Top 98 Leadership Position Quotes

#1. You're born with some things inside you that will allow you to lead, but I think you have to take the bull by the horns. You have to want that leadership position, and then there are things you can do to develop that.

Tony Dungy

Leadership Position Quotes #15224
#2. Discipline is "the systematic management of your life to prepare and position you for your divine design." Discipline and stewardship are one and the same. Discipline brings order to life and is absolutely required if we're going to be good stewards of the call to leadership.

Kent Ingle

Leadership Position Quotes #20946
#3. There is the authority of position and the authority of knowledge - 'Authority flows from the one who knows.' But sharing in hardship confers upon a leader something quite rare - moral authority.

John Adair

Leadership Position Quotes #30740
#4. You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.

Mike Krzyzewski

Leadership Position Quotes #59699
#5. Leadership is defined not by the position you hold but by the people who follow you.

Charlene Li

Leadership Position Quotes #95203
#6. Leadership is more disposition than position - influence others from wherever you are.

John C. Maxwell

Leadership Position Quotes #102021
#7. Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter!

Israelmore Ayivor

Leadership Position Quotes #103119
#8. So while God gives the husband a position of leadership in relationship to his wife, He also requires the price of self-sacrifice from him. The

Stormie O'martian

Leadership Position Quotes #109496
#9. One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.

Tim Pawlenty

Leadership Position Quotes #130703
#10. 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

Leadership Position Quotes #135669
#11. We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

Roger Goodell

Leadership Position Quotes #141714
#12. Above all, leadership is a position of servanthood.

Max De Pree

Leadership Position Quotes #150108
#13. Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so, and if, in addition, we set a worthy example and a marat on pace in probity, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice, the people will follow, all too readily, in our footsteps.

Obafemi Awolowo

Leadership Position Quotes #152683
#14. Authority leads through position. Influence builds others out of relationship.

Johnny Hunt

Leadership Position Quotes #169452
#15. We know we must address climate change. We may not have sorted out every detail, but we are willing to take a leadership position and embrace open dialogue ... that will get us all to our common goals of protecting our world for future generations,

Alain J. P. Belda

Leadership Position Quotes #185377
#16. A sign of a good leader is not his position but his vision.

Debasish Mridha

Leadership Position Quotes #195507
#17. Leadership is more about purpose than it is about position.

Michele Jennae

Leadership Position Quotes #223053
#18. 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

Leadership Position Quotes #252553
#19. 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

Leadership Position Quotes #256041
#20. Don't be a pleaser of people just because of the fear of the losing your position. You cease to be a true leader when you do so!

Israelmore Ayivor

Leadership Position Quotes #272848
#21. The vision is to restore Avon to an iconic beauty brand and to our leadership position in global direct selling, as well as continuing to ensure that we live up to our mission of empowering women.

Sheri McCoy

Leadership Position Quotes #281888
#22. We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.

Peter Chernin

Leadership Position Quotes #311492
#23. 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

Leadership Position Quotes #319171
#24. As the leadership team, we're taking bold and decisive action to evolve our organization and culture. This includes difficult steps, but they are necessary to position Microsoft for future growth and industry leadership.

Amy Hood

Leadership Position Quotes #319286
#25. If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

David Suzuki

Leadership Position Quotes #329142
#26. Self-promotion is a leadership and political skill that is critical to master in order to navigate the realities of the workplace and position you for success.

Bonnie Marcus

Leadership Position Quotes #337278
#27. Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.

Deng Xiaoping

Leadership Position Quotes #373747
#28. Leadership is no longer about position - but passion. It's no longer about image but impact. This is Leadership 2.0.

Robin Sharma

Leadership Position Quotes #393840
#29. I'm really comfortable in a stressful, leadership position. I need this job. I need to do this. This fits my personality. This is the best thing for me, short of playing.

Avery Johnson

Leadership Position Quotes #430506
#30. If you hold a leadership position but are not equipping the saints for the work of service, then you are not a leader.

Don Cousins

Leadership Position Quotes #432766
#31. When Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait in 1990, I felt America's post-Cold War commitment to national principles and international leadership was on the line. I was dismayed by the wide opposition among my fellow Democrats. To me, their position was wrong.

Joe Lieberman

Leadership Position Quotes #439619
#32. For me, a male role model would be a man who, despite holding a leadership position, has the courage to say that he wants to reschedule a 7 p.m. meeting for 4 p.m. because he'd really like to be able to put his son to bed.

