Quotes About Leadership Presence

#1. To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone.

Thomas Lansing Masson

#2. You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others ...

Gordon B. Hinckley

#3. I couldn't draw anything that was too outlandish or too horrible. I never did that. What I did draw was something intriguing. There was something about this monster that you could live with. If you saw him you wouldn't faint dead away.

Jack Kirby

#4. Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

Ridley Scott

#5. 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

#6. Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.

George MacDonald

#7. The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

Laozi

#8. I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons.

Rick Riordan

#9. I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.

Nelson Algren

#10. David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants.

Geraldine Brooks

#11. Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

Nas

#12. Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself.

Peter Hoeg

#13. I keep everything that's private private.

Kate Bosworth

#14. SUSTAINABLE PEACE IS POSSIBLE ONLY WITH WOMEN'S FULL PARTICIPATION, their perspectives, their leadership, their daily, equal presence wherever we seek to make and keep the peace.

Ban Ki-moon

#15. God exposes your sin ... And you see yourself as small as you are in the presence of a holy God.

Johnny Hunt

#16. The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

Walt Whitman

#17. Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#18. Great leadership isn't shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.

Charles M. Blow

#19. Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#20. around. You can use the three-hole or five-hole stitch, or make up your own version. Some artists I know have worked with take-out menus, junk mail, fliers left on their car windshield wipers - it is fun to take ephemeral materials

Esther K. Smith

#21. Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier.

Susan Sarandon

#22. Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
(Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

Sheryl Sandberg

#23. One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.

Rollo May

#24. Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

John Peter Zenger

#25. Words kept salted when they cannot be found fresh. Words kept fresh when they cannot be found clean. The words go deeper, far out of reach of vessels, blood vessels bursting, that thick humming in the head. To find the words, just out of reach, beyond my hand, the coral of it, the pearl of it, fish.

Jeanette Winterson

#26. Spiritual leadership is the power to change the atmosphere by one's presence, the unconscious influence that makes Christ and spiritual things real to others.

J. Oswald Sanders

#27. Leadership is a process that involves setting a PURPOSE AND DIRECTION which inspires people to combine and work towards willingly; paying attention to the MEANS, PACE AND QUALITY OF PROGRESS towards the aim; and upholding GROUP UNITY and INDIVIDUAL EFFECTIVENESS throughout.

James Scouller

#28. We communicate much more through our presence than the words.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#29. The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.

Edwin H. Friedman

#30. He wrote as if he were the reader. It was also how he kept his writing from becoming too cute, which is to say, about him not the subject. Rook was a journalist but strove to be a storyteller, one who let his subjects speak for themselves and stayed out of their way as much as possible.

Richard Castle

#31. Life is not about who you know, but rather about who knows you & what you stand for.

Show the world with presence, actions & the way you lead your life, who you are.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#32. It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.

Charles James

#33. Two main definitions of a true leader; His presence is noticed and his absence is felt ... !

Israelmore Ayivor

#34. True leaders respect and honor authority but are comfortable in its presence.

Myles Munroe

#35. 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

#36. Ultimately our claim to know the one God only gains credence in the contemporary world as he demonstrates the divine presence through the way we live- through our lives as we connect our Christian belief with true Christian living.

Stanley J. Grenz