Wise Leader Quotes

#1. As a good gardener prepares the soil, so a wise leader creates an environment that promotes community ... community involves a common place, a common time, and a common purpose. Just getting people in the same place at the same time does not produce a team. Community requires a common vision.

Diane Dreher

#2. The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.

Laozi

#3. Reform is usually possible only once a sense of crisis takes hold.... In fact, crises are such valuable opportunities that a wise leader often prolongs a sense of emergency on purpose.

Charles Duhigg

#4. A wise leader doesn't just follow but discover the path.

Pearl Zhu

#5. You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less

Patrick Ness

#6. A wise leader always sees the best in people even in difficult situations.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. The wise leader's plans, considerations of advantage and of disadvantage will be blended together.

Sun Tzu

#8. Any group has a sense of who it is and what is values, but this sense often remains beneath the surface. A wise leader can discern these unspoken beliefs and articulate them.

Diane Dreher

#9. Success, cannot be attained alone. Any person's time and power is limited. A wise leader enlists others in working toward organizational goals.

Gichin Funakoshi

#10. The wise leader speaks rarely and briefly. After all, no other natural outpouring goes on and on. It rains and then it stops. It thunders and then it stops.

John Heider

#11. It wasn't just a matter of hiding what you really felt. If you hid your feelings well enough, it actually changed you. A

Neal Stephenson

#12. In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.

Frederick Lenz

#13. The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.

Aaron Sorkin

#14. You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.

Jack London

#15. I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief.

Sandra Cisneros

#16. Leadership is a group project, and all of us are necessary to fill it. Wise leaders will realize this and encourage their groups to develop their own evolving leadership potential.

Arnold Mindell

#17. Rashness in a leader causes failure; the sailor of a ship is calm, wise at the proper time. Yes, and forethought: this too is bravery.

Euripides

#18. Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together.

Stephen Covey

#19. Hush," said January. "We may be old, but we're not silly. Satan is a catchall term. It gives identity to our theory of a centralized leadership. Call him what you want, a maximum leader, a caudillo. A Genghis Khan or Sitting Bull. Or a council of wise men, or warlords. The concept is sound. Logical.

Jeff Long

#20. There was a hint of spring in her sole green eyes, something summery in her complexion, and a rich autumn ripeness in her walk.

Toni Morrison

#21. In my view, leadership is the courage to take risks in defense of a position that is both legal and moral. The politician who tries to become a wise guy by becoming friends to everybody - corrupt or not - is not a leader.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#22. Well, we played with Soul Coughing once for like two days, that was pretty cool. I mean they were all good, you can pull a great experience from everything.

Mike Lowry

#23. {My mom] long ago advised me, when I was feeling blue or self-doubting about men, that the best thing to do was go out and buy a red lipstick or a red dress. 'It will be your red badge of courage,' she said.

Maureen Dowd

#24. A brick could be used to illustrate the seriousness of the situation. You'll know I'm not playing when I display a brick. Shit's getting real up in here, motherfucker.

Jarod Kintz

#25. I go where the lizards tell me.

Scott Westerfeld

#26. A true leader always feels that it's truly wise to be considered a fool by those who are not actually nice, and actually not nice to be considered a wise by those who are truly fools.

Anuj

#27. Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.

James Hansen

#28. A leader is simply one who leads, and a bad leader can lead an army into Hell. I want these boys to be heroic, brave and wise.

Anonymous

#29. 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

#30. The humble one is the better one.

Lik Hock Yap

#31. A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued - a time when the losses of the present must be accepted - and cut - to preserve the gains and providence of the future.

A.J. Darkholme

#32. On out deathbeds we're not going to regret all the work we didn't do. We're going to regret all the sex we didn't have!

John Betjeman

#33. It's a stupid leader who can't turn follower when somebody offers him a wiser course

Orson Scott Card

#34. A fool is wise in his own eyes.

Solomon

#35. What I had wasn't enough. I wanted more than enough.

Jay McLean

#36. You shouldn't be eating anything that takes six minutes to microwave.

Adam Carolla

#37. To be a leader, take action and be an example. To be an adviser, be wise.

Debasish Mridha

#38. I'm a leader. I'm the leader of this team, and they look for me at any point in the game, and that's not just scoring-wise, I do other things.

LeBron James

#39. You cannot tell a river in which direction it should flow, but you can steer your boat.

Matshona Dhliwayo