1,000 Inspiring Leadership Quotes To Motivate Your Team (2023)

1. “In teamwork, silence isn’t golden. It’s deadly.” ~ Mark Sanborn

2. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.” – Andrew Carnegie

3. “When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.”

4. “A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.” ~ Zig Ziglar

5. “When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.”

6. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln

7. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” – Peter F. Drucker

8. “Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

9. “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”

10. “Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” – John D. Rockefeller

11. “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.”

12. “When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

13. “Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.” – Rudy Giuliani

14. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” ~ Stephen Covey

15. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” ~ Albert Einstein

16. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” —George Addair

17. “A strong leader avoids becoming over-confident to the point of impaired judgment.” – Daniel Lubetzky

18. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people.” ~ Mohandas Gandhi

19. “Where there is no guidance the people fall, But in abundance of counselors there is victory.” – Proverbs 11:14

20. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”Harold R. McAlindon

21. “Followers think and talk about their problems....Leaders think and talk about the solutions.” - Brian Tracy

22. “Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”

23. “You were created by God, hard wired with talents and personality traits that are unique to just you.”

24. “A quiet conscience makes one strong!” – Anne Frank

25. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” ~ Margaret Fuller

26. When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter. - Winston Churchill

27. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” - Steve Jobs

28. “Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.” – Proverbs 3:27

29. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” ~ George S. Patton

30. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” – Winston Churchill

31. Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

32. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. – Peter Drucker

33. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.” – Peter F. Drucker

34. “You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.” ~ Henry Ford

35. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” ~ Henry Ford

36. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” ~ Arnold Glasow

37. “A leader is a dealer in hope.”

38. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” —George Patton

39. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. – Eleanor Roosevelt

40. “Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone’s following you.” ~ Henry Gilmer

41. “A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.” – Sam Houston

42. Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. – Dianne Feinstein

43. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

44. “To add value to others, one must first value others.” ~ John Maxwell

45. “Leaders never stop learning.” Christine Caine

46. “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” – George Washington Carver

47. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

48. “Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.” – James 3:1

49. “There are no office hours for leaders.” – Cardinal J. Gibbons

50. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. - Bill Gates

51. “In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.”

52. “Leadership is the key to 99 per cent of all successful efforts.” – Erskine Bowles

53. “Character matters; leadership descends from character.” – Rush Limbaugh

54. “Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.” – Dale Canegie

55. “Some people want it to happen. Some wish it would happen. Others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan

56. “Earn your leadership every day.”

57. “Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction is stupid.” – Proverbs 12:1

58. “Leading people is the most challenging and, therefore, the most gratifying undertaking of all human endeavors.” – Jocko Willink

59. The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

60. “No on else in the world has the same strengths you do because God created all of us individually.”

61. “The x-factor of great leadership is not personality, it’s humility.” Jim Collins

62. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”

63. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” ~ Michael Jordan

64. “We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.” – John C. Maxwell

65. Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. - Donald Rumsfeld

66. “The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.”

67. “A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. ”

68. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” ~ Aristotle

69. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” – Mahatma Gandhi

70. Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.

71. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” ― Margaret Thatcher

72. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” –Brian Tracy

73. “Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

74. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. - Harvey Firestone

75. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

76. “You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.” – Nelson Mandela

77. “People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.” –Michelle Obama

78. “Leadership never ascends from the pew to the pulpit, but invariably descends from the pulpit to the pew.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

79. “One measure of leadership is the calibre of people who choose to follow you.” – Dennis A. Peer

80. “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”

81. “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

82. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves. - Eleanor Roosevelt

83. “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.” – Theodore Roosevelt

84. Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.

85. “Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.” – Jim Rohn

86. “A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.” ~ Polybius

87. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” Max Lucado

88. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.

89. “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill

90. “It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.” – Henry A. Kissinger

91. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” ~ Brian Tracy

92. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” Ray Kroc

93. “If you want to build something great, you should focus on what the change is that you want to make in the world.” – Mark Zuckerberg

94. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates

95. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. - Peter F. Drucker

96. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – Abraham Lincoln

97. “I don’t go by the rule book. I lead from the heart, not the head.” — Princess Diana

98. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” – John C. Maxwell

99. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams

100. “Be the leader you wish you had.”

101. “Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works too.”

102. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.” – Brian Tracy

103. “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”

104. “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” – Earl Nightingale

105. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you'll be criticised anyway.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

106. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” - Henry Kissinger

107. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

108. “To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

109. “A leader is admired, a boss is feared.” ~ Vicente Del Bosque

110. “There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.” – Norman Vincent Peale

111. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a moulder of consensus.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

112. A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

113. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” ~ John C. Maxwell

114. “The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” ~ Harvey S. Firestone

115. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” ~ Max Lucado

116. “Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.” – Harold S. Green

117. “The highest of distinctions is service to others.” – King George VI

118. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” – Stephen R. Covey

119. “Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.” – Rev. Jesse Jackson

120. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt

121. “Education is the mother of leadership” - Wendell Willkie

122. “High expectations are the key to everything.” – Sam Walton

123. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” ~ Van Gogh

124. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.” ~ John C. Maxwell

125. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” –John Quincy Adams

126. “You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership.” ―Dwight Eisenhower

127. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” Ralph Nader

128. “A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.” – Joe DiMaggio

129. Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

130. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” – Thomas Jefferson

131. “Leadership is about being of service to others, not being served by others. Be a mentor, not a boss.” Anonymous

132. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” ~ Gloria Steinem

133. “Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

134. “Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t!”

135. High expectations are the key to absolutely everything.

136. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” ~ Vince Lombardi

137. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” – Zig Ziglar

138. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. —John F. Kennedy

139. ‘Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you see can inspire you.’ – Grace Coddington

140. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” –Bill Gates

141. “I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules..”

142. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” ~ Dale Carnegie

143. To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

144. Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. - Brian Tracy

145. “I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”

146. “Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.” – Bill Owens

147. “I think leadership is something you earn, more through actions than words.” – Ander Crenshaw

148. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. - Mahatma Gandhi

149. “To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.” – Pat Riley

150. “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” – Laurence J. Peter

151. “A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.” John Maxwell

152. “The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.” — Padmasree Warrior

153. “Taking responsibility of failure and giving credit of success to others is biggest quality of leaders.” ~ Invajy

154. Make the right decision even when no one is watching, especially when no one is watching, and you will always turn out okay. – Kim Kaupe

155. A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.

156. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” – Oprah Winfrey

157. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” ~ Bill Gates

158. To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

159. A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

160. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

161. Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating. – Simon Sinek

162. “Business leaders cannot be bystanders.” - Howard Schultz

163. “You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

164. “Leadership is action, not position.” – Donald H. McGannon

165. A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

166. Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.

167. “A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” - John C. Maxwell

168. “De Flander has added another chapter to the emerging science of strategy execution.”

169. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” ~ Tony Blair

170. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. - Kenneth Blanchard

171. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

172. “He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, And he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.” – Proverbs 16:32

173. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

174. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader

175. “Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

176. “The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.” – Henry Miller

177. “I’m a leader not a follower. Unless it’s a dark place, then you are going first.”

178. Leaders establish trust with candor, transparency, and credit.

179. “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.” – Aristotle

180. Fail often so you can succeed sooner.

181. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” ~ Beverly Sills

182. “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” – William Shakespeare

183. The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. - Ken Blanchard

184. “Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.” – Andy Stanley

185. Earn your leadership every day. - Michael Jordan

186. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” - Henry Adams

187. “The problem with being a leader is that you’re never sure if you’re being followed or chased.”

188. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.”

189. You don’t need a title to be a leader.

190. Leadership is not just about giving energy, it’s unleashing other people’s energy.

191. “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” – Matthew 6:21

192. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” —Albert Einstein

193. “The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader’s true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.”

194. Trust is the essence of Leadership. - Colin Powell

195. ‘We Need Leaders Who Are Global Citizens’: Former UN Head Ban Ki-moon on Building an Inclusive World

196. “Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.”

197. “Implementing They Ask, You Answer with IMPACT’s help has transformed my business.”

198. “When you were made a leader you weren’t given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.”

