Top 75 Leadership Opportunity Quotes
#1. Real leaders focus resources in areas that provide the greatest opportunity rather than making across-the-board decisions.
Frank Sonnenberg
#2. Maybe I was cast into a different role (in Montreal) and it seemed to follow me around wherever I went, ... Everyone is skeptical until you produce. It's up to me from this point forward. I'm going to get an opportunity to maybe take on a bigger role leadership-wise and offensively.
Darcy Tucker
#3. In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society.
Winston S. Churchill
#4. When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.
Chip Conley
#5. To succeed, with or without money, have deliberate plans to make success out of opportunity. If you are totally dependent on chance, then chances are that you will fail.
Archibald Marwizi
#6. Choices and decisions must be supported by your passion, resolve and a productive work ethic. If these meet opportunity - your success has finally come!
Archibald Marwizi
#7. Crisis moments create opportunity. Problems and crises ignite our greatest creativity and thought leadership as it forces us to focus on things outside the norm.
Sam Cawthorn
#8. Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
Warren G. Bennis
#9. Truly remarkable leadership is not just about motivating others to follow, it's about inspiring them to become leaders themselves and setting the stage for even greater opportunities for future generations.
Condoleezza Rice
#10. But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
Ibrahim Babangida
#11. Things fell into place and there was an opportunity for fresh leadership. And - I was - I was successful.
Justin Trudeau
#12. Since taking office, President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world - leadership defined, not by the threats and dangers that we will oppose, but by the security, opportunity and dignity that America advances in partnership with people around the world.
John O. Brennan
#13. A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow.
Buck Rodgers
#14. Everybody must be given the opportunity for self liberation and development.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#15. Anytime you commit sin and God deals with you, you have the opportunity to confess it. If you don't confess it, you only have one option but to cover it up.
Johnny Hunt
#16. A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.
Jack Ma
#17. I think the guys are starting to rally around my leadership style and the way I do things. I've been waiting for this opportunity my whole life.
Aaron Rodgers
#18. America's leadership is essential. America's resources are vast. America's opportunities are unprecedented.
Gerald R. Ford
#19. The House has passed several bipartisan bills to ensure all Americans have the opportunity to secure a good job to provide for their families. All of these jobs bills deserve the support of our Senators and a strong show of leadership from the president.
Joe Heck
#20. The purpose of life is to matter and be ever mindful of the opportunities that we can both individually and collectively provide for others.
Ken Wyatt
#21. It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.
William Pollard
#22. I don't consider myself an expert in the why. I don't consider myself an expert in leadership. I consider myself a student of leadership and I consider myself a student of the why. I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly looking for opportunities where it it will fail.
Simon Sinek
#23. Leaders don't need a path. They make one.
Tim Fargo
#24. Good leaders understand that they are stewards. They must find the best people they can, giving them the opportunity to join in the journey developing them, and encouraging them to reach their potential. But they must hold on to people lightly. Those who start with you seldom finish with you.
John C. Maxwell
#25. You must look through an opportunity and not at it.
Mayur Ramgir
#26. People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering.
They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves
Ricardo Semler
#27. You feed the requisite substance through personal development efforts and position yourself strategically to allow the forces around you to create the path for your relevance and significance. You are not lifted by air, but by the substance inside you hitting the springboard of opportunity.
Archibald Marwizi
#28. Those who succeed after a rare opportunity, only succeed on the back of a plan they already had or one they craft and begin to pursue after receiving the windfall.
Archibald Marwizi
#29. Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. Truman
#30. Opportunity to help others is the opportunity to help yourself in disguise.
Mayur Ramgir
#31. Your career will include thousands of opportunities to transform yourself. Many will disrupt all that you have built. Each is an opportunity to choose to be vulnerable, to let go, to be reborn.
Bill Jensen
#32. If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Tom Peters
#33. Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.
Ron D. Burton
#34. Leaders don't wait. They shape their own frontiers. The bigger the challenge, the greater the opportunity.
Carlos Wallace
#35. To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.
Ibrahim Babangida
#36. Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
Mwai Kibaki
#37. Helping those less fortunate than us is a blessed opportunity to show thanks for the gifts of life that we ourselves enjoy.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.
Max McKeown
#42. Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.
Brian Tracy
#44. Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.
Christine Pelosi
#45. The responsibility of building leadership in the Church belongs to the father and the mother ... As youth grow and mature through their teenage years and move toward adulthood, the Church picks up an important role in this process of giving youth an opportunity to lead, but it begins in the home.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#46. When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it.
Fred Hollows
#47. There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.
Andy Hargreaves
#48. As President, I am determined to offer leadership to overcome our current economic problems. My goal is for jobs for all who want to work and economic opportunity for all who want to achieve.
Gerald R. Ford
#49. All good leaders are optimists. They always see opportunity where others see hardship
Jocelyn Murray
#50. Sports provide girls with the opportunity to develop a better relationship with their bodies. They can be aggressive on the court, be strong and still be feminine.
Gabrielle Reece
#51. 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
#52. We never have as great an opportunity to show self-comfort as when others around us aren't. Hint: Don't be a jerk because someone else is. Praise the behaviors in others that you most want to flourish.
Kare Anderson
#53. We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. The days are always dark enough. There is no need for us to emphasize the fact by spreading further gloom.
George Madison Adams
#54. The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized.
Thomas E. Mann
#55. The man who can follow a leader most efficiently, is usually the man who develops into leadership most rapidly. An intelligent follower has many advantages, among them the opportunity to acquire knowledge from his leader. The
Napoleon Hill
#56. If you give only 80 percent leadership, your dog will give you 80 percent following. And the other 20 percent of the time he will run the show. If you give your dog any opportunity for him to lead you, he will take it.
Cesar Millan
#57. Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.
Elliott Jaques
#58. Recognize that being one of the only black people in an organization, or just in a meeting, automatically makes you very visible. Use this to help yourself. Look at it as an opportunity, and leverage that opportunity by making a visible contribution.
Kenneth I. Chenault
#59. The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#60. Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.
Barack Obama
#61. Never reject the opportunity to take the first step. The first step is the key to obtaining the experience you have longed for.
Israelmore Ayivor
#62. I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people ... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
Kofi Annan
#63. Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
J. Donald Walters
#64. 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
#65. God wants an opportunity to prove who He is.
Johnny Hunt
#66. Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.
Bill Owens
#67. Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity
Reed Markham
#68. So imagine that fans of our products or services no longer simply consume and use them. Now we are creating a new opportunity for them to both participate directly in the development of the products but also benefit from a share of the profits too.
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
#69. I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.
Eric Shinseki
#70. Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.
Andy Hargreaves
#71. 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
#72. How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist.
Bill Drayton
#73. I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students.
Jeb Bush
#74. What you see as a crisis, God sees as an opportunity for growth. What you see as humiliating, He sees as an occasion for the development of humble leadership. It is all in how you see it. What is your perspective?
Myles Munroe
#75. Social media is the greatest leadership tool ever invented. It gives you the opportunity to amplify your voice, extend your influence, and create a tribe of passionate followers who want to hear from you.
Michael Hyatt
