Quotes
Quotes about Leadership
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve.
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
A position of authority is neither necessary nor sufficient for the exercise of leadership.
One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Jesus will prevail. His Church will prevail. Everything else is just passing away. Our current leadership [of the Episcopal Church USA] will die one day, as will you and I. It is not for us to condemn others, but to witness to them of Him who is in our lives. Even now, the enemy is at work, but Jesus will prevail. I know a God whose mercy knows no limits and whose power has no restraints.
Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916 Race highlights the fact that in our congregational life we usually do not reflect the variety of cultures. There are Asian, West Indian, and Anglo-Saxon congregations worshiping and meeting close to each other. These groups meet at work and in school, but not always in church. If the church is middle-class and intellectual in the language of the services, in the music employed, in the life-style expected of Christians, in its leadership, and in the methods of presenting the gospel, then the whole atmosphere is such as to repel those who are not middle-class and intellectual. They feel out of place and unwanted, even if they are given a friendly greeting at the door. The life of the New Testament Church was evidence of the supernatural; God was in their midst. The power of Christ was a reality. The fellowship could not be explained in simple natural terms. A church divided on social and racial lines is not evidence for the supernatural, but for the simply human and social.
The church has magnificent buildings, superb equipment, trained leadership, excellent teaching materials, organizational ability, and yet lacks that one thing that could take all these tools and make them the channel of God's will. In spite of its ever-increasing membership, the church lacks the spirit of God's growing love and understanding that can transform it from an efficient organization into a loving, dynamic fellowship where men and women become vitally alive with faith, love, and hope.
As the wife of a state Supreme Court justice in Arkansas put it, "My husband has been a Methodist all his life, but if it comes to choosing between being a Methodist and an American, he'll be an American every time." But this was not the issue, quite. In this case the choice was between being a good Methodist and a good American, and being a tribal religionist. But the theological problem of churches without discipline comes into stark outline in the quotation. Inadequately trained for membership, admitted without preparatory training, without the proper instruments of voluntary discipline, many members have never had the discontinuity between life in Christ and life in the world brought home to them. Here the ordinary members are less at fault than the leadership of the churches, whoâthough sworn to uphold the form of sound words and doctrineâneglect catechetical instruction and concentrate solely on the acquisition of more new members at any price.
The art of communication is the language of leadership.
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers not the enrichment of the leaders.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
The only real training for leadership is leadership.
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves themâthis is of the essence of leadership.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Leadership is the ability to hide your panic from others.
