Quotes About Leadership

Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

Tom Petty," Jim Lenahan insists, "is really good at getting people to quit school and join his band. He got Benmont to do it. He got me to do it. He got Mike to do it. He got a lot of people to quit college so they could be in his band.

His wife "ruled the roast," and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.

I wish to impress these matters upon you, because you are the eldest of your father's family. The oldest son should consider himself the second father of the family.

New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them.

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

Challenges in life always seek leaders and leaders seek challenges.

Your greatest area of leadership often comes out of your greatest area of pain and weakness.

Being willing to listen to others and let them speak into our lives is a critical attitude leaders must have. It is not weakness to get good advice - it is strength to seek it out.

Every great leader has incredible odds to overcome.

Character is contagious.

A tough hide with a tender heart is a goal that all leaders must have.

If today's churches, companies and organizations want to be thriving tomorrow, they have an obligation to coach and mentor the new generation of leaders.

Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.

Leadership matters more in times of uncertainty.

No person of color has ever held a top executive post in his organization and even his suited security army inside the tower is virtually all white. Race

The men were famous once. Some of them still are. They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and Brooks had brought them together, 24 summers before. He had picked them and provoked them and pushed them, sometimes irritating them and often infuriating them by his hardness and his aloofness, his scathing rebukes and his unrelenting mind games.

In the information age in which we live, technology has a way of selling us on convenience. If something can't be done electronically, we are not interested in doing it. But the bottom line for effective ministry must never be our own convenience. It takes blisters, commitment, and a willingness to go wherever the Lord leads us to get it done. This may be a foreign concept to some leaders;

A leader's role is not to maintain. It is to gain altitude!

As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.

I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.

Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

Lead, follow—what difference does it make? It's all a choice. There's no escape in blame, no comfort in shirking responsibility. We all make choices. We must all face the consequences of those choices.

You can bend a man and make him soft, or you can bend yourself and make him strong. But you will never have the man you've dreamed of unless you let him lead.