James M. Kouzes famous quotes

04-17-2025

The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present.
-- James M. Kouzes

#Leadership #People #Way
It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done.
-- James M. Kouzes

#People #Atmosphere #Working Together
You can't lead others to places you don't want to go yourself. If you don't feel a burning passion for something, how in the world can you inspire and encourage others to share it?
-- James M. Kouzes

#Passion #Inspire #Burning
Leadership isnâ€™t the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. Itâ€™s a process ordinary people use when theyâ€™re bringing forth the best from themselves and others. Liberate the leader in everyone, and extraordinary things happen.
-- James M. Kouzes

#Men #People #Leader
You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.
-- James M. Kouzes

#Causes #Common #Humans
We have to recognize that however smart we are, we're not smarter than everyone else combined. . . . We can't lose sight of the fact that no matter how important our own contributions are, we couldn't have gotten anywhere without the help and hard work of lots of other people.
-- James M. Kouzes

#Leadership #Smart #Hard Work
There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream
-- James M. Kouzes

#Dream #Leader #Planning
It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent the future, we try to get a mental picture of what things will be like long before we have begun the journey. Visions are our windows on the world of tomorrow.
-- James M. Kouzes

#Communication #Journey #Long
Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.
-- James M. Kouzes

#Leadership #Conscience
If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk.
-- James M. Kouzes

#Leadership #Thinking #Walks
There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.
-- James M. Kouzes

#Leadership #Leader #Authority
Do what you say you will do.
-- James M. Kouzes

#Atheism
If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.
-- James M. Kouzes

#Inspirational #Success #Uplifting
The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A story is a narrative on an event or series of events, just like history.
-- James M. Kouzes

#Mean #Roots #Events

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