199. “Earn your leadership every day.” Michael Jordan

200. “Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.” ~ Bo Bennett

201. A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. —John Maxwell

202. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” ~ Kenneth Blanchard

203. “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say; we did it ourselves.” Lao Tzu

204. “Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determinations.” - John Seaman Garns

205. The real leader has no need to lead — he is content to point the way. - Henry Miller

206. “Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.” ~ Max Depree

207. “Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.” ~ Douglas MacArthur

208. “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.” ~ Alexander The Great

209. “Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.” – Vince Lombardi

210. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” —Jack Welch

211. “Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.” – Russel Honore

212. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” – Stephen R. Covey

213. Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. - John D. Rockefeller

214. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

215. Leadership is an action, not a position. - Donald McGannon

216. “It takes a great man to be a good listener.” – Calvin Coolidge

217. “Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way” Ronald Reagan

218. “When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.”

219. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ―Harold McAlindon

220. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” ~ Edith Wharton

221. “Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.” – Seth Berkley

222. “It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.”

223. ‘Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.’ – Steve Jobs

224. “At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.” – Chip Conley

225. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

226. “When people talk, listen completely.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

227. “The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” Harvey S. Firestone

228. Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.

229. “Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” – E. Joseph Cossman

230. “A leader is someone who demonstrates what’s possible.” Mark Yarnell

231. “My best successes came on the heels of failures.” — Barbara Corcoran

232. “Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.” – Andrew Carnegie

233. “If your situation – be it your family, your team, your church, or your friends – required a leader, would you step up and be one?”

234. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” ~ Sheryl Sandberg

235. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” ~ Peter Drucker

236. “It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.” George Washington

237. “The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.” – Ken Blanchard

238. “Self trust is the first secret of success.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

239. “Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.” ~ Warren Bennis

240. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” ~ Albert Einstein

241. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

242. “Focusing is about saying No.” – Steve Jobs

243. ‘Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.’ – Brian Tracy

244. “If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”

245. There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

246. “A true leader is one who is humble enough to admit their mistakes.” Anonymous

247. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” ~ Aristotle

248. “Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life, no matter what the project.” – Bill Owens

249. “You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” ~ Doug Floyd

250. “The first key to leadership is self-control.” - Jack Weatherford

251. You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that’s assault, not leadership. Dwight D. Eisenhower

252. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” Robert Louis Stevenson

253. Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

254. “Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.” Andy Stanley

255. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” —Abraham Lincoln

256. “To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”

257. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” ~ Ray Kroc

258. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”

259. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” ―John C. Maxwell

260. Management works in the system; leadership works on the system. - Stephen Covey

261. “To add value to others, one must first value others.” - John C. Maxwell

262. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

263. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

264. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

265. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”—Eleanor Roosevelt

266. “A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.”

267. “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.” Steve Jobs

268. “If you act enthusiastic, you will be enthusiastic!” – Dale Carnegie

269. “Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.” – Confucius

270. “The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.” — Barbara Sher

271. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

272. “The art of leadership is in saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

273. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” John F. Kennedy

274. “Well, I think that – I think leadership’s always been about two main things: imagination and courage.” – Paul Keating

275. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” —Bill Bradley

276. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

277. “Chance only favors the prepared mind.”

278. Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. - Tom Landry

279. “The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry Kissinger

280. “Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.” – Proverbs 23:9

281. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” Henry Kissinger

282. “You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.” – Ted Turner

283. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”- John C. Maxwell

284. “The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.” – Henry Kissinger

285. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” ~ John F. Kennedy

286. “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.” – John Zenger

287. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” - John Q. Adams

288. “Leadership does not depend on being right.” – Ivan Illich

289. “All leaders are readers.” – Jim Rohn

290. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

291. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” -– John C. Maxwell

292. “You have to think anyway, so why not think big?” – Donald Trump

293. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

294. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy

295. “Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.” - Simon Sinek

296. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” – Tony Blair

297. “Leadership distilled down to 3 words: Make a difference.” – Robin Sharma

298. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” – Ken Blanchard

299. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

300. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” George Patton

301. “Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.” – Robin Sharma

302. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” Warren Bennis

303. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”

304. Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

305. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader

306. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” – Arnold H. Glasow

307. “Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.” ~ Diogenes of Sinope

308. “The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.” – Meryl Streep

309. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let’s go! - E.M. Kelly

310. Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts. - Erskine Bowles

311. “Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.” — General George Patton

312. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” – Peter Drucker

313. “I don’t know any other way to lead but by example.” – Don Shula

314. “Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.” – Marian Anderson

315. “If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” – Henry David Thoreau

316. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

317. “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”

318. “To lead people, walk behind them.” - Lao Tzu

319. “Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.”– Nelson Mandela

320. “Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.” ― Roy T. Bennett

321. Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way. - Ronald Reagan

322. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

323. “No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop

324. “Example is leadership.” – Albert Schweitzer

325. A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them. - M.D. Arnold

326. “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” ― Harry S. Truman

327. “Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.” – Thomas J. Watson

328. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

329. “A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

330. “Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.”

