Quotes About Leadership

If done as God wants.' then leadership will surely include intercessory prayer. The saintly Bishop Azariah of India once remarked to Bishop Stephen Neill that he found time to pray daily, by name, for every leader in his extensive diocese. Little wonder that during his thirty years of eldering there, the diocese tripled its membership and greatly increase in spiritual effectiveness

Leaders must draw the best out of people, and friendship does that far better than prolonged argument or mere logic.

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

Courageous leaders face unpleasant and even devastating situations with equanimity, then act firmly to bring good from trouble, even if their action is unpopular. Leadership always faces natural human inertia and opposition. But courage follows through with a task until it is done.

A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more rigorous discipline from within. Those who rebel against authority and scorn self-discipline -- who shirk the rigors and turn from the sacrifices -- do not qualify to lead.

When all the facts are in, swift and clear decision is another mark of a true leader. A visionary may see, but a leader must decide. An impulsive person may be quick to declare a preference; but a leader must weigh evidence and make his decision on sound premises.

True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.

A natural leader by any measure, Paul became a great spiritual leader when his heart and mind were captured by Jesus Christ.

No leader lives a day without criticism, and humility will never be more on trial than when criticism comes.

The person who is impatient with weakness will be ineffective in his leadership. The evidence of our strength lies not in the distance that separates us from other runners but in our closure with them, our slower pace for their sakes, our helping them pick it up and cross the line.

a leader should never delegate that which he had not done before and done well.

An overseer called him a traitor, and Rytlock killed him. That's how he became an overseer. Later, a legionnaire called him a deserter, and Rytlock killed him as well. That's how he became a legionnaire.

He may have gotten spanked by a barbecue grill, but on a desk unit, he was a king.

He wore command as he wore his suit—a good fit with clean lines.

He couldn't lead himself out of a room made of doors.

It's a mistake to be too much one of your own as they'll never see you as fully in charge.

The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness and facility. Francis Bacon

Bet the first guy who made fire figured he was a god, and the other cavemen bowed down to him." "Or bashed him in the head with a rock and stole his burning stick." She

You didn't make lieutenant without wading through, and learning to cut through, the usual crap.

Eve yanked out her communicator. "Peabody, get an E and B team to the Empire State Building, another to the Twin Towers, one more to the Statue of Liberty. You and McNab cover the Empire State, get Feeney down to the Towers.

I want to give someone a job. Doing what? That's the thing. I don't know. And actually, I want YOU to give someone a job. His eyebrows rose. You want me to give someone a job doing... you don't know what? What's the point of having somebody who employs half the planet anyway if you can't say, 'Give this girl a job'?

The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness and facility. Francis Bacon More

politics?" "A necessary evil that on rare occasions works without corruption, abuse, and waste.

Yeah, okay, that's how I was leaning. I thought about Oberon, how she ran her department, all those cops—and used her handpicked to run her dirty cop sideline.