Top 100 Leadership Will Quotes
#1. That ultimate success in community leadership will only be achieved if it stimulates participation by others who are also to be seen as in their own way leaders and not merely helpers.
James Gobbo
#2. True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.
Barack Obama
#3. The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.
Charles Hamilton Houston
#4. One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.
Jack Welch
#5. A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's sense of worth. Any social order that can function with a minimum of
leadership will be anathema to the intellectual.
Eric Hoffer
#6. For the absolute avoidance of doubt, my leadership will be about unity, drawing on all the talents - with women representing half of the shadow cabinet - and working together at every level of the party.
Jeremy Corbyn
#7. My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.
Mitt Romney
#8. America has lost an icon. Ronald Reagan's leadership will inspire Americans for generations to come. His patriotism and devotion to our country will never be forgotten.
Tom Daschle
#9. Leadership will either lead you into a ditch or lead you into purpose. We need our leaders, especially those who are teaching our young people, to have the right message.
Myles Munroe
#10. As a leader, you have to take responsibility for your own failures as well as successes. That's the only way you'll learn.
If you keep learning, you'll improve.
If you improve, your leadership will get better.
And in time, you will earn the right to lead on the level you deserve.
John C. Maxwell
#11. Generous and authentic leadership will always defeat the selfish efforts of someone doing it just because she can. How
Seth Godin
#12. Whats happening in America today is parents are emphasizing their relationship with their children instead of leadership. Anyone in leadership will tell you you cannot have a warm, fuzzy relationship with someone youre in charge of leading.
John Rosemond
#13. We come forth tonight," she bagen, "in the name of Sisterhood , to bring new Sisters into our fold. We present to you an oppurtunity, young Sisters. We are the new face of women. Our leadership will bring the dawn of a new era.
Kay Cassidy
#14. So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.
Mario Monti
#15. Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER.
Richie Norton
#16. 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
#17. The person who will end up enjoying success, is the one who planned for it and who knew why they are seeking to succeed.
Archibald Marwizi
#18. Leadership excellence means that you must be accepted as a leader, not forcing yourself upon those you lead. Outside of formal authority, it takes trust for people to accept your leadership. Proven consistent leadership choices and results will earn you invaluable points of trust.
Archibald Marwizi
#19. People will follow someone as a leader, who has vision and purpose; often that leader doesn't wear a title.
Beth Ramsay
#20. Fundraising requires looking someone eye-to-eye and say, "Will you help me" and don't say another thing. Just listen to them.
Jeff Henderson
#21. Teach faith as a non-negotiable - What should your family be aware of? Why should they be aware of these things? How will they become aware? When and at what stages must they become aware?
Archibald Marwizi
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Many have came before you and many will come after you, but none will ever be you. Some may even try to duplicate your characteristics, but they'll never succeed because you are unique.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#25. 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
#26. It is the leader's job to lead by example and enforce the values and the behaviors to set the culture for any company or work group. Show me a company in rapid decline, and I will show you someone in charge who doesn't give a _.
Beth Ramsay
#27. And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.
Eric Massa
#28. If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then be different from your peers.
Jack Ma
#29. Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Laozi
#31. Future strong is adventurous self-mastery. Unlocking your future by running toward the unknown, with the wondrous soul of a child and the drive of a force that will not be stopped.
Bill Jensen
#32. If God doesn't build the vision, He will tear it down.
Matthew Carter
#33. Our vision is sharp, our goals are clear, our resources are huge, our will is strong and we stand tall, ready to face the challenges ahead.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#34. The fact that companies are getting into building power plants that collect their own CO2 on-site shows there's some leadership in that industry. Some industries have seen the writing on the wall: that carbon will have to be managed.
Klaus Lackner
#35. Abby Johnson has agreed to become Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity, reflecting a further step forward in our leadership succession plan. Abby will retain her role of President, and I will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.
Edward Johnson, III
#36. The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.
Benjamin Franklin
#37. Will you ask God to bring you to the place where you're willing to be willing?
Johnny Hunt
#38. If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.
Stephen Covey
#39. It is not our place to decide who should lead the Iraqi people. If Saddam [Hussein] leaves or has to be forced out of power and a new regime brought in, a new leadership brought in, I am confident it will be some combination of people inside the country and outside the country.
Colin Powell
#40. A 100 years from now the consequences for standing for Jesus will be greater than the consequences of not standing for Jesus today.
Mike Huckabee
#41. If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.
James M. Kouzes
#42. You cannot control sin. Sin will control you. Do not try to manage sin.
Johnny Hunt
#43. Especially if you don't have a job that's providing fulfillment in your technical expertise, there is a lot of reward to working on a very smart and demanding community that will respect you and will give you leadership and authority based on what you do.
Mitchell Baker
#44. Let your passion become a passionate pursuit of Me. And as you follow, the sheep will follow.' (John 21:20-22)
Charles R. Swindoll
#45. If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.
Tom Rath
#46. A true leader leads his people from the front and if he falls into a pit the people will surely not follow.
