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The Top 100 Quotes From This Year’s Global Leadership Summit

Vanessa Van Edwards

“Our words are powerful primers. Priming is when we use words to shape behavior, thoughts and actions.” 

“The words we use are incredibly powerful. We are sending words into the world without realizing how they shape the way people feel and act.” 

Read more about Vanessa Van Edwards’ message at GLS 2020. 

Danielle Strickland

“Hope is gritty. Hope is strategic. Hope is working now for future change. Hope is cultivated in the soil of gratitude. Hope flourishes when it’s lived in the present tense. Hope is contagious when it’s shared.”

Sadie Robertson Huff

“For being a leader in this generation, one of the best things you can be is authentic.”

“If you fall in public, you’ll get up twice as fast.”

“Don’t let insecurity allow you to neglect the gift God has given you.”

Edgar Sandoval

“My greatest impact has come through surrender.”

Patrick Lencioni 

“What the world needs more than ever are courageous, genuine leaders.”

T.D. Jakes

“How we see the world is a reflection of our worldview and our past experiences. Those of us in leadership and positions of authority have the luxury of what I call willful blindness. That is to say, we are seldom required to think outside of our own orbit.”

“We are living in a moment that can’t be controlled.”

“Your background has informed you of a truth, but a truth might not be the truth.” 

“The coronavirus has forced us out of the box and I am suggesting that you shouldn’t have to be forced to get out of the box.” 

“As America has the most uncomfortable conversations it has ever had before, it is uncomfortable because we live in our silos.” 

“The road to connectivity starts with what connects you rather than what divides you.”

Joseph Grenny

“As a leader, every single day you choose whether your organization is about truth or power.”

“Silence is the playground of evil.”

“Truth can’t speak to power if there’s not time for it.”

“The lag time for change is as long or as short as the lag time for candor.”

Paula Faris 

“Fear and peace are not mutually exclusive.”

“We need to release ourselves from the lie that our worth is work. That our value is tied to a bank account.”

Chris McChesney

“If you can create a winnable game for your people—in the middle of everything we’re dealing with—if you can do that, you are a leader and you are right where you need to be.”

Amy Edmondson

“I’m not saying you shouldn’t care about what people think of you—I’m saying it shouldn’t be in charge. The mission should be in charge.”

“Recognizing failure is not all bad. It’s how we learn. It’s how we innovate. It’s how we grow.

“It is a leader’s job to create a safe environment for people to bring their full self to work.”

“When everyone agrees—you should be worried.”

Read more about Amy Edmondson’s message at GLS 2020.