Leadership & Guidance Quotes

A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determination to work hard, a clear sense of vision, an inspiring purpose, a deep sense of integrity and an appreciation for joy.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present.

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

Leadership is more about clarity than it is about control.

An important part of leadership is being able to hold two things in your mind at once: Dealing with the reality, whatever it may be, and focus on hope for the future. Any leader helping an organization through challenges needs to be able to do both.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

In times of uncertainty, employees crave clarity. As a leader, you won't always have all of the answers - no one expects you to - so you must be open to listening and learning from others. Once you understand a particular challenge and outline the options, you have to be confident in making bold and optimistic decisions.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership - it's an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

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

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

There are a lot of good men out there who just need a little direction and leadership in order for them to offer what they have to young men and boys.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

There is a sense of call to take leadership roles. You're serving people and submitting to God as best you can.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

Leadership is influence.

I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders, their teams and their organizations.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.