Top 100 Work Leadership Quotes
#1. Solitude helps the soul remember that life and
work have two completely different meanings. It reminds
us that we were created for greatness in relationship with
others, not task lists and spreadsheets.
Angela Lynne Craig
#2. Nigerians must have the dream, believe the dream, live the dream and work to build the dream
Fela Durotoye
#4. The sword of the Spirit has been muffled up and decked out with flowers and ribbons, author writes, conveying the sentiments of a Congregationist minister on men's ceding of moral and religious instruction and correction as women's work.
Nancy Pearcey
#5. I am inspired by my mother's faith and the teaching I receive under the leadership of Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer. I am also inspired by hard work and powerful people who have maintained a sense of integrity, decency, and kindness. Love really inspires me.
Erica Tazel
#6. We ask our volunteers, "Do you work here?" They say, "Not yet."
Andy Stanley
#7. Its easier to start a global business than a local one, make your business one where you can work from anywhere in the world
Roger James Hamilton
#8. Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start
with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best
leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will
say 'We have done this ourselves.
Lao-Tzu
#10. With God's help, you will continue to succeed in your leadership and in your duties, because Our Lord's work is accomplished not so much by the multitude of workers as by the fidelity of the small number whom He calls.
Vincent De Paul
#11. Choices and decisions must be supported by your passion, resolve and a productive work ethic. If these meet opportunity - your success has finally come!
Archibald Marwizi
#12. I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.
Cesar Chavez
#13. If you fail to honor your people, They will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, The people will say, "We did this ourselves."
Laozi
#14. If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
Dee Hock
#15. Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.
C. K. Prahalad
#16. 30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.
Jack Ma
#17. Always be the light. Do not wait for others to take responsibility
Sunday Adelaja
#18. Practice what you preach and let people learn from you
Sunday Adelaja
#19. Beginning to work your plan means movement and action. The success of your movements and actions can only be guaranteed if they are well calculated.
Archibald Marwizi
#20. The future of work revolution begins one person at a time.
Bill Jensen
#21. When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.
Roy Bennett
#22. Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them.
Robin Sharma
#23. Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.
Mary Parker Follett
#24. To make your Opinion Count,
you have to do something more
than just making Money.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#25. You live, work and lead others in the most exciting time, ever! Are you strong enough?
Bill Jensen
#26. Leaders seem to have a high tolerance for ambiguity. Recognizing that the brain does not work in a completely linear fashion, leaders demonstrate a comfort with the chaos of exploding ideas, many of them seemingly unrelated to the stimulus that caused them.
Marlene Caroselli
#27. I think in any situation, so much of effective leadership is when it comes from your own personality. And I feel very fortunate to be comfortable in the Colts locker room, where people can be who they are, and they don't have to change it when they show up to work that day.
Andrew Luck
#28. You must not wait to be elected into office, before you begin to serve. Begin to serve every where you are; in the home, community, school, university, work, hospital, church, market, society, nation and among many other places.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#29. Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive.
Noel DeJesus
#30. I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.
Carl Yastrzemski
#31. While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.
Rahm Emanuel
#32. Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER.
Richie Norton
#33. Few things feel as unbelievably great as working out hard.
Robin Sharma
#34. Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over.
Roger Harrison
#35. The reputation of a great work ethic that took years to build can be forgotten with one act of misjudgment.
Mark W. Boyer
#36. Leaders are not born, but made as a result of hard work
Sunday Adelaja
#37. Embracing personal vulnerability is required if you wish to work, play and succeed in the future.
Bill Jensen
#38. The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work ot make it better.
Barbra Pletcher
#39. The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.
Lou Holtz
#40. Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering.
Eric Liu
#41. Our place of birth is not so much as important as our place of berth, yet we can't moore. If we do we know our birthplace for the first time.
Amah Lambert
#42. The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.
Bill Gates
#43. Despite several millennia of building best business practices, despite all the analysis and planning, and forced discipline and structure, what makes us human will never be cleaved from how work gets done.
Bill Jensen
#44. To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.
Beverly Daniel Tatum
#45. In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.
Joseph C. Rost
#47. In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.
Brad Wenstrup
#48. Leadership takes continuous, counterintuitive, ego-minimizing work.
Anonymous
#49. Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts!
Denise Moreland
#50. You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.
Condoleezza Rice
#51. Agile project leaders help their team balance at the edge of chaos - some structure, but not too much; adequate documentation, but not too much; some up-front architecture work, but not too much. Finding these balance points is the "art" of agile leadership.
Jim Highsmith
#52. As I tell my children, 'If you are going to do something, do your best while you're doing it.
Michelle Moore
#53. Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.
