Andy Stanley Leadership Quotations

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Leaders make things better and that requires change.

Progress requires change.

Leaders love progress.

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

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

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

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

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

Leaders fix things that are broken.

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

Only do what only you can do.

Who are you and what breaks your heart?

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

We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.

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

God uses broken-hearted leaders.

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

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

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

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

We want time in with our kids not time out.

Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.

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

There is an inexorable correlation between leadership and change.

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.

We always have more ideas than we can fund.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resources follow vision.

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

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

No one ever has the resources they need.