Quotes About Young Leaders

#1. The Visalus Founders are the finest and sharpest young leaders that I have ever met.

John C. Maxwell

#2. All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of what might be.

John Gardner

#3. As the young leaders of tomorrow, you have the passion and energy and commitment to make a difference. What I'd like to really urge you do is to have a global vision. Go beyond your country; go beyond your national boundaries

Ban Ki-moon

#4. What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders ... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young ... 11 ... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.

Salman Khurshid

#5. I'm really worried about what the world is going to be like when my daughters are young women, [when] they are young leaders or mothers or businesspeople - whatever they're going to be. I'm afraid they're going to have a less healthy and less biologically rich planet.

Jeff Corwin

#6. Grindelwald and I, the glorious young leaders of the revolution.

J.K. Rowling

#7. The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and less wasteful.

Wendell Berry

#8. Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#9. The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.

Patrick Murphy

#10. Young people aren't the leaders of tomorrow. They are the leaders of today and tomorrow.

Kathy Calvin

#11. We live in a country where our young ladies who have recently attained the age of puberty cannot afford sanitary pads, but our men and women in public offices have ipads which they do not even know how to use.

Patrick L.O. Lumumba

#12. Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark.

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.

John Dewey

#14. Our children, our grandchildren, our students, our young athletes. We need to be pouring leadership principles into them constantly, and teaching, and instructing them how to become good leaders in the future.

Pat Williams

#15. One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream.

Israelmore Ayivor

#16. Mentoring is passion for skills and knowledge-transfer to young people

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age.

Israelmore Ayivor

#18. Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.

Oriana Fallaci

#19. As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.

John Legend

#20. As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.

Michelle Bachelet

#21. Chess players do not care about the pawns. They sacrifice the least powerful so they can hold on to their power.Your leaders play chess with your lives,but what the world does not yet know is that someone else whispers the moves as they play...

Catherine Linka

#22. There is nothing worse for a young convert than to be thrust into leadership without mentoring and ongoing coaching because the devil relishes these vulnerable souls.

Gary Rohrmayer

#23. I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.

Joe Shuster

#24. With the country moving toward inclusion, the leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have instead sent a message to young people that only some of them are valued. They've chosen to teach division and intolerance.

Chad Griffin

#25. Called the Academy for Citizens of Tomorrow (ACT) Program, it focuses on giving young people the opportunity to become leaders both in their school and in the broader community.

Gregory A. Smith

#26. You need experience around you when you are a young player. You need to know how to run a team, to lead a team and to play as a team which means, your team has leaders but you still function as a team.

Berti Vogts

#27. Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

Young Jeezy

#28. Young people should ponder over problems that might confront them and be prepared to cope with them in a way that their parents, their leaders, and their Heavenly Father would have them cope, that they might keep themselves clean and pure.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#29. I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

Walter Dean Myers

#30. The deficiency of the negro race is not as a result of the deluge number of bad leaders;rather, its is an outcome of the shortage of young negro intellect ready to lead a revolutionary africa.

Victor Adeagbo

#31. Sometimes, leaders' failures can cost these young people's lives.

King Hussein

#32. Investing in women, helping women to achieve their dreams, sending young girls to college. Trying to train young girls to be leaders. Sponsoring the Minerva Awards. All of these programs didn't exist before that help women day in and day out.

Maria Shriver

#33. The leaders were less willing to fight. It is always the young and impressionable who strap on the explosives and blow themselves up.

Mark Owen

#34. We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier.

Brandi Chastain

#35. I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

Maajid Nawaz

#36. Young people will always need mentors to guide and support them.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.

Michael Burgess

#38. You can be a great man and still be a fool. Many of our country's leaders can attest to that. Were they still living.

Rachel E. Carter

#39. One of the most encouraging things is to see that so many of these young musicians and worship leaders are really concerned with doing a good job representing the truth of Jesus in their songs, and not just concerned with creative and musical progression.

Matt Redman

#40. We need more leaders among our gente - more teachers, politicians, businesspeople, organizers, and such. Turn the energy that many young people are putting into "war" and "death" and put it into life and true justice.

Luis J. Rodriguez

#41. Teach for America recruits top recent college grads, young professionals, people we believe are the U.S.'s most promising future leaders, and asks them to commit two years to teach in high-need urban and rural communities.

Wendy Kopp

#42. It became my mission to work with young people to help show them the way, not save them! But help them understand that there are choices that can be made that will make the difference for the rest of their lives.

Jose A. Aviles

#43. My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders are denying the dire reality we are facing. Leadership can come form anywhere.

Kumi Naidoo

#44. Leadership will either lead you into a ditch or lead you into purpose. We need our leaders, especially those who are teaching our young people, to have the right message.

Myles Munroe

#45. For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.

Tony Dungy