Leader Quotes - Page 23

• Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Burden, Heavy

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• There's something unique and different that makes a leader, and it's not about creativity or courage or integrity.... A leader's job is to rally people toward a better future.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Jobs, Integrity, Creativity

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• Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.

  Colin Powell

  Jobs, Inspire, Followers

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• Any fool can buy talent; only real leaders develop it.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Real, Fool, Talent

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• The leader's role is to make sure that strategy is kept super simple.

  Robert E. Murray

  Simple, Roles, Strategy

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• The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.

  Sean Parker

  Wind, Decision, Tree

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• I'm not always thinking and working ... I think a leader has to really be a balanced, whole and healthy person personally in order to be the best leader on the job.

  Mike Duke

  Jobs, Thinking, Order

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• Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Retiring, Exertion, Willing

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• I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people's revolution.

  Lynne Stewart

  People, Revolution, Problem

  "Counter-Intelligent". Interview with Susie Day, monthlyreview.org. November 1, 2002.

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• Some citizens are so good that nothing a leader can do will make them better. Others are so incorrigible that nothing can be done to improve them. But the great bulk of the people go with the moral tide of the moment. The leader must help create that tide. Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

  Chuck Noll

  People, Giving, Tides

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• The difference between a cult and a religion is one outlasts its leader.

  Rakesh Khurana

  Differences, Cult, Religious Cults

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• The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.

  Lech Walesa

  Vision, Needs, World

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• Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates also spoke of the Logos and of the Universal Wise Man 'yet to come'. Confucius spoke of 'the Saint'; the Sibyls, of a 'Universal King'; the Greek dramatist, of a saviour and redeemer to unloose man from the 'primal eldest curse'. All these were on the Gentile side of the expectation. What separates Christ from all men is that first He was expected; even the Gentiles had a longing for a deliverer, or redeemer. This fact alone distinguishes Him from all other religious leaders.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wise, Religious, Kings

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• Leaders strengthen credibility by demonstrating that they are not in it for themselves, instead they have the interests of the institution, department, or team and its constituents at heart. Being a servant may not be what many leaders had in mind when they chose to take responsibility for the vision and direction of their organization or team - but serving others is the most glorious and rewarding of all leadership tasks.

  James M. Kouzes

  Team, Responsibility, Heart

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• To add growth, lead followers - to multiply, lead leaders.

  John C. Maxwell

  Growth, Add, Followers

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Law of Explosive Growth: Lesson 20 from The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• If you are training leaders, because you need them, you are too late.

  John C. Maxwell

  Training, Needs, Too Late

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• The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Past, World, Sacred

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• Fearful leaders side-step issues instead of dealing with them, cover up mistakes instead of owning up to mistakes; they skulk back into the shadows and hope that the crisis-whatever it is-will somehow blow over instead of facing their fears. Worse, they resort to lies and deception to cover up the truth.

  Leon F. "Lee" Ellis

  Mistake, Lying, Blow

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• An honorable leader must demonstrate a willingness to reveal his or her 'inner self' to their team. It builds trust and trust is essential. It's also a sign of strength and authenticity, and people are attracted to those who are 'real' and authentic.

  Leon F. "Lee" Ellis

  Real, Team, Self

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• Leadership is something you earn, something you're chosen for. You can't come in yelling, 'I'm your leader!' If it happens, it's because the other guys respect you.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Yelling, Guy, Chosen

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• I try to work hard. I try to set a good example. I don't look at it as though I've got to be a leader. I just try to behave the way I think I should behave. If that results in a leadership role, great.

  Matt Holliday

  Hard Work, Thinking, Trying

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• Every coach, every executive, every leader: They all know right from wrong. Even those Enron guys. When someone uncovers a scandal in their company, I don't think they can say, "I didn't know that was going on." They're just saying they're too dumb to do their job! And if they really are too dumb, then why are they getting paid millions of dollars to do it? They know what's going on.

  Bo Schembechler

  Jobs, Thinking, Enron Scandal

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• To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

  Victor Hugo

  Lying, Fighting, Revolutionary Leaders

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6978, Delphi Classics

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• We expect our leaders to be godlike. But I feel that when people try to sanctify leadership, it puts it out of the realm of regular people. And that's where the greatest leaders come from - from the people.

  Katori Hall

  People, Trying, Realms

  "Katori Hall Talks "Radical" MLK Jr in 'The Mountaintop' Interview" by Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. August 29, 2011.

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• If the world is to hear the church's voice today, leaders are needed who are authoritative, spiritual, and sacrificial. Sacrificial, because this trait follows the model of Jesus, who gave Himself for the whole world and who calls us to follow in His steps.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Spiritual, Jesus, Voice

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.18, Moody Publishers

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