331. “Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men — the other 999 follow women.”

332. “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” – Proverbs 4:23

333. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.”– Sheryl Sandberg

334. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” Peter F. Drucker

335. Leadership is intentional influence. - Michael McKinney

336. ‘Anyone who has ever made anything of importance was disciplined.’ – Andrew Hendrixson

337. “Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.” – Tom Landry

338. “Leaders come in two flavours, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.” – Barbara Corcoran

339. “The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.” — Mary Kay Ash

340. “It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.” – Daniel Defoe

341. “My jobs is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.” – Steve Jobs

342. “The king establishes the land by justice, But he who receives bribes overthrows it.” – Proverbs 29:4

343. “In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” Max De Pree

344. “Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.” – Harold Geneen

345. “You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.” Ken Kesey

346. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” Publilius Syrus

347. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

348. “A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all wise judgment.” – Proverbs 18:1

349. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” – Tony Blair

350. “Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.” – Peter Drucker

351. “A boss has the title, a leader has the people.” – Simon Sinek

352. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”

353. Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion. - Oprah Winfrey

354. ‘It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.’ – Confucius

355. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

356. You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. - Nancy D. Solomon

357. “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.” ~ John Zenger

358. “The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.”

359. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa

360. To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn’t know where he is going.

361. “Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.”~ Lyndon B. Johnson

362. “Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”~ Harold Geneen

363. Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. —Warren Bennis

364. “When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.” - Richard Branson

365. “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” – Epictetus

366. “Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture!” declares the Lord. – Jeremiah 23:1

367. Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.

368. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.” —John C. Maxwell

369. Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. - Robert L. Stevenson

370. Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.

371. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” Tony Blair

372. A leader is a dealer in hope.

373. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren G. Bennis

374. “Only be you strong, and very courageous, then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” – Joshua 1:7-8

375. “…..from everyone who has been given much shall much be required……” – Luke 12:48

376. “Always drink upstream from the herd.”

377. “The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.” Brandon Sanderson

378. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.” – Dianne Feinstein

379. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

380. Leading people is the most challenging and, therefore, the most gratifying undertaking of all human endeavours.

381. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

382. “The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.” – Seth Godin

383. “Treat others the same way you want them to treat you.” – Luke 6:31

384. “Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.” – Winston Churchill

385. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein

386. I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. Robert E. Lee

387. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” Fred Wilson

388. “A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.” - Stephen King

389. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” Albert Schweitzer

390. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

391. “It is an abomination for kings to commit wicked acts, For a throne is established on righteousness.” – Proverbs 16:12

392. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want to be done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

393. “A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.” – George M. Moore Jr.

394. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle

395. A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.

396. “A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.” - Herb Kelleher

397. “Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” ~ Pete Hoekstra

398. Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. - John C. Maxwell

399. “You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” – Mary Tyler Moore

400. “Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”

401. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. [Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22, 1963]” ― John F. Kennedy

402. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” – Stephen Covey

403. “As a leader your every action has a consequence, make sure it is one you intend.” Kathrine Bryant

404. “The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower

405. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” ~ Bill Bradley

406. “Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.” – Max De Pree

407. “Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men–the other 999 follow women.” Groucho Marx

408. “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”

409. Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.

410. “When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” ~ Henry J. Kaiser

411. “Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.” – Viktor Frankl

412. “Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.” – 1 Timothy 5:17

413. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.” – Peter F. Drucker

414. “People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”

415. “Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.” – Bo Bennett

416. “He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.” – Niccolò Machiavelli

417. “An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.”

418. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” - Max Lucado

419. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” ~ John C. Maxwell

420. Leaders don't force people to follow—they invite them on a journey. - Charles S. Lauer

421. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

422. To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. - Friedrich Nietzsche

423. “When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.” – William James

424. “I don’t want yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.” ~ Samuel Goldwyn

425. “Leadership is a choice you make, not a place you sit.” ―Robert F. Tucker

426. “Be the chief but never the lord.” – Lao Tzu

427. Leaders don’t force people to follow – they invite them on a journey.

428. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. – Martin Luther King Jr

429. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” – Plato

430. “Nothing will work unless you do.” —Maya Angelou

431. “To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

432. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.” ~ Peter F. Drucker

433. “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

434. “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” ~ Chinese Proverb

435. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” Napoleon

436. “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” – Matthew 7:12

437. “I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: try to please everybody.”

438. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” ~ Publilius Syrus

439. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” – Bill Bradley

440. “The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” – Tony Blair

441. “A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.” J.P. Morgan

442. “True power is service. The Pope must serve all people, especially the poor, the weak, the vulnerable.”

443. “You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement.”

444. “Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.” – Pythagoras

445. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~ Christopher Columbus

446. ‘Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.’ – St Jerome

447. Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. - Simon Sinek

448. “I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, ‘Where am I needed most?'” – Mike Pence

449. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

450. Management Versus Leadership According to Peter Drucker.

451. “If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.”– Jim Rohn

452. “To lead people, walk behind them.” ―Lao Tzu

453. “You can’t fake listening. It shows.” – Raquel Welch

454. “If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.”

455. “The ability to learm is the most important quality a leader can have.” – Sheryl Sandberg

456. “When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, But when a wicked man rules, people groan.” – Proverbs 29:2

457. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

458. “When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.” – Theodore Roosevelt

459. A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

460. “If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. If you really make them think, they’ll hate you.”

461. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

462. I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. -Warren Bennis

463. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

464. “Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.” – James Humes

465. “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.” —John Zenger

466. “Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.” ~ Michelle Obama

467. “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” – Ernest Hemingway

468. “A good leader takes care of those in their charge. A bad leader takes charge of those in their care. – Simon Sinek

469. People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. – Thomas Sowell

470. “Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.”

471. “Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.” Jim Rohn

472. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John C. Maxwell

473. “You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.”

474. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. – Steve Jobs

475. “Whoever guards his mouth and tongue, Keeps his soul from troubles.” – Proverbs 21:23

476. Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

477. “Leadership is action, not position.” ―Donald H. McGannon

478. “Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.” – George W. Bush

479. “It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead — and find no one there.”

480. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.” – Herbert Swope

481. “If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.” ~ Indra Nooyi

482. My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

483. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

484. “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth

485. A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

486. “If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.” – William James

487. “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” ~ Woodrow Wilson

488. “If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.” – Thomas Fuller

489. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” – Jesus Christ

490. “Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It’s time to start thinking.”

491. “Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.” - Erskine Bowles

492. You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

493. “Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.” – Eric Hoffer

494. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”

495. “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” – Albert Einstein

496. “The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.” – Ken Olsen

497. “We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.” Whoopi Goldberg

498. “Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.” – J. P. Morgan

499. “Some people say, ‘Never let them see you cry.’ I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”

500. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”

501. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell

502. “A leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding the potential in people and processes.” –Brené Brown

503. “I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions, and into actions which bring results.”

504. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” ~ John Maxwell

505. “No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.” - Abraham Lincoln

506. “Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.” – Robert Jarvik

507. “You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.” - Jeanette Rankin

508. “Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.” – John Naisbitt

509. “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”

510. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

511. “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

512. “Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you’ll never sit.” ~ Jennifer Granholm

513. ‘Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.’ – Francis of Assisi

514. Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

515. “You’re short on ears and long on mouth.” – John Wayne

516. “You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.” – Gene Mauch

517. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” ~ Seth Godin

518. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” -Mohandas K. Gandhi

519. One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

520. “Look for your choices, pick the best one, and then go for it!” – Pat Riley

521. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” —Stephen Covey

522. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams

523. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill

524. “The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself.” – Tony Robbins

525. Leadership is an action, not a position.

526. “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. “Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

527. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

528. “Leadership is not about top down decisions, but it’s about caring for people and their dreams.”

529. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

530. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ~ Peter Drucker

531. “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” ~ George S. Patton

532. “If you want a quality, act as if you already have it.” – William James

533. “Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone’s following you.” – Henry Gilmer

534. “The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

535. “A leader should be visionary and have more foresight than an employee.” ~ Jack Ma

536. “The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.” – J. Paul Getty

537. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others” ― Bill Gates

538. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

539. “You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.”

