Vision Of Leadership Quotes

#1. The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith.

John Haggai

#2. The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business.

Chris Matthews

#3. The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.

Rick Warren

#4. You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.

Ban Ki-moon

#5. There's all kind of vision in this Book. Just open it up and your people will follow.

Matthew Carter

#6. (Vice President) Garner has taken his personal smallness, his lack of generosity, and forged it into a political principle. He has no imagination, no convictions, and he substitutes political cynicism for social understanding.

Hamilton Basso

#7. The art of effective leadership is about navigating the dynamics of growth and success ... holding a vision and leading a team, but arriving at the same time.

Steve Maraboli

#8. Hope without a strategy doesn't generate leadership. Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of the future and a way to get there. People won't follow you if they don't believe you can get to where you say you're going.

Seth

#9. In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

Adam Schiff

#10. Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.

John C. Maxwell

#11. Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

Stephen Covey

#12. It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

Karen Kain

#13. Many 'experts' don't possess the imagination or vision or any of the logistical expertise required to achieve malaria eradication. Their opinions shouldn't be allowed to hold back men and women who do possess these qualities from achieving the 'impossible.

T.K. Naliaka

#14. A sign of a good leader is not his position but his vision.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it.

Marcia Whicker

#16. Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.

Jack Welch

#17. The vision is to restore Avon to an iconic beauty brand and to our leadership position in global direct selling, as well as continuing to ensure that we live up to our mission of empowering women.

Sheri McCoy

#18. Leadership is the process of motivating, mobilizing, resourcing, and directing people to passionately and strategically pursue a vision from God that a group jointly embraces.

George Barna

#19. Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.

Jack Weatherford

#20. Without action, a vision is just a piece of paper. In education, we have lots of paper.

William Sterrett

#21. He's got to have the ability, and it seems to be fairly rare, to see things as they are and at the same time as they might have been. What we mean is the eye of an artist.

Jack Finney

#22. The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind that he could not discuss my prospects without having me before him.

Charles Dickens

#23. The lack of vision in public life and the emptying out of values that visionless leadership creates lead to a politics of complaint.

Jim Wallis

#24. 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

#25. We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there.

Scott Hammerle

#26. A truly great and enduring vision will extend beyond the leadership season of any one individual and be carried in the hearts and minds of those to whom it has been entrusted.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#27. People who are role models for the principles and values of the organization, who buy in and understand the vision of what the organization is trying to accomplish, and have the personality to inspire other people to the vision. You know, that's what team chemistry and leadership is all about.

Nick Saban

#28. Leadership requires two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate it.

Simon Sinek

#29. Leadership is the art of serving God by helping His people become more like His Son through the indefatigable pursuit of His vision and values.

George Barna

#30. Cease from envy, prejudice and unhealthy competitiveness. Never abandon your own mission and brand to pursue the seemingly exciting mission or vision of another.

Archibald Marwizi

#31. Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.

Bill Hybels

#32. The very essence of leadership is you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.
Whatever you value, be committed to it and let nothing distract you from this goal. The uncommitted life, like Plato's unexamined life, is not worth living.

Theodore M. Hesburgh

#33. The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

Mary Parker Follett

#34. One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.

Simon Sinek

#35. Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

Daisaku Ikeda

#36. You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Woodrow Wilson

#37. Vision is a future state of beings.

Pearl Zhu

#38. Grounded leaders are present for others, operate with fortitude, and influence with the full impact of their vision and strength.

Catherine Robinson-Walker

#39. There are six elements of gravitas critical to leadership: grace under fire, decisiveness, emotional intelligence and the ability to read a room, integrity and authenticity (people don't like fakes), a vision that inspires others, and a stellar reputation.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#40. 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

#41. Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

Abraham Zaleznik

#42. To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.

Ronald Reagan

#43. I wonder what really goes on in the minds of Church leadership who know of the data concerning the Book of Abraham, the new data on the First Vision, etc ... It would tend to devastate the Church if a top leader were to announce the facts.

Thomas Ferguson

#44. Because "we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of the imagery of virtue" - imaginative depictions of the truly good life - "we will seek out the imagery of vice.

Russell Kirk

#45. There should be a healthy 'stubbornness', assertiveness and confidence that comes from knowledge of your clear vision, mission, values and personal brand.

Archibald Marwizi

#46. Leadership is the lifting of a man's vision to higher sights, the raising of a man's performance to a higher standard, the building of a man's personality beyond its limitations. - PETER DRUCKER

Samuel Chand

#47. Consider your will to be the vision of your influence on earth after you cease to be a part of it. Crafting a lasting legacy means you start planning and making it possible now.

Archibald Marwizi

#48. Move away from the mid-set that the fulfillment of the organization's mission, vision, and strategic plan is only the work of leaders.

Sue Tetzlaff

#49. To enact a vision of human flourishing based on the qualities of life that Jesus modeled will invariably challenge the given structures of the social order. In this light, there is no true leadership without putting at risk one's time, wealth, reputation, and position.

James Davison Hunter

#50. Afrikaans was the language of the white minority in South Africa, and the forced learning of it created resentment among blacks. Even so, Nelson Mandela made it a point to learn this language in prison in anticipation that it would help him lead the whole of South Africa.

