Leadership Quotes: Guidance for Todays Leaders - Page 42

Empower your leadership journey with quotes from successful leaders. Gain insights to lead effectively and inspire others. Page 42 provides more leadership quotes.

Image of Myles Munroe
Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth.
- Myles Munroe
Collection: Leadership
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We were not designed to be dominated.
- Myles Munroe
Collection: Leadership
Image of Spencer W. Kimball
The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.
- Spencer W. Kimball
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Image of William Shakespeare
When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.
- William Shakespeare
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Image of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Collection: Leadership
Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Image of Margaret J. Wheatley
They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal with specific and ever-changing needs. They have simplified roles into minimal categories; they have knocked down walls and created workplaces where people, ideas, and information circulate freely.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
Collection: Leadership
Image of Malala Yousafzai
You know, my father was a great encouragement for me because he spoke out for women's rights, he spoke out for girl's education. And at that time I said that why should I wait for someone else, why should I be looking to the government, to the army that they would help us? Why don't I raise my voice, why don't we speak up for our rights?
- Malala Yousafzai
Collection: Leadership
Image of Tom Peters
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.
- Tom Peters
Collection: Leadership
Image of Joe Biden
A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer. It's the civil rights of our day. It's the issue of our day.
- Joe Biden
Collection: Leadership
Image of Mark Batterson
God blesses us more so that we can be more of a blessing to others.
- Mark Batterson
Collection: Leadership
Image of Harry S. Truman
A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.
- Harry S. Truman
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Image of Warren G. Bennis
A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.
- Warren G. Bennis
Collection: Leadership
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I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.
- Warren G. Bennis
Collection: Leadership
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
- Warren G. Bennis
Collection: Leadership
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The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.
- Warren G. Bennis
Collection: Leadership
Image of Percy Bysshe Shelley
To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Collection: Leadership
Image of Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Collection: Leadership
Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Collection: Leadership
Image of Oscar Wilde
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.
- Oscar Wilde
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Image of Barack Obama
One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.
- Barack Obama
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Image of Myles Munroe
There is nothing more powerful as attitude.
- Myles Munroe
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The secret to greatness is in serving everyone else.
- Myles Munroe
Collection: Leadership
Image of Daniel H. Pink
You know, I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.
- Daniel H. Pink
Collection: Leadership
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I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.
- Daniel H. Pink
Collection: Leadership
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In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.
- Daniel H. Pink
Collection: Leadership
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A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic - as the scholars call it - abilities.
- Daniel H. Pink
Collection: Leadership
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A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.
- Daniel H. Pink
Collection: Leadership
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What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.
- Daniel H. Pink
Collection: Leadership
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more youre conscious of the other sides posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate youll be at taking their perspective.
- Daniel H. Pink
Collection: Leadership
Image of Sun Tzu
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
- Sun Tzu
Collection: Leadership
Image of Eleanor Roosevelt
Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Image of Ambrose Bierce
adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Image of George Allen
The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.
- George Allen
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Image of Theodore Roosevelt
If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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Image of Harry S. Truman
When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.
- Harry S. Truman
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Image of Tony Robbins
In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.
- Tony Robbins
Collection: Leadership
Image of Andy Stanley
Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.
- Andy Stanley
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T-shirts create a sense of "We". Food says, "We don't mind spending money on you."
- Andy Stanley
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Image of Simon Sinek
Customers will never love a company until its employees love it first.
- Simon Sinek
Collection: Leadership
Image of Ayn Rand
Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.
- Ayn Rand
Collection: Leadership
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Leadership
Image of Theodore Roosevelt
My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Collection: Leadership
Image of Myles Munroe
When a person gets to know his Creator, and finally comes to know himself, then his leadership is born.
- Myles Munroe
Collection: Leadership
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The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance.
- Myles Munroe
Collection: Leadership
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We are the products of a highly intelligent and creative supreme being.
- Myles Munroe
Collection: Leadership
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Leaders think differently about themselves, and this distinguishes them from followers.
- Myles Munroe
Collection: Leadership
Image of Albert Schweitzer
The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.
- Albert Schweitzer
Collection: Leadership
Image of Jim Rohn
Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.
- Jim Rohn
Collection: Leadership