Kristina Schroder

Leadership Position Quotes #457286
#33. Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Stephen Covey

Leadership Position Quotes #468996
#34. The real leader holds the power, not just the position.

John C. Maxwell

Leadership Position Quotes #498261
#35. Leadership is not about executive position or title. It is about connection and influence. At its highest, leadership is all about adding value to the world and blessing lives through the work you do.

Robin Sharma

Leadership Position Quotes #547450
#36. Valuation depends on several factors. From an investor angle, they look at leadership position, management, and what the company's offerings are. I think these three things got 5/5 for a company like Flipkart, and that is what is driving valuations and growth.

Sachin Bansal

Leadership Position Quotes #548441
#37. Having a person of Dr. Berthiaume's calibre leading Library and Archives Canada will be a solid asset to the organization. His extensive experience in the management of large cultural organizations and his strong leadership are important qualifications for this position.

Shelly Glover

Leadership Position Quotes #551925
#38. If you are in a leadership position, do not rely on your title to convince people to follow you. Build relationships. Win people over. Do that and you will never be a lonely leader.

John C. Maxwell

Leadership Position Quotes #564340
#39. Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.

Stephen Covey

Leadership Position Quotes #578100
#40. Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and doing the right thing. Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an ax murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence.

Greg Smith

Leadership Position Quotes #609761
#41. A. W. Tozer says, "A true and safe leader is likely one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and by the press of the external situation.

Charles R. Swindoll

Leadership Position Quotes #646484
#42. Leadership is first and foremost bout character, one who is in power but not subordinate to it, one has control of money but is not lured by it, one whose position opens all doors but prefers the simplicity of lifestyle, and one who is followed by many but takes the heart of a servant.

Wilfrido V. Villacorta

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#43. Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

John C. Maxwell

Leadership Position Quotes #688028
#44. To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

Pat Riley

Leadership Position Quotes #699609
#45. We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

Theodore C. Sorensen

Leadership Position Quotes #745251
#46. In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

Biz Stone

Leadership Position Quotes #752728
#47. I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.

Asif Ali Zardari

Leadership Position Quotes #768664
#48. 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

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#49. Leadership is service, not position.

Tim Fargo

Leadership Position Quotes #835437
#50. 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

Leadership Position Quotes #848409
#51. Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.

Kgalema Motlanthe

Leadership Position Quotes #860616
#52. We live in more pragmatic times than when we originally recorded those songs. But many of the dreamers of the '60s have been elected to governmental office or taken on a leadership role in their communities. They are now in the position to make a difference.

Paul Stookey

Leadership Position Quotes #865275
#53. You may gain a position, but that does not mean you've gained leadership. You may lose position, but that does not mean you've lost leadership! When you gain true character, you can leadership and when you lose it, you cease to be a leader!

Israelmore Ayivor

Leadership Position Quotes #883321
#54. No greater place to be than in a leadership position to lead young minds to prosperity

Darrius Garrett

Leadership Position Quotes #907711
#55. It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and the actions of other human beings.

Tony Robbins

Leadership Position Quotes #924705
#56. I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.

Edgar Schein

Leadership Position Quotes #937434
#57. Be a leader who is driven by purpose but not by position or power.

Debasish Mridha

Leadership Position Quotes #960805
#58. Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.

Vanna Bonta

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#59. Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, 'I'll get a bigger job, then I'll learn how to be a leader.' But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn't a position, it's a process.

John C. Maxwell

Leadership Position Quotes #984781
#60. Evangelical churches often make extroversion a prerequisite for leadership, sometimes explicitly. "The priest must be ... an extrovert who enthusiastically engages members and newcomers, a team player," reads an ad for a position as associate rector of a 1,400-member parish.

Susan Cain

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#61. Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Brian Tracy

Leadership Position Quotes #994726
#62. Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position!

Israelmore Ayivor

Leadership Position Quotes #1012316
#63. Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

Dianne Feinstein

Leadership Position Quotes #1035577
#64. Leaders are not the ones with the right position or a proclaimed or given title, the actual leaders are the people who start acting, who step up, who do change, no matter in what way or how small!

Akilnathan Logeswaran

Leadership Position Quotes #1075695
#65. Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.

Hilarie Owen

Leadership Position Quotes #1113623
#66. One of the first things you learn as a leader, whether you choose the position of have it forced upon you, is that leadership is as much about what you don't say as what you do say.

Fredrik Backman

Leadership Position Quotes #1149340
#67. I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

Kamala Harris

Leadership Position Quotes #1165324
#68. Cooperation is just like two pagodas - one hardware and one software. Combined, we can take the leadership position in the world.

Wen Jiabao

Leadership Position Quotes #1192882
#69. Leadership is not a rank or a position, it is a choice - a choice to look after the person to the left of us & the person to the right of us.

Simon Sinek

Leadership Position Quotes #1234541
#70. (On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.

Joyce Meyer

Leadership Position Quotes #1374615
#71. You can't dominate a network with old-style leadership.

But, you can emerge, with the network's consent, as one of its leaders, regardless of your formal position or job title.

Phil Dourado

Leadership Position Quotes #1379414
#72. Pride takes many forms, but spiritual pride is the most grievous. To become proud of spiritual gifts or leadership position is to forget that all we have is from God, all the position we occupy is God's appointment.

J. Oswald Sanders

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#73. In my view, leadership is the courage to take risks in defense of a position that is both legal and moral. The politician who tries to become a wise guy by becoming friends to everybody - corrupt or not - is not a leader.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

Leadership Position Quotes #1425275
#74. One of my prized possessions is still the prefect's tie that I got in this school. I keep it with me. It was the first leadership position I ever had.

Julia Gillard

Leadership Position Quotes #1465231
#75. Leadership is less about the position you hold than the influence you have. It's about doing world-class work, playing at your peak,
and leaving people better than you found them. It's about Leading Without a Title.

Robin Sharma

Leadership Position Quotes #1512659
#76. China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.

Chiang Kai-shek

Leadership Position Quotes #1546099
#77. A true leader does not derive power from his position, but from his ethics, from people's love for him, and from his knowledge, education and excellence in his field of work.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Leadership Position Quotes #1559248
#78. Leadership is not a title, a position or an Office but a function

Kayode Fayemi

Leadership Position Quotes #1565721
#79. I'd like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice.

Heather Bresch

Leadership Position Quotes #1614786
#80. Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.

Thomas J. Stanley

Leadership Position Quotes #1616471
#81. The only ones who will be exalted into a position of leadership are those who have mastered the art of following.

Karen M. Curry

Leadership Position Quotes #1649214
#82. Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

Mike Krzyzewski

Leadership Position Quotes #1656701
#83. We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

George W. Romney

Leadership Position Quotes #1673118
#84. Leadership is an action, not a position.

Donald McGannon

Leadership Position Quotes #1675822
#85. What Michelle didn't yet know was that there is a vast difference between playing and leading. The point guard position in basketball is one of the great tutorials on leadership, and it ought to be taught in classrooms. Anyone can perfect a dribble with muscle memory;

Pat Summitt

Leadership Position Quotes #1706378
#86. Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.

Cory Booker

Leadership Position Quotes #1731609
#87. [Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.

Marian Wright Edelman

Leadership Position Quotes #1735722
#88. I feel comfortable in a position of leadership, but that's not to say I feel complacent about it. I take it incredibly seriously.

Nicola Sturgeon

Leadership Position Quotes #1744583
#89. Leadership is action, not position

Donald McGannon

Leadership Position Quotes #1747888
#90. As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat.

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Leadership Position Quotes #1758974
#91. I am most proud about the science I've done with my own two hands because I have always thought that even if your life path takes you into a leadership position outside the area you were known for, your legitimacy remains in that first field.

Gustav Nossal

Leadership Position Quotes #1764039
#92. I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

E.P. Thompson

Leadership Position Quotes #1765311
#93. 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

Leadership Position Quotes #1773755
#94. Some people are into position, not the mission.

Johnny Hunt

Leadership Position Quotes #1792321
#95. The fastest surging woman leadership position is heading non-profit organizations. Women are not rejecting leadership positions
they're rejecting politics.

Celinda Lake

Leadership Position Quotes #1794218
#96. The end point of leadership is not just the position of power we reach, but the continual change and deepening we experience that makes a difference in our lives, our work, our world. Our leadership journeys are only at midpoint when we have achieved a position of power.

Janet Hagberg

Leadership Position Quotes #1840581
#97. When you accepted your job, you were not chosen solely to fill a position on the organization chart; you were chosen to fill a responsibility.

David Cottrell

Leadership Position Quotes #1842585
#98. Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.

Lee Iacocca

Leadership Position Quotes #1862066

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