Leader Quotes - Page 2

The leader who listens is the one society needs most. They don’t force their commands on people. They pay attention to their demands and set the pace for the change that society truly needs.

Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.

Politics means implementation of the best ideas for the society in the path of wellbeing and progress. This is the approach that gave the world, leaders of glorious characters such as Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Subhas Chandra Bose (the actual man behind India’s Independence), Vasil Levski (the man who liberated Bulgaria from the Ottoman oppression), Nelson Mandela and many more. These people were technically politicians too, but unlike the majority of the politicians ofmodern society, their approach to politics was what it should be in a real system of politics.

The desire to swim in deeper waters is what gives a greater experience. Nothing new comes out of being ordinary. Leaders take risks.

One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.

Leadership crisis erupt when people who have not learnt how to obey instructions are given the privilege to give commands. Leaders are experienced servants.

When you do it, you are not another dreamer

Leaders who are silent and do nothing are as guilty and do worse than those who commit these horrific attacks

Turkeys can run with eagles but cannot fly with them.

You will never be a leader in any area of your life if you are not a reader in those areas of life.

True leaders are ready to sweat when making rehearsal, than to cry tears when actually practicing. To save the tears, be ready to sweat!

Your talent is a seed; cultivate it, and in no time, you will harvest success.

Leaders with high esteem are high performers.

Every leader has a right to lead followers in the right direction and the responsibility to empower them to achieve much more.

Your Writing Teacher ‏@WritingChiefIf u don't get ur protagonist dirty, ur readers will get bored. Readers are wild, cliff-jumping, mud-wrestling savages. Become their leader. (anonymous on Twitter)

It is the duty of every wise person to seek out people with potential and freely guide them on the path of wisdom. By doing so, the wise leaders of the future are born, and the world will have a chance to mend itself.

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.

Fear punches holes in your eyes so that you don't see the future clearly. Faith enlarges your vision to behold your destiny.

You are your own leader. Where are you driving yourself to now? You can't afford to go wayward! Rise up and break new territories and live life so well.

Consider meekness as a character trait to develop and then you will leave a leagcy as a leader who influenced and touched lives.

Only you can save yourself.

As a business leader you have to ask yourself, “Am I creating a consumer environment that is conducive to loyalty?” If the answer is no, FIX IT!

Almost everything a leader fails to achieve is anything he fails to try. What is not attempted is what is difficult to do.

As good surgical doctor works on a patient in the theater with varied kinds of surgical instruments, so a true leader also needs a clean bag of leadership characters that vary from task to task. One-way leaders are obvious failures!

The structure of our identity determines how we show up as a leader, how we deploy ourselves into circumstances.

Kuna nguzo saba ambazo hazina budi kuzingatiwa kama unataka kuheshimiwa na kuwaheshimu wengine. Kwanza kabisa jitambue: wewe ni nani na unafanya nini hapa duniani. Halafu, kabla ya kusema jambo lolote kwa mtu yoyote fikiria kwanza maana au madhara ya hilo unalotaka kulisema. Kisha jifunze tamaduni mbalimbali na watendee wengine kama vile unavyotaka kutendewa au kama vile wanavyotaka kutendewa. Jifunze kusamehe na kusuluhisha migogoro katika jamii unamoishi huku ukidumisha heshima na utu kwa binadamu wenzako. Jijengee imani kwa watu, punguza upendeleo, fanya kazi kama timu kwani hakuna ‘mimi’ katika umoja ila kuna ‘sisi’, na jitahidi kwa kadiri ya uwezo wako WOTE kwa manufaa ya wote. Kuwa kiongozi katika kila jambo unalofanya na katika kila kitu unachofanya. Jitahidi kufanya jambo au kitu kwa usahihi kwa kadiri utakavyoweza.

Coachable leaders are ready and willing to make the needed changes and adjustments in their lives.

A Good Leader Promotes Peace,Not War.A Good Leader Is For The People,Not For Himself.A Good Leader Does Not Watch His People Suffer.

Every great leader once fell down from a tall ladder. You don't become a star until you get the scar. Take that risk now.

A bird cannot fly upward if each wing is flapping in a different direction.

Preparation is the key to leadership success. The more prepared you are the less your struggle to make it happen and the more your effectiveness!

Leaders unify nations by creating an external enemy, and nations make that dream comes true.

Blow by blow a giant is knocked down.

Good people see the good and bring out the best in other people.

A tree does not despair when its fruit falls to the ground, because it knows in due time, its seeds will rise.

Focus on how far you have come in liferather than looking at the accomplishments of others.

Two types of leaders: there are thinkers and there are doers. Some are idea generators and others are the implementers.

You can’t give what you don’t have. To lead people in a better way, mingle with them in body. But in knowledge, be far ahead of them!

Some might argue that a diamond is the earths hardest carbon based substance. However, I'd challenge that with the resolve, resilience, and tenacity of a committed carbon based Noncommissioned Officer.

If you refuse to accept what is, and choose to see what could be, then you set a course for yourself that makes others take notice of you, respect you, revere you. It is then that they become objects of your destiny instead of you playing a support role in theirs.

As a collaborative leader, you support people in their work—you remove roadblocks and help them win.

Never overestimate the strength of the torchbearer's arm, for even the strongest arms grow weary.

Leaders walk their talks. They don’t give theories that do not work. They have clarity into their dreams and insight into their directions!

Every penny that has always been earned with integrity by a person to lead life with a real simplicity has only perhaps helped to serve Almighty & protect and preserve humanity in the society.

A leader should not be a dictator.

We must desire to see people rising in life, rather than looking for ways to contribute to their fall.

The single and peculiar mind is boundWith all the strength and armor of the mindTo keep itself from noyance, but much moreThat spirit upon whose weal depends and restsThe lives of many. The cess of majestyDies not alone, but like a gulf doth drawWhat's near it with it; or it is a massy wheelFixed on the summit of the highest mount,To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser thingsAre mortised and adjoined, which, when it falls,Each small annexment, petty consequence,Attends the boist'rous ruin. Never aloneDid the king sigh, but with a general groan.

BLACK AND WHITEI was born intoA religion of Light,But with so many otherReligions andPhilosophies,How do I know whichONEIs right?Is it notMy birthrightTo seek out the light?To find TruthAfter surveying all the proof,Am I supposedTo loveOr fight?And why do all those whoTry to guide me,Always start by dividingAnd multiplying me – From what they considerWrong or right?I thought,There were no wallsFor whoever beams truth and light.And how can one speak on Light's behalf,lf all they doIs act black,But talk WHITE?

The power in people is stronger than people in power.

Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more,  One task more declined, one more footpath untrod,One more devils’-triumph and sorrow for angels,  One wrong more to man, one more insult to God!

Since God is with you and you are with God, you have nothing to fear!

It’s is good you are about something. But wait and ask, “why and how?”. Without “whys and hows”, not every energetic movement can be called progress.

Open mind → Learning → Knowledge → Baseline for leadership

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.

Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.

The leader goes also to the less traditional networking meetings. The manager participates in networking events organized and promoted.

Becoming a Leader of Character changes lives—our lives and the lives of the people we touch.

I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.

The people need a strong leader. They feel insecure if they don’t know who to fear. Isn’t that why god was invented?

Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the decisions you make and actions you take today.