Quotes About Empowerment

Most of us are not leaders today because, in our hearts we don't believe that is who we are.

Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others.

Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving.

Delegation is the passing on of actions, actions, not the passing on of responsibility.

Leadership is all about people … and getting the most out of people.

If your leadership isn't all about you, it will live beyond you.

Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.

The manager administers; the leader innovates.

Leadership is the ability to encourage the best efforts of others in working toward a desirable goal.

So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.

Leadership is the art of creating a working climate that inspires others to achieve extraordinary goals and levels of performance.

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.

We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership

Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team.

Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves.

Leaders are like point guards, we set people up to score.

The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.

Leadership potential exists in everybody. What I think we have missed is that we have somehow relegated leadership only to a special, talented few people.

Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.

The essence of leadership is the capacity to build and develop the self-esteem of the workers.

Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.

It's such a rarity to have women in senior powerful positions. We can name them all. Fact is, women can handle power and handle it well. That's something I'd like a lot more women to understand.