Bill Hybels Quotes

Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?

People won't give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.

This is the only leadership life I get, my one and only shot at following God the way I feel him prompting me to do so. This isn't some pre-game warm-up. It's the game, and the clock is ticking!

You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.

Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.

Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.

Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.

Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.

If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.

Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.

To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.

Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader's arsenal.

Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

The Christian life is one of faith, where we find ourselves routinely overdriving our headlights but knowing it's okay because God is in control and has a purpose behind it.

Our conduct will never change God's character.

We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.

Build something with enduring value.

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.

The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.

Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.

It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.

The real deal is always going to win in the end.

God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.

We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.

Don't get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment

You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?

If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.

The grander the vision the greater the price tag.

Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials.

The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead.

I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.

If it's the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.

We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.

Whenever you see something going well - whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world - look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.

People join organizations, they leave managers.

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.

Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.

Simplified living is about more than doing less. It’s being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus.