Quotes about Empowering Others

Leaders must always be looking to give away their jobs to people who can do it as well or better than they. This calls for a level of intimacy between the leader and disciple that does not last. The leader begins to disengage; the disciple now becomes a leader. The closeness remains and is no longer defined by the amount of time spent together but by the openness with one another.

Treat others as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming." Goethe "No one needs love more than the person we find difficult to like." Mike Moore

That was my gift -- having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go letting them play what they knew, and above it.

No sleeper whom you have wakened, None downcast whom you have roused, None whose shut mouth you have opened, None ignorant whom you gave knowledge. None foolish whom you have taught.

everybody deserves to have something good in their life at least once.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

My vision is to bring the goodness in people and make them realise their worth in the presence of others.

Teach others that which will be beneficial to them in the future and don't aim to drag them behind, in the past.

Teamwork means serving without waiting for someone else to serve first.

If you keep people down so they dont become better than you, you gotta stay there to keep them down so you dont progress yourself. What kind of wahala (Suffering) is that ? Leave them to progress so you can expand.

The greatest act of leadership is mentoring. No matter how much you may learn, achieve, accumulate, or accomplish, if it all dies with you, then you are a generational failure.

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

Lead from the front — but don t leave your base behind.

To be free is to not merely cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others. Prison desk calendar, written on Robben Island, June 2, 1979

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

leader, he said, is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead,

She doesn't realize it, but she steers others in a good direction.