Quotes About Leadership

A thousand men can't undress a naked man.

All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile

Didn't anyone who changed things ultimately lead some people—perhaps many people—to death, grief, torment?

A pitfall that most entrepreneurs face is that we become so absorbed in the day-to-day battle (and mind you, it's a glorious battle), that we lose sight of where we are and where we need to go. I believe an imperative for any entrepreneur is to work 'on' the business as much or more so than 'in' the business.

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

Part of being a Jedi is setting an example." -Corran Horn to Anakin Solo

God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.

As Paddy Murray wrote in the Evening Herald: "It didn't even rain. It wouldn't have dared. They don't call Bruce Springsteen the Boss for nothing.

Once you educate the boys,they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities. But the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned.

When women take charge, things start to get out of control really fast.

Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

It has been broadly observed that the first Reformation of the early 1500s placed the Bible in the hands of the people and that the Second Reformation will place the ministry in the hands of the people.

Bill Hull has prophetically written, "The crisis at the heart of the church is a crisis of product.

Jesus' thought was, "Give me teachable, loyal people, and watch me change the world.

As the alternative to the one-on-one model, I propose a threesome that I call a triad as the ideal size for a disciple-making group.

Jesus went about his ministry with a relaxed urgency.

Robert Coleman's challenge: "One must decide where he wants his ministry to count—in the momentary applause of popular recognition or in the reproduction of his life in a few chosen ones who will carry on his work after he has gone? Really, it is a question of which generation we are living for.

John Kotter in Leading Change says that a primary reason why change does not occur is that there is no sense of urgency.

Leadership is about instilling urgency.

Instead of equipping the saints to do the work of ministry, those in pastoral leadership do it themselves.

Jesus had enough vision to think small. Focusing did not limit his influence — it expanded it. When Jesus ascended to the Father, he knew that there were at least eleven who could minister under the authority of his name, an elevenfold multiplication of his ministry. Robert Coleman captures the heart of Jesus' methodology when he writes, "[Jesus'] concern was not with programs to reach the multitudes but with men the multitudes would follow.

You get them to the main gate, don't stop until you're outside," Bell tells her, then turns, directing his words at the others. "You understand? All of you, follow Lilac. Follow Lilac. Don't stop. Run." "Lily runs," the girl says softly. "Lilac dances." "Not today," Lilac says. "Today, we run so fast that Lily won't believe it when we tell her. Right?" The girl nods, wide-eyed.

What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men—men of prayer.1