Volunteer Leadership Quotes

Leaders do not choose, rather they respond to God choosing them. Thus, the first responsive step of leadership is of utmost importance. It is an act of rebellion against the society of the spectacle - It is to relinquish a life of many options so that you can receive God's one option. ~ Mark Sayers

Make adjustments and improvements to enhance the effectiveness of meetings or surpassing of your target. Learn to define, quantify and be specific about what, how and when you want to succeed in each area of your life. ~ Archibald Marwizi

Assignment as Fish Hatchery Attendant along with words of praise for her childhood spent doing many volunteer hours there, and her obvious interest in the important ~ Anonymous

I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices ... and recover quickly from their bad choices. ~ David Cottrell

He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means. ~ Thomas E. Mann

What's important is not the uniform or the number, and it's not what team you play for or whether anyone else sees your value; it's who you are on the inside. And when you're in Christ, that's never going to change. ~ Tony Dungy

The fear of offense is a really small price to pay for freedom. ~ Andrena Sawyer

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. ~ John Wilmot

It is not strange ... to mistake change for progress. ~ Millard Fillmore

The prayer level of a church never rises any higher than the personal example and passion of the leaders. The quantity and quality of prayer in leadership meetings is the essential indicator of the amount of prayer that will eventually arise among the congregation. ~ Daniel Henderson

To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster. ~ Andy Stanley

There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime. ~ Eric Schmidt

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you. ~ Ken Blanchard

You have a life; make a success of it. ~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Leadership is service, not position. ~ Tim Fargo

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States. ~ Olympia Snowe

(Exodus 4:14). Let us not pass the buck of leadership because we think ourselves incapable. ~ J. Oswald Sanders

The nation's chronic weakness is its political system, which is nearing dysfunction. If the U.S. can elect better political leadership, it should be able to manage problems better than most competitors. ~ David Ignatius

Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader. ~ Judy Biggert

We now realize as we have never before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must be willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline, no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

After the Shah's departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people. ~ Ruhollah Khomeini

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it. ~ Walt Disney

Buoyant leadership is not a management technique, it's a leadership principle based on the belief that leading isn't presiding, it's taking people on a journey, and on any hero's journey there will be a setback. ~ Kevin Allen

Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view. ~ Jack Welch

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time. ~ Jeff Henderson

Every generation has been given the same blueprint to follow for the good of society. When that blueprint is disregarded by parents and those in leadership positions, the chain is broken and the human race suffers. ~ Ellen J. Barrier

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back? ~ Henry Cuellar

As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around. ~ Patrick Lencioni

I am often asked if leaders are born or made. The answer, of course, is both. Some characteristics, like IQ and energy, seem to come with the package. On the other hand, you learn some leadership skills, like self-confidence, at your mother's knee, and at school, in academics and sports. And you learn others at work-trying something, getting it wrong and learning from it, or getting it right and gaining the self-confidence to do it again, only better. ~ Jack Welch

You can't consider a president weak because he will have a Congress that Mexican voters have wanted to be co-responsible in the decisions to be taken ... It will be through the leadership that I will exercise that we will be able to build the agreements in Congress. ~ Enrique Pena Nieto

Leadership without a following is null and at best loitering ~ Lazarus Takawira

Comfort leads to complacency, and complacency kills. For this reason, I believe that we all should be a little uncoomfortable in our jobs. ~ Stephen R. Lorenz

The challenge has always been that "good people" don't know how to win elections ~ Fela Durotoye

Leadership is a SERVING relationship with OTHERS that inspires THEIR growth and makes the world a better place ~ Fela Durotoye

Wherever something is wrong, something is too big. If the stars in the sky or the atoms of uranium disintegrate in spontaneous explosion, it is not because their substance has lost its balance. It is because matter has attempted to expand beyond the impassable barriers set to every accumulation. Their mass has become too big. If the human body becomes diseased, it is, as in cancer, because a cell, or a group of cells, has begun to outgrow its allotted narrow limits. And if the body of a people becomes diseased with the fever of aggression, brutzdity, collectivism, or massive idiocy, it is not because it has fallen victim to bad leadership or mental derangement. It is because huma beings, so charming as individuals or in small aggregations, have been welded into overconcentrated social units such as mobs, unions, cartels, or great powers. ~ Leopold Kohr

World class communities come in all shapes and sizes, they are not determined by geography, and/or natural resources so much as by the mindset of their local leadership. ~ Don A. Holbrook

If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever. ~ Kofi Annan

Wouldn't it be great if life was only Legos? If we could give our kids the right, simple building blocks? ~ Chris Bent

We seek to uncover
behind the events changes in the collective consciousness. We reject wholesale references to the "spontaneity" of the movement, references which in most cases
explain nothing and teach nobody. Revolutions take place according to certain laws. This does not mean that the masses in action are aware of the laws of revolution, but it does mean that the changes in mass consciousness are not accidental, but are subject to an objective necessity which is capable of theoretic explanation, and thus makes both prophecy and leadership possible. ~ Leon Trotsky

Winning requires reaching inside of yourself for that extra gear to accelerate challenges. ~ Orrin Woodward

(John) Adams acknowledged that he had made himself obnoxious to many of his colleagues, who regarded him as a one-man bonfire of the vanities. This never troubled Adams, who in his more contrarian moods claimed that his unpopularity provided clinching evidence that his position was principled, because it was obvious that he was not courting popular opinion. His alienation, therefore, was a measure of his integrity. ~ Joseph J. Ellis

Leadership is the capacity to turn vision into reality. ~ Warren Bennis

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. ~ Norman Schwarzkopf

In this image-driven age, wildlife filmmakers carry a heavy responsibility. They can influence how we think and behave when we're in nature. They can even influence how we raise our kids, how we vote and volunteer in our communities, as well as the future of our wildlands and wildlife. If the stories they create are misleading or false in some way, viewers will misunderstand the issues and react in inappropriate ways. People who consume a heavy diet of wildlife films filled with staged violence and aggression, for example, are likely to think about nature as a circus or a freak show. They certainly won't form the same positive connections to the natural world as people who watch more thoughtful, authentic, and conservation-oriented films. ~ Chris Palmer

One of the functions of leadership is to lead, and weak managers may simply check and check and check with others because they are not capable of leading when it is required of them to lead. Benedict says that in matters of importance the abbot or prioress is to ask everyone in the community, 'starting with the youngest,' and then the abbot or prioress is to 'do what seems best. ~ Joan D. Chittister

I represent the public, not public opinion. ~ Theodore Roosevelt