Transformational Leaders Quotes & Sayings

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority. — Richard Holbrooke

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does. — George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge is a process, not a product ... — Ruth Nanda Anshen

I have spent forty-five years teasing out the universal principles of success that are necessary to create massive breakthroughs. I am committed to teaching and disseminating those around the world. I also believe that most transformational leaders are focusing too much on outer techniques and overlooking the important inner qualities of beingness and presence that are required to create real and lasting transformation in the world. — Jack Canfield

transformational leaders support followers by enhancing their confidence and self-efficacy to achieve an idealized state. By appealing to followers' deeply held beliefs, transformational leadership has been shown to impact follower core-self evaluations, which, in turn, affect follower motivation and behavior on the job — Matthew J Grawitch

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity. — Thomas Merton

Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them. — Mark Zuckerberg

Transformational leaders are important because they make choices that most other leaders would not. — Joseph Nye

Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers. — Joseph Nye

Putin probably, almost certainly, thinks that one of the great disasters of the 20th century was the demise of the Soviet Union. It's very obvious that he's trying to work its way back and maintain something similar to that sort of institution. — Alan Greenspan

Do not wait another day to become fully engaged in your life, to learn to love and to forgive, and to live with greater purpose & meaning. — Debbie Ford

As we surge towards Indonesia 2045, those who will lead us must have special qualities. To begin with, they will need to exercise transformational, rather than transactional, leadership. This means forward- looking leaders who will continue to transform the nation across sectors. They will need to have a higher risk-appetite and the courage to challenge old assumptions, while coming up with new ideas that suit present- day challenges. — Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

You don't have to live with whatever life throws you--or whatever you've gotten yourself into...
You can choose to Change Your Story! — Kirstin Leigh

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners. — Anthony Daniels

I've always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human - like mermaids and Minotaurs - because they are trapped in an animal body. And I felt trapped in my own life. — Riccardo Tisci

There are a lot of things that we could do to minimize what we're doing, but we're not getting back those frogs that I saw that no longer exist. — Elizabeth Kolbert

The first step toward being loved is learning to love what you see when you look in the mirror. — Tadahiko Nagao

Love means total interest; love means total creativity; love means total input. Who has that for you? Who has given you values? Who has given you character? Who has told you, "Stand for righteousness and I'll stand behind you"? — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

The ultimate test of a transformational leader is the ability to raise up a new generation of leaders. — Jim Louwsma

He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ... — Elizabeth Gaskell