Leading Quotes

“The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
― Colin Powell

“No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Always hear others out and remain open-minded; the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

“Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Don’t be afraid of criticism; the tallest trees are always confronted by the strongest winds.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A boss says "you do it", a leader says "Let's do it".”
― amit kalantri, Wealth of Words

“No chief I've ever met looked down the road and wanted what they saw waiting for them.”
― Margaret Owen, The Merciful Crow

“Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“Leaders need to be simmered for a long time before they become tender-hearted, wise, and self-sacrificing, So be patient and consistent.”
― Sebastien Richard, Lead Like a Superhero: What Pop Culture Icons Can Teach Us About Impactful Leadership

“Leadership is great, however, it is founded and sustained by followership.”
― Ubong Ntewo, A Misplaced Priority: A Biblical Vision of Followership and Its Preeminence

“Leadership isn’t just about deciding what to do, it’s also about knowing what not to do.”
― Jeremy Reis, Magnetic Nonprofit: Attract and Retain Donors, Volunteers, and Staff to Increase Nonprofit Fundraising

“Leading oneself is not only a daily challenge, but one that will last for a lifetime. While you will never master yourself completely, it should nevertheless be your aim.”
― Sebastien Richard, Lead Like a Superhero: What Pop Culture Icons Can Teach Us About Impactful Leadership

“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

“Leading like a superhero means going that extra, grueling mile for the sake of others. It's being able to demonstrate superhuman endurance, empathy, and selflessness.”
― Sebastien Richard, Lead Like a Superhero: What Pop Culture Icons Can Teach Us About Impactful Leadership

“I am well on my way to being known as one of the world’s leading ‘Altitude Sickness’ researchers.”
― Steven Magee

“It was through misfortune that I became the world’s leading expert on High Altitude Observatory Diseases.”
― Steven Magee

“It was through professional astronomy corruption that I became the world’s leading expert on High Altitude Observatory Diseases.”
― Steven Magee

“After leaving the largest solar power plant in the USA, I went on to become a world leading expert in Radio Wave Sickness.”
― Steven Magee

“A worthy leader has the desire to serve, not to dominate.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“The four best strategies for building shame-resilient organizations are:

1. Supporting leaders who are willing to dare greatly and facilitate honest conversations about shame and cultivate shame-resilient cultures.

2. Facilitating a conscientious effort to see where shame might be functioning in the organization and how it might even be creeping into the way we engage with our co-workers and students.

3. Normalizing is a critical shame-resilience strategy. Leaders and managers can cultivate engagement by heling people know what to expect. What are common struggles? How have other people dealt with them? What have your experiences been?

4. Training all employees on the differences between shame and guilt, and teaching them how to give and receive feedback in a way that fosters growth and engagement.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“I am among the leading people in the research fields I publish books in.”
― Steven Magee

“There’s the old saying of “the blind leading the blind.” But it seems that the one being led is often blind only because the first one claimed to see.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You have no business leading if you have no offering”
― Daniel ANIKOR, CATCH THEM YOUNG

“I have felt ever since that the title of Platonist belongs by far better right to those who have been nourished in and have endeavoured to practise Plato's mode of investigation, than to those who are distinguished only by the adoption of certain dogmatical conclusions, drawn mostly from the least intelligible of his works, and which the character of his mind and writings makes it uncertain whether he himself regarded as anything more than poetic fancies, or philosophic conjectures.”
― John Stuart Mill, Autobiography

“Some leaders believe that the caboose pulls the train.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I never sit in the living rooms of people’s lives, I am entirely unable to lead them out of the house.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You may open many doors but only step through those leading to somewhere you want to go,”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“You may open many doors but only step through those leading to somewhere you want to go.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte