Leadership Encouragement Quotes

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it. ~ John C. Maxwell

That's what wrong. We've got people whose wallets have not been baptized. ~ Johnny Hunt

God is the leader of your team. As you follow Him with all your heart, you will be leading your team in Jesus' steps. ~ Jim George

One way to show someone you love them is to simply go out of your way for them. It's the gift of inconvenience. ~ Mark Batterson

He is the Baltimore Ravens. He's their franchise. ~ Hines Ward

For he who can foresee with his mind is by nature intended to be lord and master; and he who can work only with his body is by nature a slave.

The slave is to the master what the body is to the mind. ~ Will Durant

The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement. I think that the appetite for mystery, the enthusiasm for that which we do not understand, is healthy and to be fostered. It is the same appetite which drives the best of true science, and it is an appetite which true science is best qualified to satisfy. ~ Richard Dawkins

The most important thing for morale was to maintain a united front among the officers. ~ Peter Heather

Deadwood did not kill itself! ~ Andy Hargreaves

Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions. ~ Zhuangzi

The competencies most relevant to an SSAO role include assessment, evaluation and research, human and organizational resources, law, policy and governance, and leadership. ~ C. Casey Ozaki

Two types of leaders: there are thinkers and there are doers. Some are idea generators and others are the implementers. ~ Gary Rohrmayer

It had been on my mind ever since allowing myself to call President Trump a "draft-dodging chickenhawk" during on of the DNC forums. While true, that statement was not in keeping which how I publicly speak about political figures, or anyone else, and afterward I reflected that this president was inspiring a loss of decency not just in his supporters but also in those of us who opposed him. It was another way of looking at the moral stakes of politics as it filters through to millions of lives: that we might all be growing into harder and perhaps worse people, as a consequence of political leadership that has failed to call us to our highest values. ~ Pete Buttigieg

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing. ~ George MacDonald

Unless they're utterly heartless, people put a certain value on human life. It keeps us from killing each other off for no reason. But for leaders like you and me, a moral high ground is too absolute. There are choices to be made. ~ Amanda Bouchet

You plan to rob the world of its treasures if you decide to die with your potentials unleashed! The world needs your leadership influence; don't take it raw to the cemetery! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change. ~ Tony Robbins

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement. ~ Dorothy Parker

Proverbs 16:3 'Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and He will establish your plans.' A great reminder when planning out the school year. ~ Tamara L. Chilver

While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago. ~ Rahm Emanuel

I wish to be up and doing. I wish to face each day with resolution and purpose. I wish to use every waking hour to give encouragement, to bless those whose burdens are heavy, to build faith and strength of testimony. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

It is much more rewarding to get to the top of the mountain and share your experience with others than to show up by yourself, exausted. ~ -Shandel Slaten

If you don't consume power, it consumes you. ~ Krishna Sagar

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it. ~ Zhang Ziyi

African leaders should not turn the continent into a giant collector of donations and loans from wealthy nations - they must find other plausible means to help established their economic security so as to minimize poverty. This incoherent blunder on the mainland must be scrutinized. ~ Duop Chak Wuol

The leader's job is to show the way. The bottom line is that you can't tell anything about the condition of the way if you've not traveled on it yourself! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit. ~ Christopher Hitchens

I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values. ~ Deval Patrick

Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders. ~ Harvey MacKay

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests. ~ Chester Barnard

At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him. ~ Richard Adams

An email cannot be ignored. You may wish an email was not sent to you, because you learned what you did not want to know, but it must be acted upon because there is now a permanent record linking you to that information. ~ Kent Alan Robinson

Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play. ~ Richard Branson

Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being's day, week, or life. ~ Charles R. Swindoll

A man is commanding - a woman is demanding. A man is forceful - a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising - a woman is a ball-breaker. A man is a perfectionist - a woman's a pain in the ass. He's assertive - she's aggressive. He strategizes - she manipulates. He shows leadership - she's controlling. He's committed - she's obsessed. He's persevering - she's relentless. He sticks to his guns - she's stubborn. If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult and impossible. ~ Barbra Streisand

I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership. ~ Xavier Becerra

Knowledge is key, without knowledge, leadership, and action plans that fit the actual challenges, all of our businesses and organizations are lost. By providing training, offering moments to come together and exchange best practices all of us can stay on top of our field. ~ Inge Ignatia De Waard

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

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change. ~ Kamala Harris

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
[On Water] ~ Guy De Maupassant