Inspirational Quotes on Leadership

“A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.”

“We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside.”

“Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.”

“It [spiritual authority and leadership] is not won by promotion, but my many prayers and tears. It is attained by confession of sin, and much heart-searching and humbling before God; by self-surrender, a courageous sacrifice of every idol, a bold uncomplaining embrace of the cross, and by eternally looking unto Jesus crucified. It is not gained by seeking great things for ourselves, but like Paul, by counting those things that are gain to us as loss for Christ. This is a great price, but it must be paid by the leader whose power is recognized and felt in heaven, on earth, and in hell.”

“Our real problem is not the pervasiveness of the darkness but a failure of the light. Light always dispels darkness. The glorious light of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ is still sufficient and available to those who reject self-reliance and return to His plan for biblical leadership. This return can reignite the radiance of the Gospel in transforming power.”

“It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.”

“The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind that he could not discuss my prospects without having me before him.”

“She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.”

“Above all, don’t dwell on yesterday’s victory. If your focus is on what’s behind you rather than what’s ahead, you will crash.”

“When I teach and mentor leaders, I remind them that if they stop learning, they stop leading”

“Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: "Tell the history of our time through the people who make it.”

“The general is the protector of the state. If this protection is all-embracing, the state will surely be strong; if defective, the state will certainly be weak. A sovereign who obtains the right person prospers. One who fails to do so will be ruined.”

“You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright.”

“We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication.”

“Our greatest limitation isn't the leader of the lives; it is the spirit within us.”

“I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.”

“Morality in the long run aligned with strategy.”

“A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of the external situation.”

“Example is leadership.”

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”