Amit Abraham
#47. GREAT LEADER'S DIRECTION FLASHES WILL SHOWER EVERY GOAL POME ON OBEISANCE LOINISATION.ANY CHAGRIN POTHER??
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#48. Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us.
Jennifer James
#49. What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
Henry Parry Liddon
#50. 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
#51. Skills and special abilities will only grow if you practice more. You become a star-performer by doing. Let performance and production of desired results become a consistent habit associated with your personal brand.
Archibald Marwizi
#52. If I don't let God deal with my bentness, I will go the way of my bentness. But Jesus can straighten me out.
Johnny Hunt
#53. 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
#54. There is a continuum that runs from character to productivity. Who you are and what you believe make a difference to those who look to you for leadership. The values you live will reach the bottom line of your company.
Walter Wright
#55. Personalising success means defining it in line with your defined mission and beliefs. This will help ignite a passion for the dream as well as develop underlying values and attitudes.
Archibald Marwizi
#56. If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.
John C. Maxwell
#57. Above all, don't dwell on yesterday's victory. If your focus is on what's behind you rather than what's ahead, you will crash.
John C. Maxwell
#58. More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.
Warren G. Bennis
#59. Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#60. If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.
Mahatma Gandhi
#61. If a leader shows strong discipline, others will see it and cooperate with the expectations placed on them. At this point, leadership by example is crucial.
J. Oswald Sanders
#62. Never be SARCASTIC. A clever remark might gain you a few laughs but the butt of your remarks will be offended and will remember you for it.
Gary L. Graybill
#63. Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.
Stephen Covey
#65. If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will take the subversive leadership of academics and practitioners who keep reminding students of the profession's responsibilities.
Samuel Mockbee
#66. The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#67. If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
William James
#68. Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
Alan Autry
#69. Where there is no uncertainty, there is no longer the need for leadership. The greater the uncertainty, the greater the need for leadership. Your capacity as a leader will be determined by how well you learn to deal with uncertainty.
Andy Stanley
#70. 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
#71. Attitude is that little thing that will make the most difference in the accomplishment of your goals.
Roopleen
#72. It's not what you eat that will kill you as much as what is eating you.
Orrin Woodward
#73. Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say
Andy Stanley
#74. ... some leaders don't want to celebrate with their team because they are afraid - yes, afraid that if they celebrate, people will quit working hard and lower the standards. I say don't let your fear take you out.
Lee Ellis
#75. If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired.
J. Oswald Sanders
#76. When you trust your own abilities and those of the people around you, you overcome fear. And when the people you lead trust themselves and you - that you have their best interests at heart and are authentic - is when you and they will achieve the most.
Phil Dourado
#77. A team leader will have to deal with difficulties that he needs to know about in advance
Sunday Adelaja
#78. If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#79. The deeper your relationship with others, the more effective will be your leadership. People will not follow you if they do not trust you, and before someone will lend you a hand, you must first touch their heart.
Robin Sharma
#80. Developing strong interpersonal relationships by creating lasting connections instead of just passing acquaintances will take your business to a new level.
Farshad Asl
#81. If you give your people halfhearted leadership, you'll get a halfhearted following. But if you invest yourself in them, if you have a heart for them, your people will return your investment with a heartfelt following.
Kevin Leman
#82. The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.
Daniel Inouye
#83. The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.
Lou Holtz
#84. People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so.
Thomas L. Friedman
#85. Depending on the skill and will of the individual, the right leadership style may be coaching, motivating, or directing rather than delegating. A leader has to pick the right style of leadership for each employee, and it is not one-size-fits-all,
Thomas Lee
#86. When you learn to say 'NO', you activate the faculty of 'CHOICE' in your mind ! Some of the times you are the chosen one..at other times you CHOOSE for yourself..and saying NO is a sign that one has graduated into becoming a wise CHOICEMAKER ......
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#87. It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
Charles Darwin
#88. Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter
Condoleezza Rice
#89. As the old-school approach of command-and-control leadership fades, companies in all industries will inevitably move in the same direction as these tech firms, and try to tap into the deeper passions of employees.
Adam Bryant
#90. The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.
Vince Lombardi
#91. I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.
Eric Shinseki
#92. Future strong individuals will not take on personal sacrifices, hardships and corporate crap that sidetrack them from their dreams and goals.
Bill Jensen
#93. If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will experience the emotions, motivations, and perceptions necessary for great performance.
Teresa Amabile
#94. People will know you for who you are, but will remember you for what you have done. True leaders make long lasting impacts!
Israelmore Ayivor
#95. A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.
Lee Kuan Yew
#96. Lord, give us a ministry where the sun will never set.
Johnny Hunt
#97. Leadership is a group project, and all of us are necessary to fill it. Wise leaders will realize this and encourage their groups to develop their own evolving leadership potential.
Arnold Mindell
#98. I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.
Mary Parker Follett
#99. To get where we want to be, we must first trust, then make the leap of faith that our Heavenly Father will allow us to soar.
Tommy Jones
#100. He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.
W. Edwards Deming
