Quotes About Leaders Learning

#1. But as much as we like the familiar, as leaders we must be willing to learn, and learning many times requires stretching, growing, and becoming a bit uncomfortable in the process.

Teresa Hampton

#2. Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.

Umar

#3. As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training ... not just a few.

Quint Studer

#4. Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future ... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches ... facilitate learning.

Warren G. Bennis

#5. High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

Andy Hargreaves

#6. I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a secret.

Silas House

#7. The people are learning that you cannot leave decisions only to leaders. Local groups have to create the political will for change, rather than waiting for others to do things for them. That is where positive, and sustainable, change begins.

Wangari Maathai

#8. Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

Andy Hargreaves

#9. You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey.

Orrin Woodward

#10. Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

Criss Jami

#11. All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. I learn as much as I can, from as many as I can, as often as I can.

Rick Warren

#12. High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.

Andy Hargreaves

#13. How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very important means of learning and self-discovery, this means which has been used, respected, and honored for thousands of years, in every human culture of which we have a record?

Alexander Shulgin

#14. High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.

Andy Hargreaves

#15. I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.

John Gotti

#16. I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.

Terri Windling

#17. At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate. In this age the myth is 'the will of the people' ... but the problem changes only superficially.

Robert A. Heinlein

#18. Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

Rosabeth Moss Kantor

#19. When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.

Charles Spurgeon

#20. A great football team is the right balance and the right mixture of players. Good leaders, good communicators and good technicians. You need people that are strategically astute. People need passion, desire and most importantly, a willingness to keep learning.

Hope Powell

#21. Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.

Harry Truman

#22. Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

Franz Grillparzer

#23. And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan.
And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid
Its bruises in the earth, but crawled no further,
Showed me its feet, the feet of many men,
And the fresh-severed head of it, my head.

Wilfred Owen

#24. Many leaders don't listen, and it is one of the greatest methods we have of learning. You need to listen to those under your supervision and to those who are above you.

John Wooden

#25. A person with passion will not look somewhere to see who is not doing it; they will focus and do what they can.

Israelmore Ayivor

#26. Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point ...

Quint Studer

#27. If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.

Madonna Ciccone

#28. Leaders are passionate learners. Leaders are always seeking ways to improve themselves by sharpening their skills. They fully embrace the fact that growing leaders lead growing organizations.

Gary Rohrmayer

#29. Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.

Warren Bennis

#30. To reignite creativity, innovation, and learning, leaders must rehumanize education and work. This means understanding how scarcity is affecting the way we lead and work, learning how to engage with vulnerability, and recognizing and combating shame.

Brene Brown