Educational Leadership Quotes

Education should not be a competition resulting in winners and losers. Education should be a competition against ignorance, and all should be encouraged to win. ~ K.A. Brill

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but even higher expectations for themselves. ~ Todd Whitaker

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. ~ Woodrow Wilson

Teamwork and trust trump ego and arrogance in building high performance sustainable successful teams. Rethink your team building ideas ~ Tony Dovale

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'. ~ Hugh Mackay

Leaders who aren't conduits are either dams of dry. ~ Johnathan Key

leadership is about courage and the ability to overcome unsurmountable challenges, ~ Sudha Menon

Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need. ~ Wendy Kopp

A leadership team is a small group of people who are collectively responsible for achieving a common objective for their organization. ~ Patrick Lencioni

I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead. ~ Michael Gove

There is no failure, unless we fail to begin or we fail to continue. ~ Christopher Babson

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings. ~ Bell Hooks

Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation. ~ Lee Ellis

Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it. ~ T. Boone Pickens

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents. ~ Cleopatra

The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident. ~ Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

There are a lot days where I don't know if God exists. There are a lot of days where I think the leadership of the Church is wacky, a lot of days where I really doubt why I am a part of this thing. But, down deep, I know it to be true. Down deep, I know how much I love it and that's what sort of gets me through. The churches are the pope, and its priests and its mystery and everything. I just sort of like the whole thing. ~ Lino Rulli

I believe no one can afford, endure or can stomach leaving half a life in the parking lot when she or he goes to work. It's a lousy way to live and a lousy way to work. ~ Ricardo Semler

Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential. ~ Scott Belsky

People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so. ~ Thomas L. Friedman

If you wish for it, you can have it. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I helped to restore America's leadership. ~ Hillary Clinton

We all have the DNA of an entrepreneur.
Some are building their own dreams.
While most are building other people's dreams.
Entrepreneurs are Dream Builders. Are you building yours? ~ Farshad Asl

In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support. ~ Andy Hargreaves

Self leadership requires us to lead and motivate ourselves. But it looks a heck of a lot like schizophrenia during a ropes course. ~ Ryan Lilly

People. Products. Profits. In that order. ~ Ken Goldstein

More important than starting well in our walk with God is to finish well. ~ Victor Manuel Rivera

Restructuring is a favorite tactic of antisocials who have reached a senior position in an organization. The chaos that results is an ideal smokescreen for dysfunctional leadership. Failure at the top goes unnoticed, while the process of restructuring creates the illusion of a strong, creative hand on the helm. ~ Manfred F.R. Kets De Vries

Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and Rome no one would have dreamed of considering political leaders anyone's servants. The job of the leader was to lead. But Christ invented the notion that the way to lead is by serving the needs of others, especially those who are the most needy. ~ Dinesh D'Souza

I hire talented, creative, passionate learners who have a history of turning intention into reality. ~ Jeff Henderson

You must learn to accept that humans make mistakes, but when the same issue is repeated over and over without corrective strategies to plug the holes, then you must expect negative impact on your definition of success. It is normal to make a mistake, but learn, face the consequences, get back up and march on. If you want to be different or stand out as a brand, then your actions, habits, behaviours and decisions must reflect that 'you care about what people think or say about you. ~ Archibald Marwizi

There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them. ~ Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.
(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008) ~ George W. Bush

The strategic center of the rebellion was not a place – not New York, Philadelphia, not the Hudson corridor – but the Continental Army itself. ~ Joseph J. Ellis

What did you ASK at school today? ~ Richard P. Feynman

The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men and women (mostly men) who know how to gain, exert and manipulate power. ~ Davis McCaughey

Personal sacrifices are really the beginning and the end of everything, because you don't win because you do one thing right or two things right. You win because you do 1,000 little things right throughout the year. ~ Susan Butcher

America needs optimistic leadership to revive national soul. ~ Mike Huckabee

There is no such thing as a self made spiritual leader. He is able to influence others spiritually only because the Spirit is able to work in and through him to a greater degree than in those he leads. ~ J. Oswald Sanders

Being others-focused instead of self-focused changes your worldview. Living in a selfless manner and seeking to help others enriches our very existence on a daily basis. Get your hands dirty once in a while by serving in a capacity that is lower than your position or station in life. This keeps you tethered to the real world and grounded to reality, which should make it harder to be prideful and forget where you came from. ~ Miles Anthony Smith

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles. ~ Carl Von Clausewitz

We as leaders are responsible for changes in our workplace, communities and homes beyond ourselves. We shouldn't just look at the bigger picture, as leaders we should also CREATE the bigger picture. ~ Janna Cachola