Top 100 Quotes About Thought Leadership
#1. Thought leadership is by nature evolutionary, in that it must always be part of an ever-evolving flow.
Pearl Zhu
#3. Crisis moments create opportunity. Problems and crises ignite our greatest creativity and thought leadership as it forces us to focus on things outside the norm.
Sam Cawthorn
#4. By nature, blogs feature longer-form content, which offers deeper thought leadership.
Jason Miller
#5. In fact, for all the secrets and formulas, for all the self-proclaimed thought leadership, success in business is as elusive as ever.
Philip M. Rosenzweig
#6. Thought leadership is when a leader's thoughts are being used by leaders to lead others.
Onyi Anyado
#7. It's not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership.
Fred Wilson
#8. Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy.
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#9. The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized.
Thomas E. Mann
#10. But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.
Samuel Pepys
#11. What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.
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#12. You can't gather much if you won't go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns; they'll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they'll get.
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#13. Leaders learn more from blames than praises. Praises make them know what's already done well; blames show them what's yet to be done well.
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#14. The speed at which progress rolls is not determined by the number of people who started pushing it, but by the number of people who are passionate to hold on doing so.
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#15. The leader's commandment is made up of pledges to solve local and global problems, and not to create more problems to add to the existing ones.
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#16. Simply thinking creatively is not the same as being innovative, and only those who risk breaking out of their comfort zone by putting thought into action will discover the profusion of opportunity that exists.
Michael Lum
#17. It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.
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#18. Bigwig: "I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah."
Hazel: "Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.
Richard Adams
#19. If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
Mary Douglas
#20. The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts.
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#22. I thought ( ... ) the proverbial glass ceiling had been cracked ( ... ) and I believed that it was just a matter of time until my generation took our fair share of the leadership roles.
Sheryl Sandberg
#23. Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.
Peter Drucker
#24. Your mind is your belief hotspot -the center where the issues of life emanate from.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#25. If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it.
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#26. Leaders know where they can function better. They don't cry over what they cannot do.
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#27. She began to notice his servant's heart, his humility, and his leadership. This attraction felt different from her prior experiences of liking guys. "Before it had always been, 'Here's the guy I want!' But this time I thought, 'Here's a man I could follow.
Joshua Harris
#28. For those of you who really want to give critical thought to your unique leadership style and foster genuine followership, learn from what's out there and weave it into something meaningful and authentic.
Stacy Feiner
#29. Leader discover themselves through a continuous fellowship and relationship with their sources of their life and wisdom. Self-discovery is the key to true leadership!
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#30. Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did with Lyndon Johnson, and held them in contempt in either case.
George Friedman
#31. Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.
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#32. A visionary is a leader of excellence who sees what others do not see, who achieves for now and plans for the future, who positively impacts different generations and raises up other visionaries.
Onyi Anyado
#33. All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.
Thomas E. Mann
#34. Your character and attitude is what takes the lead in your leadership role and you follow them as a true leader. Poor character and attitude is eventually poor leadership.
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#35. Never take tiny dreams for granted. They contain giant success stories.
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#36. The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought for the benefit of this country since 1918.
John F. Kennedy
#37. Leadership is self-made. People who have deliberately decided to become problems solver lead better.
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#38. Leadership is not a raw gift given to a group of people. It is the product of any type of gift everyone one has. It therefore means, any kind of gift is a leadership gift!
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#39. You're so bossy." "Why is a woman always described as bossy, when if a man did the same thing he'd be thought of as decisive, commanding and displaying qualities of leadership?
Jeffrey Archer
#40. The courageous attitudes of leaders ramble around coward followers and sooner or later, they become courageous too!
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#41. So much of what you do physically happens because you've thought about it and mentally prepared for it.
Dan Fouts
#42. There is something more dangerous than the death of one's body. It is "the undiscovered self"; being alive without knowing why.
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#43. Thought Creates Action and Action creates Reality! You can either let it happen or MAKE IT HAPPEN !
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#44. Leaders don't fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn't their desire to maintain but to improve.
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#45. If she was making the right and courageous decisions, he thought, she was nonetheless unhappy and somewhat resentful about doing it
David Halberstam
#46. Mr Mandela, who had given his whole life for justice and had never once thought of himself. How unlike these people were modern politicians, who thought only of power and tricks.
Alexander McCall Smith
#47. A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways.
