Top 1200 Moral Leadership Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk.

Compassion doesn't weaken leadership, it makes it stronger.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.

You have to choose to manifest your leadership nature.

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

Leadership is critical for any organization to succeed.

Leadership is the readiness to stand out in a crowd.

Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy

Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimension of moral evaluation; "good/evil" is supposed always to trump any other form of evaluation, but that is an assumption, probably the result of the long history of the Christianisation and then gradual de-Christianisation of Europe, which one need not make. Evaluation need not mean moral evaluation, but might include assessments of efficiency, ... simplicity, perspicuousness, aesthetic appeal, and so on.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

You cannot have strong leadership without passion.

The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the supreme and all-perfect Mind, over all his intellectual creation, is by proportioning rewards to piety and virtue, and punishments to disobedience and vice. ... The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers.

Serious times require strong leadership.

This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.

Leadership is more doing than dash.

Football has changed, but my style of leadership, my approach, hasn't.

Leadership is about good and sound judgment.

Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.

Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.

Leadership is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision.

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

As long as we are on firm moral ground, as long as we're caring about other people, these are legitimate worries. The minute that we start protecting our own interests in the name of these worries and saying, "Oh, we have to make sure that only Ford Motor Company manufactures cars, because we can't be sure that the cars in other countries are being made quite up to our point of view," we're economically off base, and, of course, we're moral hypocrites, too.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Earn your leadership every day.

The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

You can't do anything successfully in life without leadership.

The only real payoff for leadership is eternal.

We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. We're spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book.

There is an inexorable correlation between leadership and change.

Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others.

Leadership is influencing a community to follow Jesus.

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it.

Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.

We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for the sake of another. We are on strike against the morality of cannibals, be it practiced in body or in spirit. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours—and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others.

To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

Leadership is knowing what you want and making it happen.

A president has to provide leadership to gain support.

Leadership is about being a servant first.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

Leadership is about creating new realities.

The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.

The first key to leadership is self-control.

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

Leadership, like responsibility, is a voluntary act.

I admire Modi's leadership and his ideology.

Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.

There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn these into what look like moral theories. Philosophers tend to be ravished by the formal beauty of such theories, and they don't pay much attention to the fact that our human limitations make them pretty useless in practice, while the simple point about instrumental reasoning is too shallow to be of much real moral interest.

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

The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery.