Leader Quotes - Page 27

• A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Average, Everyday, Motivated

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• Leaders need to cultivate two things: a righteous heart and a rhinoceros skin.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Heart, Two, Skins

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• A leader is only able to lead others because he disciplines himself. The person who does not know how to bow to discipline imposed from without, who does not know how to obey, will not make a good leader-nor will the one who has not learned to impose discipline within his own life. Those who scorn scripturally or legally constituted authority, or rebel against it, rarely qualify for high leadership positions.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Discipline, Rebel, Doe

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• Leadership requires followership and following is an act of trust, faith in the course of the leader, and that faith can be generated only if leaders act with integrity.

  Lawrence M. Miller

  Integrity, Followership, Following

  Lawrence M. Miller (1984). “American spirit: visions of a new corporate culture”, William Morrow & Company

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• Leaders should be the chief repenters.

  Jack Miller

  Should, Chiefs

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• Leaders lead out of who they are on the inside.

  Gary Haugen

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• Leaders are defined by the decisions they make ... Leaders rise and fall by the decisions they make.

  Mario Daniel Vega

  Fall, Decision, Defined

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• A leader's lasting value is measured by succession.

  John C. Maxwell

  Lasting, Succession, Values

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.257, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A leader is a reader.

  John C. Maxwell

  Reader

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• If it's the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.

  Bill Hybels

  Giving, Church, Get Better

  Bill Hybels (2008). “Holy Discontent: Fueling the Fire That Ignites Personal Vision”, p.62, Zondervan

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• Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

  James C. Collins

  Greatness, Differences, Mediocrity

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• Prayerless leaders are like ship captains without compasses; they can make their best guess at which direction to go, but they have no assurance they are heading the right way. Prayer keeps leaders focused on the one absolutely consistent factor in life - God.

  Henry Blackaby

  Prayer, Way, Captains

  Henry Blackaby, Henry T. Blackaby, Richard Blackaby (2011). “Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda”, p.221, B&H Publishing Group

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• Acknowledging weakness doesn't make a leader less effective. On the contrary, in most cases it is simply a way of expressing that he understands what everyone else has known for some time. When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of your team, it is never new information.

  Andy Stanley

  Team, Weakness, Information

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.23, Multnomah

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• The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.

  Andy Stanley

  Moving, Gone, Refuse

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.54, Multnomah

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• Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.

  Tony Snow

  Fall, Government, People

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• One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires - and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who are enthralled by their words or their posturing.

  Thomas Sowell

  Reading, People, Inspire

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• At a time when Democratic leaders are pushing rationed care in a world of limited resources, Americans might wonder where the call for shared sacrifice is from illegal immigrant patients like those in Los Angeles getting free liver and kidney transplants at UCLA Medical Center. 'I'm just mad,' illegal alien Jose Lopez told the Los Angeles Times last year after receiving two taxpayer-subsidized liver transplants while impatiently awaiting approval for state health insurance.

  Michelle Malkin

  Sacrifice, Ucla, Years

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• House GOP Leader John Boehner on Monday rightly sounded the alarm over billions in stimulus tax dollars that could potentially go to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). But the Republican leadership has only scratched the surface over what amounts to a bottomless slush fund for a bigger coalition of housing entitlement thugs.

  Michelle Malkin

  Monday, Thug, Organization

  "Stimulus Slush Fund for Entitlement Thugs" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 30, 2009.

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• Goose pimples rose all over me, my hair stood on end, my eyes filled with tears of love and gratitude for this greatest of all conquerors of human misery and shame, and my breath came in little gasps. If I had not known that the Leader would have scorned such adulation, I might have fallen to my knees in unashamed worship, but instead I drew myself to attention, raised my arm in the eternal salute of the ancient Roman Legions and repeated the holy words, "Heil Hitler!"

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Gratitude, Eye, Hair

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• When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.

  Preston Manning

  Decision, Political, Prejudice

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• While victims condemn change, leaders grow inspired by change.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspired, Victim, Grows

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from May 30, 2014

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• While the average person is home watching TV, the Leader Without a Title is in the gym getting stronger or at the library getting smarter or at the office getting better (or with their family growing kinder). Make this day count.

  Robin Sharma

  Home, Average, Office

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Oct 28, 2013

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• Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.

  Zainab Salbi

  Community, Survivor, Levels

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Some leaders expect the team to read their minds on priorities, so they never provide the written and verbal guidance that we all need to feel we are contributing. Others can be heard shouting new priorities on an hourly basis. Both habits are very demotivating.

  Martin Zwilling

  Team, Priorities, Mind

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• As the leader of a country, you are not free to enjoy the luxury of such feelings. The Afghan people want peace, which requires persistence. We are determined to defend our country, and the whole region and the entire world understands the justice of our cause and the principled way in which we have engaged in it.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Persistence, Luxury

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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