Wise Leaders Quotes:

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership, Top Management, True Leader

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

- Diogenes

topic: Wise, Leader, Counselor, Wise Leaders, Wise Person

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

- Norman Schwarzkopf

topic: Leadership, Business, Character, Good Character, Inspiring Leader

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

- Warren G. Bennis

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, True Leader, Mission And Vision

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Formidable, Long Walk To Freedom

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Clever, Innovation And Leadership, Too Much Power

Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

- John F. Kennedy

source: John F. Kennedy's Speech at the Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 17, 1960.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball, Inspirational Courage, Inspiring Presidential

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Top Management, Management Motivation

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

- Colin Powell

source: Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership, Inspirational Military, Inspiring Leader

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

- Rosalynn Carter

topic: Motivational, Leadership, People, True Leader, Funny Leadership

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Change, Leadership, Top Management, Management Motivation

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom, Top Management, Leaders Motivational

If you think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, About Success, Mediocre Minds

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

- Tony Blair

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Art, True Leader, Funny Leadership

Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.

- Bill Hybels

topic: Wise, Believe, Leader, Wise Leaders

Leading with character gives the wise leader clear-cut advantages. They are easier to trust and follow; they honor commitments and promises; their words and behavior match; they are always engaged in and by the world; they are open to "reflective backtalk": they can speak with conviction because they believe in what they are saying...and everyone else knows that. They are comfortable in their own skin. They feel at ease in the spotlight and they enjoy it there. They tend to be more receptive to opportunity and risk.

- Warren G. Bennis

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Wise, Believe, Character, Wise Leaders

We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs.

- James McGreevey

topic: Wise, Kindness, Ideas, Thoughtfulness, Wise Leaders

Success, cannot be attained alone. Any person's time and power is limited. A wise leader enlists others in working toward organizational goals.

- Gichin Funakoshi

topic: Motivational, Success, Leadership, Interdependence, Wise Leaders

Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh....Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Christian, Wise, Heart, Wise Leaders, Should Have Known

You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less

- Patrick Ness

topic: Wise, Leader, Possibility, Wise Leaders

Leadership is a group project, and all of us are necessary to fill it. Wise leaders will realize this and encourage their groups to develop their own evolving leadership potential.

- Arnold Mindell

topic: Wise, Leader, Groups, Leadership Potential, Wise Leaders

The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.

- Laozi

topic: Leadership, Wise, Motivation, Wise Leaders

Any group has a sense of who it is and what is values, but this sense often remains beneath the surface. A wise leader can discern these unspoken beliefs and articulate them.

- Diane Dreher

topic: Wise, Leader, Groups, Wise Leaders

The wise leader speaks rarely and briefly. After all, no other natural outpouring goes on and on. It rains and then it stops. It thunders and then it stops.

- John Heider

source: John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.23, Green Dragon Books

topic: Leadership, Wise, Rain, Wise Leaders

Wise leaders know that if an individual doesn't count, the institution doesn't count for much either. Put mathematically, if the individual is a zero, together a lot of zeros add up to a whole lot of nothing.

- Diane Dreher

topic: Leadership, Wise, Zero, Wise Leaders

As a good gardener prepares the soil, so a wise leader creates an environment that promotes community. ... community involves a common place, a common time, and a common purpose. Just getting people in the same place at the same time does not produce a team. Community requires a common vision.

- Diane Dreher

topic: Wise, Team, People, Wise Leaders, Common Vision