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Leadership Quotes


"True leadership is the orchestration of truth into action to shine Light into darkness."


"A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers."


"All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State."


"Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human."


"A majority is always better than the best repartee."


"A mentor is a trusted teacher that develops lives of the vulnerable ones."


"Our strength lies not just in numbers but in the unity of purpose, fueled by the discipline to strive for a better tomorrow."


"The enemy came to steel,destroy and kill our leader, our hero Steve Biko. He was chosen by God and no one can deny that."


"When you choose to act on your problems, you cease to be a victim of circumstance and become a force of change; that's when you transition to not only being a survivor, but to being a leader or hero too, and an inspiration to those still in the victim's mindset."


"If we aren't trustworthy to our own words and values, why should we expect others to trust us with their resources, let alone with their lives?"


"And he thought of the two people who had held his job before him: Sam and Astrid. Both beaten into despair by trying to hold this group of kids together in the face of one disaster after another. Both of them now happy to let Edilio handle it."No wonder, Edilio muttered."Stay inside unless absolutely necessary, Edilio shouted, and not for the first or last time wished he was still just Sam's faithful sidekick."


"The devil is alive and kicking. But if you are in Christ and follow the rules of daily Bible study, prayer, and witnessing, he has no power over you."


"Praise is the most efficient tool to win many battles at once. It is through praise that the walls of Jericho collapsed, the same way Paul and Silas praised their way out of jail."


"Your "scared" and my "scared" are two different things.''What's that supposed to mean?' she asked.'As you get older, you don't recover from things so easy.''As you get older, you also get tired?''Yeah,' I said, 'you get tired."


"Great leaders do not shift responsibility even if it means acknowledging their own failures."


"Benchmark against the top performing movers and shakers in your game. What are the skills required to achieve excellence in your area of specialty as a leader? How are you managing your vision and mission? Do you demonstrate a life lived with clear goals and targets? How are you providing direction, influence and developing others to lead? What is the evidence of the good leadership of your team?"


"One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion."


"He who becomes his most truthful self, becomes the leader for everyone else."


"Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage."


"Don't confuse one leader's bluster for muster or another leader's meekness for weakness."


"Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new."


"Leadership is influencing others through modeling."


"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."


"Always know that you are being held accountable for your actions, by your friends, family, coworkers, and most importantly, by God. Lead by example and build a team of successful people around you. By being the dependable person, success is naturally attracted to you."


"Manipulative Leaders Create Distrust and selfishness. Transactional Leaders Create Mediocrity and complacency. Motivational Leaders Create Positivity and Action. Influential Leaders Create Growth and Empowerment. Servant-Leaders Create Authenticity and Explosive Growth. Transformational Leaders Create Change and Leave Legacies."


"A good leader lays seeds to grow trees of peace. A bad leader lays down bricks to build walls of ignorance. Always choose the peacemaker, not the divider. The one who unites and strengthens a country, not divides and cripples it. A leader that will build bridges, not walls."


"Serving is the best kind of Leading."


"Because leaders and influential people are just as human as any other person, they sometimes forget that by doing little extra things to become extraordinary means they no longer have a completely private life. You must be willing to pay this price because if you don't, the consequences can be more disastrous. Learn to plan and be deliberate in also ensuring you and your family can still enjoy quality private moments."


"Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert."


"I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game."


"As you strive for personal effectiveness and leadership excellence, there are local and global questions that you will inevitably have to face. These range from poverty, corruption, terrorism, food security, scarcity of resources and overpopulation among others. Your power and influence for significance in leadership excellence will increase in direct proportion to your ability to find effective and sustainable practical solutions to some of these real-life challenges."


"Many of the confusions, conflicts, and disarrays that are rampant in today's organizations, communities, and nations could have been avoided if leaders have solid self-awareness..."


"Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward."


"The principles of stewardship and servant leadership challenge you to look at leadership differently. Consider these values."


"Coaching is one of the most effective leadership styles that can transform, empower and unlock people's potential. Ask more, advice less, elevate your impact forever."


"When you join teams that changes lives, yours will be the first."


"Voicing out your concerns in a calmly way is a great thing to do and it helps and saves lives of those who can't speak up."


"I have no doubt that you are more than capable of bringing the Monsean queen and my son and the rest of my sons and a hundred Nanderan kittens through an onslaught of howling raiders if you chose to."


"Leaders do what ought to be done whether their deeds are known by thousands or known by no one."


"There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm."


"PROMISING, VOWING...cannot earn us trust. Trust can't be generated overnight. No SHORT CUT! It takes DOING over a very long period of time."


"The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach."


"Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command."



"When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize."


"A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot be adopted by anyone in your absence, you are no good model."


"You can t learn leadership from books. You learn it by following."


"A mere motivator sees potentials in people and tells them to take actions. A true leader sees the same potentials in the same people and influences them to optimize them under his God-lead inspirations."
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