L Quotes
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“Leaders who love their societies do not hide behind excuses. Even when there are reasons to derail from finding solutions, they always come up with effective solutions.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“Leaders who make prayer a part of their lives and are committed to serving others will know what to do right when things go wrong.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“Leaders who neglect those who elected them must never be given another chance to lead.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“Leaders who oppress their followers are not leaders, but mere dictators who want to tell people what to do without showing them how to do it.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.”
Source: The Law of Victory: Lesson 15 from The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
“Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say”
“Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get.”
“Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.”
Source: Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job
“Leaders who want to show sensitivity should listen often and long and talk short and seldom. Many so-called leaders are too busy to listen. True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.”
Source: Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer
“Leaders who won't own failures become failures.”
“Leaders will have to give clear and decisive leadership towards a world of tolerance and respect for difference, and an uncompromising commitment to peaceful solutions of conflicts and disputes.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“Leaders will not experience long-term success unless a lot of people want them to.”
“Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.”
“Leaders with empathy do more than sympathize with people around them: they use their knowledge to improve their companies in subtle, but important ways.”
Source: What Makes a Leader? (Harvard Business Review Classics)
“Leaders with high esteem are high performers.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“Leaders without empathy aren't leaders, they are just managers. But empathy without accountability is enablement, which leads to entitlement. We do not want to work with entitled people.”
“Leaders without self-control can't protect a nation. Addiction, scandals, and poor digital literacy open doors to cyber threats and blackmail. Weakness at the top leads to national vulnerability.”
“Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.”
Source: The Essential Bennis
“Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.”
“Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.”
“Leaders, true leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.”
“Leaders, whatever the size of their organizations, are those willing to put the interests of other people before their own.”
“Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .”
“Leaders, your God-given job is not merely to preside over something, not to pontificate to your underlings how smart you are, not merely to preserve something from its gradual demise; it's to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.”
“Leaders: Captains of industry.”
“Leadership (according to John Sculley) revolves around vision, ideas, direction, and has more to do with inspiring people as to direction and goals than with day-to-day implementation. A leader must be able to leverage more than his own capabilities. He must be capable of inspiring other people to do things without actually sitting on top of them with a checklist.”
“Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.”
“Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.”
Source: Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership
“Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.”
Source: Courageous Leadership Workbook: The EQUIP Leadership Series
“Leadership always contains far more down cycles than ups. Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, Wilson, and both Roosevelts experienced setbacks that would have discouraged (the) less resilient.”
“Leadership amongst the crowd is often the one who has the least to gain and the most to offer......-bns”
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
[Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22 1963]”
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
“Leadership and the “Yes—But!”
Often in the workforce, we get the “Yes—But!” from our team members that takes me into the thought,
“Do I have a team member who is in rebellion towards authority, or do I have an honest “Yes—But!” birth from fear of failure?
As my mind does wander, I consider when those in authority over me tells me to do something which is an enormous goal; something that seems to be an impossible task; for the day that test my common sense, what would I do, do I just hang back?
That is exactly what my team will do if I fail to deal with the “Yes—But!” that is before me.”
“Leadership and unconventional bold thinking are indispensable to one another.”
“Leadership appears to be the art of getting others
to want to do something you are convinced should be done”
“Leadership as a king means serving your people with vision, justice, and the courage to put their needs above your own.”
“Leadership, at its core, is about character: specifically, a character attuned to its ethical responsibilities to others.”
Source: E Pluribus ONE: Reclaiming Our Founders' Vision for a United America
“Leadership becomes lonely the moment truth is no longer convenient.”
“Leadership begins the moment you stop performing strength—and begin embodying truth.”
Source: Wisdom by AI - The Leader's Compass
“Leadership begins with the courage to believe in a better future and the commitment to make it happen."
"A leader inspires not by words alone, but by living the values they wish to see in others."
"True leaders don’t just create followers; they cultivate more leaders."
"Effective leadership is about creating an environment where people feel safe to express themselves and innovate."
"Leadership is not a title but a series of actions rooted in accountability and trust."
"A great leader balances strength with humility, authority with empathy."
"Leaders see beyond obstacles; they envision possibilities and guide others towards them."
"Leadership is knowing when to take the lead and when to step back, allowing others to shine."
"In moments of crisis, true leaders rise with resilience, guiding their teams through uncertainty."
"The essence of leadership is empowering others to discover their own potential and purpose.”
“Leadership belongs to all of us. I'm a big believer in John Maxwell, a leadership speaker and author, who talks about the 360-degree leader. Before leading others, you have to learn to lead yourself. Wherever you work in an organization you have to learn to lead up, lead down, and lead side to side. Leadership belongs to all of us. You have to see yourself, and believe in yourself in the way that we are talking about here to give to those that you lead.”
“Leadership, Boal concluded, is the art of facilitating imaginative interventions by the greatest possible number...”
Source: The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities
“Leadership both projects to the future and reflects upon the past. It bursts with possibilities, flaunts peculiarities, and occasionally defies probabilities.”
Source: Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad
“Leadership calls for both wisdom and courage; the wisdom to know what to do is only half the battle. We must be courageous enough to actually do it.”
“Leadership camp? Isn't that where Hitler went?”
“Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.”
“Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.”
“Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.”