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#48. A person with passion will not look somewhere to see who is not doing it; they will focus and do what they can.
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#49. Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.
Bono
#51. If you haven't found yourself yet, it's difficult to help someone to discover himself. False leaders make more false leaders!
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#52. Never undermine the power of passion. You have a very high chance of achieving anything you are passionate about.
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#53. Compassion needs new approach and new outlook with the way you see the world.
Amit Ray
#54. Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them.
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#55. The leader's job is to show the way. The bottom line is that you can't tell anything about the condition of the way if you've not traveled on it yourself!
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#56. Passion gives power while attitude designs excellence! You can do it because you have the passion; you can do it very well because you have the right attitude!
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#57. Love people who hate you and their hatred won't get grounds to gain roots.
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#58. The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority.
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#59. Whatever you want is behind the mountain of struggles. Nothing great comes with ease.
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#60. Develop the muscles for hard work and never be an early quitter.
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#61. Don't believe everything you think. Our minds are thought-creating machines. Most of these thoughts are fear-based. Our authentic self has the power to pick the thoughts that best serve us and those we lead.
Henna Inam
#62. Sometimes it is difficult to different between leaders and misleaders. However, with the measurement of true service to mankind, the evidence is very clear!
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#63. Since you can't be influence by people who hate you, you cannot influence people you hate also.
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#64. Leaders show examples. They have something to offer and they'll offer it by the process of how they got it. Anyone who has no examples to show may not lead better.
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#65. As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of their leadership.
Robert Dallek
#66. Go out and lead the world; but never forget to begin by leading yourself first at home. You can't lead the environment if you can't lead yourself in it.
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#67. Leaders fight hard wars against
injustice and unfairness. They
believe that the truth is a weapon;
when triggered, the lie dies.
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#68. Thoughts as a 'library' or thoughts as a 'baggage'! Experience as a 'library' or experience as a 'baggage'??? Experience as an 'experience' ......
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#69. Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!
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#70. The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions!
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#71. A leader isn't born after 9 months' conception. When talents are discovered, skills are mastered & values are developed, a leader is born.
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#72. Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then true leadership must unite thought behind definite methods.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#73. The survival rate of your passion depends on the kind of person that leads you!
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#75. 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.
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#76. Whatever you are waiting for won't come to you; you have to go for it.
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#77. Contrary to popular opinion, leaders aren't created out of fame. Fame is just a shadow. When you enter dark times in, it leaves you.
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#78. Two main definitions of a true leader; His presence is noticed and his absence is felt ... !
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#79. The quality of your mind depends on the quality of your thought
Okorie Deborah
#80. You may gain a position, but that does not mean you've gained leadership. You may lose position, but that does not mean you've lost leadership! When you gain true character, you can leadership and when you lose it, you cease to be a leader!
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#81. God has buried your leadership roles in your gifting. To take the lead, you got to unzip the gift bag. It's your responsible to make it happen!
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#82. Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they've already done and go farther than they've reached.
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#83. Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head
feeling and thought
meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.
Daniel Goleman
#84. A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.
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#85. You can't shower happiness on others without getting few drops back on yourself.
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#86. 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
#87. People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success; that's the job of vision.
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#88. Never reject the opportunity to take the first step. The first step is the key to obtaining the experience you have longed for.
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#89. Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.
Pearl S. Buck
#90. You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people's happiness suffocate.
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#91. Leaders make impacts. If your riches don't help you to make impacts, you aren't leading anyone; rather, money is leading you.
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#92. Sometimes, people don't need our homes to live in or our bodies to lean on. All they need are our hands to lift them up.
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#93. Inspiring leadership communication is not about great oratory or great charisma; rather it is about getting others to believe in themselves and believe in your cause, and then achieve more than they thought was possible.
Kevin Murray
#94. Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position!
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#95. You break the legs of your leadership chair when you chase after other people's assignments instead of pursing yours!
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#96. Peter must have thought, "Who am I compared to Mr. Faithfulness (John)?" But Jesus clarified the issue. John was responsible for John. Peter was responsible for Peter. And each had only one command to heed: "Follow Me." (John 21:20-22)
Charles R. Swindoll
#97. Think crazily, even if others laugh at you. Act bravely, even if you are all alone.
Dilip Bathija
#98. In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center of a person's life.
Stephen Covey
#99. She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.
Charles Dickens
#100. The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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