Andy Stanley Leader Quotations

The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

Don’t strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.

Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.

A leader should never risk their ability to make a difference by making an unnecessary point.

Broken-hearted leaders change things that go beyond their generation.

Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.

Acknowledging weakness doesn't make a leader less effective. On the contrary, in most cases it is simply a way of expressing that he understands what everyone else has known for some time. When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of your team, it is never new information.

Jealous leaders measure their success by the failure of others.

Leaders who carry unresolved guilt are forced to hide a part of themselves from those to whom they are closest. They have a secret. They are forced to expend time and energy to ensure that no one finds them out. They know they are not completely trustworthy. Often they assume no one else is either. Guilty leaders have a difficult time trusting. Consequently, guilty leaders have a difficult time building teams.

We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.

Uncertainty in a leader is always magnified in the heart of the follower.

To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster.

Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.

Leaders learn to leverage the problems that never go away in a way to create progress for the organization.

The greatest thing you do as a leader may not be what you do as a leader but who watches you do what you do.

Where there is no uncertainty, there is no longer the need for leadership. The greater the uncertainty, the greater the need for leadership. Your capacity as a leader will be determined by how well you learn to deal with uncertainty.

Leaders make things better and that requires change.

The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.

A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

Leaders are made one response at a time.

The moment a leader steps away from his core competencies, his effectiveness as a leader diminishes.

Your response to opportunities, adversities and calling, determine the type of leader you become.

Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside

A leader is someone who has the courage to say publicly what everybody else is whispering privately. It is not his insight that sets the leader apart from the crowd. It is his courage to act and speak up when everyone else is silent....are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.