Quotes About Humble Leaders

#1. But one place ain't no different from no place else. People try and make it like everything's new only to find the devil done followed you wherever you moved and all you can do is hold him off whiles you catch your breath

Amina Gautier

#2. Love like this was all consuming. I found that I was jealous of the strangest things - sunlight, streets, curtains, even her clothing, anything that was close to her.

Alice Hoffman

#3. Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.

Thomas Carlyle

#4. My mum was critical in getting me to recognise very early on that although what I was doing was pretty serious, quite selfish, and probably to most people pretty obsessive, there actually was more to life than running quickly twice round a track.

Sebastian Coe

#5. Leaders must be arrogant enough to believe they are worth following, but humble enough to know that others may have a better sense of the direction they should take.

Alan Murray

#6. Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.

Jesse Jackson

#7. European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

Bertrand Russell

#8. Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul ...

Marguerite Yourcenar

#9. You might say I'm an advocate for humility in leaders. But to be truly humble, those leaders must first understand how many of the factors that shape their lives and businesses are - and will always be - out of sight.

Ed Catmull

#10. The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

John Stott

#11. Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. Walk humbly but walk confidently. People want to follow confident, humble leaders.

Jeff Henderson

#13. The best leaders are humble enough to realise their victories depend upon their people.

John C. Maxwell

#14. I think actual death will be a lot easier than dying on stage. Cause - you know - if you do [actual death] right, you can go looking good. Maybe with a little quip [like]: 'I loved everybody.' But dying on stage ... Oh, God!

Joan Rivers

#15. And there was that pregnant silence in the air, the silence between a husband and wife who have just had words, and it is unlike any other silence except perhaps the awful stillness you hear between the flash of an atomic bomb and the blast. Five, four, three, two, one.

Nelson DeMille

#16. I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There's the teaching that we're supposed to be poor to show that we're humble. I don't buy that. I think we're supposed to be leaders. We're supposed to excel.

Joel Osteen

#17. There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.

Charles E. McKenzie

#18. If a sorceress wanted a man who would stay faithful even when bespelled and accosted by nymphs, then she had to support that man even when he believed he could rehab his douchelord brother.

Kresley Cole

#19. The bottom line is that you can't lead the person you can't serve!

Israelmore Ayivor

#20. The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

Noam Chomsky

#21. Your passion may determine what you can do, but your attitude redefines how far you can go while you do what you can. Your attitude leads you and you lead other people!

Israelmore Ayivor

#22. Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless. To quickly grasp this concept, think of United States

James C. Collins

#23. A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.

Frank Zappa

#24. Leaders in the body of Christ must be humble and broken from the Lord's hand to be truly useful in His kingdom.

Greg Gordon