nurturing leadership Quotes

Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

Leaders on every level should be primarily interested in rendering compassionate caring for others.

I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

I don't think leaders are born. Well, they're born; everybody's born, but I think leadership can be enhanced, they can be developed, and I think that it's important we do that, particularly with our youngsters.

A leader is a coach, not a judge.

Many people confuse authority and the power of efficiency, as if the first role of people with responsibility is to take decisions, command effectively and so exercise power. But their role first of all is to be a person to whom others can turn for help and advice, to provide security, to affirm, to support, to encourage and to guide.

Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.

There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm.

We must truly serve those whom we appear to command; we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience, and lead them in the way to heaven.

Pamela Eells has been the most amazing leader. She's such a nurturing person, and that is what makes a woman such a great leader: she's nurturing but also gets stuff done.

The one who rules like the mother lasts long.

The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?

The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.

Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't love. And without those things, a woman's soul is bereft.

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn’t be any goddamn wars in the first place.