Pro Leadership Quotes

Great leaders don't just know the sweet spots of their people. They tap into and unchain the infinite potential imprisoned within their people... ~ Assegid Habtewold

Our values define who we're. Never met great persons who kept compromising their values. Let's go beyond lip service to defend our values... ~ Assegid Habtewold

When people undermine your values, they've strong reasons. For example, they mistaken your passion for excellence as perfectionism... ~ Assegid Habtewold

You live in this world once. Let your true and authentic YOU get unleashed. The world is desperately waiting your unique brand unchained. ~ Assegid Habtewold

When people violate your values, they have excuses for doing so. For instance, they may misconceive your quest for responsiveness as being annoying... ~ Assegid Habtewold

When you interact with people who are insecure, you must watch your every word and action you take. Secure people give you the freedom to make innocent mistakes. ~ Assegid Habtewold

What a joy to meet and be around with people who're self-aware with healthy self-esteem. They embrace you and make your stay with them enjoyable. ~ Assegid Habtewold

One of the reasons that may force you walk away from great opportunities is when your values are keep violated... ~ Assegid Habtewold

Effective leaders allow God to shape them into the kind of people they need to be for each situation they encounter. ~ Jim George

Our Animal Sanctuary initiative has many layers. We are aiming to create a place where abandoned and bullied creatures come together with bullied youth. We feel that bullies have leadership abilities, albeit these abilities are totally skewed and misdirected. ~ Ian Somerhalder

If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it. ~ Peter Drucker

Our perceptions of 'managing' employees are founded on archaic outdated business fundamentals. ~ Shawn Casemore

Satan will try to use our troubles to worry and weaken us. But God uses them to strengthen us. ~ Johnny Hunt

Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and rewarding superstar behavior. ~ David Cottrell

An expert is an ordinary fella away from home. ~ Bum Phillips

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive. ~ John W. Gardner

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. ~ Nelson Mandela

Being powerful or powerless is a habit. ~ Krishna Sagar

At our first rehearsal for team week, Robert and I were put on the same team. That first rehearsal was mostly for the pro dancers to figure out the choreography and the themes. Robert and I knew we couldn't contribute much, so we hung back and joked around. Then someone told us that there was beer in the refrigerator in the rehearsal room. That wasn't normal, and since we were just hanging around, Robert and I each decided to go grab one. The cameras stayed on us as we came back into the studio. Everyone looked up and we said, "This dancing stuff is hard!" Everyone laughed and then the serious people got back to work. ~ Noah Galloway

All your THOUGHTS, are either an 'investment' to your well-being or a 'cost' to your well- being! Are your investments growing or the costs are too high..Think about it ! ~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

I like a leader who can, while pointing out a mistake, bring up the good things the other person has done. If you do that, then the person sees that you have a complete picture of him. There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly. ~ Nelson Mandela

Had Schleicher been successful in his leadership of the German government at the end of 1932, he would probably have headed a very moderate, essentially anti-Nazi form of nationalist authoritarianism that would have avoided a sharp break with the republican constitution and promoted a reflationary, reformist economic policy along Keynesian or New Deal lines to revive the economy and conciliate German society. ~ Stanley G. Payne

Bad leadership is an oxymoron. ~ Joseph C. Rost

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership. ~ Will Rogers

If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book. ~ Andy Hargreaves

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility. ~ Herb Kelleher

And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. ~ Anonymous

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

Honor is defined as "honesty and integrity in one's beliefs and actions," integrity being "adherence to moral principle and character." Words like these are not heard much in our public discourse today. But I believe these words and what they represent are the bedrock of effective leadership. If you seek to lead men and women, you must persuade them to follow you. That means they must trust you. Herbert Asquith, British prime minister from 1908-1916, wrote, "To speak with the tongue of men and angels, and to spend laborious days and nights in administration, is no good if a man does not inspire trust." A leader's actions must match his words. People must believe he means what he says, that his promises matter and are not just idle rhetoric. Integrity in action becomes moral authority, and it is moral authority that moves people to follow someone even at personal risk or sacrifice-- or even when they disagree. ~ Robert M. Gates

Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible. ~ Vincent De Paul

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around. ~ Henry Mintzberg

I am pro-plaque. ~ Sarah Vowell

What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people. ~ Frank Herbert

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles ... The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things ... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind. ~ Woodrow Wilson

It is the mentor's responsibility to create a safe and trusting space that enables a mentee to stretch and step outside their comfort zone, take risks, and show up authentically. ~ Lisa Fain

Every day your mind will receive data both good and bad. You have the power to keep the good and delete the bad. Get rid of the negative thoughts in your mind and you will rid yourself of the negativity in you. ~ DeWayne Owens

When building an organization, build teams. Assign different colors to each team so they create identities, affiliate, and merge to produce all that is needed for success. Balance the colors. ~ Jennifer Ritchie Payette

I'll go [racing] until my body won't let me any more. Someone said to me: "The day you stop, you won't be able to get back on the same way as when you did as a pro." I want to delay that kiss goodbye as long as possible. ~ David Millar

We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy! ~ Joshua Wong

Humanity can not afford to have 21st Century businesses run on 20th Century science, and (worse) pseudoscience. ~ Paul Gibbons

The world is always throwing challenges and questions - which ones does your mission and purpose respond to or seek to solve? Do you know your mission and have you clearly defined the life-issues you intend to address? ~ Archibald Marwizi

I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace. ~ Peter Senge

In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation ... I hereby declare my candidacy for the Likud party leadership and premiership of Israel. ~ Benjamin Netanyahu

You must look through an opportunity and not at it. ~ Mayur Ramgir

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

I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution. ~ Steve Ballmer

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

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both. ~ Bear Bryant

Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit. ~ Shelagh Delaney

I don't know what happens to our consciousness when we're unwound," says Connor. "I don't even know when that consciousness starts. But I do know this." He pauses to make sure all of them are listening. "We have a right to our lives!"
The kids go wild.
"We have a right to choose what happens to our bodies!"
The cheers reach fever pitch.
"We deserve a world where both those things are possible - and it's our job to help make that world. ~ Neal Shusterman

When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains. ~ Benjamin Franklin