Quotes about Leadership
People are weary of politicians who make promises they are either unwilling or unable to keep. Society longs for statesmen but it gets politicians. Statesmen are leaders who uphold what is right regardless of the popularity of the position. Statesmen speak out to achieve good for their people, not to win votes. Statesmen promote the general good rather than regional or personal self-interest.
— Henry Blackaby
Great leaders don't make excuses. They make things better. They are not unrealistic or blind to the difficulties they face. They simply are not discouraged by them. They never lose confidence that the problems can be solved. They maintain a positive attitude. Great leaders don't blame their people for not being where they ought to be; they take their people from where they are to where they need to be. Great leaders never lose faith that this is possible.
— Henry Blackaby
Leaders who doubt that success is possible and who fear the worst should immediately change their attitude or resign so a true leader can take their place.
— Henry Blackaby
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
— Henry Ward Beecher
The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Preacher, keep your knees on the ground & your eyes on the throne.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.
— Leonard Ravenhill
John the Baptist's training was in God's University of Silence. God takes all His great men there.
— Leonard Ravenhill
He who would teach the people to pray must first himself be given to prayer.
— Leonard Ravenhill
No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shopwindow to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.
— Leonard Ravenhill