Defining Leadership Quotes & Sayings

Personalising success means defining it in line with your defined mission and beliefs. This will help ignite a passion for the dream as well as develop underlying values and attitudes. — Archibald Marwizi

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

Leadership's defining quality is honesty. To honesty, add fairness and consistency. — Cole C. Kingseed

Every great leader can take you back to a defining moment when they decided to lead — John Paul Warren

We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. — Johnny Hunt

The shelves are filled with books about improving the process of leadership; discussions of how to hone its art are few. Checklists and processes do not challenge our ability to think, they do not force us to defend our ideas or look new ones in the face. They demand no depth. Defining leadership as an art rather than as a process does not mean that leadership cannot be taught. It merely means that gaining a greater understanding of leadership requires intellectual courage. Just as we develop physical courage by experiencing and functioning under physical fear and moral courage by making the choice of right amidst the pressure to do otherwise, so we develop intellectual courage through the discomfort and ambiguity of experiencing ideas that challenge our depth and perspective. Leaders develop intellectual courage by continuously sharpening the saber through education, and in doing so they
hone within themselves the art of leadership. — Christopher D. Kolenda

We can be the very first generation which fails to see the logic or pride in defining ourselves by anything else but what is found within ourselves: our values — Akilnathan Logeswaran

LEGACY plays an important role in defining a good leader at any age. — Farshad Asl

Character primarily is honesty with God, ones-self, and others."

~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods

The major purpose of defining and understanding yourself is to be able to come up with an objective strategy to map your success. — Archibald Marwizi

[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership ... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement. — Gail Collins

The defining qualities that will distinguish great leaders from the rest are stemmed from the mindset level. — Pearl Zhu

The first grand federalist design ... was that of the Bible, most particularly the Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament ... Biblical thought is federal (from the Latin foedus, covenant) from first to last
from God's covenant with Noah establishing the biblical equivalent of what philosophers were later to term Natural Law to the Jews' reaffirmation of the Sinai covenant under the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah, thereby adopting the Torah as the constitution of their second commonwealth. The covenant motif is central to the biblical world view, the basis of all relationships, the mechanism for defining and allocating authority, and the foundation of the biblical political teaching. — Daniel J. Elazar

Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle. — Jean Driscoll

Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many are coming to regard the leader as the man who can energize his group, who knows how to encourage initiative, how to draw from all what each has to give. — Mary Parker Follett