Quotes About Leadership

Titles are granted, but it's your behavior that earns you respect.

when you have a CEO who is so ingrained in the agency, staff, and each and every one of the clients, you only want to push yourself further." Because Barby is so transparent about her values and vision for the organization, "There's no question," according to Alison, "that people want to follow her.

Leaders mobilize others to want to struggle for shared aspirations, and this means that, fundamentally, leadership is a relationship. Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.

You have to believe, and you have to develop the skills to transmit your belief. It's your passion that brings the vision to life. If you're going to lead, you have to recognize that your enthusiasm and expressiveness are among your strongest allies in your efforts to generate commitment in others. Don't underestimate your talents.

Unless people can find meaning and purpose in their work, they are not likely to stick around very long or put in the effort required to make a difference. These feelings are particularly important for leaders to tap into during times of high uncertainty.

The Civil War was pre-eminently a political war, a war of peoples rather than of professional armies.

All he wanted or had ever wanted was someone who would take the responsibility and act." Grant, of course, was that someone. "He did not want to know what I proposed to do."7 Grant's account does not ring quite true. After all, the president had vetoed three of his suggestions several weeks earlier.

Church leaders raised on rationalism lead ministries where the supernatural, the Vertical, is suppressed and where God Himself is at best an observer and certainly seldom, if ever, and obvious participant in church.

In healthy churches, the pastors life, not just his words, sets the tone for the church.

Acting like a man means developing a non-anxious presence that sees the big picture, remains calm in a crisis, and won't cave in under pressure. Godly men respond; they don't react.

Do all you can to defeat selfish shepherding in your own heart. We

the unpopularity of an obviously right action should not hinder the execution of an obviously right decision. My

Men act like men at home when they realize they will be held responsible for how well they represented God to their family.

Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity; if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. Erwin Rommel

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

that the effectiveness of leaders must be judged not by their press clippings but by actual social change measured by intent and by the satisfaction of human needs and expectations;

The power holder may be the person whose "private motives are displaced onto public objects and rationalized in terms of public interest

A leader and a tyrant are polar opposites.

Moral leadership emerges from, and always returns to, the fundamental wants and needs, aspirations, and values of the followers.

In brief, leaders with motive and power bases tap followers' motives in order to realize the purposes of both leaders and followers.

Power wielders may treat people as things. Leaders may not.

There is an important difference between the politician who is simply an able tactician, and the politician who is a creative political

he would run, the Missouri Senator told Roosevelt's men, "but why the hell didn't he tell me in the first place?