Leadership Quotes - Page 9

Most times, the way isn’t clear, but you want to start anyway. It is in starting with the first step that other steps become clearer.

A leaders job is to shepherd, not necessarily to always shine.

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!

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command

Leadership begins inside of you. Leadership is about you, the people you influence and a belief that you can make a difference and have an impact. Leadership starts with a condition of the heart – the desire and passion to make a difference before it moves to the brain to implement a plan to make a difference. It is an inside-out process and is shaped by your values, character, choices, opportunities, experiences and your worldview

Work as if there's no one to help you, and learn as if everybody is with you.

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

Rephrase the words "staff members" into team members. Because the people in our team are far more than employees, or colleagues. We are a unit!

When listeners become leaders, the world changes.

You can't disappoint what God has appointed.

If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!

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

Lincoln did not admire those who think it is a mark of sophistication to sneer at patriotism. He believed that God has a will for a country and that is honest man should rejoice in the effort to try to remake his country after the Divine pattern, insofar as that pattern is revealed to him.

The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.

Serving God should elevate our level of excellence in every part of our lives.

Follow leaders who follow leaders.

Do you enjoy your work? Are you happy to get out of bed each morning and dress for the office? If you answered ‘no’ to either of these questions, you are not alone. In a 2014 Conference Board survey, 52 per cent of Americans claimed to be unhappy at work and in a recent CIPD study 23 per cent of Britons claimed to be looking for a new job. In the same survey only about one-third claim to feel engaged with their work. You can see the effects of this in absence, stress and depression. In fact, you can see it in the rush hour in the tired and sad-looking faces of so many commuters.The majority of people I coach are unhappy or dissatisfied with their working lives. They describe their work in so many depressing ways – as ‘boring’, ‘tedious’, ‘mind-numbing’, ‘stressful’, ‘painful’ or even ‘scary’. I hear similar opinions as I travel the world from all types of people no matter what their background, education or choice of career.

You are a true leader if you help others to grow as leaders.

Passion + Vision +Skill + Mentoring = Success.

Life is about the moments you create, that you can keep it with you FOREVER. After everything is over,That is what we have or what we are left with.

Love people who hate you and their hatred won’t get grounds to gain roots.

The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel.

Most of the people want to be a leader of winners, but I want to be a leader of losers because losers are the people who truly know the value of winning and they also know how to use and respect it.

Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.

The money you are looking for is not in any country, phd or your designer outlook, it is in wisdom. Solomon never prayed for wealth but he asked for wisdom.

So long as you are in God's hands, He will not throw you away. God cannot drop you for you to be ashamed.

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.

Just like watering the field will cause both the desired seed and the undesirable weed to germinate, the opportunities for your mission in life will be equally presented with real-life threats.

Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.

Until we become the change we seek, the change we seek will never come.

A praiseworthy King is he who doesn't seek the most expensive throne, rather the most effective leadership style.

Every leader is different. Every bench is different. Every business is different. So while the complexities change, the work of coaching stays the same keep your clients at the center of the work, push them to use their strengths more and to temper their weaknesses, and illuminate blind spots because these are what really get in the way.

He listened to their opinions, stated his own, and supported them with reasons; and from his being constantly occupied with such meditations, it resulted, that when in command no complication could ever present itself with which he was not prepared to deal.

The person of creatures is living, the purpose of living is service, a service that implants legacy.

The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their “gut” when they should be more rational.

He was making the inevitable pivot from critic to manager.

In the midst of desert, I found there was, within me, a beautiful lake. In the midst of night, I found there was, within me, an unbeatable morning.I realize through it all, that …No matter how difficult the challenges are, within me, there is a force that wants me to push back. The force wants me to live my personal legend there is no matter what.May the Force be with me … and with you.

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

In a Consciously Conscious Revolutionary Workplace, people are promoted based upon skillset, AND more importantly MINDSET

Calamities reveal your capabilities. Take note of this and when times get odd, prepare and shine.

If God give you a status, don't turn yourself to a statue. Don't become a monument. God still want to reside inside you but not in a monument.

Champions realise that defeat - and learning from it even more than from winning - is part of the path to mastery.

During rough time in a Business, a Leader should act like a ship captain. His first and foremost priority should be to put his employees to security before thinking of his own welfare.

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!

Education is not the amount of information that is pushed into the brain and causes havoc there, undigested all through a lifetime. Education must be a symposium of life-building, character- making and assimilation of ideas in the pursuit of building a more harmonious, peaceful and truly civilized world.

Average leaders take you to the mountain.Superior leaders take you up the mountain.Excellent leaders take you to mountaintop.Transcendent leaders take you to the stars.

Leadership can mean defiance.

Bad timekeeping will suck the life out of your bank account.

Character in leadership comes down to two questions: Would you trade places with anyone under your command? Do you hold yourself to the same level of accountability as those for whom you bear responsibility?

Never be fooled that you are not number one, they got it wrong, because you beat a bunch of sperms to be alive.

He had to grow his own NCOs.

In person, Mr. Desmond mixes low-key friendliness and on-message discipline.

Blow by blow a giant is knocked down.

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

Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one’s beloved extended community.

He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:

Future strong is letting go of what no longer serves you. Quickly.

The major purpose of defining and understanding yourself is to be able to come up with an objective strategy to map your success.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an o

The reality of life and an imperfect world dictates that things cannot be held constant to guarantee your success; you have to wiggle your way through a planned path within a maze, to attain your goal.