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?

“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

“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

“Whenever I find someone putting all his trust in me; taking me around the darker corners of his inner-space, I have always felt that at that moment I am receiving the greatest compliment: “You are trusted.” But, how difficult it is to hold on to someone’s secret. Sometimes it becomes difficult but then that is the test. If you succumb and share the same with another then one thing is sure: Pleasure of being a trust worthy person will be lost.
Mind will be committing a Sin of Heart.
Soul would be absent in those dark moments..
Temptation will be greater when betraying someone would mean some material gain for you. But then, a part of your spirit would die. Getting trusted is a glowing tribute anyone can ever get. Let your spirit glow. Be trustworthy.”
― Ramesh Sood, Listening to Leading: Simplest Definition of Leadership Unveiled....

“Tackling inequality is actually every leader's job, it is the definition of leadership. And it’s also the ultimate privilege. So, to be able to remove barriers that you yourself never have to experience is the ultimate form of privilege, and it’s actually a requirement of every leader. Because if you want to advance women in your workplace, you cannot do that without knowing what the barriers are, and taking steps to remove them. So, by and large leaders just simply haven’t been leading when it comes to equality in workplaces, so we need them to lead, it’s an imperative in terms of advancing women, and also advancing men and creating environments where men can show up differently.”
― Michelle P. King

“If you are smarter than the leader you follow, you should stop taking direction from him and definitely get ahead of him and give him direction!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“One of the biggest problems in this world is that people who can't even guide themselves try to lead others, and that's exactly why the world is full of people lost in the pursuit of such fools!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Our father had a gift for convincing people to follow him into the wilderness, a quality that made him both dangerous and magical. He spent the whole of his adult life in Florida and that is how I have come to think of this place too, as equal parts danger and magic.”
― Laura van den Berg, State of Paradise

“Being true to yourself and leading with your best self means that you need to be clear and comfortable with the kind of leader you want to become.”
― Kouzes/Posner, Leadership Challenge 4th E