Leadership Quotes

Here is a compilation of quotes to inspire you on your journey to influence others.

• “We should only do those things we are passionate about.” Jim Collins, Good to Great, page 109.
• “What can you be best in the world at?” Jim Collins, Good to Great, page 95.
• George Barna defines leadership as “the process of motivating, mobilizing, resourcing, and directing people to passionately and strategically pursue a vision from God that a group jointly embraces.” (A Fish Out of Water)
• “Never let fear of striking out get in your way.” -Babe Ruth
• “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”-Robert Kennedy
• “It’s undeniable: the new covenant, accomplished through the work of Christ, means that we have new hearts. Our hearts are good. Or God’s a liar. …Jesus himself teaches that the heart can be good and even noble. That somebody is you, if you are his. God kept his promise. Our hearts have been circumcised to God. We have new hearts. Do you know what this means? Your heart is good. Let that sink in for a moment. Your heart is good. What would happen if you believed it, if you came to the place where you knew it was true? Your life would never be the same. My friend Lynn got it, and that’s when she exclaimed, “If we believed that . . . we could do anything. We would follow him anywhere!” ” – John Eldredge (Waking the Dead , 69–70)
• “I’ve learned that the great challenge of life is to decide what’s important and to disregard everything else.”
  -Anonymous
• “But we need to nurture relationships in order to achieve our goals.” Keith Ferrazzi
• “Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. “He that will lose his life, the same shall save it” is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes. It is a piece of everyday advice for sailors or mountaineers. It might be printed in an Alpine guide or a drill book. The paradox is the whole principle of courage; even of quite earthly or quite brutal courage. A man cut off by the sea may save his life if he will risk it on the precipice. He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it. A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.” – John Eldredge (Wild at Heart , 169)