Top 54 Quotes About Community Leadership
#1. For Aboriginal leaders, the social and moral obligation that comes with community leadership is life-long. Those who lead, who have authority, must care for and look after those who come behind.
Patrick Dodson
#2. Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.
Gustav Nossal
#3. 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
#4. Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether spiritual nature, is worldly and has no place in the Christian community; indeed, it poisons the Christianity community.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#5. Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and leadership including that of the religious community is most important to face up to challenges of deepening poverty and under-development afflicting many people of the world.
Thabo Mbeki
#6. Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.
Vincent De Paul
#7. Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.
Alan Sakowitz
#8. Good leadership puts the interests of the community as a whole before those of any specific group. Credibility of leadership can only be established through action and not words.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#10. A man enrich his community. A man teach and display leadership qualities for his children. A man by his presence is safety and security for his Queen. The best the thing a man can do for this world, his children and Queen is be a man.
Carlos Wallace
#11. Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is an expert of understatement in his leadership of Linux development community. When eager programmers would ask him, '"What part of Linux should I work on?' his answer would usually be, '"Let me know when you find out' (p.286).
Dan Woods
#12. Through your influence, vision, ethics and authenticity you create a better reality for your family, community and organisation, where those around you and those who follow you are inspired to dream, learn and act
Craig Dent
#13. I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.
Steve Nash
#14. We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#15. I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.
Margaret D. Nadauld
#16. A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.
Sherry Turkle
#17. Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.
Vincent De Paul
#18. Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#19. In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.
Joseph C. Rost
#20. In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images.
Adam S. McHugh
#21. By connecting and being part of a community with a shared vision and goals, we can create great things.
David J. Greer
#22. I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
Paul Wellstone
#23. I am honored and quite proud that a class is being taught on my sensationalist lyrics, unique style and fashion and leadership role within the hip-hop community.
Lil' Kim
#24. A lot of young people just starting out unskilled, as all Americans do when they're born here, come to this country, and so the business community is for immigration. Big businesses, small businesses, high-tech, low-tech, the communities of faith, and the Republican leadership.
Grover Norquist
#25. We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy!
Joshua Wong
#26. You must not wait to be elected into office, before you begin to serve. Begin to serve every where you are; in the home, community, school, university, work, hospital, church, market, society, nation and among many other places.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#27. What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder value to understand the needs and fears of other stakeholders and their communities.
Juan Somavia
#28. If you are a leader or someone who works for the interest of a community, first make sure that you understand the interest of the people who make up that community. In this way, you will have a good chance of minimizing, perhaps, avoiding the us versus them mentality.
Duop Chak Wuol
#29. The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat.
Leonard Slatkin
#30. Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.
Wilma Mankiller
#32. Zeus energy, which encompasses intelligence, robust health, compassionate decisiveness, good will, generous leadership. Zeus energy is male authority accepted for the sake of the community.
Robert Bly
#33. In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.
Andy Stanley
#34. Error is human,perfection is divine!You are not God! Your mistake is normal.So forgive yourself.
Paul Gitwaza
#35. There is no debate in the scientific community ... We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.
Bill Nye
#36. I think, for one, the LGBTQ community is just a paragon of leadership, of standing up and saying "these are our rights, and we deserve them." As a model of activism, it's so wonderful what the community has been able to achieve towards goals like marriage equality.
Jill Stein
#37. To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.
Sherry Turkle
#38. Leadership is influencing a community to follow Jesus.
Dan Kimball
#39. The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.
Dee Hock
#40. You know, rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership, honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all.
Tom Vilsack
#41. 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
#42. Engage the whole community with a common purpose to build an innovative and sustainable enterprise.
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
#43. It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is growing in direct proportion to our lack of confidence in ourselves. The end of this century is an unusually difficult time to be a leader in Australia.
Hugh Mackay
#44. In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man at the top.
Agatha Christie
#45. The sense of community is that feeling of togetherness that brings us comfort. We are all alone in the world, so we strive to form bonds with others to eliminate that sense of feeling alone.
Del Suggs
#46. If you find a community with less production and less inspiring inventions, then know it is a sign of lack of Business Leaders and full of General Managers do not know what they can manage or what they are managing.
Sameh Elsayed
#47. Ritual and ceremony are powerful bonding tools. They result in a sense of community, a feeling of unity far beyond what you might expect.
Del Suggs
#48. 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
#49. Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.
Cherrie Moraga
#50. It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#51. Seek justice: Make a commitment to serve the needs of the 'least of these' and give voice to the voiceless.
Artika R. Tyner
#52. I would do almost anything Tina Fey asks me to do.
Nancy Pelosi
#54. you cannot "save" a church without focusing on the important things that make it a church - scriptural authority, biblical leadership, teaching and preaching, ordinances, covenant community, and mission.
Ed Stetzer
