Agile project leaders help their team balance at the edge of chaos - some structure, but not too much; adequate documentation, but not too much; some up-front architecture work, but not too much. Finding these balance points is the "art" of agile leadership.
Jim Highsmith
#72. Error is human,perfection is divine!You are not God! Your mistake is normal.So forgive yourself.
Paul Gitwaza
#74. If you can lead yourself when nobody is following, people will follow when you are not leading
Saji Ijiyemi
#75. There is no debate in the scientific community ... We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.
Bill Nye
#76. One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself ... and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.
Wilma Mankiller
#77. Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.
Seth Godin
#78. 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
#79. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.
Lance Secretan
#80. Make sure your daughter's goal is her goal, not your goal.
Tracy Austin
#81. There is not going to be any pass for Palestinian leadership in fighting terror.
Condoleezza Rice
#82. Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.
Peter Prange
#83. 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
#84. Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
John C. Maxwell
#85. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Ken Blanchard
#86. 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
#87. Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#88. Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.
Simon Sinek
#89. 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
#90. The question is not what was different about Bathsheba. The difference was what had become different about David.
Johnny Hunt
#91. Sometimes the people don't know what's best for them ... Sometimes the people have to be convinced of things that are necessary. That's what leadership is. Not shouting your head off in support of their every whim.
Patrick Ness
#92. Do not wait for vulnerability to be thrust upon you by your company or the marketplace. That is when you lost control of your own destiny. Choose to disrupt yourself. Seek vulnerability on your terms, no one else's.
Bill Jensen
#93. Allowing yourself to follow the crevices of your heart lines is a messy process and not easy to characterize or rationalize into neat and tidy lists and boxes.
Maureen Chiquet
#95. That very aggressive, unapologetic leadership style is needed in Washington, D.C., and I'm not afraid to tackle big issues.
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
#96. Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.
Henry Cloud
#97. Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential.
Scott Belsky
#98. While most managers spend their time attempting to predict the future accurately - and while that's valuable - the best managers are able to generate a future which was not going to happen otherwise - that is, a future which was not predictable.
Werner Erhard
#99. Whoever convinces himself that he is not worthy of first position has doomed himself to failure from the very beginning.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#100. The secret to leadership is not to be a particularly intelligent person. It is to surround oneself with those far smarter than oneself. And try not to kill them.
Kameron Hurley
