Positive Leadership Quotes

Since taking office, President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world - leadership defined, not by the threats and dangers that we will oppose, but by the security, opportunity and dignity that America advances in partnership with people around the world. ~ John O. Brennan

Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about. ~ Douglas Brinkley

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it. ~ Norman Schwarzkopf

I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people. ~ Michael D. Higgins

Fortunately, good policy, true principles, and effective leadership work whenever they are tried. When we reduce government, balance budgets, and keep taxes as low as possible, states respond in a positive way. ~ Brian Sandoval

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. ~ Winston S. Churchill

John Edwards makes us all proud to be Americans, and those of us from North Carolina are even more proud to claim him, for he represents the best that we can offer America at a time when strong, positive leadership is needed. ~ Harvey Gantt

While it is positive for young black males and females to learn discipline and self-responsibility, those attitudes, values, and habits of being can be taught with pedagogical strategies that are liberatory, that do not rely on coercive control and punishment to reinforce positive behavior. ~ Bell Hooks

If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk. ~ James M. Kouzes

People stop trying when there's no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre. ~ Frank Sonnenberg

The power of faith overpowers fear. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders. ~ Young Jeezy

To become, you must first believe. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others. ~ Stefan Zweig

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. ~ Newt Gingrich

Starting with Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, by 1760, there had been eighteen uprisings aimed at overthrowing colonial governments. There had also been six black rebellions, from South Carolina to New York, and forty riots of various origins. By this time also, there emerged, according to Jack Greene, "stable, coherent, effective and acknowledged local political and social elites." And by the 1760s, this local leadership saw the possibility of directing much of the rebellious energy against England and her local officials. It was not a conscious conspiracy, but an accumulation of tactical responses. ~ Howard Zinn

It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow. ~ Iris Origo

When God is here spoken of as hardening some of the children of men, it is not to be understood that God by any positive efficiency hardens any man's heart. There is no positive act in God, as though he put forth any power to harden the heart. To suppose any such thing would be to make God the immediate author of sin. God is said to harden men in two ways: by withholding the powerful influences of his Spirit, without which their hearts will remain hardened, and grow harder and harder; in this sense he hardens them, as he leaves them to hardness. And again, by ordering those things in his providence which, through the abuse of their corruption, become the occasion of their hardening. Thus God sends his word and ordinances to men which, by their abuse, prove an occasion of their hardening. ~ Jonathan Edwards

When you feel too positive to be doubtful, too optimistic to be fearful, and too determined to be defeated, you are undeniably on the way to success. ~ Prem Jagyasi

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. ~ Lewis H. Lapham

Courage is the belief in self, and the possible ability to prevail in the face of adversity. ~ Tony Dovale

People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way ... you can make a point without being personal. Don't insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less ~ Bill Walsh

Many have came before you and many will come after you, but none will ever be you. Some may even try to duplicate your characteristics, but they'll never succeed because you are unique. ~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Being a leader is not about finding ways to get others to serve you, but knowing how to serve your followers. ~ A.J. Darkholme

People fail to realize there's a difference in kinds of money. There is old money and there is new money. Old money has political power but new money has only purchasing power. (1963) ~ LIFE Magazine

The quality of our lives lives, depends on the quality of our thoughts. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you don't think talk is cheap, we need to have a heart-to-heart conversation. ~ Frank Sonnenberg

Influencers influence people and the people who they influence. ~ Johnny Hunt

Some social phobics find even positive attention to be aversive. Think of the young child who bursts into tears when guests sing "Happy Birthday" to her at a party - or of Elfriede Jelinek afraid to pick up her Nobel Prize. Social attention - even positive, supportive attention - activates the neurocircuitry of fear. This makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. Calling positive attention to yourself can incite jealousy or generate new rivalries. ~ Scott Stossel

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. ~ Marian Anderson

I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following. ~ Maurice Strong

Leadership is a mindset in action. So don't wait for the title. Leadership isn't something that anyone can give you - you have to earn it and claim it for yourself. ~ Travis Bradberry

Worry never helped anything, so why turn to it during times of need? It won't nurture or heal you - quite the opposite, actually. It's so much better to put the effort into something creative as a way to quietly meditate through positive action. Create, create, create! ~ Doreen Virtue

Obviously I like to make sure that my life is separate, so as me as a person, I know that my fans know me. But as an actor I like to do different things and I'm gonna want to try new things that may not necessarily have a positive meaning. ~ Selena Gomez

There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death. ~ Seneca The Younger

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal. ~ Patrick Lencioni

What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline. ~ Henry Parry Liddon

Positive response from some of our exporters and holders of free funds in response to some of the turnaround initiatives ... in particular the favourable exchange rate policies. ~ Gideon Gono

We've lost the wow of God because we've lost the woe of God. His perfect holiness helps us truly appreciate His amazing grace. ~ Mark Batterson