L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.”
“Leadership requires vision and humility. The most effective leaders listen as much as they speak, and they guide as much as they empower. Success is measured not by power, but by the positive impact on those around them.”
“Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?”
“Leadership responsibility: If you own a biz, you're the head of the org. Good or bad, your company will LOOK and ACT like you do.”
“Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.”
Source: What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership
“Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.”
Source: Motivation Lombardi Style
“Leadership reveals itself in the big moments, but is forged in the small. It is the exponential and compounding product of our many incremental behaviors and actions; all of which arise out of our choices in values, beliefs & emotions. Choices all. Not a one is thrust upon us.”
Source: Breakout Presentations: "WOW!" People in Business and Life
“Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs
of those who would be affected by it”
“Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.”
“Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too.”
“Leadership starts at the top.”
“Leadership starts with understanding responsibility, not ability. Leadership is a Stewardship, not a show.”
“Leadership success is measured by the success of your successor.”
“Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.”
“Leadership that is entirely self-directed will always be pathological. The only thing worse than worshipping an idol is to act like an idol.”
“Leadership that knows how to galvanize, empower and maximize youth potential will remain relevant and on top.”
“Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.”
“Leadership transitions require us to move out of our comfort zone.”
“Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and doing the right thing. Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an ax murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence.”
“Leadership was about setting an example.”
Source: Rites of Passage
“Leadership was never a one day process, it's a daily process that lasts a few decades.”
Source: Life Simplified!: Simplifying Lives Globally . . .
“Leadership was not an act of bravery but rather forbearance and the strength to move forward with humility in the belief of what is righteous”
Source: The Rise of Shams
“Leadership will either lead you into a ditch or lead you into purpose. We need our leaders, especially those who are teaching our young people, to have the right message.”
“Leadership Wisdom refers to authenticity, compassion, insight, discernment, selflessness, purpose-driven behavior, and making decisions for the greater good over the advancement of the self. We can only develop wisdom as we learn to let go of our defenses and act out of choice rather than defensiveness.
Robertson, Susan . Real Leadership: Waken To Wisdom . The Books Factory. Kindle Edition.”
Source: Real Leaderhip: Waken to Wisdom
“Leadership without courage creates position, not influence, and leaves no legacy behind.”
“Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.”
Source: Smart Trust
“Leadership, in other words, is a matter of character, not goals.”
“Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.”
“Leadership, like responsibility, is a voluntary act.”
Source: The Right to Lead: Learning Leadership Through Character and Courage
“Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.”
“Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.”
“Leadership: Here is the heart and soul of the matter. If you look to lead, invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. Use the remainder to induce those you 'work for' to understand and practice...lead yourself, lead your supervisors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.”
“Leadership: Lions led by donkeys.”
“Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.”
“Leaderships about transforming lives and making a difference through innovation and purpose, grounded in values and integrity”
“Leader’s potential is determined by those closest to him.”
Source: The Law of the Inner Circle: Lesson 11 from The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
“Leading a band and producing yourself and picking cool tunes and putting a show together takes a lot of thought, and a certain amount of courage. In my early twenties, if I wasn't getting good enough at it, then people would not come and see me. Anybody who has lasted this long - I hope we get better with age.”
“Leading a band is fun, but it's not always something I want to continually focus on. I have my toes in a lot of different things.”
“Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.”
“Leading a family is the hardest job a man can ever have.”
“Leading a grateful life should be more than a feeling and a habit. It should be our core value, which we should respect no matter what.”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“Leading a healthy, active lifestyle is all about momentum. If I'm in the middle of training it's easy for me to keep that up. It gets tough when I'm on a break. I just try to start my day with a good breakfast and a quick walk, something simple that gets the day off on the right foot. The more I do that, the more I make healthy choices that reflect the good choices made earlier.”
“Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.”
Source: Mortal Questions
“Leading and controlling a community living under fear and threat is easier for the General than directing one that is intellectually liberated and free to think intuitively and creatively.”
Source: The Sage and the General: A Spiritual Fable About Transcending Conflict and Achieving Peace
“Leading and improving! teaching and tutoring! bearing and forbearing! Pah! my husband is not to be my baby. I am not to set him his daily lesson and see that he learns it, and give him a sugar-plum if he is good, and a patient, pensive, pathetic lecture if he is bad. But it is like a tutor to talk of the "satisfaction of teaching." I suppose you think it the finest employment in the world. I don't. I reject it. Improving a husband! No. I shall insist upon my husband improving me, or else we part.”
“Leading by example is the best way to connect with young minds.”
Source: The Magic of Trees
“Leading by example through "Servant Leadership" used to be a badge of honor that distinguished you from the Corps of the Blue Falcon. Present day I see the ranks of the Blue Falcon surging in a flagless flotilla of blurred morals, a low tide of integrity, and selfish ethics adrift with no anchorage. The pulse of the led is directly influenced by the organizational heart rate of the leader.”
“Leading by fear is a lot of companies' approach, and a horrible way for people to exist in their lives, when most of your life is spent at work.”
“Leading change means bringing people with you to a better state than any of you could have envisaged alone.”
“Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run.”