Leader Quotes - Page 29

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.

Education is the mother of leadership.

Leaders can be wrong - but they can not be unclear.

...the best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for a soldier who returns after fleeing, and who valiantly pursues the enemy, than for one who never turned back, but who never acted valiantly either. A farmer has greater love for land which bears fruitfully, after he has cleared it of thorns, than for land which never had thorns but which never yielded a fruitful harvest.

Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader - the common purpose. The best executives put this common purpose clearly before their group. While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others, the ability to make purpose articulate. And then that common purpose becomes the leader.

There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.

It makes it very hard for us to warn people about the wolves when the leaders of the sheep are associating with the wolves.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

The Bible is not considered an accurate, absolute, authoritative, or authoritarian source but a book to be experienced and one experience can be as valid as any other can. Experience, dialogue, feelings, and conversations are equated with Scripture while certitude, authority, and doctrine are to be eschewed! No doctrines are to be absolute and truth or doctrine must be considered only with personal experiences, traditions, historical leaders, etc. The Bible is not an answer book.

The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.