Top 100 Leadership Time Quotes
#1. 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
#2. At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
Gerry Adams
#3. Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves.
A.J. Darkholme
#4. In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.
Bill Dedman
#5. Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.
Andy Hargreaves
#6. Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.
Harold Holzer
#7. On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.
Fredrik Bajer
#8. The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts.
Israelmore Ayivor
#9. I thought ( ... ) the proverbial glass ceiling had been cracked ( ... ) and I believed that it was just a matter of time until my generation took our fair share of the leadership roles.
Sheryl Sandberg
#10. Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.
Marco Rubio
#11. Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward.
Marco Rubio
#12. Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.
Jim Rohn
#13. Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.
Peter Pace
#14. 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
#15. We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church.
Johnny Hunt
#16. If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!
Brene Brown
#17. Most corporate infrastructures are massive time-wasters and demoralizing energy suckers.
Bill Jensen
#18. For the first time in our history, the winners of the White House Turkey Pardon were chosen through a highly competitive online vote. And once again, Nate Silver completely nailed it. The guy is amazing.
Barack Obama
#19. Bad timekeeping will suck the life out of your bank account.
Colin Myles
#20. As the state of mind, as the efficiency. Time is only a relative factor
Rajasaraswathii
#22. Jeb Bush is my friend. I think he'd make a great president. I've nudged him for some time.
John Boehner
#24. There definitely comes a time where a fresh pair of eyes and fresh leadership would be good, and the Conservative Party has got some great people coming up - the Theresa Mays, and the George Osbornes, and the Boris Johnsons.
David Cameron
#25. It's time for you to be the hero of your own journey.
Bill Jensen
#26. 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
#27. Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.
Paul Gibbons
#28. What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?
Paul Ryan
#29. It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.
Sherrod Brown
#30. No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past.
Will Durant
#31. 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
#32. If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.
Bill Hybels
#33. By exchanging quality time for 'turn-up' times, what many of today's wayward youngsters have become - men and women of the village have failed them.
T.F. Hodge
#34. When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#35. 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
#36. You will never have enough time to do everything you need to do, so what you need is a crystal clear understanding of the important things you have to do.
David Cottrell
#37. President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.
Mark Udall
#38. It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#39. One of the primary mistakes that leaders today make, when called to lead, is spending most of their time and energy trying to improve things at the organizational level before ensuring that they have adequately addressed their own credibility at individual, one-on-one, or team leadership levels.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#40. But as a war time president James Madison did not display dynamic leadership. Andrew Jackson acknowledged Madison " a great civilian," but declared " the mind of a philosopher could not dwell on blood and carnage with any composure," and judged his talents " not fitted for a stormy sea.
Andrew Jackson
#41. Leadership is going for right purpose, doing right things in a right way for a right reason, with a right vision in a right time.
Debasish Mridha
#42. Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'
Sheryl Sandberg
#43. If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting.
Bill Gates
#44. I don't have TIME to beat 'about' the bush..I VALUE MY TIME, so I would rather get into the bush and find out what's happening..!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#45. Initial uniformity can be deceiving, warns the author, because parties arrive at that state from so many different motives which will be exposed over time.
Donald R. Hickey
#46. Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion.
S. E. Entsua-Mensah
#47. We are so used to multi-tasking. 2014 was probably the most productive year of my life ... But I noticed during the last couple of months when I would get alone with God it was hard to do one thing at a time.
Francis Chan
#48. Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.
Cofer Black
#49. I was their leader. I would never leave them, not even in the time of death.
Shannon A. Thompson
#50. Leadership is the ability to get individuals to work together for the common good and the best possible results while at the same time letting them know they did it themselves.
John Wooden
#51. What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths - and can call on the right strength at the right time.
Tom Rath
#52. When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.
Joyce Meyer
#53. In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now.
Wangari Maathai
#54. Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.
Newell Dwight Hillis
#55. Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.
Brian Tracy
#56. An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture, focuses on one task at a time; completes the task competently and organizes for the future.
Ken Wyatt
#57. Strong leadership demands more than the willingness to use force. It means directing the use of the right tools at the right time for the right purpose and the right cause.
John F. Kerry
#58. The future of work revolution begins one person at a time.
Bill Jensen
#59. Future strong strives for simplicity for all:
Least amount of individual effort, energy and time to create maximum impact by each person.
Bill Jensen
#60. Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.
James Humes
#61. If you are not taking the time to set your own goals, chances are pretty high someone else is doing it for you. So don't be surprised someday when you end up someplace you never hoped to be.
Mark W. Boyer
#62. The setting of SMART goals has been written about extensively over the decades, but will only be as useful as the extent to which its principles are used.
Archibald Marwizi
#64. If you want to make better use of your time, you need to be looking for the small increments of time ... a minute here, five minutes there, etc.
David Cottrell
#65. Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing.
Madeleine Albright
#66. I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.
Bill Fitch
#67. Don't waste time. Avoid the company of wasteful people who lack the desire to achieve. Become assertive and action-oriented.
Archibald Marwizi
#69. Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.
Max McKeown
#70. If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.
Stephen Covey
#71. I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#72. From an athlete's perspective, to cancel the Olympics in regards to the threats would be absolutely devastating - especially since the Olympics - it's really about people meeting together through sports and putting aside their countries' differences for that time.
Brian Boitano
#73. Life is short. Clarifying your purpose may be the biggest time-saver in your life's work.
Jon Mertz
#74. it appears that my bourgeois education inculcated hopelessly false notions of taste and morality, and along with them the pressing need to disseminate them by leadership. By the time I was mature enough to ofer them, society had developed and no longer felt in need of my mildewed fruits.
Elizabeth Mavor
#75. Truth flows from universal law, not personal views.
John Agno
#76. A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants' unwillingness to work.
Pawan Mishra
#77. The formula for successful leadership has changed little, if at all over the centuries. It isn't leadership that changes over time, rather where the leaders need to take their people that changes.
Scott Hammerle
#78. If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.
Vincent De Paul
#79. Every time we decide to use our power to influence others, particularly if we're gleeful and hasty, we damage the relationship. We move from enjoying a healthy partnership based on trust and mutual respect to establishing a police state that requires constant monitoring.
Kerry Patterson
#80. ... The political leader must constantly appraise and reappraise the means through which 'he can hope to do justice to the responsibility that power imposes upon him' while at the same time pursuing political values with conviction.
Nicholas Gane
#81. Leadership takes work. It takes time and energy. The effects are not always easily measured and they are not always immediate. Leadership is always a commitment to human beings.
Simon Sinek
#82. Most of us want to live in harmony and peace and be good to others. Right now, however, the world is in a very turbulent time, and our leadership has gone crazy.
Hany Abu-Assad
#83. It doesn't matter to me that my leaving will cost you money. It doesn't matter that my space will take time to fill. What matters is that I'm happy and if you're not willing to invest in me, then I'm willing to cost you money.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#84. What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
Bob Iger
#85. Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: Tell the history of our time through the people who make it.
Walter Isaacson
#86. Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.
John C. Maxwell
#88. Every time I set my face to seeking God in a fresh way, God begins to change my heart, my mind, my preaching, and my leadership skills. When any believer commits his or her heart to seeking the Lord, everything is going to change.
Daniel Henderson
#89. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space.
John F. Kennedy
#90. Have patience and keep working. Everything will come alright in time.
Abhijit Naskar
#91. It's not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership.
Fred Wilson
#92. For the Three Percent:
You may sometimes feel
like you were born in the wrong century,
or that the struggle for freedom is already lost,
but you weren't, and it isn't.
Your day is coming.
Now is the time to prepare.
Oliver DeMille
#94. It is time to euthanize change management.
Paul Gibbons
#95. The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.
Nigel Cumberland
#96. I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.
Carl Yastrzemski
#97. I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society.
Dalai Lama
#98. A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.
David Cottrell
#99. The best friend of truth is time while the best friend of a leader is results.
Orrin Woodward
#100. Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and leadership including that of the religious community is most important to face up to challenges of deepening poverty and under-development afflicting many people of the world.
Thabo Mbeki
