Personal Leadership Quotes

#1. Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

Stephen Covey

#2. Observing many companies in action, I am unable to point to a single instance in which stunning results were gotten without the active and personal leadership of the upper managers.

Joseph M. Juran

#3. Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It doesn't begin and end with the writing of a personal mission statement. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.

Stephen R. Covey

#4. The two additional unique human endowments that enable us to expand our proactivity and to exercise personal leadership in our lives are imagination and conscience.

Stephen R. Covey

#5. Striving for balance forces a leader to invest time and energy in aspects of leadership where he will never succeed. It is not realistic to strive for balance within the sphere of our personal leadership abilities.
... discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.

Andy Stanley

#6. Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.

Stephen Covey

#7. In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center of a person's life.

Stephen Covey

#8. These two principles correspond to the two areas of effectiveness that we've encountered: personal leadership and personal management. "Know what's most important" is the arena of personal leadership; "put it first and actually do it" is the arena of personal management.

Matt Perman

#9. Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#10. To the degree that one relates sensitively, appropriately, and even charmingly, to the people and events faced in business and personal life, success will follow.

Herman L Glaess

#11. I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.

Joyce Banda

#12. Integrity must become a personal goal of a growing majority in America if we want to be a major world influence.

Herman L Glaess

#13. What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.

Israelmore Ayivor

#14. You can't gather much if you won't go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns; they'll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they'll get.

Israelmore Ayivor

#15. Leaders learn more from blames than praises. Praises make them know what's already done well; blames show them what's yet to be done well.

Israelmore Ayivor

#16. Making appointments with yourself and scheduling other things around them is key to proactive self-management.

Michael Hyatt

#17. Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits.

Gary Rohrmayer

#18. In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially "grown up" and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#19. Self-leadership always precedes team leadership.

Michael Hyatt

#20. The speed at which progress rolls is not determined by the number of people who started pushing it, but by the number of people who are passionate to hold on doing so.

Israelmore Ayivor

#21. [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

#22. Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportionate to the strength of leadership.

John C. Maxwell

#23. (Vice President) Garner has taken his personal smallness, his lack of generosity, and forged it into a political principle. He has no imagination, no convictions, and he substitutes political cynicism for social understanding.

Hamilton Basso

#24. Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.

John C. Maxwell

#25. All leadership begins from inside a person and must be developed and grown as they grow into emerging and enduring leaders

Thomas Narofsky

#26. The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.

Orrin Woodward

#27. I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

John C. Maxwell

#28. 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

#29. Great mentors don't solve your problems, they guide you to make your best decision and encourage you to take personal ownership of the next steps for success.

Steve Knox

#30. If you want to do something that really changes someone's life, the best thing you can do is make the person you're trying to help a participant in the process.

John Stahl-Wert

#31. You don't know what you don't know

John Stein

#32. leadership means taking personal responsibility for results. Leadership means you get things done. Leadership means you keep your promises.

Robin S. Sharma

#33. The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.

Ken Blanchard

#34. Leaders know where they can function better. They don't cry over what they cannot do.

Israelmore Ayivor

#35. How we lead ourselves in life impacts how we lead those around us.

Michael Hyatt

#36. And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

Don Nickles

#37. Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?

Meg Greenfield

#38. Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.

Israelmore Ayivor

#39. One thing I have learned since coming to Tosu City is that age does not guarantee better decisions or stronger leadership. The ability to put aside personal agendas and decide what is best for the whole does.

Joelle Charbonneau

#40. The reality is that the way in which a leader conducts his personal life does, in fact, have a profound impact on his ability to exercise effective public leadership.

Samuel D. Rima

#41. Transformation is an acquired taste - not for the faint of heart.

Bob Anderson

#42. 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

#43. The personal values managers reported being the most under pressure to compromise to do their jobs successfully: 1. Family 2. Integrity.

Stan Slap

#44. When you don't see nothing wrong in anything you do, then you are doing everything wrong.

Richmond Akhigbe

#45. Make sure your reading, studying or research are always adding value to the defined vision, mission, beliefs and values that form your unique personal brand.

Archibald Marwizi

#46. Let go of a need for personal recognition. Heap kudos on others and they'll perform even better next time. Leaders are only as good as those who follow them and followers are at their best when leaders are quick to give credit for successes.

Steve Goodier

#47. The greatest challenge of Leadership maintaining personal conviction in a globalized world.

Myles Munroe

#48. Collaboration begins with focusing on the collective good rather than personal gain.

Jane Ripley

#49. The most powerful leadership tool you have is your personal example.

John Wooden

#50. Now is the time to reinvent yourself and develop a new plan of action. Now is the time to create new actions and practices that are focused on growth and development in your personal and professional life. Now is the time to unleash your leadership potential and ignite your passion to lead.

Thomas Narofsky

#51. Your personal brand must exude who you are, what you stand for, specifies your target market, what value you intend to add to them and the unique offering through which you will do that.

