leadership purpose Quotes

I am persuaded to believe that God had left nations to the liberty of setting up such governments as best pleased themselves, and that magistrates were set up for the good of nations, not nations for the honor and glory of magistrates.

Survival is not the only goal of a great leader.

You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead.

God didn't make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.

If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.

In all great leaders there is a purpose and intensity which is unmistakable.

One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity.

It's so important for business leaders to discover what their purpose is. In the days when the business seems overwhelming, or you aren't certain you can continue, it is your purpose that will compel you to push through.

The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.

The problem with most leaders today is they don't stand for anything. Leadership implies movement toward something, and convictions provide that direction. If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything

The purpose of leadership is to take others to the top. And when you take others who might not make it to the top otherwise, there's no other feeling like it in the world. To those who have never had the experience, you can't explain it. To those who have, you don't need to.

Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.

Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don’t know where you are going, your leadership doesn’t matter.

It is the leaders job to add significance to the lives of the people he leads.

Leadership is neither about you or me; it is about something that needs to be done. Leaders figure out how it can be made to happen and get ten or a million people to see that this is the way to do it.

The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think you've sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership.

Leaders, your God-given job is not merely to preside over something, not to pontificate to your underlings how smart you are, not merely to preserve something from its gradual demise; it's to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.