Winston Churchill
#54. leadership is more than hard work; it is habitual work. It is worked out every day in the tasks we complete, the ways we approach our work, and the rhythms we nurture in our lives. It hangs on the hooks of the patterns we create, not just the success we may stumble upon.
Brad Lomenick
#55. History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide leadership, the American people will follow.
Chuck Hagel
#56. Often truly authoritative leadership falls on someone who years earlier dedicated themselves to practice the discipline of seeking first the kingdom of God. Then, as that person matures, God confers a leadership role, and the Spirit of God goes to work throuh him.
J. Oswald Sanders
#57. When work relationships are reciprocal, ethical leadership emerges for both the executive and the participant unless the executive is trying to control the participant.
Peter J. Dean
#58. A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#59. Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.
Richard Branson
#60. Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.
Warren G. Bennis
#61. We are born with the need for a leader, someone to control the conflict between each individual's need. An alpha in the house, an alpha at work, an alpha in the church and in the White House.
Colin McAdam
#62. Empowerment Is Something Someone Gives You. Self Leadership Is What You Do To Make It Work.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#63. I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
Queen Elizabeth II
#64. 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
#65. As President, I am determined to offer leadership to overcome our current economic problems. My goal is for jobs for all who want to work and economic opportunity for all who want to achieve.
Gerald R. Ford
#66. Leadership's a lot more about how brilliantly you work and how masterfully you behave.
Robin S. Sharma
#67. The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate
it's either in their DNA or it's not.
Richard Branson
#68. When leaders are worthy of respect, the people are willing to work for them. When their virtue is worthy of admiration, their authority can be established.
Huananzi
#69. Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Vince Lombardi
#70. Leadership is a mindset that shifts from being a victim to creating results. Any one of us can demonstrate leadership in our work and within our lives.
Robin S. Sharma
#71. While you're worrying about becoming famous, there is someone out there putting in work and not wasting a second of their time. Which person will you be?
Torron-Lee Dewar
#72. A Consciously Conscious Revolutionary Workplace mindset, is People Firsts, to ensure that it's not a prostitute of our children's future.
Tony Dovale
#73. People don't change that much. Instead of trying to put in what God left out, try drawing out what God left in!
Curt Coffman
#74. In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.
Bill Dedman
#75. One's best work comes when we are fully alive, happy, and inspired.
Eric Schiffer
#76. Ray Lewis, I've grown up watching Ray Lewis. Just watching his intensity, his passion for the game, his love for the game, his work ethic. Everything in a linebacker that you want to be is in Ray Lewis, from leadership qualities, all that.
Manti Te'o
#77. Be the light and source of inspiration that others see
Sunday Adelaja
#79. Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.
Andy Hargreaves
#80. Learn from your experiences and past mistakes, assimilate them and convert them to formulas to achieve sustenance first , and then work your way to success to be the leaders in the market.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#81. I've prided myself on being in excellent condition-as good as any man in my profession. Now this doesn't come from sitting around on your rear end. This comes from hard, hard work.
Wilt Chamberlain
#82. Reliance is the ultimate measure of a team's or organization's culture. It's not 'Would I recommend a friend to work here?' It's 'Would this group of people put their ass on the line for me?' And 'Would I do the same for them?
Bill Jensen
#83. People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.
Anita Roddick
#84. Chinese entrepreneurs have to implement their work under the leadership of the Party and the government - it is very clear.
Li Shufu
#85. People need to feel safe to be who they are - to speak up when they have an idea, or to speak out when they feel something isn't right.
Eunice Parisi-Carew
#86. 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
#87. Develop the muscles for hard work and never be an early quitter.
Israelmore Ayivor
#88. Winning is what happens when commitment, desire, talent, preparation, hard work, and leadership all come together.
Tom Coughlin
#89. Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.
Steve Ballmer
#90. Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller
#91. Teddy Roosevelt "had relished "every hour" of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the "dull thud" he would experience upon returning to private life.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#92. Practice non-action. Work without doing.
Laozi
#93. One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.
Jack Welch
#94. If you have a vision and there is no job title for it yet. That's a vision right there!
Janna Cachola
#95. The will to win is more important then the skill to win. It is possible to achieve only what you actively pursue. Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. Keep your head high and work hard everyday, because you'll never get that day back
Lloy Ball
#96. We carry out our work under the leadership of the government.
Li Shufu
#97. Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
Seth Godin
#98. Knowing how to do a job is the accomplishment of labor - showing others is the accomplishment of the teacher - making sure the work is done by others is the accomplishment of the manager - inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of the leader.
John C. Maxwell
#99. The worst type of employee you can have is one who has mentally quit and is still physically coming to work every day.
David Cottrell
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