Leadership Traits Quotes

Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. They’re hell-bent on getting there.

Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.

Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.

The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.

Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.

The heart of a company’s performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.

Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?

Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?

When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.

In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served

There is nothing worse for a young convert than to be thrust into leadership without mentoring and ongoing coaching because the devil relishes these vulnerable souls.

Do not allow your inner doubts to keep you from achieving what you can do.

When your intuition is strong, follow it.

Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.

Be excellent in your own terms.

A mindset that understands order, is a mindset that can understand leadership.

Ineffective leadership, is the plight of followers who anoint power to the autocratic persons who's visions are not founded but are rather arbitrary in their nature.

Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility - toughness for accountability - flexibility to adapt changes with a compassionate & caring heart for self and others.

The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do with your attitude and how you treat people.

Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.

Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep trying

Leaders cannot build a successful nation once they are yoked to these two evils, ignarance and greed.

Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time criticizing the lives and work of others. Do what matters most to you and make a difference doing that.

As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership.

You can’t move up in the staircase of leadership unless you are emotionally intelligent.

Be the start of something that is good, revolutionary and powerful. Everything after that is a bonus!

Becoming a Leader of Character changes lives—our lives and the lives of the people we touch.

People don’t follow you because you are nice, they follow you because they believe the place you are taking them is better than the place they are.

If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.

The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change.

Solitude helps the soul remember that life andwork have two completely different meanings. It remindsus that we were created for greatness in relationship withothers, not task lists and spreadsheets.

Leaders cannot build a successful nation once they are yoked to these two evils, ignorance and greed.

When picking a leader, choose a peacemaker. One who unites, not divides. A cultured leader who supports the arts and true freedom of speech, not censorship.

One of the most important qualities of a president is the ability to inspire, to bring people together for the common good.

To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intentions.

Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better.

Effective decision-making can be seen as an optimal link between memory of the past, ground-realities of the present and insights of the future.

A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.

The formula for successful leadership has changed little, if at all over the centuries. It isn’t leadership that changes over time, rather where the leaders need to take their people that changes.

True leadership is not defined by notoriety, power, prestige, status, or job title.

Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.

An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader.

Always assume your assumptions about others are wrong. Because often, they are

Becoming a great leader doesn’t mean being perfect. it means living with your imperfections.

Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.

Live a life of purpose. Be a voice to be reckoned with. Do not be lost in the midst of the crowd. Contribute your own quota to the transformation going on where God planted you.

Any leadership that disempowers its followers cannot be entrusted to lead.

If your leadership is truly grounded in love, you’ll always land in the category of a good leader.

Leaderships about transforming lives and making a difference through innovation and purpose, grounded in values and integrity

Great leadership has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies.