Quotes About Leadership

There are times when a leader's deepest longing is to hear a word from the Lord. Beyond the muddle of all of our thoughts and ideas and brainstorming sessions, we long for an encounter with God that will penetrate all of that and bring some clarity to our situation.

Intense conflict is an invitation to turn to God, who wants to lead us forward into restored relationships and into new organizational processes. JAN WOOD, LON FENDALL AND BRUCE BISHOP, PRACTICING DISCERNMENT TOGETHER

there is a way of doing life in leadership that is not so complicated and heavy—a way of making decisions that does not have to rely on our own brilliance and ability to think hard, a way of being involved in God's work that ends up being more about God's work than our own.

Jesus indicates that it is possible to gain the whole world but lose your own soul. If he were talking to us as Christian leaders today, he might point out that it is possible to gain the world of ministry success and lose your own soul in the midst of it all.

He routinely sought God out (or God sought him), there was an encounter, and then Moses did what God told him to do. For Moses, leadership was that simple!

Self-knowledge and self-examination. Parker Palmer makes this very sobering statement about leadership: "A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside him/herself, inside his or her consciousness, lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

It is a sobering thing to ask ourselves this question: Have I learned enough about how to wait on God in my own life to be able to call others to wait when that is what's truly needed? Have I done enough spiritual journeying to lead people on this part of their journey?

Parker Palmer observes, "A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside him or her self, inside his or her consciousness, lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

Only those who have been brave enough to ride their own monsters of anger and greed, jealousy and narcissism, fear and violence all the way down to the bottom will find a truer energy with which to lead.

Truly, the best thing any of us have to bring to leadership is our own transforming selves.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

I'll follow, if you give the sign.

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

The President...should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves the country best.

Surely someone would do something. Then I realized: what if I were that someone?

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition there. —You (also, Indira Gandhi)

Government: A good government should always have the power to impeach, but never need to.

I am a Little King, but I am a King.

Roles: Roles have the power to influence in both positive and negative ways so it is vital to always be just in everything you do.

The Little King is nobody's fool, you're my fools.

A man should never be measured by his money, his power, or his fame; but rather how he uses that money, power, or fame, to change the world.

Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.

You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.