Leadership Qualities Quotes

“Contrary to popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained or enthroned. Leadership is self-made, self-retained, self-inculcated and then exposed through a faithful, sincere and examplary life.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and general self-made brands. Leadership is defined by the virtues of one's behaviour.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“A business will require you to wear many hats. You have to be a leader with a mission, vision, and direction.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence; self-made leaders do not look for followers. Followers look for them.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“A true leader is still a leader even when he takes up servants' duty, provided he maintains a human face and added integrity to his self-retained qualities.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The concept of leadership is abused by people who think a person becomes a leader when he grows grey hair, put into a position and expected to function. Everyone has a leadership potential carried within in a specific area of his or purpose. Leadership is universal and built on trust.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“In the center of the movement, as the motor that swings it onto motion, sits the Leader. He is separated from the elite formation by an inner circle of the initiated who spread around him an aura of impenetrable mystery which corresponds to his “intangible preponderance.” His position within this intimate circle depends upon his ability to spin intrigues among its members and upon his skill in constantly changing its personnel. He owes his rise to leadership to an extreme ability to handle inner-party struggles for power rather than to demagogic or bureaucratic-organizational qualities. He is distinguished from earlier types of dictators in that he hardly wins through simple violence. Hitler needed neither the SA nor the SS to secure his position as leader of the Nazi movement; on the contrary, Röhm, the chief of the SA and able to count upon its loyalty to his own person, was one of Hitler’s inner-party enemies. Stalin won against Trotsky, who not only had a far greater mass appeal but, as chief of the Red Army, held in his hands the greatest power potential in Soviet Russia at the time. Not Stalin, but Trotsky, moreover, was the greatest organizational talent, the ablest bureaucrat of the Russian Revolution. On the other hand, both Hitler and Stalin were masters of detail and devoted themselves in the early stages of their careers almost entirely to questions of personnel, so that after a few years hardly any man of importance remained who did not owe his position to them.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“Your title is what you are; your visions are who you are. When you know who you are, then you will know where you can be useful most.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Good communication has just a little to do with eloquence. It's character that makes it more successful. Harsh words nicely articulated are sharp enough to kill your brand!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“A “self-leader” is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You must be able to lead yourself before you can lead others.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“If you want to wait till your black hairs turn grey and your teeth start pulling out before you become a leader, you are either too fast to prove your ignorance, or you are too late to know who you are made of.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Great leaders never look down upon those who look up to them.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“Unless you go out of your comfort zone. Unless you challenge yourself, you cannot grow. Leadership is the art of growing by pushing yourself past your own physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual limits.”
― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

“The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and to know this, check his sense of vision.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“When you touch minds, people are willing to walk a dozen miles for you; and when you touch hearts, people are willing to walk a thousand miles for you; but when you touch souls, people are willing to walk a million miles for you.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Behind this manufactured political dereliction, time knocked at our doorstep on several occasions to decide whether to enter the progressive world or to remain confined in a medievalist belief which serves only the feudal class and their monstrous egos.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“Crowd is just a bunch of heads, it is their leader who is the mind.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Any leadership that is observant and committed to its people will always find better ways to solve problems.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“To become a leader is to assume every responsibility for the outcome of the team, project, or program. It is to bring forward the team of its success and to bring oneself forward for failure.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“Before leaders can gain the confidence of others, they must have confidence in themselves.”
― Merida Johns, Leadership Development for Healthcare: A Pathway, Process, and Workbook

“Leadership is not something that should be pursued just to further one's career; it should be pursued because it makes one a better human being. The values and qualities it requires make it so.”
― Sebastien Richard, Lead Like a Superhero: What Pop Culture Icons Can Teach Us About Impactful Leadership

“What makes a good leader? Good leaders above and below them.”
― Samuel R. Young Jr.

“In any area of life, the one thing that inspires fearless devotion in followers is devotion from the leader.”
― Donna Goddard, Purnima

“Rather than focusing just on the "right answer," leadership is created by asking the "right questions.”
― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

“Leadership is developed by mastering the art of seeking new possibilities. It comes by mastering the art of questioning through reflective thinking.”
― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management