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Leadership Quotes


"Make good choices. The environment in which you dwell can have a high influence on what you will achieve. Friends you associate yourself with have the potential to reduce or upgrade your brand. What you think about can make you remain where you are or move you higher in your endeavours."


"It is not just about what you can do that will make you a leader. It is about how well you can do it."


"You may have good skills and better knowledge, but it is your attitude that will bring people closer to you."


"It is a responsibility for those that see and have understanding, and choose to not be bridled by fear, to step forward and lead the way."


"Change won't happen because everyone wishes it happens. It happens only when people decide that we'll never stop digging until we find our gold."


"Live an exemplary life as a leader. When you are gone, you will still lead from the grave because your influence, impacts and inspirations will become and information for the living."


"Do what is uncommon, do it in the uncommon way."


"A prudent ruler is distinguished by his ability to manage."


"Millions of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the lifespan of that single candle will never be shortened! Feel free to share your success stories with every loved one out there, it will strengthen them but will never weaken you in any way."


"Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them."


"Don't comply with what everyone says, judge out issues before you deal with them!"


"Never allow your limitations to tie you down for failure to whip."


"The place where "me & I" does not exist - Leadership."


"March out of the common line; make bold steps ahead and dance to the tune of a sweeter, better and nicer tone of your own music. March out of the tiny box!"


"Leaders pull the trigger, but the "shot" belongs to you."


"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen."


"When dark situations arise, it is opportunity for you to reveal the leader in you. Rise and deal with them."


"Power and influence: things that should be obtained not for means of greed, nor pride, nor ego, but rather to ensure that in the right moment, when your wisdom and benevolence are required to keep humanity strong and united, you can deliver and orchestrate others toward the greater good."


"For a leader, courage, love, and passion for service are the virtues of life."


"Grief is a hone to a hard mind."


"21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues!"


"A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results."


"In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership."


"Leaders can set targets as high as they like, but when followers are not aware of the vision in place; it may just be another futile endeavor."


"True leaders apply law and grace, for those who only apply only law have little influence and those who apply only grace do not influence properly."


"Naturally, everyone is expected to enter the future only once, but by the transport medium of dreams, great people enjoy the future twice! They pay a visit into the future by dreaming, and they relocate to settle in it by their purposeful actions!"


"Leaders fail when they begin to fall in love with negative mindsets of other people!"


"Leadership without servanthood is like an ocean without water."


"Aspire higher to attain excellence in whatever you do. But be careful when you reach the peak, where the only way is the way downwards. Maintain your standard!"


"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854."


"You can cease to be influenced by people who tease you... Just neglect their helps and elevate your steps... You can do it!"


"You can choose when and when not to be stopped... Choose to be stopped after you die... when your work is done and done well."


"Thought leadership is first and foremost life leadership."


"Greatness is inspiring others to be their best."


"Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error."


"Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren't. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire. People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser. When it comes to choosing a savior, they won't settle for just a human being."


"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."


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


"The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts."


"The life of a leader becomes intertwined with the expectations of those influenced as well as society in general. The expectations are so high, sometimes seemingly unreasonable, but all the same a reality that can only be brushed aside to the detriment of the one who does so. The majority of the eyes scrutinizing your life as a leader are not close or obvious " but they exist everywhere. Waiting for you to slip up or make a mistake so they can point, shout, criticize or destroy. Such is the immeasurable influence of leadership and what it attracts to itself."


"Kill the fears before they endorse your failures. When you attempt to stop the terrorist at the time he's at work, you are too late!"


"A praiseworthy King is he who doesn't seek the most expensive throne, rather the most effective leadership style."


"Ask yourself - How do I see myself as a leader? How do I use my personal mission and vision to create leadership focus? What does my mission or vision mean in the context of leading others? How many people are going to succeed in their endeavours, through my leadership influence? Do I expect of myself, what I expect of those who follow me? Or I have my own separate standards for the same principles I expect others to live by?"


"Principle-centred leadership, consistent leadership, stewardship and servant leadership are all values-driven. Always go back to reflect on your beliefs and values as you go about your leadership responsibilities."


"The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets."


"With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."


"You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much like Pablo. You couldn't wait for the real Peasant Leader to arrive and he might have too many peasant characteristics when he did. So you had to manifacture one. At that, from what he had seen of Campesino, with his black beard, his thick negroid lips, and his feverish, staring eyes, he thought he might give almost as much trouble as a real peasant leader. The last time he had seen him he seemed to have gotten to believe his own publicity and think he was a peasant."


"Love for others is the foundation of leadership.Simplicity is the language of leadership.Authenticity is the true character of leadership."
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