Purpose Leadership Quotes

#1. Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter.

Archibald Marwizi

#2. Be disciplined enough to choose your network and be willing to sacrifice the circles that reduce your effectiveness and make you unproductive.

Archibald Marwizi

#3. One should clearly know that " Every thought that one thinks and every action based on that thought, is taking us either closer to our principal purpose or away from it" Watch out then ....as thoughts become realities!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#4. Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar, the maker of meanings ... he is the true artist, the true pathfinder.

Tom Peters

#5. Consistency and acceleration are both key to sustaining success. One-day-wonder persons who slouch back to mediocrity will soon be forgotten.

Archibald Marwizi

#6. If your belief system, mission, values and attitude are poisoned or contaminated, then expect whatever you enjoy and perceive as success to be short-lived.

Archibald Marwizi

#7. It must start by knowing Time = Life. Spending your life on impulse will lead to a broke life, just like impulse buying leads to an empty wallet! How much value you place on your time reflects in the activities that consume your time.

Archibald Marwizi

#8. Consistently turning up for meetings late, is a statement saying you have no respect for the person you are meeting or for the purpose of the meeting, or both. You are sending a clear message that this person or the reason for your meeting is not important to you.

Archibald Marwizi

#9. You will only become significant in life, by solving the unique set of problems only you and your mission are meant to solve.

Archibald Marwizi

#10. To succeed, with or without money, have deliberate plans to make success out of opportunity. If you are totally dependent on chance, then chances are that you will fail.

Archibald Marwizi

#11. The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#12. The results you are churning out are a direct or indirect reflection of what you allowed into your life. Unlearning what you already know and practice is no easy task, but sometimes it's necessary for the programming or re-programming that must take place for success to be made deliberate.

Archibald Marwizi

#13. Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

David Walker

#14. Have a clear plan or strategy to translate your success philosophy into desired results. Adopt an effective work ethic, with a laser-focus and requisite execution strategies to produce results.

Archibald Marwizi

#15. Stop judging yourself on the basis of your appearance or condition of present circumstances. You may have an old car, in debt, job stress, and a troubled relationship, but they are not a true reflection of you as long as you are working on the vision of what you will be years from now.

Archibald Marwizi

#16. 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

#17. Leadership is not a voice crying in the wilderness, aloof and apart. It requires an ability to command as well as to inspire, to learn in the process of collaboration and to build a team with a common purpose that can take action and execute the change they envision.

Bob Rae

#18. Not planning for your time expenditure simply means deliberately intending to fail.

Archibald Marwizi

#19. Connect by listening well and speaking relevantly without being prejudiced or sarcastic. Learn to listen with your eyes as much as you listen with your ears. Generate interest in the person and subject, that way people will become more interested in you.

Archibald Marwizi

#20. You cannot bury someone with the Shereketa spirit for long. Even if they are thrown into problems, they will rise back up.

Archibald Marwizi

#21. Don't do things or act out your posture and gestures to impress people, just be yourself and portray the confident 'you' with that high self-esteem. So relax because you are 'you'. Be sincere, be authentic. That will be impressive enough.

Archibald Marwizi

#22. Always remember that every word you say contains power and you must ask yourself a few questions about your words; Are these words true and kind? Are these words relevant and necessary? Are these words effective for intentions? Reflect on what your words carry, they are a life-changing container!

Archibald Marwizi

#23. 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

#24. Management is the kitchen that produces a delicious meal, where Leadership is the Chef hooked by a purpose across the canyon of risks that adds the fragrance and taste to make it go beyond expectations.

Amit Chatterjee

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

Archibald Marwizi

#26. The deep desire for success must cause a dream to rise to the surface and inspire you to action. The dream must be supported in the physical and natural realm to help you believe more and more in the possibility of its realization.

Archibald Marwizi

#27. You have great talent for great contribution to humanity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. Reform is usually possible only once a sense of crisis takes hold.... In fact, crises are such valuable opportunities that a wise leader often prolongs a sense of emergency on purpose.

Charles Duhigg

#29. Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate and to connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.

Daniel H. Pink

#30. What makes you succeed must be possessed where it cannot be taken away. The internal capacity to succeed is more important than the external and temporal manifestation of success.

Archibald Marwizi

#31. A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president.

Ron Suskind

#32. Do not lose focus because of small wins or temporary set-backs. You can only score if you keep your eyes on the ball and be certain of where you want to place it even if you are not in physical sight of the goal. Visualise the dream but never take your eyes off the dynamic plan of action.

