#leaders

Individual effort is good but collective effort is better. We need a NETWORK of nation builders ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#impact #leadership #nationalism #values #leadership

Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#black #certain #go #hand #i

In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were. ↗

— Roger Wilkins

#black #black community #blacks #certain #community

To succeed in this day and age, all you need to be ahead of the pack is to be informed, and turn the information into transformation for your betterment and that of others. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha #information #inspiration #leadership-torch #nigeria

He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern and tempered energies of manhood and the sombre sagacity of age; accomplishing so much, precisely because it imagined and hoped so little. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#leadership #youth #age

Being willing to listen to others and let them speak into our lives is a critical attitude leaders must have. It is not weakness to get good advice - it is strength to seek it out. ↗

— Wayde Goodall

#leadership #attitude

Work as if there's no one to help you, and learn as if everybody is with you. ↗

— saransh garg

#creativity #hard-work #leadership #motivational-inspirational #oppurtunity

Because if they grow up holding on to such terrible feelings, it could lead to another war come time in the future when the fate of the country is in their hands. ↗

— Erin Gruwell

#future-leaders #generation #negative-attitude #negativity #pain

A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#death

Being others-focused instead of self-focused changes your worldview. Living in a selfless manner and seeking to help others enriches our very existence on a daily basis. Get your hands dirty once in a while by serving in a capacity that is lower than your position or station in life. This keeps you tethered to the real world and grounded to reality, which should make it harder to be prideful and forget where you came from. ↗

— Miles Anthony Smith

#leadership #quotes-to-live-by #sacrifice #servant-leader #change