Courageous Leadership Quotes

We need leaders who can meet and adapt to new challenges, build strategic partnerships, build and sustain human capital organizations, and have the courage to act and react to the challenges ~ Thomas Narofsky

May you have the courage to choose love over hate. ~ Leta B.

Boldness isn't second nature to everyone, it is intentionality ~ Janna Cachola

Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears. ~ Andy Hargreaves

Stop groveling, stop whining and start working! ~ Abhijit Naskar

Their greatest fear is you may step forward without fear.
Because your courage may become contagious. ~ Tom Althouse

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership. ~ Charles Edison

I had to stop running. I had to turn and face my life head on. It wasn't enough being like everybody else; I had to be the best, and I was going to show everyone what I was truly made of. I was done with being a terrified princess, constantly waiting to be saved. I was going to be a queen, and, like Vivienne said, I had better start behaving like one. - (Aurora Firedrake) ~ Farah Oomerbhoy

Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still. ~ Robert Baden-Powell

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

A great leader has to be flexible, holding his ground on the major principles but finding room for compromises that can bring people together. A great leader has to be savvy at negotiations so we don't drown every bill in pork barrel bridges to nowhere. I know how to stand my ground - but I also know that Republicans and Democrats need to find common ground to stand on as well. ~ Donald J. Trump

For the first time in our history, the winners of the White House Turkey Pardon were chosen through a highly competitive online vote. And once again, Nate Silver completely nailed it. The guy is amazing. ~ Barack Obama

It is so important for young girls to be fit. I think sports is the key to success, because the challenges you face in sports prepare you for the rest of your life. ~ Gail Devers

Not planning for your time expenditure simply means deliberately intending to fail. ~ Archibald Marwizi

(John) Adams acknowledged that he had made himself obnoxious to many of his colleagues, who regarded him as a one-man bonfire of the vanities. This never troubled Adams, who in his more contrarian moods claimed that his unpopularity provided clinching evidence that his position was principled, because it was obvious that he was not courting popular opinion. His alienation, therefore, was a measure of his integrity. ~ Joseph J. Ellis

This book proves that a godly attitude lies at the heart of Christian leadership. It does not borrow principles of leadership from the world and apply them to the church, but rather derives principles of leadership directly from the Scriptures. ~ J. Oswald Sanders

In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they have seen of oppression and violence, they have gotten more brave, more strong, more fearless than they were. You see this refusal to just keep quiet and do as you are told. ~ Fatima Bhutto

The towering genius is not apolitical. ~ Richard Brookhiser

True leadership is measured by what happens after you die. ~ Myles Munroe

Deception is nowhere more common than in religion. And the persons most easily and damningly deceived are the leaders. Those who deceive others are first themselves deceived, for not many, I think, begin with evil intent. The devil, after all, is a spiritual being. His usual mode of temptation is not an obvious evil but to an apparent good. The commonest forms of devil-inspired worship do not take place furtively at black masses with decapitated cats but flourish under the bright lights of acclaim and glory, in a swirl of organ music. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. ~ Gloria Steinem

Never take tiny dreams for granted. They contain giant success stories. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

When we really need to work hard to make sure that these ideas about constructive social change culturally, ecologically and politically, come to pass. And that's only going to happen if people support the leadership, because the same power structures are still in place, and it's not in their best interests to change. ~ Terry Tempest Williams

The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. ~ Jack Weatherford

A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people. ~ James C. Collins

Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision. ~ L. P. Jacks

If the present White House leadership runs the gauntlet of common sense and the people's will for peace and challenges us by starting MX missile deployment, then the Soviet Union will respond by deploying a new intercontinental ballistic missile of the same class, with its characteristics in no way inferior to those of the MX. ~ Dmitriy Ustinov

It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different. ~ John Templeton

There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility. ~ Robert M. Gates

You should resist any form of oppression. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The fear of offense is a really small price to pay for freedom. ~ Andrena Sawyer

Leadership is a process that involves setting a PURPOSE AND DIRECTION which inspires people to combine and work towards willingly; paying attention to the MEANS, PACE AND QUALITY OF PROGRESS towards the aim; and upholding GROUP UNITY and INDIVIDUAL EFFECTIVENESS throughout. ~ James Scouller

Women have always been courageous ... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights. ~ Isabel Allende

None of this seems to affect the leadership, that people don't go out to vote, that they don't feel the need to go vote, that they already feel disenfranchised. It's not just Obama's fault or Clinton's or whomever's, it's all of them, the whole collection of clowns I've had to sit through. ~ Lewis Black

Everyday there are people in our world that do absolutely amazing things. People of all ages are very capable of doing tremendous, courageous things in spite of their fear. ~ Mairead Corrigan

A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is achieving goals by coaching your staff to peak performance. Focusing on the positive means that you start with what's good and what works, and spend your attention and energy there. ~ Marshall Cook

Where there is no vision, there is no hope. ~ George Washington Carver

Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts. ~ Bill Hybels

The king's "only interest in government was a pious but simpleminded desire for reproachment ~ Dan Jones

And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own. ~ Ronald A. Heifetz

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred. ~ Yousef Munayyer

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever. ~ G.K. Chesterton

Successful leaders are like icebergs. When you look at an iceberg, you see only about 10 percent of it, and the rest of it is hidden under the water. When you look at successful leaders, you see only a fraction of their lives. You see the part that looks really good, but there's usually a lot that remains hidden that's neither exciting nor glamorous. Tennis star Arthur Ashe said, "True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever the cost." True leadership is the same. ~ John C. Maxwell

No one will give you change. You have to work for it. You have to earn it not by screaming, but by working hard, by believing in yourself, by proving yourself. There are windows, but if you are radical, no one will talk to you. And that window will shut. ~ Haifaa Al-Mansour

A lion does not take orders from sheep. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others. ~ Henry Cloud

What supporters say about their leader
tells men a third about who he is.
What supporters do for their leader
tells men two thirds about who he is.
What supporters give up for their leader
tells men all of who he is. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

All his life, he had found his way out of difficult situations by determining what people wanted and then convincing them that he was the best one to provide it. Then he'd go ahead and provide it, even if providing it meant walking the narrowest of paths. ~ Jonathan Darman

But no one gets lost - the hand of the merciful God always lies on the heads of courageous men and women, those who dare to be different because they believe in their dreams. ~ Paulo Coelho

If you're going to lead people, you've got to have somewhere to go. ~ S.E. Hinton

Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal. ~ Douglas Brinkley

Leadership is about empathy. ~ Oprah Winfrey

Show Us, Don't Tell Us ~ Miles Anthony Smith