Top 1200 Moral Leadership Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Leadership is one of the most enduring, universal human responsibilities.

Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value.

Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.

True Leadership always begins with the inner person.

I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.

When it comes to creativity and to leadership, we need introverts doing what they do best.

Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

Leadership development is a lifetime journey, not a quick trip.

Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportionate to the strength of leadership.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

I absolutely will be putting my stamp on this government and my leadership.

Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.

Coaching is destined to be the leadership approach of the 21st century.

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

I can see the immense capacity of business to give leadership.

Trump is reviled around the world, as is the U.S. under his leadership.

Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.

My style of leadership is to lead with the lightest touch that I possibly can.

We have no leadership. And honestly, that starts with Secretary Hillary Clinton.

I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.

Great leaders make leadership look so easy.

A sense of responsibility is the clearest indication of mature leadership.

Leadership is simple: Add value to people everyday.

The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

The world need strong leadership for women's rights.

Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

A business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.

In leadership, there are no words more important than trust.

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

The first move of leadership is learning to think for yourself.

Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.

There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.

Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.

Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.

The sky's the limit for all Americans if we have the right kind of leadership.

The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.

I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.

Leadership is not a quantitative thing. People either smell it in you, or they don't.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.