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Leadership Quotes


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


"Leaders are lovers of change. Without change, growth is static. To lead, you have to appreciate change; else change will depreciate you!"


"The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!"


"With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed."


"A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition."


"Generous leaders have faith in others to succeed. In turn, they receive tenfold loyalty, commitment, and a positive outcome."


"Your anger towards ungodliness, towards injustice and the likes, will create a hunger in you to fulfill a particular purpose meant for you."


"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."


"Authentic Leaders are not afraid to show emotion and vulnerability as they share in the challenges with their team. Developing a solid foundation of trust with open and honest communication is critical to authentic leadership."


"There are four types of environments; the one that can help destroy you, the one that can help improve you, the one that can destroy the improved you and the one that can improve the destroyed you. Watch out and be vigilant!"


"Speak well to people; tell them the truth today! If you meet them another day, tell them the same truth! That shows how you can maintain the real character you poses!"


"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."


"You may gain a position, but that does not mean you've gained leadership. You may lose position, but that does not mean you've lost leadership! When you gain true character, you can leadership and when you lose it, you cease to be a leader!"



"My mother was a voice of reason, a reminder that they had to stay focused and fully assess the situation. Her composure calmed everybody; her strong manner inspired them. This, I realized, was how a leader behaved."


"But the king was frowning. "I expected you a month ago."Aedion actually had the nerve to shrug. "Apologies. The Staghorns were slammed with a final winter storm. I left when I could."Every person in the hall held their breath."


"Pride, anger and hatred are fruits from the same garden that poison the world when ripe. A leader cultivates no such fruits."


"To become a better you, look nowhere else for another alarm to blow before you wake up. Get up and rise up."


"In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society."


"Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention."


"The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes."


"Leadership is the ability to make things happen."


"The cook's role is to feed the body while a leader's role is to feed the mind and spirit."


"We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive."


"The beginning is the most important part of the work."


"People who found something to live and die for always live in the hope of success. They never allow doubts to create distances between them and their harvest time. That is also their decision."


"When a leader has an attitude of gratitude, it can create great differences in the lives of others."


"I think it matters whether someone has a good heart."


"People will rather appreciate a man who wears one suit out of the several he has got and refuse to validate the man who has put only suit he has into shape and has worn it on his back."


"Before someone will get the guts to monitor your life, he must get the keyboard of humility. To be a humble person, is a priority in leadership!"


"My concern is to help people find out how they could best live their lives to hit the mark almost every single time."


"Those are the men,' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations."


"Leadership is not always about your power, it's all about your ability to empower, encourage, and elevate others."


"The most powerful words in English are, "Tell me a story."


"Leadership is a skill learned through many venues."


"God is my only leader. Truth is my only sword. Guided only by my conscience, I am a true citizen of the world."


"Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it."


"It takes a leader to create the momentum, it takes a vision to direct the momentum, it takes a massive action to build on the momentum, and it takes self-discipline to sustain the momentum. Momentum is the bridge between a vision and its results."


"In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served."


"Live with compassion, work with confidence, and create opportunities for others to conquer the world."


"Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so."


"Every leader must be challenged to educate their followers and capacitate them with knowledge, tools and a voice to champion their own causes and become actively involved in setting the agenda for citizen participation in social transformation. Don't create a dependent constituency; develop and lead other leaders who demonstrate a growing personal responsibility for their own success as well as for those around them."


"No leader can be too far ahead of his followers."


"I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job.""


"We must learn to let the Word of God feed us and strengthen us in our faith in God its author, Christ its message, and the Holy Spirit its teacher."


"Good and great are seldom in the same man."


"When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves.""



"Great people stand out from others by their visions and not much by their intelligence."
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