Quotes About Leadership

A prominent businessman once replied to a question: "If I had to name the one most important quality of a top manager, I would say, personal integrity.

Surely the spiritual leader must be sincere in promise, faithful in discharge of duty, upright in finances, loyal in service, and honest in speech.

Pursuing the goal, the leader never looks back or calculates escape strategies if plans turn sour. Nor does a true leader cast blame for failure on subordinates.

The young man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others snooze, pray while others daydream. Slothful habits are overcome, whether in thought, deed, or dress. The emerging leader eats right, stands tall, and prepares himself to wage spiritual warfare

Lazy and disorganized people never rise to true leadership. Many who aspire to leadership fail because they have never learned to follow.

The power of inspiring others to service and sacrifice will mark God's leader.

As Jesus dealt with sin's cause rather than effect, so the spiritual leader should adopt the same method in prayer.

To get at the root of problems, a leader must develop into a skillful listener. Too many strong personalities are compulsive talkers. "He won't listen to me," complains a missionary. "He gives the answer before I have had a chance to state the problem.

The quality of a person's leadership will be in part measured by time: its use and its passage.

Spiritual leadership requires Spirit-filled people. Other qualities are important; to be Spirit-filled is indispensable.

Selecting leaders apart from spiritual qualifications leads always to unspiritual administration.

Every Christian is obliged to be the best for God. Like any other worthwhile activity, if leadership can be improved, we should seek to improve it. In so doing, we prepare ourselves for higher service that may be just around the next corner, though unseen at the present.

Not every Christian is called to major leadership in the church, but every Christian is a leader, for we all influence others. All of us should strive to improve our leadership skills.

The leader who intends to grow spiritually and intellectually will be reading constantly.

These days, the practice of reading spiritual classics is on the wane. We have more leisure today than ever before in history, but many people claim to have no time for reading. A spiritual leader cannot use that excuse.

Leaders should determine to spend a minimum of half an hour a day reading books that feed the soul and stimulate the mind.

To be filled with the Spirit is to be controlled by the Spirit. The Christian leader's mind, emotions, will, and physical strength all become available for the Spirit to guide and use. Under the Spirit's control, natural gifts of leadership are lifted to their highest power, sanctified for holy purpose.

The filling of the Spirit is essential for spiritual leadership. And each believer has as much of the Spirit's presence as he or she will ever need. Our task is to remain yielded to Him.

The leader cannot spend time on secondary matters while essential obligations scream for attention. A day needs careful planning.

To be a man, a boy must see a man.

The history of the kings is the story of how those who had been anointed failed to live up to that anointing. It is this fact alone that can explain the rise of messianism: belief in the anointed one who will fulfil his anointing.' 14

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

You are in charge of your own positive direction. (by J. Bert Freeman)