Andy Stanley Lead Quotations

No one ever has the resources they need.

Every story of change there is always someone who didn't have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway.

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.

"How" is what kills vision and dreams. Don't ask "How" until we figure out the "What". The "How" can kill the "What".

Resources follow vision.

If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.

If you want to know if I'm a Godly man, follow me home.

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

When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.

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

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

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

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

We always have more ideas than we can fund.

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

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.

There is an inexorable correlation between leadership and change.

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

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

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.

Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.

We want time in with our kids not time out.

There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.

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

The reason we're here today is because years ago God broke Reggie Joiner's heart over the state of children.

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

God uses broken-hearted leaders.

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

We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.

You are where you are because the generation before you paid attention to their broken heart.

Who are you and what breaks your heart?

Only do what only you can do.

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.

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

Leaders fix things that are broken.

Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.

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

What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.

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

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

Leaders love progress.

Progress requires change.

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.

Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?

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.

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

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.

If a volunteer can help us with an immediate need, we can put them in a place to make their greatest contribution.

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

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

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

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

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.

The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason, the last thing to change is the structure of leadership.