Archibald Marwizi

#52. Your personal growth, how you show up, and the ways you lead ultimately determine the success of your business and your life.

David J. Greer

#53. The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence.

Paul Gibbons

#54. Positioning yourself and effective branding should not be left to sports and movie stars. Your need a personal coach, manager or mentor otherwise your expertise, skills or talent will not go far. You might have what it takes but sometimes you lack strategy and some finer elements.

Archibald Marwizi

#55. The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.

Michael Burgess

#56. One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, His confidence and compassion increase every day.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#57. Leaders don't fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn't their desire to maintain but to improve.

Israelmore Ayivor

#58. What are the obvious temptations and inclinations that consistently call me or entice me to go against my personal beliefs, values and standards? You don't need a prophet for this!

Archibald Marwizi

#59. He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

Geraldine Brooks

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. Once you make the requisite personal commitment to make your success deliberate, that commitment must translate into a definition of higher personal standards meant to depict the true impression of what you have become or are becoming within.

Archibald Marwizi

#64. Not only in personal relationships, but also in professional life, if like minded people work together, it is a beauty to witness

Rajasaraswathii

#65. Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them.

Israelmore Ayivor

#66. Know your limit and circle of influence; you are not called to meet the needs of everyone

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#67. People should not have to sacrifice so much of their personal lives, hopes, dreams and goals just to keep up with corporate pressured morebetterfaster. And tomorrow's workforce won't.

Bill Jensen

#68. While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.

John C. Maxwell

#69. Leadership doesn't mean giving marching orders that others must follow blindly. Rather, it means causing others to want to follow. Successful leadership is personal.

Pat Heim

#70. 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

#71. There should be a healthy 'stubbornness', assertiveness and confidence that comes from knowledge of your clear vision, mission, values and personal brand.

Archibald Marwizi

#72. Without faith, it is impossible to succeed. It takes faith to grow, change or move out of your comfort zone. All external interventions become futile without the personal and internalized buy-in from the spirit-man who needs to change towards a given success destination.

Archibald Marwizi

#73. We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

Wendy Kopp

#74. I believe no amount of business school training or work experience can teach what is ultimately a matter of personal character. Businesses are not dishonest or greedy, people are. Thus, a business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.

S. Truett Cathy

#75. Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!

Israelmore Ayivor

#76. A leader isn't born after 9 months' conception. When talents are discovered, skills are mastered & values are developed, a leader is born.

Israelmore Ayivor

#77. And how does one lead? We lead by doing; we lead by being.

Bryant McGill

#78. Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to ...

Gary Rohrmayer

#79. There may be a day when you find yourself standing at the precipice, looking down into the abyss of hopelessness and waiting, pleading, begging for someone who has been in this place before to come alongside you and show you the way back to hope.

J. Loren Norris

#80. Leaders know the great deal of productivity that comes out of a strong self-esteem. They help others to develop this esteem so that productivity can increase.

Israelmore Ayivor

#81. An employee's inability to be wrong, obsessed with their personal agenda, or complacency with the comfort of their title and paycheck often keeps them stuck in selfish politics and silo mentalities.

Angela Lynne Craig

#82. In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

Donald Rumsfeld

#83. Contrary to popular opinion, leaders aren't created out of fame. Fame is just a shadow. When you enter dark times in, it leaves you.

Israelmore Ayivor

#84. When You Seek to Stay in Your Natural Flow of Vitality That is When Your Magical Moments Appear

Runa Magnus

#85. If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God.

Johnny Hunt

#86. Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#87. This is women's moment to shift the tectonic plates of power on both the personal life and the leadership levels.

Gloria Feldt

#88. When an actor reaches down into his emotional well and pulls up a deeply personal response, the audience can sense something special is going on. They may not know exactly what they're seeing, but they recognize it as authentic.

Martin Sheen

#89. A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.

Israelmore Ayivor

#90. Their greatest fear is you may step forward without fear.
Because your courage may become contagious.

Tom Althouse

#91. If you want to break through to higher levels of performance, you must allow yourself to be restructured.

William A. Adams

#92. Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.

Denis Waitley

#93. Friends are won through personal contact, but admirers are won through their contact with our works

Agona Apell

#94. The structure of our identity determines how we show up as a leader, how we deploy ourselves into circumstances.

William A. Adams

#95. Every popular zillion dollar sport has its share of personal scandals around the sport and its leadership.

Rachel Maddow

#96. Everyone has a right to a strong and independent future: All of us have the right, and personal obligation, to choose whether or not company-driven hardships and sacrifices, overall, are shackling or strengthening our future. And to keep that right, each of us must be our own best advocate.

Bill Jensen

#97. No one can become successful for you. It takes personal definitions, personal decisions, personal convictions, personal actions and personal responsibility to succeed in life.

Archibald Marwizi

#98. If you can listen to yourself and obey yourself more, then you have increased your chances for attaining personal effectiveness.

Archibald Marwizi

#99. The future is personal.

Bill Jensen

#100. True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential.

John Paul Warren