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Leaders make things better and that requires change.
— Andy Stanley
Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age.
— Israelmore Ayivor
What is assertive in a man can appear abrasive in a woman, and female leaders risk appearing too feminine or not feminine enough.
— Barbara Kellerman
Compassionate leaders know their stakeholders and address their concerns, their hopes, dreams and fears.
— Amit Ray
We have to work and serve humanity while we have the grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Some are born leaders, some achieve leadership, and some have leadership thrust upon them. Which of these are you, or would you rather not bother?
— Maurice Flanagan
Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Know your limit and circle of influence; you are not called to meet the needs of everyone
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Think of strength, dream of strength, live of strength.
— Abhijit Naskar
Too many leaders value their popularity, protecting it at all cost, degrading their credibility.
— Noel DeJesus
Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.
— Seth Godin
Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.
— Depak Chopras
A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways.
— Israelmore Ayivor
I have met so-called leaders who showed fear in a moment when strength was required, and they give leadership a bad name.
— Jason Taylor
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
— Warren G. Bennis
The greatest men stand on their values and pray on their knees.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
All leaders need to ask questions, but they also need to assist in providing answers, to bridge the gap between questions and answers.
— Pearl Zhu
Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.
— Stephen Covey
It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been playing.
— Jeffrey Sachs
Two types of leaders: there are thinkers and there are doers. Some are idea generators and others are the implementers.
— Gary Rohrmayer
I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.
— Jenny Shipley
Leaders..should influence others..in such a way that it builds people up, encourages and edifies them so they can duplicate this attitude in others.
— Bob Goshen
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
— Jack Welch
Added pressure and responsibility should not change one's leadership style, it should merely expose that which already exists.
— Mark W. Boyer
A dream conceived from the inside-out eventually becomes reality. But a dream desired from the outside-in is subject to spoil and tragedy.
— T.F. Hodge
Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.
— Ayn Rand
As we look ahead into the future, leaders will be those who serve others, actively listen, and daily empower.
— Farshad Asl
The leader's commandment is made up of pledges to solve local and global problems, and not to create more problems to add to the existing ones.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!
— Israelmore Ayivor
You don't influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.
— Paul Orfalea
Leaders must be good listeners. It's rule number one, and it's the most powerful thing they can do to build trusted relationships.
— Lee Ellis
Love people who hate you and their hatred won't get grounds to gain roots.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Appreciation and recognition are qualities that most leaders forget, but desperately need, to build a positive, passionate and engaged workplace.
— Tony Dovale
Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.
— Andy Hargreaves
Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.
— John C. Maxwell
There are two kinds of leaders, cowboys and Shepherds. Cowboys drive and Shepherds lead.
— John Paul Warren
Today's generation want leaders who excite them and ignite them. They want leaders who are real.
— Gabrielle Dolan
High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.
— Andy Hargreaves
If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Try not to leave your work for someone else to do. If possible, carry the work of someone and add it to yours. That's a trait of leaders!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.
— Ravinder Tulsiani
Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.
— Paul Gibbons
Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference.
— Martin O'Malley
Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed.
— Vanna Bonta
What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths - and can call on the right strength at the right time.
— Tom Rath
True leaders are the first to admit that they don't know everything and that they need help.
— Bill Byrd
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
— Warren G. Bennis
A person with passion will not look somewhere to see who is not doing it; they will focus and do what they can.
— Israelmore Ayivor
People buy into leaders through the 3R's of Leadership: Relationship, Reason, and Results.
— Orrin Woodward
There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.
— Daisaku Ikeda
Before we ask where the leaders are, we should look in a mirror and ask the person we see "Why are you not leading"?
— Carlos Wallace
Develop the muscles for hard work and never be an early quitter.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing
— John Paul Warren
Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they've already done and go farther than they've reached.
— Israelmore Ayivor
The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their "gut" when they should be more rational.
— Paul Gibbons
Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.
— Andy Stanley
One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream.
— Israelmore Ayivor
World Class leaders know the secret to motivating themselves and others is discovering what they will fight for when the going gets rough.
— Steve Siebold
The courageous attitudes of leaders ramble around coward followers and sooner or later, they become courageous too!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.
— Richie Norton
Great leaders don't just know the sweet spots of their people. They tap into and unchain the infinite potential imprisoned within their people...
— Assegid Habtewold
In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?
— Akilnathan Logeswaran
Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.
— John C. Maxwell
All leadership begins from inside a person and must be developed and grown as they grow into emerging and enduring leaders
— Thomas Narofsky
Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.
— Orrin Woodward
I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.
— Warren G. Bennis
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
— Brian Tracy
True leaders don't look at just the outward appearances in the selection of team members, they look at one's core values and heart.
— Farshad Asl
Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Once leaders embrace the role of coach, they realize the weight of leadership is now balanced between themselves and their direct reports.
— Kenneth H. Blanchard
Leadership defined: An equal and dual commitment to both results and relationships without compromising one for the other.
— Al Ritter
All leaders model and message; unfortunately, most would-be leaders model doesn't align with their message.
— Orrin Woodward
You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.
— Mark Miller
Leaders are made through discipline, training, experience, failure, and the desire to continually improve.
— Bradford Winters
Between a plan and it's achievement is a leader in the middle. With his one arm he makes the plan. With the other one he carries them through.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Leaders step up, even when they feel like hiding. And they do so because they care.
— Michele Jennae
Effective leaders make it easy for people around them to tell the truth, to be candid and open.
— Al Ritter
Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.
— Orrin Woodward
Managers and leaders cause most of the organizational confusion and frustration by not doing their jobs - their real jobs.
— Liz Weber
Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes.
— Joseph C. Rost
A confident leader is like a duck. Above the water, he is calm and poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity.
— Todd Stocker
Leaders must served and not to be served as demonstrated by Jesus Christ, the Saviour.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You are a good leader when your actions inspire others to do good for themselves and for others.
— Debasish Mridha
There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.
— Evan Esar
Leaders don't assume. Assumptions are the termites of leadership. Communicate, communicate, and communicate, until you connect.
— Farshad Asl
I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.
— Peter Senge
Most characteristics associated with leaders are masculine: dominance, authority, assertiveness, and so forth.
— Barbara Kellerman
People fail 2 ways: 1) don't know what to do 2) don't do what they know; therefore, great leaders must educate and inspire.
— Orrin Woodward
In the end leaders are leaders. They get the credit and they get the blame.
— Michael Heseltine