Leadership Quotes - Page 8

Hiding the truth is as evil as feedingthe lie grow tough muscles.

Sometimes command means letting those under you do their job

I never understood what it meant to be a Democrat or Republican. I'm fully American and agree on some issues presented by both - but not all of them. So why do I have to pick a side? Nobody can say they agree with every single issue proposed by any team unless they lack the ability to think for themselves. To me, both parties are the same. A method to distract and divide a nation from using common sense and logic. I would want a leader to represent every fraction of the country as one united SUM. To make the country stronger, not weaker. One thing I know for certain, is to never choose a leader who needs their speeches written for them. If they cannot communicate to the public directly with their own heart, then they are not a true leader.

When leaders lack expertise, nothing else works

There's a story behind every "I don't believe in love""Period

Have Fun Storming the Castle!

What is assertive in a man can appear abrasive in a woman, and female leaders risk appearing too feminine or not feminine enough.

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.

The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

We cannot keep on blaming the past leaders about the present circumstances. We need to be mindful that if we do nothing to improve the present circumstances, our children will also blame us in the future.

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

There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.

Be a leader and be a transformer !When you get the opportunity to lead, remember it is a noble opportunity not just to amass followers, but to nurture true and great leaders who can do even greater things than you did! That never wipes off your footprints!

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.

The secret is in listening to our own inner voice.

Smiling is not a choice It’s a Lifestyle Pass it on

Any leader who feel the pain and fight for you. Support him or you lose but if that leader doesn't feel the pain and fight for you. Don't support him, fight for yourself, be a leader and fight for others.

You are who you position yourself with

When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty.

Attitude is the power of leadership. Nothing can stop a person from achieving success who has the right attitude. Our attitude cannot stop our feelings, but they can prevent our feelings from stopping us

I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.

Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?”Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested,“But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.”“Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.

Forgiveness means that you are willing to give someone else a second chance to breathe in new life in his body. That is one of the greatest attribution of a Leader.

Any work not executed honestly, fails to fulfill its objective.

The two fundamental skills of any leader are creativity and initiative. Creativity to find solutions and initiative to take action on them.

TO GROW OUR MIND- We must learn new things. We must CARE for more things. We must TEACH more things. We must SHARE more things. We must RETAIN more things. To grow our mind - We don't need education, We need a good memory.

Only you can save yourself.

Self-discovery is a journey of questioning yourself.

Every authentic leader needs to mind certain gaps and bridge the cognitive difference.

To foster a solution mindset, tell employees that you are not interested in who or what caused the problem. You are only interested in hearing how we plan to go beyond the problem.

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all answers.It comes from being open to all questions.

To the disrupters go the spoils.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on." Walter Lippmann.

The personal values managers reported being the most under pressure to compromise to do their jobs successfully: 1. Family 2. Integrity.

Seek justice: Make a commitment to serve the needs of the ‘least of these’ and give voice to the voiceless.

Why should sinners prosper and sins suffer? It is ignorant; don't think that the poorer you are the quicker you will see God, sorry no unclean thing shall see heaven. Poverty is a disgrace to God. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. You can be free, you can perform a miracle if you are a born again. I do not mean Church goers.

Leadership is influence

Great leaders inspire greatness in others.

Future strong is as focused on the success of every individual as it is on organizational success — creating an environment where people can achieve their dreams and full potential.

Leaders find a need and quickly respond to the need.

Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.

Sometimes the reason God doesn't show up to win your battles is because he already put inside of you the power to end it.

You must look through an opportunity and not at it.

Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things.

A leader’s cross is the temporal pain they go through and his crown is the permanent gain when at last victory is achieved.

Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery.

Leadership always benefits the greater good.

Emotions or feelings stem from your attitude and they become the basis on which you decide or act. All decisions, choices and actions have some kind of underlying emotional influence. To change the way you feel about someone or something you must first change the way you think about them.

Leadership is not the loudest roar that creates change it is the consistent whisper that challenges your fears and inspires your magnificence

Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.

This is not education my friend. It is a process of manufacturing computation devices that look like Homo sapiens, and thereby falsely labeled as Education.

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

No God, no messiah, no prophet can grant your wishes – it is only through your own efforts that you can make your wishes come true – it is only you who can grant your own wishes.

God is not a thief. That which steals, kills and destroys is the devil - not God!

He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.

Whether a chief executive officer (CEO) is applying the practices to build an organizational vision or an employee is helping a colleague resolve a problem, anyone at any organizational level can leverage leadership practices.

Failure is an open invitation to improve and engage your frustrations with a refined energy of triumphant effort.

When your people are lying dead around you, don't come crying to me...

It works...conditioning your mind to see something positive in anything! Anything that happens to you, anything said to you, anything said about you.I have the choice to INTERPRET it in a way that is positive.Surefire way to imbibe Pollyana attitude !

The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone through what it requires to become president.