Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder Quotes
Leaders scan the future so it can be free of doubts and fear. They do so by not living a double standard life in the present.
The simplest way to silence your critics as a leader is to do what they claim you can’t do. However, be careful they don’t set you up to take fatal risks to please their criticisms.
Leaders are deep thinkers. They don’t relax for problem to lay eggs before they attempt dealing with them.
You can’t lead people if you can’t lead yourself. Self-leadership qualities qualifies you to become a co-operate leader.
Between a plan and it’s achievement is a leader in the middle. With his one arm he makes the plan. With the other one he carries them through.
Leaders know the great deal of productivity that comes out of a strong self-esteem. They help others to develop this esteem so that productivity can increase.
A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.
Leaders show examples. They have something to offer and they’ll offer it by the process of how they got it. Anyone who has no examples to show may not lead better.
The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!
The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts.
The speed at which progress rolls is not determined by the number of people who started pushing it, but by the number of people who are passionate to hold on doing so.
The common goal of leaders is to increase the value and productivity of people. Leaders inspire others to do better than they would have done when not inspired.
The most essential requirement for leaders is neither age nor gender. It is neither certificates nor positions. It is the character that reveals trust and exemplary life.
If you fall into a pit, you need a ladder, not a hoe. You must climb up and not dig up. Leaders discover the right way out of limitations.
A leader who sows confidence will reap excellency and legacy. A leader who sows fear will reap stagnancy or complacency.
Leaders do not play a "what if game". They believe it will be and work it to be! Success is scarce because fear is common.
Leaders' major question is "why". If they lose, they ask "why". If they win, they ask "why". Their "whys" weave their wonders.
People are tired of being told that it's possible... It's time to show them how it can be possible. Leadership is demonstration.
Leaders are interested in gains. However, they acknowledge that there is no gain without pain. They embrace the pain.
The ladder of leadership can only stand firm on the grounds of integrity. Any other ground makes it unstable till it falls.
Leaders don't venture without vision. They don't pray without plans. They don't climb without clues. They are always prepared.
Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.
Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.
Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.
Fear punches holes in your eyes so that you don't see the future clearly. Faith enlarges your vision to behold your destiny.
By constant practices, deliberate repetitions and uninterrupted exercises, leaders go from zero to hero. They don't quit.
If you're determined to stand, nothing can move you. If you're determined to move, nothing can stop you. Determination is the key!
You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day.
Leaders do what is uncomfortable but helpful. They run away from the comfort that doesn't produce any help for the world.
Learning from failure boosts a leader's chance of staying ahead of his standards. Leaders who rise quickly after falling are always stable.
A leader does not reduce his speeds to meet the views of negative thinkers. He leaves them to do their job as he focuses.
Why ships won't use roads, is why cars won't travel on oceans. When the position is wrong, the leader won't be right.
Too much hurry will bury your goals. Too much haste will make you waste. Too quick race will cripple your pace. Be patient.
True leaders spend time reviewing their mistakes rather than having fantasies over their achievements! They look for every way to do the undone!
Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they’ve already done and go farther than they’ve reached.
Leaders walk their talks. They don’t give theories that do not work. They have clarity into their dreams and insight into their directions!
It’s is good you are about something. But wait and ask, “why and how?”. Without “whys and hows”, not every energetic movement can be called progress.
Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams.
To become a leader, renovate your mind with painting of peace and roof your heart with ceiling of love. No love, no leader!
Almost everything a leader fails to achieve is anything he fails to try. What is not attempted is what is difficult to do.
If you want to be a leader, don't stand on the toes of dwarfs. Mount the shoulders of giants and you will see further.
If you see a leader solving one conflict wisely, remember he is working hard to prevent 10 of such from happening!
A leader isn't born after 9 months' conception. When talents are discovered, skills are mastered & values are developed, a leader is born.
The skills of a leader will determine how excellent he will perform. His attitude will determine how often he will do that.
Leaders gather scattered people with the positive influence of intimacy while misleaders scatter gathered people with the negative influence of intimidation.
Many self-leaders lead the world even by being invisible. The world learns from them without sitting in their classrooms.
Leaders don't pray to God for money. They simply ask for His grace to solve problems. By solving problems, the money comes.
Environment has its own ways of limiting us tightly. But leaders have their own ways of escaping those limitations narrowly.
Leaders find something to die for, not something to live on. If you haven't found something to die for yet, you can't lead.