Leadership Journey Quotes & Sayings

From average to great is a leadership journey; it takes vision, passion, confidence, problem-solving skills, and teamwork to match up. — Pearl Zhu

Throw away the newspapers. Discard all the useless debates and gossiping. Start working in silence. Start working on your passion. And make the news yourself. — Abhijit Naskar

I am praetor of the legion," Reyna said. "I judge this to be in the best interest of Rome."
"To get yourself killed? To break our oldest laws and travel to the Ancient Lands? How will you even find their ship, assuming you survive the journey?" [Octavian]
"I will find them," Reyna said. — Rick Riordan

Rethink Your Success Mindset: With the right mindset, everything that you experience, along your journey towards success, is a blessing. — Tony Dovale

Buoyant leadership is not a management technique, it's a leadership principle based on the belief that leading isn't presiding, it's taking people on a journey, and on any hero's journey there will be a setback. — Kevin Allen

Stop grovelling and start working. — Abhijit Naskar

Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It's about being self-aware. Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, 'I could have done three things better yesterday.' — Jeffrey R. Immelt

A journey to make real impact that changes lives, give meaning to life and living, and turns vision of the masses into realities demands a true focus, an utmost zeal and robustness and an unfailing tenacity to do whatever necessary within the powers and reach of a true leader, and with all needed dexterity, wit and wisdom, to make real impact have a meaning and give real liberation to the masses! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Doubt is a result of more than one internal voice giving differing and contradicting instructions and suggestions concerning a situation or a phase of your success journey. The triggering suggestions may be internal or external factors igniting internal conflict and uncertainty in the face of adversity. Yet inside of you must rise up a voice of authority which silences the disempowering shouts of unbelief. You need to have a deliberate plan to develop that internal voice of authority. — Archibald Marwizi

A goal is not just an object on a pitch; it is also a milestone on your journey of excellence. — Onyi Anyado

Great journeys live long in the memory of those who participate in them — John Stein

It's time for you to be the hero of your own journey. — Bill Jensen

You are born to build the society, not to follow it. — Abhijit Naskar

When someone is walking beside us, we have more courage to walk into the unknown and to risk the dark and messy places in our journey. — Karen Kimsey-House

Too often when people think of their journey into leadership, they envision a career path. What they should be thinking about is their own leadership development! — John C. Maxwell

Good leaders understand that they are stewards. They must find the best people they can, giving them the opportunity to join in the journey developing them, and encouraging them to reach their potential. But they must hold on to people lightly. Those who start with you seldom finish with you. — John C. Maxwell

Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way. — David Gergen

Leadership is not about sitting and presiding, it's about a going somewhere. To be buoyant, you must not only ignite passion around a common quest, you must also mobilize your team to take a journey with you toward a common destination, or what I call a "real ambition." — Kevin Allen

When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained. — Lynn Hill

To overcome something great you must first learn to overcome your own fears. — Nikki Rowe

We completed meetings with leaders from over a dozen ministries over a ten-day period. Toward the end of our journey, we asked our Sri Lankan host for his feedback. After about the fourth day, he had become convinced that we were actually there to listen, so his feedback was honest. He said (and I'm paraphrasing):
Paul and Christie, you and your leadership training are welcome here in Sri Lanka. If you host your training in a nice Colombo (Sri Lanka's capital) hotel with a nice venue and a buffet lunch, we can get fifty to one hundred pastors and ministry leaders to come. They will come, and you can get some great pictures for
your newsletter. Then, after the seminar, they will take your manual home with them and put it on the shelf with [U.S. megachurch pastor's] training manual and [another U.S. megachurch pastor's] training manual and [a well-known U.S. leadership trainer's] training manual, and they will go about their own ministry in their own way. — Paul Borthwick

The world needs heroes. Be a hero and build your part of the world. — Abhijit Naskar

If I am to lead with impact, I will spend far less time out front pointing to the destination, and I will spend far more time walking among the ranks and giving them hope for the journey to the destination. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

A great leader never fears criticism and welcomes them with openness and love as if they are the beauty of the journey. — Debasish Mridha

The truth to succeeding at leadership is recognizing that it's a never-ending journey of discovery and learning. — Tanveer Naseer

Some individuals have the courage to make it, even feel the need to do so; for them the quest is a necessity, not an option. Most people setting out on such journeys are never heard from again, but part of the romance of any field lies in keeping the dream alive, in not settling for what is familiar and comfortable. — Gino Segre

Leadership is a journey, not a destination. It is a marathon, not a sprint. It is a process, not an outcome. (quoting John Donahoe) — Bill George

But after about a year praying, there was just this clear direction. The leadership team believed that God was leading us to focus on fatherhood. If God is leading, then God will provide. So we begin to get storyline ideas that lined up with the subject of fatherhood that we're working on and fitting, and we were thinking, okay this is good. At the same time, as we are studying scriptures and we're on our journey as fathers, we are learning about fatherhood every day. — Stephen Kendrick

There is no check-box for ethical leadership.
It is an ongoing individual and organizational journey.
We will never know everything that there is to know. — Linda Fisher Thornton

If the 'Journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step' - that is prescribed to - ALIGN — Priyavrat Thareja

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one. — John C. Maxwell

The more you've struggled, the more inspiring your story will be when you come out the other side. Do not give up. Today's struggle brings tomorrow's wisdom. — Vironika Tugaleva

Have patience and keep working. Everything will come alright in time. — Abhijit Naskar

The leader's job is to show the way. The bottom line is that you can't tell anything about the condition of the way if you've not traveled on it yourself! — Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders don't walk in front, nor do they walk behind. They walk on completely different paths on the journey of intuition. The road that has never been taken. And so they lead. — Matthew Donnelly

You do not become a leader because people follow you. Rather, people tend to follow you because you have leadership qualities. The journey of leadership often starts alone. — Awdhesh Singh

Get-after-it plan for success and owning your place at the next summit in your leadership journey — Anonymous

The end point of leadership is not just the position of power we reach, but the continual change and deepening we experience that makes a difference in our lives, our work, our world. Our leadership journeys are only at midpoint when we have achieved a position of power. — Janet Hagberg

Great leaders create memorable journeys — John Stein

I will either use people around me as a means to facilitate my journey at their expense, or I will use myself to enhance someone else's journey at my expense. The former is a journey that never begins, and the latter is a journey that never ends. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey. — Orrin Woodward

Leaders must know where they are going if they expect others to willingly join them on the journey. — James M. Kouzes

Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you. — Denise Morrison

Success is less about what you get at the end but more about who you become in the journey. — Deepak Burfiwala

Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been. — Andy Stanley

No matter where you are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where you are won't get you to the next level. — John C. Maxwell

Leadership development is a lifetime journey, not a quick trip. — John C. Maxwell

Self-discovery is a journey of questioning yourself. — Archibald Marwizi

You don't die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world. — Abhijit Naskar

ROIers are always reaching out to me to share their appreciation for the experiences, opportunities and connections we have provided and also to express their excitement about taking the next step in their leadership journey. — Lynn Schusterman