Leadership Quotes - Page 105

Leaders evoke emotional connections in followers only to the extent that the followers are emotionally needy.

Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.

When a person gets right with God, my eyes are upward...I'm poor in spirit. I'm spiritually bankrupt.

A woman never wrote, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." God wrote that. You sin first and foremost against God.

Where do you think you would be now if Jesus would not have saved you when He did.

Platforms are established because of the way the Lord used someone.

My own heart has to be under constant check by Jesus.

All the good you've ever done does not make it permissible to sin now.

You must emulate the truth you exhort.

Human speculation is no match for divine revelation.

Influence is the platform God gives you to help others succeed.

Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.

The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.

The wise leader speaks rarely and briefly. After all, no other natural outpouring goes on and on. It rains and then it stops. It thunders and then it stops.

The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.

Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many.

The real test of leadership isn't where you start out. It's where you end up.

Cats do what cats do, ducks do what ducks do, and eagles do what eagles, do. If you take a duck and ask it to do an eagles' job, shame on you. As a leader, your job is to help your ducks to become better ducks and your eagles better eagles - to put individuals in the right places and help them reach their potential.

Be generous, be humble, and be grateful when achieving your dreams.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Thank God for the tough times. They are the reason you are there - to be the leader. If everything was going well, the people wouldn't need you!

What I had been taught all my life was not true: experience is not the best teacher! Some people learn and grow as a result of their experience; some people don't. Everybody has some kind of experience. It's what you do with that experience that matters.

A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer. It's the civil rights of our day. It's the issue of our day.

If women don't lead, nobody else is going to, because nobody else feels as passionately as we do about injustices. We feel passionate about injustices to women and girls, and not in exclusion to injustices elsewhere.

Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.