Leadership Quotes by Andy Stanley · Page 2

Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.

— Andy Stanley

We always have more ideas than we can fund.

— Andy Stanley

Courage is essential to leadership.

— Andy Stanley

Leaders make things better and that requires change.

— Andy Stanley

Charisma on stage is not necessarily evidence of the Holy Spirit.

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.

— Andy Stanley

What is this generation of students worth? It's worth everything.

— Andy Stanley

Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.

— Andy Stanley

My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of…

— Andy Stanley

Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say

— Andy Stanley

“Leaders who don't listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.”

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you…

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

When Nehemiah's heart was broken he paid attention to his broken heart.

— Andy Stanley

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

— Andy Stanley

Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable!

— Andy Stanley

We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.

— Andy Stanley

Two primary ways to keep volunteers motivated - Food and T-shirts.

— Andy Stanley

There is an inexorable correlation between leadership and change.

— Andy Stanley

When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens.

— Andy Stanley

Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.

— Andy Stanley

The more you expect from a volunteer the more you get.

— Andy Stanley

Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led.

— Andy Stanley

We ask our volunteers, "Do you work here?" They say, "Not yet."

— Andy Stanley

T-shirts create a sense of "We". Food says, "We don't mind spending money on you."

— Andy Stanley

If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.

— Andy Stanley

This is why we give up on things that break our heart because it requires change.

— Andy Stanley

Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to…

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

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

— Andy Stanley

Leadership isn't making all the decisions. It is making sure the right decisions are made.

— Andy Stanley

You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in…

— Andy Stanley

Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don't run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God…

— Andy Stanley

Me and Sandra are thoroughly satisfied customers as parents of kids who came through this Orange model.

— Andy Stanley