Quotes About Empowerment

Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.

How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.

Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

Leadership is a choice, not a position

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.

The first step to leadership is servanthood.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.

...the best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. By John Maxwell

Leadership is action, not position