Leaders Quotes

Most great accomplishments do not look promising in the beginning. If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.

People follow leaders by choice. Without trust, at best you get compliance.

No one has the right to pee on your dreams!

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.

The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will be while doing it.

A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.

Missional leaders are comfortable in the own skin.

No one will shake my conviction that those leaders of men, who are in the nature of carbuncles, of semi-conscious abscesses, who draw feverish crowds to them like noxious humours, have an innate knowledge of arrested time. They play with those vacant moments as though at a game of chequers. A fraction of suspended, frozen time, of inert time, jammed like a wedge into the most wonderfully oiled cogs of the most lucid of minds: and the whole mechanism is brought crashing to the ground, prepared to accept any authority, to endorse the most monstrous aberrations, especially collective ones.

At the end of it all, it is our relationship with people that will determine whether they will share in our pain if we fall into dangers.

Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.

When the lenses in the eyes of a leader captures tomorrow, they don't print the passport size of it. They make enlargements.

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)

Leaders don’t fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn’t their desire to maintain but to improve.

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

Becoming accomplished at what you do is no easy task, nor is the goal reached in a day. The process is time consuming, requires dedication, innovative ideas, meticulous strategizing and can be quite tedious at times. For many, the ultimate objective is to challenge the status quo, change the game, chart unexplored territory, and set a new standard of excellence. Sometimes hitting those marks is its own reward. Seeing others apply your blueprint to construct their own path to success is even more fulfilling. Leaders are motivated by believers! Bask in the imitation of others. After all, it is the highest form of flattery!

Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.

Neither mislead nor misguide.

Leadership potential is in everyone; we all have it, but we all don't know it until we have a direct individual encounter with the Holy Spirit of God. The principal source of leadership influence is the Holy Spirit.

Graciousness in serving and being served marks the lives of leaders who have made the largest impact on my life.

Our community deserves leaders who should know what debates and arguments are better conducted out of the public eye, instead of dumping their baskets of dirty laundry all over the internet. Our community deserves leaders who do not put political expedience or convenience before their commitments to those they supposedly represent. Our community deserves leaders who do not make about-turns on issues such as freedom of speech and accountability to the community they serve when it becomes too embarrassing for them, or too uncomfortable. Our community deserves leaders who can and want to work together, not fling their handbags at each other, hissing like drama queens.

Follow your heart, not the latest headlines.

You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people’s happiness suffocate.

The heart of service is grace of belonging.

We live in a country where our young ladies who have recently attained the age of puberty cannot afford sanitary pads, but our men and women in public offices have ipads which they do not even know how to use.

Good people who are always silent for bad people to gain freedom and do their worsts are the most dangerous wastes the world ever has.

Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance.

Craving for power, titles and promotion to high places is not a tool for carving impacts in the heart the world. High positions polluted by bad character are the poisons that dehydrate the world of positive virtues.

When your intuition is strong, follow it.

Thinking in loneliness and speaking in public are the two things leaders are masters at.

O my mighty sisters and brothers, forget not that the ideal of humanity is the search of truth. In this pursuit, countless souls have sacrificed themselves in the past. And in this pursuit, countless more shall need to sacrifice themselves.

Leadership is about taking steps while management is about drawing the map on the steps to take. Managers simply plan, leaders simply execute!

There are hundreds of intelligent and big brains in every country in the world to run that country successfully but somehow and often either an immoral stupid or a charlatan imbecile comes to power!

Self-assurance reassures others and reassures yourself.

A leader’s goal is to remain relevant even when time changes.

If you have only answers and no questions, chances are high that you will never know new things.

People who run away from challenges are cowards and no coward deserves a reward.

Leaders' major question is "why". If they lose, they ask "why". If they win, they ask "why". Their "whys" weave their wonders.

The world needs courage and conscience that can penetrate into the darkest mysteries and secrets of the universe.

The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.

Self-leadership is about digging out your hidden endowment and making them known and useful to those who need it most.

The brain is the coast of many great monuments. Your ability to exploit the power of your brain is what makes you a leader. Leadership emerges from a positive mindset!

Time is priceless; you are responsible for your time. Earn it or kill it, your choice

Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?

Exceptional leaders are fearless in setting expectations in clear language.

Richard rubbed his temples. He had a headache from lack of sleep. "Don't you understand? This isn't about conquering lands and taking things from others; this is about fighting oppression."The general rested a boot on the gilded rung of a chair and hooked a thumb behind his wide belt. "I don't see much difference. From my experience, the Master Rahl always thinks he knows best, and always wants to rule the world. You are your father's son. War is war. Reasons make no difference to us; we fight because we are told to, same as those on the other side. Reasons mean little to a man swinging his sword, trying to keep his head.

Becoming a great leader doesn’t mean being perfect. it means living with your imperfections.

Never be anxious about maintaining the position you occupy. Be anxious about maintaining your good character and you will never lose your leadership influence!

He who want to be served must first know how to serve.

Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.

I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.

Avoid trying to win tough battles on the silver platter. If the struggle is tough the success is sweet.

Mothers and fathers are born everywhere. What the world needs are leaders.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

Once you have the vision and the passion to make it happen, you will achieve your dreams. It is up to you to decide when to make it happen; attitudes guide you to answer that!

If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.

Don’t reduce your impacts to match what you earn.

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

A leader does not reduce his speeds to meet the views of negative thinkers. He leaves them to do their job as he focuses.