Robert Lane Greene

#51. Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It doesn't begin and end with the writing of a personal mission statement. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.

Stephen R. Covey

#52. This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.

Marc Morial

#53. Perhaps the most important factor of leadership is simply taking advantage of the chance to lead.

Julie F. Parker

#54. My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me.

Justin Trudeau

#55. I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

George W. Bush

#56. He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.

Robert A. Caro

#57. You can actually herd cats. They can't be forced, of course. But if they sense something they want, if there enticed by something good, they'll follow, even in herds.

Ron Suskind

#58. People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.

J. Oswald Sanders

#59. The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Theodore M. Hesburgh

#60. Eisenhower on LBJ: He hadn't got the depth of mind nor the breath vision to carry great responsibility.

David Pietrusza

#61. 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.

Israelmore Ayivor

#62. It is the challenge for every leader to develop and invest in those he depends on, to ensure his or her vision is realized in the way it has been put upon the leader's heart. These key people will enhance the success or taint the leadership image and brand of the visionary.

Archibald Marwizi

#63. The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

Benjamin Zander

#64. People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

Stedman Graham

#65. No true power can be founded among men which does not depend upon the free union of their inclinations; and patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of the body politic to one end.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#66. Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

John P. Kotter

#67. When it comes to the arc of your life, leadership is a sacred responsibility.

Paul Gibbons

#68. Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort.

John C. Maxwell

#69. I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.

Angela Ahrendts

#70. Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when he met resistance in a local, academic issue.

David Pietrusza

#71. Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

Simon Sinek

#72. When you are on a great mission, look simple;think and act complexly

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#73. What excites the media is that someone has a great idea or vision and makes millions as a result. The reality is that rarely happens. It is competency that unlocks a person's potential.
Tim Clark excerpt from DO! the pursuit of xceptional execution

Kevin Kelly

#74. Vision and persistence will take you to the top of the leadership mountain, but only humility will keep you there.

Orrin Woodward

#75. Since taking office, President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world - leadership defined, not by the threats and dangers that we will oppose, but by the security, opportunity and dignity that America advances in partnership with people around the world.

John O. Brennan

#76. Stop judging yourself on the basis of your appearance or condition of present circumstances. You may have an old car, in debt, job stress, and a troubled relationship, but they are not a true reflection of you as long as you are working on the vision of what you will be years from now.

Archibald Marwizi

#77. Change or you will be changed: leaders who neglect the good of their people will be forsaken. Leadership is a service, not a gateway to privilege.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#78. The past doesn't equal the future.
All great leaders, all people who have achieved in any area of life,
know the power of continuously pursuing their vision,
even if all the details of how to achieve it aren't yet available

Tony Robbins

#79. Don't set your sights low, just because someone else has a limited view of life's possibilities. One person's comfort zone may be another person's cage.

Eleanor Brownn

#80. Open Awareness The Angle of Vision Leadership Openness Getting Out of The Way Possibilities MEDITATION:

Sharon Salzberg

#81. I do think the most important thing we need in leadership in our country, not just in the presidency but in the United States Senate, are people that have a clear vision of what the role of government should be in our lives and what the role of America should be in the world.

Marco Rubio

#82. After World War II, American leaders were, in Dean Acheson's words, 'present at the creation' of a global order. Now at the end of the cold war, we desperately need that same vision, that leadership, that creativity to be applied to the governance of the global marketplace.

John J. Sweeney

#83. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Peter F. Drucker and Joseph A. Maciariello, Management: Revised Edition, 2008, p. 288.

Joseph A. Maciariello

#84. Leadership is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision.

William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

#85. Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

Edwin H. Friedman

#86. Radio was theater of the mind.

Ronald Reagan

#87. It is not easy to build a great brand. It takes leadership to persuade the rest of the company to follow your vision. It takes an artistic sense of proportion and timing. It takes a ruthless willingness to distinguish yourself from competing brands and, hopefully, bury them in the process.

David F. D'Alessandro

#88. When you don't know where you are going in life (No Clear Destination), you don't need direction ... you need Divine Revelation

Fela Durotoye

#89. The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

Hugh Mackay

#90. By connecting and being part of a community with a shared vision and goals, we can create great things.

David J. Greer

#91. A nation is not defined by its borders or the boundaries of its land mass Rather, a nation is defined by adverse people who have been unified by a cause and a value system and who are committed to a vision for the type of society they wish to live in and give to the future generations to come.

Fela Durotoye

#92. The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

#93. Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.

Mitt Romney

#94. The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

Warren G. Bennis

#95. Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have - a sense of vision, inspiration, or even an adequate grasp of a particular subject.

Hugh Mackay

#96. President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.

Dennis Hastert

#97. Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.

Warren G. Bennis

#98. Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Claude Taylor

#99. Our vision is to look through the eyes of our kids. We are a lucky, peaceful nation. We are an unselfish people. That's one of our proudest national attributes.

Peter Cosgrove

#100. He (Peter) doesn't know if he's looking into the eyes of a madman, or the eyes of a King.

Roma Downey