Quotes About Leadership

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

If you have political reform in the Islamic world, the spiritual reform would follow.

Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy.

In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.

If you want to create a beautiful world, people in positions of responsibility and power should know a certain sense of joyfulness and peacefulness.

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

If those who hold influence over others fail to lead toward the spiritual uplands, then surely the path to the lowlands will be well worn.

I think that I would have made a fine president. But it really came down for me to a very personal, a very intimate and a spiritual decision. I don't rule anything out for the long-term future.

Supremely, spiritual directors/mentors/pastors are persons who have a sense of being established in God. Otherwise they are too dangerous to be allowed into the soul space of others.

I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

What really pleases the Spiritual Master is our intent and the quality of our character.

His [John Paul II] humanity, combined with his extraordinary spiritual authority, was unlike anything I've ever met.

Only the wounded healer is able to heal. As long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect, we live in poverty. I have a perfect teacher inside; there is no perfect teacher outside.

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Those in true spiritual authority have neither the desire nor the need to control anyone, either directly or subversively.

You are never a real guru until you understand that you are serving others and delivering them to the light.

Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.

Intentional leadership ads value and truth to people.

In order for someone to follow you, you must be true to heart and purpose. This is true in any relationship. Someone may follow you for awhile without it, but not a lifetime.

In the matter of spirit follow the Gods, in the matter of work follow the heroes.