Mindful Leadership Quotes

Unless you challenge yourself, you cannot grow. Mindful leadership is the art of growing by challenging the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual imposed limits on the self. ~ Amit Ray

Business should never be merely transactional -it should be transformational ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Great leader knows that under the turmoil of chaos and change, there is a beauty of patterns and designs. ~ Amit Ray

When you are in deep mindfulness - moments vanishes. Arrow of time loses its power. Memory, confusion and grief evaporates and eternity arises. ~ Amit Ray

Mindfulness is the art of cosmic collaboration. ~ Amit Ray

Om meditation eliminates rigid and fixed views about the world. It creates a spacious, flexible and open views about the world. ~ Amit Ray

The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks. ~ Paul C. Nagel

Your targets empower you as they allow yourself to bring out the best within you. ~ Deepak Burfiwala

We conceive the function of Tribune to be the expression in popular form, and to as large a public as possible, of the views of the Left and Marxist wing of social democracy in this country. Its policy must be that of those who believe that the present leadership of the Labour Party is not sufficiently Socialist. ~ Anthony Crosland

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people. ~ Brian Tracy

No guts, no story. ~ Chris Brady

While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort. No one leads well without paying the price of discipline. As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence. ~ John C. Maxwell

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past. ~ Andy Hargreaves

Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures. ~ Li Peng

Ask yourself - How do I see myself as a leader? How do I use my personal mission and vision to create leadership focus? What does my mission or vision mean in the context of leading others? How many people are going to succeed in their endeavours, through my leadership influence? Do I expect of myself, what I expect of those who follow me? Or I have my own separate standards for the same principles I expect others to live by? ~ Archibald Marwizi

The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership. ~ Robert R. Shannon

You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Character is more important than any other leadership trait. ~ John Wooden

It's unfortunate when an athlete's talent comes with so little forethought or leadership [ ... ] The Falcons need to start over. If next year's team ends up being young and hungry but fairly average, the last thing you want as a general manager or coach is to have a blowhard cornerback whining about his contract leading the charge, no matter how good he is. ~ Jeff Schultz

To be strong I must first admit that I am weak. And that requires some of the greatest strength imaginable. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. ~ Jim Rohn

One Man's Hero, Another Man's Villain..
Sometimes in the same Man.. ~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

Africa PRODUCES what it does NOT CONSUME and CONSUMES what it does NOT PRODUCE. ~ Ali A. Mazrui

It's time for you to be the hero of your own journey. ~ Bill Jensen

Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making. ~ M. Russell Ballard

Stop judging yourself on the basis of your appearance or condition of present circumstances. You may have an old car, in debt, job stress, and a troubled relationship, but they are not a true reflection of you as long as you are working on the vision of what you will be years from now. ~ Archibald Marwizi

My parents, who were Communists, always pretended to be American patriots. You can always convince yourself you are: 'I love America, I just want it to be perfect, which it will be when it becomes a Soviet Communist state'. When the left called for 'liberation' what it really wanted was to erase the human slate and begin again. Like everybody else, I see things that need to be improved. I just am mindful of the fact that they can be made a lot worse. ~ David Horowitz

Despite the continual rise of the knowledge worker over the last 60 years, we haven't done enough to question "how we've always done things" and redefine effectiveness in organizations. ~ Crystal Kadakia

Leadership is the act of serving others and has no gender preference. ~ Farshad Asl

When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, It happened to us naturally. ~ Laozi

Most people will do just about anything you tell them to do, if you act with authority, give them no choice, and accept the responsibility for their actions. It's kind of scary, isn't it? ~ Ilona Andrews

Serious businesses and lenders will tell you that managing your cash flow is one of the most important aspects in the health of any business. Managing you time flow is key to a healthy and successful life, because, Time is equal to Life. The quality of time expenditure is in direct proportion to the quality of life enjoyed. ~ Archibald Marwizi

By adopting an agile mindset and providing improved engagement, collaboration, transparency, and adaptability via Scrum's values, roles, events, and artifacts, the results were excellent. ~ Scott M. Graffius

To inspire is to lead through a selfless compassionate character, which displays moral integrity as a path for all… ~ Husam Wafaei

Leadership and obedience are the two legs on which a warrior's life is balanced. Without both, victory cannot be achieved.
Leadership depends on information and comprehension. Not so obedience. Sometimes a commander may choose to share details of his plan. Often he may not. In either case, obedience must be instant and complete.
Such automatic response relies on trust between commander and those commanded. And that trust can only be obtained through leadership. ~ Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn

We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: 'You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.' ~ Rob Portman

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. ~ Jesse Jackson

Some of his [Chester Bowles's] friends thought that his entire political career reflected his background, that he truly believed in the idea of the Republic, with an expanded town-hall concept of politics, of political leaders consulting with their constituency, hearing them out, reasoning with them, coming to terms with them, government old-fashioned and unmanipulative. Such governments truly had to reflect their constituencies. It was his view not just of America, but of the whole world. Bowles was fascinated by the political process in which people of various countries expressed themselves politically instead of following orders imposed by an imperious leadership. In a modern world where most politicians tended to see the world divided in a death struggle between Communism and free-world democracies, it was an old-fashioned view of politics; it meant that Bowles was less likely to judge a country on whether or not it was Communist, but on whether or not its government seemed to reflect genuine indigenous feeling. (If he was critical of the Soviet leadership, he was more sympathetic to Communist governments in the underdeveloped world.) He was less impressed by the form of a government than by his own impression of its sense of legitimacy. ... He did not particularly value money (indeed, he was ill at ease with it), he did not share the usual political ideas of the rich, and he was extremely aware of the hardships with which most Americans lived. Instead of hiring highly pa ~ David Halberstam

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men
the other 999 follow women. ~ Groucho Marx

I'll kill you all," yelled Bill, and swore for three or four minutes, calling us every dirty name he could think of for being so chicken-hearted. When people talk about "leadership quality" I often think of Bill Unsworth; he had it. And like many people who have it, he could make you do things you didn't want to do by a kind of cunning urgency. We were ashamed before him. Here he was, a bold adventurer, who had put himself out to include us
lily-livered wretches
in a daring, dangerous, highly illegal exploit, and all we could do was worry about being hurt! We plucked up our spirits and swore and shouted filthy words, and set to work to wreck the house. ~ Robertson Davies

Engage the whole community with a common purpose to build an innovative and sustainable enterprise. ~ Miguel Reynolds Brandao

Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities. ~ Roy T. Bennett

A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man to represent the welfare of the country. ~ Harry S. Truman

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it. ~ Stedman Graham