Quotes about Leadership

Comparison may be a natural thing everybody does, but people in leadership and in helping ministries need to avoid it at all costs because it feeds either insecurity or pride, not humility and trust in God.

He told His followers, become a servant of all. To rise up, stoop low. The last shall be first, and the first last.

Lord, how can I relate to these people in a way that encourages them and honors You?

Great leaders often have great pride. To become useful to God, their pride has to be crushed. God can then use the broken pieces to create new, humble people whose consummate abilities are under the leading of the Spirit instead of driven by selfish ambition.

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Kings were no better than murderers, the only difference being that they had a legal monopoly on killing.

Every day, sincerely and without phoniness, Lou demonstrated by his actions how very vital it is - more than anything else - to understand and appreciate the people who work with you....Do your job well, learn your job well, but always remember that the people you work with are your most valuable asset. Embrace them. Honor them. Respect them" (206) "Prescriptions for Success" by John Schuerholz

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.