Archibald Marwizi

#33. If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.

Tony Dungy

#34. The failure of a person is wrapped in his ignorance about his strengths.

Israelmore Ayivor

#35. Organisations often appoint leaders for their IQ. Then, years later, sack them for their lack of EQ (Emotional Intelligence). Common Purpose argues that in the future they will promote for CQ - Cultural Intelligence.

Julia Middleton

#36. The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group. The leader makes the team. This is pre-eminently the leadership quality - the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose.

Mary Parker Follett

#37. It is amazing, the number of business executives and senior leaders who get to be appointed and elevated to positions of authority on the basis of technical competences whilst lacking essential grooming on basic good manners and customs of conduct that must come from the home training process.

Archibald Marwizi

#38. The purpose of life is to matter and be ever mindful of the opportunities that we can both individually and collectively provide for others.

Ken Wyatt

#39. Five rules to follow to be a great leader:
1. Be curious.
2. Serve others.
3. Be purpose oriented.
4. Be adaptive.
5. Be positive.

Debasish Mridha

#40. Success only happens when a person is dedicated to a cause greater than oneself.

Angela Lynne Craig

#41. You must not end your life because you failed an examination. Failing an examination or making a mistake does not make you a failure at life. The context of life is broader than that.

Archibald Marwizi

#42. Whilst you can be a stepping stone to help others succeed, you are not a dirty mat to be abused by others.

Archibald Marwizi

#43. Don't be intimidated and at the same time don't intimidate.

Archibald Marwizi

#44. You must be a servant if you want to be great in life

Sunday Adelaja

#45. George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence

Henrik Bering

#46. An entrepreneurial spirit makes you someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business enterprise, talent or calling to become an agent of change.

Archibald Marwizi

#47. Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine.

Rich Karlgaard

#48. Our place of birth is not so much as important as our place of berth, yet we can't moore. If we do we know our birthplace for the first time.

Amah Lambert

#49. The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

Hugh Mackay

#50. If you just want to do something because it is a customary new year resolution, then soon enough the year will get a bit older, and the strength of your decision will also begin to wear off.

Archibald Marwizi

#51. Increasingly, management's role is not to organize work, but to direct passion and purpose.

Greg Satell

#52. If you haven't found yourself yet, it's difficult to help someone to discover himself. False leaders make more false leaders!

Israelmore Ayivor

#53. Peter's destiny lay along a different path from John's. And your calling is unlike anyone else's. But the call remains the same: Follow Me!

Charles R. Swindoll

#54. Cease from envy, prejudice and unhealthy competitiveness. Never abandon your own mission and brand to pursue the seemingly exciting mission or vision of another.

Archibald Marwizi

#55. It is your life...OWN IT! Your life purpose empowers you and enables you to live life abundantly. Empowerment begins by taking responsibility for your life and being accountable for your actions. Empowerment is the courage to live passionately and purposefully each day

Thomas Narofsky

#56. Whatever you possess as an advantage over others, must be meticulously executed to produce desired results and progress.

Archibald Marwizi

#57. There is something more dangerous than the death of one's body. It is "the undiscovered self"; being alive without knowing why.

Israelmore Ayivor

#58. Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.

Max McKeown

#59. Without Purpose, LIVING is downgraded to Breathing a boring routine of inhaling oxygen - waiting to exhale

Fela Durotoye

#60. Understand you are neither inferior nor superior; you are just the best of who you are supposed to be. You have set standards for yourself and are ready to meet them.

Archibald Marwizi

#61. The unfairness of judging others comes in that we judge them on the basis of our own values and beliefs, yet we can never exactly stand on common ground.

Archibald Marwizi

#62. You do not reduce or eliminate your concerns by crying, shouting or proving you are the victim of whatever happened in your life.

Archibald Marwizi

#63. Allow others to talk about themselves instead of being obsessed about telling them or bragging about yourself and your possessions and achievements. Show a genuine interest in others and allow them to tell their story so you can share the conversation.

Archibald Marwizi

#64. Train your emotions to listen to your fundamental empowering beliefs. Be principle-centred and values-driven.

Archibald Marwizi

#65. For every stage and season of your life, PURPOSE will always create a Vacuum that you are wired & equipped to fill. Find Your Vacuum and Fill it.

