Top 1200 Moral Leadership Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

If leadership is something that is in-your-face, then that is a different type of leadership.

Moral authority is another way to define servant leadership because it represents a reciprocal choice between leader and follower. If the leader is principle centered, he or she will develop moral authority. If the follower is principle centered, he or she will follow the leader. In this sense, both leaders and followers are followers. Why? They follow truth. They follow natural law. They follow principles. They follow a common, agreed-upon vision. They share values. They grow to trust one another.

The Gaza leadership is stuck in its rhetoric of revolution and resistance. But the people are fed up with their leadership.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

A lot of people relate leadership to formalities. They believe that leadership is about being professional and strong and always right and being a booming voice. I just don't buy that. I think that leadership is a soft skill; it's a people skill.

The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.

Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.

It isn't personal per se to document what the Republican Party leadership is doing and how they're abrogating actual leadership.

Leadership is a mindset in action. So don't wait for the title. Leadership isn't something that anyone can give you - you have to earn it and claim it for yourself.

The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.

If the leadership can't win a debate, then we should show true leadership and implement the democratic will of our party.

What we need to do with respect to the Middle East is strong, steady leadership, not wrong and reckless leadership that is all over the map.

A person's own definition of leadership defines the glittering crown of his leadership.

We haven't been leading anybody. We've been acquiescing to a bunch of linguini-spined leftists all over the world, at the United Nations, in NATO, wherever it is. The people who don't even pay for their own defense. The people that don't even believe in guns and bullets to protect yourself are the people we have been acquiescing to. And they think this is called leadership. Leadership is sponsoring America's decline. Leadership is administering America's decline. Leadership is admitting that America's superpower status was never deserved or warranted.

Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.

Leadership is not achieved by an individual. Leadership is bestowed by the group.

Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership - it's an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.

We are now returning to the 18th century empirical approach with the new interest in the evolutionary basis of ethics, with 'experimental' moral philosophy and moral psychology. As a result, we understand better why moral formulas are experienced as ineluctable commands, even if there is no commander and even if the notion of an inescapable obligation is just superstition. So moral philosophy has made huge progress.

we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.

Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.

When you say there's too much evil in this world you assume there's good. When you assume there's good, you assume there's such a thing as a moral law on the basis of which to differentiate between good and evil. But if you assume a moral law, you must posit a moral Law Giver, but that's Who you're trying to disprove and not prove. Because if there's no moral Law Giver, there's no moral law. If there's no moral law, there's no good. If there's no good, there's no evil. What is your question?

Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.

If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.

most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of grass-roots leadership strikes us as too much of an oxymoron; confronted with apparent paradox, our imaginations fail. ... I believe that in the future, our ideas about the nature of leadership will undergo a radical transformation. As the instrumental use of knowledge continues to redefine the nature and purpose of organizations, we will begin to look at those on the front lines for leadership.

Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.

Leadership is neither showmanship nor dictatorship. Leadership is a stewardship and a partnership.

I think that moral philosophy is useful for framing questions, but terrible at answering them. I think moral psychology is booming right now, and we're making a lot of progress on understanding how we actually work, what our moral nature is.

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.

Servant Leadership is the only #leadership that ultimately works.

I've been involved with great scripts and so-so leadership, and it's clear to me that leadership is the most compelling factor.

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

In order to reclaim the joy and passion of leadership, we must walk the valley of the shadow of death and name the cost of leadership.

Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.

Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.

The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.

In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional.

So [Vladimir] Putin is a mess. He's committed all sort of murderous thuggery, and I am opposed to the way Putin conducts himself in world affairs, and I hope that the president also wants to show moral leadership about this issue.

There are times when leadership needs to take a bold move forward. And there are times when the leadership needs to act on the basis of what the grass roots say. You need to have your political thermometer constantly in the political waters to know when to give leadership in what way.

The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

To me, leadership is helping people do their best. If you define leadership that way, I don't think it's overrated.

Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.

In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership.'

Leadership deals with people and their dynamics, which are continually changing. The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.

Andrew Symonds went on TV to criticise my leadership. I'm sorry, but he is not a person to judge anyone on leadership.

The quarterback position is a role of leadership, and I feel just who I am as a person, I bring different types of leadership to the table.

The tradition that I come from has a great influence on Karnataka. Not just politically - it's also my social and moral responsibility to draw citizens facing bad governance and lawlessness to a leadership that is capable of delivering good governance and development.

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

ISIS has leadership, just like al Qaeda has leadership. It's important to be able to eliminate the individuals that are leading the organization.

Leadership starts with understanding responsibility, not ability. Leadership is a Stewardship, not a show.

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