Leadership Traits Quotes

#1. All leaders are influenced by those they admire. Reading about them and studying their traits inevitably allows an inspiring leader to develop his own leadership traits.

Rudy Giuliani

#2. Digitas is a company that's very rapidly changing - the digital world changes every day. It's important we hire people who are curious about what's going on and who are willing to learn and want to learn. I look for core leadership traits.

Laura Lang

#3. Digital creates the new demand and dimension for global leadership mind-set.

Pearl Zhu

#4. There is nothing worse for a young convert than to be thrust into leadership without mentoring and ongoing coaching because the devil relishes these vulnerable souls.

Gary Rohrmayer

#5. Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

Lewis H. Lapham

#6. If your leadership is truly grounded in love, you'll always land in the category of a good leader.

Glenn C. Stewart

#7. Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility - toughness for accountability - flexibility to adapt changes with a compassionate & caring heart for self and others.

Amit Ray

#8. Leaders step up, even when they feel like hiding. And they do so because they care.

Michele Jennae

#9. 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

#10.
a man without birth, without courage, without conduct. For my part, I declare, sir, it shall never be said that I made such a man my master.

Sarah Vowell

#11. An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader.

Gary Rohrmayer

#12. Service-based leadership is a mindset: you work for your people. It is not complex; often it's the small acts of service that have the greatest impact on morale and camaraderie.

Courtney Lynch

#13. Leaders approach conflict with an eye for resolution. When handled effectively, successful confrontations raise team performance. To manage conflict effectively, you must begin by recognizing there are three sides to every story:
Yours / Theirs / The Truth

Angie Morgan

#14. You can't move up in the staircase of leadership unless you are emotionally intelligent.

Amit Ray

#15. 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

#16. You are blessed, You are great. You are not alone. You are powerful.

Amit Ray

#17. I will either use people around me as a means to facilitate my journey at their expense, or I will use myself to enhance someone else's journey at my expense. The former is a journey that never begins, and the latter is a journey that never ends.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#18. People don't follow you because you are nice, they follow you because they believe the place you are taking them is better than the place they are.

Scott Hammerle

#19. A call to duty, a call for service.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. 1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.

Derwin L. Gray

#21. Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better.

Carlos Wallace

#22. Be excellent in your own terms.

Abhijit Naskar

#23. Character is more important than any other leadership trait.

John Wooden

#24. As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership.

Amit Ray

#25. Great leadership has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies.

William A. Adams

#26. Leadership is not just some empty formulas but establishing deep connection at soul levels through service, integrity, passion, perseverance and equanimity.

Amit Ray

#27. Leaderships about transforming lives and making a difference through innovation and purpose, grounded in values and integrity

Michael Harris

#28. Be the start of something that is good, revolutionary and powerful. Everything after that is a bonus!

Carlos Wallace

#29. Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.

Scott Hammerle

#30. Becoming a Leader of Character changes lives - our lives and the lives of the people we touch.

Dave Anderson