Fela Durotoye

#66. Just like watering the field will cause both the desired seed and the undesirable weed to germinate, the opportunities for your mission in life will be equally presented with real-life threats.

Archibald Marwizi

#67. Don't just be a deliverer of yourself, but a deliverer of your whole nation

Sunday Adelaja

#68. You need to realize there will always be beliefs that seek to limit and others that seek to stretch you to your highest potential. Just because you cannot see or do something, does not mean it is not there or cannot be done.

Archibald Marwizi

#69. It will take faith, to know success can still be attained regardless of unfairness or disadvantages availed by any system you operate within.

Archibald Marwizi

#70. Old school mission statements defined what an organization did. Contemporary mission statements define why an organization does what it does.

Del Suggs

#71. Leadership is more about purpose than it is about position.

Michele Jennae

#72. Be punctual; it shows your respect for other people.

Archibald Marwizi

#73. He was rebuilt, reconstituted by vengeance dressed up as high purpose.

Ron Suskind

#74. People will follow someone as a leader, who has vision and purpose; often that leader doesn't wear a title.

Beth Ramsay

#75. There is no point knowing your mission if you cannot see the area of need for that mission.

Archibald Marwizi

#76. Your values, as guiding principles, will influence your attitude towards yourself, life, other people, work and even challenges or success itself. Your values are a product of your beliefs.

Archibald Marwizi

#77. You are in obscurity when you are still needed but no one cares a lot what you say or think, or even where you are working from. You have no voice or presence that makes you relevant. Grow your voice.

Archibald Marwizi

#78. The major purpose of defining and understanding yourself is to be able to come up with an objective strategy to map your success.

Archibald Marwizi

#79. We can serve humanity with passionate commitment to our divine purpose.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#80. Your success must never be left to others. You must be able to visualize it and see it through your own eyes, whilst others assist you to see it better and make it clearer.

Archibald Marwizi

#81. You must practice the discipline of a champion before you win the actual contest. The appointment and opportunity must then come to confirm what you have already become.

Archibald Marwizi

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.

Sebastian Coe

#85. Remain aware of your weak points; not knowing or choosing to ignore them, means creating dangerous 'blind-spots' in the path to your success.

Archibald Marwizi

#86. We're at the end of an era of failed leadership. We have been led by a divider [ Barack Obama] who has sliced and diced the electorate, pitting American against American for political purposes.

Rick Perry

#87. Who are you' is a question of both substance and position. In other words, what is the authority of your voice, service, product or performance in relation to the needs of those you intend to serve? Secondly, have you defined and demystified yourself enough to be accepted as the solution of choice?

Archibald Marwizi

#88. Do not be cursed by documented findings and so-called facts; invention itself is not yet an antique for the museum. Not every voice has the right to sponsor your beliefs and words.

Archibald Marwizi

#89. 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

#90. Do not seek success just for the sake of succeeding or for self-gratification. Seek a life of impact and significance.

Archibald Marwizi

#91. Deliberately plan to be exciting and to be excited.

Archibald Marwizi

#92. Make adjustments and improvements to enhance the effectiveness of meetings or surpassing of your target. Learn to define, quantify and be specific about what, how and when you want to succeed in each area of your life.

Archibald Marwizi

#93. 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

#94. Everything you love, enjoy, respect or value will somehow find top priority, even without excessive conscious reminders. Show respect through the way you manage time, especially when others are involved or affected.

Archibald Marwizi

#95. Your purpose will be clear only when you listen to your heart.

Lolly Daskal

#96. Aligning your values and beliefs to your behaviour, increases your chances of being effective at living a fulfilling life without the stress of guilt-consciousness, internal strife or internal conflict

Archibald Marwizi

#97. People and organisations should want to be associated with you as a brand. A sign of a depleted and irrelevant brand is unwillingness of your market or peers to associate with you.

Archibald Marwizi

#98. Work, and not wishing, is what brings motion and results from your vision. Don't be lazy. Try and try again, learn and practice, review and refine, then go back to implement again.

Archibald Marwizi

#99. Who are you? Where are you coming from? What are your strengths and ambitions? What makes you happy and fulfilled? What are your inherent gifts and talents? Clearly define yourself.

Archibald Marwizi

#100. Our system is not fit for purpose. It's inadequate in terms of its scope, it's inadequate in terms of its information technology, leadership, management systems and processes.

John Richard Reid