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Leadership Quotes


"The only way we succeed as a group is not simply following directions, but in keeping each other accountable for our actions."


"The more you express your skills, the more experienced you become and the closer you get to excellence."


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


"If you copy my dreams, you automatically will copy my challenges too. My success will give you a crown. My challenges will make you frown."


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


"Attitude is that litmus test which differentiates a knower from a doer. Knowers have only the skills, doers have the skills and the will to do what they know!"


"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!"


"I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St Louis: gird on the sword of your ancestors, and lead us to victory' you may spare your breath to cool your porridge; for I cannot do it. I am not built that way; and there is an end of it."


"Leading fools is like leading no one. Following a fool is like following no one. The wise make the best leaders and followers."


"A lion does not take orders from sheep."


"The world is starving for original and decisive 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!"


"Leaders know where they can function better. They don't cry over what they cannot do."


"What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession."


"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!"


"Do you know that pain of leaving when you look back expecting to see a face waving goodbye at you but all you see is a dark abandoned corner?There won't be any reason to return then.All you can do is look ahead and not to stumble and fall on the pit ahead waiting for you."


"At some stage of development an officer had to stop following orders and start generating them."


"The ladder of leadership can only stand firm on the grounds of integrity. Any other ground makes it unstable till it falls."


"The way to the hall of failure passes through the chamber of indecision. The way to the hall of success passes through the chamber of decision. Success and failure are deliberately won!"



"To build up people teach them to be administrators and managers."


"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!"


"The biggest loopholes created in the world become evident when people who were born to lead do not eventually become leaders and never know it!"


"Leaders who nurture followers to be leaders, keep leading even when they retire, and they keep winning the admiration of leading leaders."


"A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to the path of destruction."


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


"Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders."


"When you empower your people, your business will grow."


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


"If you rule the air, you are great; the waters, you are extraordinary; the lands, you are remarkable; but if you rule over yourself, you are remarkable."


"Those dear to me took fright for my safety and, perhaps, my sanity. Kings, they explained, do not walk like beggars for hundreds of miles. My response was that if a beggar could managed the feat, then why not a king? Did they think me less capable than a beggar?Sometimes I think that I am. The beggar knows much that the king can only guess. And yet who draws up the codes for begging ordinances? Often I wonder what my experience in life--my easy life following the Desolation, and my current level of comfort--has given me of any true experience to use in making laws. If we had to rely on what we knew, kings would only be of use in creating laws regarding the proper heating of tea and the cushioning of thrones."


"To become a leader, renovate your mind with painting of peace and roof your heart with ceiling of love. No love, no leader!"


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


"Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them."


"If you enjoy peace now, remember it is out of the toils of those who were gone before you. The question is "will you leave peace behind you when you are gone"?"


"Leaders make impacts. If your riches don't help you to make impacts, you aren't leading anyone; rather, money is leading you."


"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."



"As he stood there lost in reflection, Auclair thought he seemed more like a man revolving plans for a new struggle with fortune than one looking back upon a life of brilliant features. The Count had the bearing of a fencer when he takes up the foil; from his shoulders to his heels there was intention and direction. His carriage was his unconscious idea of himself, - it was an armour he put on when he took off his night-cap in the morning, and he wore it all day, at early mass, at his desk, on the march, at the Council, at his dinner-table. Even his enemies relied upon his strength."


"Leaders create awareness in their followers about the great potentials they carry and how to release them for the benefit of all. Leaders are motivators."


"I'm the crazy girly captain, Remember?"


"Great leaders are most wanted. They are most wanted for what they do with their gifts and talents. Their dreams are so unique in such a way that their presence becomes a source of hope and courage for others to thread on along. Why won't they look for them?"


"Asides your power, passion and poise, what glues the posters of your impacts on memorial walls is how you treat those you need and those who need you."


"Be confident and courageous when you are about to make a start. Courage is key!"


"Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart."


"Ordinary people are products of their environment. Extraordinary people make their environments products of them."


"The 10 ever greatest misplacements in life:1. Leadership without character.2. Followership without servant-being.3. Brotherhood without integrity.4. Affluence without wisdom.5. Authority without conscience.6. Relationship without faithfullness.7. Festivals without peace.8. Repeated failure without change.9. Good wealth without good health.10. Love without a lover."



"Be the light and source of inspiration that others see."
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