Quotes About Inspiration

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.

The world can teach leadership skills but only Jesus can teach you a leaders heart.

Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.

Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?

You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

The essence of leadership is the capacity to build and develop the self-esteem of the workers.

Surround yourself with people smarter than you.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.

In every growing church you will find leadership that is not afraid to believe God.

Imagine a place where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude every day.

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

Cast first to your church those visions you absolutely know are the Lord's.

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius

The blessing of influence is helping others succeed. It is lifting up Christ with your established platform.

You cannot cast a vision that has not cast a spell over you.

Leadership is like parenting.

[Michael] Gove will be the underdog fighting for the underdog in this leadership race.

Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . .

Greatness follows those who lead the way.