Top 100 Leadership Wisdom Quotes
#1. Women have more to offer the church than mad decorating skills or craft nights. I look around: I see women who can offer strategic leadership, wisdom, counsel, and teaching.
Sarah Bessey
#2. All the calculus, quantum mechanics and languages in the world are worthless pieces of information, if they are not brought to the service of the society.
Abhijit Naskar
#3. Legends are born in solitude. Idiots are born in packs.
Abhijit Naskar
#4. It is easy to lead from the front when there are no obstacles before you, the true colors of a leader are exposed when placed under fire.
Mark W. Boyer
#5. Leadership is all about caring, daring and sharing!
Caring for people, Daring to Act fearlessly,
& Sharing the success with all!
Sujit Lalwani
#6. Think crazily, even if others laugh at you. Act bravely, even if you are all alone.
Dilip Bathija
#7. MAHARAJA-Leaders are not born but are made with ultimate qualities of courage, wisdom, sacrifice and benevolence.
Bhargava Kodavanti
#8. Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.
Mollie Marti
#9. Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher; come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else's as your truth.
Germany Kent
#10. Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.
Mark Miller
#11. Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#12. Begin to grow in wisdom and develop an informed approach to more global issues around you and along your path to success and significance.
Archibald Marwizi
#13. The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.
Gary Patton
#14. 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
#15. The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#16. 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
#17. If people institute wrong institutions, wrong institutions do not just produce wrong people, but wrong people who understand and accept mediocrity as an institution
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#19. Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.
Roopleen
#20. Attitude is that little thing that will make the most difference in the accomplishment of your goals.
Roopleen
#22. I ... understand that age is kind of awesome. I am fortunate enough to know women like Gloria Steinem - who I think is one of the most stunning women on the planet - [who] doesn't touch her face. Diane Keaton, Annette Bening - all of these fabulous, fearless women who are flawless - they embrace it!
Jennifer Aniston
#23. To give value to others, you have to begin by valuing yourself.
Tim Fargo
#24. An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
Alexander The Great
#25. In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they have seen of oppression and violence, they have gotten more brave, more strong, more fearless than they were. You see this refusal to just keep quiet and do as you are told.
Fatima Bhutto
#26. I had to make a choice, either take care of my family and become a good son, or be a bad son and start working towards constructing a world of harmony and peace. I chose the later.
Abhijit Naskar
#27. A great leader never fears criticism and welcomes them with openness and love as if they are the beauty of the journey.
Debasish Mridha
#28. Challenges lead to Growth,
Grow matures ones daily living,
Living a good life expedites ... Wisdom
Vernetta Norman
#29. The wisdom that comes from being conscious of the real threats to you and your mission will sharpen your deliberateness in decision & choice-making, associations and positioning.
Archibald Marwizi
#30. High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.
Mollie Marti
#31. Only the king that has succeeded in subduing his senses is competent to resist his foes.
Meera Uberoi
#32. Your thinking has the potentiality to make you a kid or a king, in it lies your enthronement or dethronement.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#34. A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants' unwillingness to work.
Pawan Mishra
#35. Constant remembrance of the Almighty will bring you everlasting happiness and peace
Radhe Maa
#36. The biblical preacher talks about the poor man's wisdom that saved a city but he was immediately forgotten. A poverty of ideas, contributions, uniqueness or influence, will overshadow the visibility of good potential. Keep those ideas flowing and you will not be forgotten.
Archibald Marwizi
#37. It seems to be most leaders have more conventional wisdom, but creative leaders have better common sense.
Pearl Zhu
#39. 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
#40. Leaders show examples. They have something to offer and they'll offer it by the process of how they got it. Anyone who has no examples to show may not lead better.
Israelmore Ayivor
#41. Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly.
Melissa Harris-Perry
#42. You have to make people realize your worth, else no one cares!
Anamika Mishra
#43. Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel.
Abhijit Naskar
#44. Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#45. No one will give you change. You have to work for it. You have to earn it not by screaming, but by working hard, by believing in yourself, by proving yourself. There are windows, but if you are radical, no one will talk to you. And that window will shut.
Haifaa Al-Mansour
#46. If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#47. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee Hock
#49. The world is aching for feminine wisdom to come forward.
Tabby Biddle
#50. When challenges present themselves, practice will permit you to draw on the wisdom and learning you cultivate as you learn to lead valiantly.
Catherine Robinson-Walker
#51. To make your Opinion Count,
you have to do something more
than just making Money.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#52. Leadership calls for both wisdom and courage; the wisdom to know what to do is only half the battle. We must be courageous enough to actually do it.
Kellen Roggenbuck
#54. Competition is created from within, when you make a conscious decision to demand more from yourself.
Mark W. Boyer
#55. When you practice leadership,The evidence of quality of your leadership, Is known from the type of leaders that emerge out of your leadership
Sujit Lalwani
#56. There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.
Elizabeth Smart
#57. Leader discover themselves through a continuous fellowship and relationship with their sources of their life and wisdom. Self-discovery is the key to true leadership!
Israelmore Ayivor
#58. 1 Minute Wisdom: Rethink Your Mindset because how you view, filter, interpret and automatically give meaning your experiences; is what you'll believe them to be.
Tony Dovale
#60. Your mind is your belief hotspot -the center where the issues of life emanate from.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#61. Be in love with what you do. Love wisdom. Love life. Love people. God is love.
Archibald Marwizi
#62. Leaders can change the tenor of the workplace and create harmony in motion toward a favorable result. So every time you say to your team, "Let's rock and roll," make sure you have already set up the stage to where they can actually perform like rock stars.
Thomas Huynh
#63. Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.
Jeffrey Toobin
#64. You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it.
Nikki Rowe
#65. For a leader, courage, love, and passion for service are the virtues of life.
Debasish Mridha
#66. Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.
John Buchan
#67. 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
#68. [Pope Francis] is a humble man. He lives the faith out in his own personal life ... He's here to be a shepherd; he isn't here to be a scold. I think that's a good thing for the church and for the world, frankly.
Rick Santorum
#69. We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.
Queen Elizabeth II
#70. Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.
Mollie Marti
#71. Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom.
D. Nicole Williams
#72. It is a queer thing. In a time of great need, when powerful leadership is demanded, the people - confused and excited - hear only the strident voices of the audacious, and refuse to listen to the voice of wisdom which, being wise, is temperate.
Lloyd C. Douglas
#73. Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.
Pope Francis
#74. Spiritual authority is the direct result of God doing a greater work in the deeper areas of a leader's life.
Gary Rohrmayer
#75. Excellence doesn't come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress.
Abhijit Naskar
#76. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.
Mark W. Boyer
#77. There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.
Hillary Clinton
#78. Poverty might make you obscure, but if you continue churning out wisdom to solve more problems and challenges, you will neither remain poor nor die in obscurity.
Archibald Marwizi
#79. I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.
Malala Yousafzai
#80. You create a team by binding each to each, acting as glue, not as god.
Karen Lord
#81. The farther you go, the less you know.
Laozi
#83. Wisdom is hard to get but hardest to lose if once obtained.
Deepak Burfiwala
#84. He who cannot swim should neither chase the dolphins nor play with sharks. For him disaster awaits like sunrise.
J. Loren Norris
#85. To all the young people out there who think money and fame is important: that's only a small piece of the pie. You need an education to be totally secure in life. I feel very secure I can go get a real job now.
Shaquille O'Neal
#86. Rethink Your Success Mindset: Gratitude is the attitude, fuel and catalyst that transforms life's challenges into wisdom.
Tony Dovale
#87. Whom the society deems worthless, once they discover their special inclination, it will change the very course of their lives as well as the shape of the very society that distastes them.
Abhijit Naskar
#88. I would rather be on the team of the Leader who prays to God for wisdom to guide the followers, than to be on the team of the leader who leads without prayer.
Ellen J. Barrier
#89. The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.
Jimmy Haslam
#90. No matter how slow or long it takes, it is never too late to right a wrong.
Mark W. Boyer
#91. I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.
Desmond Tutu
#92. There is a long and well-documented tradition of wisdom in the Christian faith that any venture into leadership, whether by laity or clergy, is hazardous. it is necessary that there be leaders, but woe to those who become leaders.
Eugene H. Peterson
#93. The wisdom and goal of innovative CIOs are to help the organization think clearly about the two horizons of future, the short-term gain, and the long term win.
Pearl Zhu
#94. Leadership is the art of invoking wisdom and right action out of the people needed to accomplish the goal.
Sandy Smith
#95. All leading from the rear gets you, is first place at the back of the line.
Mark W. Boyer
#96. Many people get visited by the Lord in a given time but lack the wisdom to navigate in it.
Paul Gitwaza
#97. Paradoxes are what draws Wisdom like bees to honey! Hence, where there is no paradox (Complexity), there is no need for Wisdom....
Amit Chatterjee
#98. I'm so sick and tired of all this violence, this gun violence. And how could I speak on it - you know - being one who has advocated violence and gun violence? The only way I could do it was through a song that spoke from the heart.
Snoop Dogg
#99. Think of strength, dream of strength, live of strength.
Abhijit Naskar
