Quotes about leaders
Tullian Tchividjian -
The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.
Irving Babbitt -
We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
Felix Dennis -
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
Stephen Kinzer -
Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.
Mark Skousen -
We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
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Who you are that’s your destiny. What you can do to make it happen that’ your purpose. True leaders know both!
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You don’t become the person you wish to become you become the person you choose to become. True leadership does not come true wishes it comes by choices!
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Stick to love it is heavy and it will carry you. Avoid hatred it is heavy and you have to carry it. It is left to you to make your choice.
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Leaders don't cheat they don't envy. Leaders don't hate they don't curse. Leadership is a positive service to mankind.
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A boss says “go and make sure you do it” a leader says “let’s go and make it happen”. Bosses control people leaders involve them.
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Leaders heal they don’t kill. They unite they don’t disintegrate.
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People can push people down People can also push people up. The former are misleaders the latter are leaders.
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Don’t beg for treasure create it for yourself. Don’t beg for positions build one for yourself.
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Leaders are not worried about what they can’t do they know themselves very well and focus on what they can do. Think this way if you are willing to lead!
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The best ever spiritual coach you can ever have is Jesus Christ our model of true leadership! You can do all things through Christ your and my spiritual coach!
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Good leaders sacrifice for others to survive bad leaders sacrifice others to survive
C.L. Gammon -
Great charismatic leaders don't just say what voters want to hear they say what voters want to say.
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Leadership is about making and maintaining a positive change. True leaders do not conform to the limits of the environments they stay in the transform it positively!
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The world will be a better place when everyone becomes a leader when everyone finds what he/she was sent to do and does it like no other man’s business.
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You plan to rob the world of its treasures if you decide to die with your potentials unleashed! The world needs your leadership influence don’t take it raw to the cemetery!
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Passion gives power while attitude designs excellence! You can do it because you have the passion you can do it very well because you have the right attitude!
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To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages blank make some marks there. Many people are reading you.
Damon Meredith -
The world is ruled by cowards and cravens brave men have put them there.
David Frum -
Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?
Roy T. Bennett -
Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.
Roy T. Bennett -
Life is short. Focus on what really matters most you should change your priorities over time.
Roy T. Bennett -
Do more listening than talking talk more about them than about you.
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Every talent God has hidden in you is not for your own consumption they are for other people’s liberation.
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A person with passion will not look somewhere to see who is not doing it they will focus and do what they can.
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Whatever you are waiting for won’t come to you you have to go for it.
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Richest leaders are not those who have calories in their bank accounts but those who have fats in their positive ideas.
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You can’t gather much if you won’t go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns they’ll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they’ll get.
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Leaders do not chase comfort they pursue vision even if it comes with risks. Don’t give up too early because you see not early rewards.
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A leader’s attitude tells how often he will be the winner his character determines how long he will be the winner.
John P. Kotter -
Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.
Roy T. Bennett -
Do not rest on your laurels when you get to the top you risk losing your edge once you let success go to your head.
Helen Thomas -
But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.
Ann Coulter -
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
Tom Peters -
Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
Howard Schultz -
Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
German proverb -
He who would rule must hear and be deaf see and be blind.
Elizabeth I -
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman but I have the heart and stomach of a King and of a King of England too.
Robert Lindner -
It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
Thomas a Kempis -
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
Dean William R. Inge -
It is said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things and himself of anything.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Nothing is more difficult and therefore more precious than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.
William Hazlitt -
To get others to come into our ways of thinking we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow in order to lead.
John F. Kennedy -
With a good conscience our only sure reward with history the final judge of our deeds let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.
Homer -
Achilles absent was Achilles still.
Lao-Tzu -
To lead the people walk behind them.
Indira Gandhi -
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.
Woodrow Wilson -
When you come into the presence of a leader of men you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin -
I've got to follow them - I am their leader.
Oliver Wendell Holmes -
The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command.
Charles Yost -
A leader may symbolize and express what is best in his people like Pericles or what is worst like Hitler but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.
Charles de Gaulle -
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
La Rochefoucauld -
If I advance follow me! If I retreat kill me! If I die avenge me!
Benito Mussolini -
If I advance follow me! If I retreat cut me down! If I die avenge me!
Ngo Dinh Diem -
Follow me if I advance kill me if I retreat revenge me if I die!
Lister Sinclair -
A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.
Lao-Tzu -
As for the best leaders the people do not notice their existence. The next best the people honour and praise. The next the people fear and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work is done the people say 'we did it ourselves!'
Albert Camus -
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Marya Mannes -
To lead means to direct and to exact and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin the generality and God (the Word).
Jan Masaryk -
Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
Charles de Gaulle -
Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism pride hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him indeed they will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
Hindu proverb -
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount.
Maurice Duplessis -
I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.
Daniel Defoe -
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
Korean proverb -
Where there are no tigers a wildcat is very self-important.
Canadian Liberal politician -
'Ah John A. John A. how I love you! How I wish I could trust you!
William Lyon Mackenzie King -
I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.
Winston Churchill -
I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill -
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Arthur Balfour -
Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.
Clement Attlee -
Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius fifty per cent bloody fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
Walter Lippmann -
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Irving Layton -
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
Julius Caesar -
Every woman's man and every man's woman.
Isaac Herzog -
With all its being, the Labor Party supports Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Labor built the state, and its leaders formulated the Declaration of Independence, the foundational document that anchors Israel as a Jewish state.
Norman Borlaug -
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
Collin C. Peterson -
I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.
Kofi Annan -
Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
Ted Cruz -
We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
Paulo Freire -
The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.
Bruce Springsteen -
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
John C. Maxwell -
Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.
Charles de Gaulle -
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
Ralph Nader -
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Bo Bennett -
Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
Warren Bennis -
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
David Ogilvy -
Leaders grasp nettles.
Ralph Nader -
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Robert Jarvik -
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
Young Jeezy -
Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.