Quotes About Developing Leaders

#1. In Leading with Honor, Lee uses gripping stories from the POW camps to engage the reader and teach invaluable principles of leadership. I highly recommend this book for developing leaders at all levels in any organization, military of civilian.

William R. Looney III

#2. They started developing leaders who could multiply the intelligence and capability of the people around them and increase the brainpower of the organization to meet their growth demands.

Liz Wiseman

#3. Developing leaders who can navigate complexity is now a strategic priority - and, if done well, a competitive advantage. Beyond developing competency and capability, we need to develop leaders with courage and compassion, consciousness and character.

Robert J. Anderson

#4. Unless you want to carry the whole load yourself, you need to be developing leaders.

John C. Maxwell

#5. Good leaders know who they are - their strengths, weaknesses, passions, talents, and values. And, developing leaders always starts with self-awareness.

Lee Ellis

#6. 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

#7. Good leaders understand that they are stewards. They must find the best people they can, giving them the opportunity to join in the journey developing them, and encouraging them to reach their potential. But they must hold on to people lightly. Those who start with you seldom finish with you.

John C. Maxwell

#8. Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

Marshall Goldsmith

#9. I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

Ella Baker

#10. One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.

Stephen Hawking

#11. He taught me to stand on a street corner or in a room for an hour - or two or three - waiting for that great epiphany of a moment, the wondrous combination of subject, light, and composition. And something else: the inexplicable magic that made the image dive right into your heart.

Lynsey Addario

#12. The Arab view that someone should bomb Iran and stop it from developing nuclear weapons is familiar to anyone who meets privately with Arab leaders, especially in the Gulf.

Elliott Abrams

#13. Anything I can get from the Word without God will not change my life. It is closed to insure that I remain dependent on the Holy Spirit. It

Bill Johnson

#14. Righteous passion is an innocent prisoner
until the day you set it free.
Sinful passion is a guilty prisoner;
lock it up and throw away the key.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. Blunt the knives.
Bend the forks.
Smash the bottles and burn the corks.
Chip the glasses and crack the plates.
That's what Bilbo Baggins hates!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#16. You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.

Roy Campanella

#17. I'm going to write ceaselessly about the dignity of human beings no matter who and or what they are, and the less dignity a person has the fewer words I'll use.

Jack Kerouac

#18. If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

Jennifer Granholm

#19. In place of philosophy, which involves developing a system of belief based on questioning and reasoning, many of our modern leaders have embraced ideology, which is based on having a system of beliefs essentially stripped of the questions.

David Rothkopf

#20. The newest books are those that never grow old.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#21. I have spoken to world leaders and encouraged them to raise the education budgets of their countries and pushed powerful nations to give greater education aid to developing ones.

Malala Yousafzai

#22. Goddammit, Pen!" Lightning lit him from behind. "That's not happening. And if you ever use magic on me again without my permission, we're done. You owe me a fucking apology for last time.

Ellen Connor

#23. When China fails to live up to its obligations, we push back - sort of. We accept arguments from Chinese leaders that they are a developing country that needs time to reform.

Sherrod Brown

#24. If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it.

Andrew Solomon

#25. If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.

Nicola Sturgeon

#26. Leaders have to give time for relationships. But more demands will be placed on their time as they become more successful. So if a person's success is based on developing relationships, then they have to continually find new ways of getting it done

Mike Krzyzewski

#27. Wisdom in the workplace means to inspire creativity, learning, and progression, but discourage unprofessionalism and negativity.

Pearl Zhu

#28. I'll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn't pay enough attention to developing their leaders.

D. Wayne Calloway

#29. My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

Sam Abell

#30. Life only plants the seeds. It's up to us to help them grow.

Gina Greenlee

#31. I have the feeling that everybody was waiting for me to die so they could rediscover me. Then they found out I'm not dead yet, so they are rediscovering me while I'm still alive.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#32. Leaders don't rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits; they make every day a masterpiece.

John C. Maxwell

#33. When leaders become focused on the fruit instead of the root and worry about the outcome instead of the process of developing team members, they may survive in the short run, but they will not thrive in the long run.

Jon Gordon