We all want to be leaders don’t we? Especially because we know our capacity as a leader will directly effect those serving in the church under us.
Here are 25 quotes from a variety of inspirational Christians leaders.
- “We’ve traded the leadership pipeline of Jesus for the constructs of cultural Christianity.” – Will Mancini
- “A leader’s role is to define reality and then give hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
- “It is hard to think of many things that do more damage to an organization than leaders who have no plan for how they will hand over power.” – Anonymous
- “True greatness, true leadership, is found in in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.” – J. Oswald Sanders
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“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.” -Herbert Swope
- “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” -Warren Bennis
- “No one can be a good bishop if he loves his title and not his task.” – Augustine
- “Developing leaders in a pipeline is developing them for all arenas of life.” – Eric Geiger
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“When you think about ‘organic’ remember that nature is full of systems.” – Anonymous
- “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.
- “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.” – Charles Spurgeon
- “The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake.” – Jim Collins
- “Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.” – Thomas Rainer
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“I will be letting a younger generation make more and more calls as I move into my 50s. They have a better pulse on today’s culture.” – Carey Nieuwhof
- “Many who aspire to leadership fail because they have never learned to follow.” – Anonymous
- “Great vision without great people is irrelevant.” – Jim Collins
- “You must have a strategy because you will run out of money before you run out of ministry ideas.” – Kevin Peck
- “There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker
- “If you’re a leader and not a learner, you’re going to have a real short shelf-life.” –Todd Adkins
- “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.” – Sam Walton
- “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.” – Andrew Carnegie
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“Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.” – Tom Peters
- “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” – Aristotle
- “Behavior from important people in an organization, contrary to the vision, overwhelms all other forms of communication.” – John Kotter