540. “I praise loudly, I blame softly. – Catherine the Great

541. “The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.” ~ Linus Pauling

542. “To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.” Pat Riley

543. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

544. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” ~ Theodore M. Hesburgh

545. “If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.” ~ Jim Rohn

546. “To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.” - Andre Malraux

547. “Leadership is an action, not a position”

548. “If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.” Brad Szollose

549. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." - Warren Bennis

550. “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!” – Psalms 133:1

551. “The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.” – Carlos Ghosn

552. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” ~ Albert Schweitzer

553. “There are no office hours for leaders.”

554. “Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.”

555. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” John C. Maxwell

556. “Don’t follow the crowd; let the crowd follow you.” – Margaret Thatcher

557. “I think leadership is not something you learn; it’s something you discover.” – Myles Munroe

558. “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” –John C. Maxwell

559. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.” – John C. Maxwell

560. “The question, ‘Who ought to be boss?’, is like asking, ‘Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?’ Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.”

561. ‘Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do it.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

562. I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

563. “In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.”– Sheryl Sandberg

564. “Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

565. “Nobody rises to low expectations.” ―Calvin Lloyd

566. “The test of organization is not genius. It is its capacity to make common people achieve uncommon performance.” – Peter F. Drucker

567. A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t.

568. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” ~ Woody Allen

569. Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders. - Steve Ballmer

570. “Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.” – Simon Sinek

571. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

572. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” Ralph Nader

573. “If you don’t do the best with what you have, you could never have done better with what you could have had.”

574. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” —Napoleon Hill

575. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.

576. “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” – W. Clement Stone

577. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” ~ Arnold H. Glasow

578. “To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.” – Aristotle Onassis

579. Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

580. “The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.” – Jack Ma

581. “Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.” – Vince Lombardi

582. The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you?

583. “The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.” – Mary Kay Ash

584. A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

585. “Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.” – Mwai Kibaki

586. “I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through – then follow through.” – Edward Rickenbacker

587. “Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.” John Maxwell

588. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” ~ Steve Jobs

589. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” —Mother Teresa

590. “A leader is someone who creates infectious enthusiasm.” - Ted Turner

591. “A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.” Hans Finzel

592. “You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.” – An Wang

593. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

594. “The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.” – Casey Stengel

595. “A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.” – Joel Barker

596. Take action and believe in yourself. Dreams do come true.

597. “Leadership is influence.” - John C. Maxwell

598. “There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. – G.K. Chesterton

599. If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

600. The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang. - Mary Kay Ash

601. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

602. “Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”

603. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. - Alice Walker

604. “It can be read in an afternoon, but you’ll be re-reading it for the rest of your life.”

605. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” — Margaret Fuller

606. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” —Henry Ford

607. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”

608. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. – John F. Kennedy

609. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.” - Dianne Feinstein

610. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” ―John C. Maxwell

611. “Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.” ~ Colin Powell

612. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

613. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

614. “Let us endeavor to live so that when we die, even the undertaker will be sorry.” – Mark Twain

615. “Great leaders delegate and nurture future leaders.” ~ Invajy

616. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” ~ Warren Bennis

617. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” – Brian Tracy

618. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” – Theodore Roosevelt

619. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”

620. “Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.” — Margaret Wheatley

621. No one is going to make you a leader. Take the reins, create your own opportunity, and build the career that you deserve. – Devin Bramhall

622. I think that when we fight ethically, and build ethical politics, that we are all in it together.

623. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. - Abraham Lincoln

624. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis

625. “Management is doing the right thing; leadership is doing the right things.” ~ Peter F. Drucker

626. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. —Max DePree

627. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” ~ Jim Rohn

628. He who has great power should use it lightly. - Seneca

629. “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

630. “An appreciative listener is always stimulating.” – Agatha Christie

631. Leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory.

632. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. - Woodrow Wilson

633. “I have always supported measures and principles and not men.” – Davy Crockett

634. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt

635. “A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.”

636. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” – Henry Ford

637. “Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are.” Thomas John Carlisle

638. “So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them with his skillful hands.” – Psalms 78:72

639. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” —Albert Einstein

640. Leadership has been defined as the ability to hide your panic from others. – Lao Tzu

641. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” Peter F. Drucker

642. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” ~ John C. Maxwell

643. “Leadership is not a popularity contest; it’s about leaving your ego at the door.” – Robin S. Sharma

644. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laserlike focus.” – Bruce Lee

645. “A real leader faces the music even when he doesn't like the tune.” - Arnold H. Glasgow

646. “Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.” – J. Donald Walters

647. The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

648. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

649. “When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.” – Ronald Reagan

650. There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage. - Fuchan Yuan

651. “Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, And attend to your herds;” – Proverbs 27:23

652. “Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.” ~ Harold S. Geneen

653. “Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” – Samuel Johnson

654. “Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” Patrick Lencioni

655. “People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.” ~ Michelle Obama

656. “People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.” – Thomas Sowell

657. “The last of human freedoms – the ability to choose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances. – Viktor Frankl

658. “I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.”

659. A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.” - Hans Finzel

660. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” —Dalai Lama

661. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

662. “Be the kind of leader that you would follow.” Anonymous

663. A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. - George Patton

664. You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

665. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” – Henry Ward Beecher

666. “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.” – Alexander the Great

667. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” ―Max Lucado

668. “Every great leader can take you back to a defining moment when they decided to lead.” ― John Paul Warren

669. “Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.”

670. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” Father Theodore M. Hesburgh

671. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

672. “Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mid-action.” – Simon Sinek

673. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” ~ Andy Warhol

674. “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

675. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower

676. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

677. “Strategic leaders must not get consumed by the operational and tactical side of their work.” — Stephanie S. Mead

678. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Aristotle

679. “Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”

680. “And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:14

681. A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

682. “Never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that.”

683. “It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.” Adlai E. Stevenson II

684. “Real leadership is leaders recognising that they serve the people that they lead.” – Pete Hoekstra

685. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

686. “He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.” – Horace

687. “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” – Galatians 6:9

688. “You’re only as good as the people you hire.” – Ray Kroc

689. If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything. - Tom Rath

690. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” —Ray Kroc

691. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say." - Stephen Covey

692. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” —Arnold Glasow

693. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”– John C. Maxwell

694. “Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.”

695. “We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.” – Whoopi Goldberg

696. If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. If you really make them think, they’ll hate you.

697. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.

698. “The sharp employ the sharp.” – Douglas William Jerrold

699. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” —Arnold H. Glasow

700. If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing. - Brad Szollose

701. “A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.” – Leroy Eimes

702. “Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.” – Colin Powell

703. “Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.”

704. “There is little success where there is little laughter.” ~ Andrew Carnegie

705. “Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves.” – Philippians 2:3

706. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” - Margaret Thatcher

707. “A leader should be able to foresee crisis situations and be proactive” ~ Invajy

708. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”

709. “But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant.” – Matthew 20:26

710. Management Versus Leadership According to Tom Peters.

711. ‘Every life is a story. Make yours a best-seller.’ – Unknown

712. A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

713. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and follower.” Steve Jobs

714. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. - Bill Bradley

715. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” –Margaret Thatcher

716. “If you faint in the day of adversity, Your strength is small.” – Proverbs 24:10

717. “Leadership is an ever-evolving position.” – Mike Krzyzewski

718. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein

719. “A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.” ~ M.D. Arnold

720. “He also told them this parable: “Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into a pit?” – Luke 6:39

721. “Earn your leadership every day.” ~ Michael Jordan

722. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. - Tom Peters

723. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” ― Peter Drucker

724. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

725. “You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

726. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence, and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” Anonymous

727. “A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.” – Ralph Nader

728. The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

729. “There is a significant difference between a leader and a cheerleader.”

730. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” ~ Stephen Covey

731. “You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.” – Henry Ford

732. “The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people.” – Simon Sinek

733. The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. - Ray Kroc

734. “Leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory.” – Jocko Willink

735. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

736. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” - Seth Godin

737. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower

738. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognise a problem before it becomes an emergency.” – Arnold Glasow

739. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”

740. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” – Theodore Hesburg

741. “Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” – George S. Patton Jr.

742. If we win the hearts and minds of employees, we're going to have better business success.

743. “A known enemy is already half disarmed.”

744. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” – Margaret Fuller

745. “Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.” - Sheryl Sandberg

746. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” ~ Jimmy Dean

747. “Earn your leadership every day.” – Michael Jordan

748. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” —Les Brown

749. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

750. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” ~ Ralph Nader

751. “Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.” – Andy Grove

752. “Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.” Jaachynma N.E. Agu

753. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” —Henry Ford

754. A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

755. Leaders live by choice, not by accident.

756. “Leadership is inspiring extraordinary people to step up and serve their country.” – Justin Trudeau

757. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

758. “There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.” – Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

759. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” John Maxwell

760. “When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.” – Roy E. Disney

761. “A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” ~ John Maxwell

762. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

763. “The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.” – Elaine Agather

764. “Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence, and inspiration.” ~ Robin S. Sharma

765. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” – Ray Kroc

766. Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses. - Mitt Romney

767. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” —Plutarch

768. “A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him.” – Mark Brouwer

769. “A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.” M.D. Arnold

770. “People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.” –Anna Wintour

771. “If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” – Thomas Aquinas

772. “You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can’t sit on it for long.”

773. “In leadership, staying connected to God is key. If we lose our connection, we lose our foundation.”

774. “Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.” – Mike Krzyzewski

775. “The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.” ~ Knute Rockne

776. Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. —John C. Maxwell

777. A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

778. “Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.” ~ General George Patton

779. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people.” – Mahatma Gandhi

780. The last is to say ’Thank You.’ In between, the leader is a servant.

781. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” ~ Ralph Nader

782. “It is better to have one person working with you, than three working for you.” ―Unknown

783. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” – Stephen R. Covey

784. Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. - Colin Powell

785. “Great leaders develop other great leaders rather than complete great projects.”

786. Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. - Jesse Jackson

787. “Management is nothing more than motivating other people.” – Lee Iacocca

788. “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”~ John Buchan

789. “Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.” – Tennessee Williams

790. “Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.” ~ Charles Swindoll

791. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” ~ John Maxwell

792. “Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.” – Omar N. Bradley

793. A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.

794. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” - John F. Kennedy

795. “There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” – Michael Phelps

796. “No guts, no story.” Chris Brady

797. “Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.” - Dave Weinbaum

798. “To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn’t know where he is going.”

799. “Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.” – Russel Honore

800. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold Glasow

801. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. - Max De Pree

802. “Communication is the most important skill any leader can possess.” – Richard Branson

803. “If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.” – Indra Nooyi

804. “Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence.”

805. “To lead the people, walk behind them.” – Lao-Tzu

806. “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” – Warren Buffett

807. ‘Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.’ – Theodore Roosevelt

808. “Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.” – Harold S. Green

809. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill

810. Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

811. “It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

812. “Leadership is influence.” – John C. Maxwell

813. “Leadership is an action, not a position.” Donald McGannon

814. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” Nancy D. Solomon

815. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.” ~ Brian Tracy

816. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” ~ Jamie Paolinetti

817. “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” ~ Ancient Indian Proverb

818. “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” George Patton

819. “Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.” – Martin O’Malley

820. “When I talk to managers, I get the feeling that they are important. When I talk to leaders, I get the feeling that I am important.”

821. “First rule of leadership: everything is your fault.”

822. “First rule of leadership: everything is your fault.” A Bug’s Life

823. “Leadership is influence.”

824. “Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.” – P. T. Barnum

825. “Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.” – Conrad Hilton

826. “Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.” – Matthew 5:37

827. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. - Eleanor Roosevelt

828. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King Jr

829. “A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”

830. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” ~ Stephen Covey

831. “Leadership to me means duty, honour, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.” – George W. Bush

832. “The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.” – Lolly Daskal

833. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut

834. “Leadership is service to others.” – Denise Morrison

835. “Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” – Aristotle

836. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan

837. “I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.” Robert E. Lee

838. “Management is the art of making problems so interesting that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. – Paul Hawken

839. “Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, ‘I could have done three things better yesterday.'” – Jeffrey R. Immelt

840. “Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.”

841. “Great leaders do not desire to lead but to serve.” ~ Myles Munroe

842. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

843. The problem with being a leader is that you’re never sure if you're being followed or chased. – Claire A. Murray

844. “When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.” Winston Churchill

845. “The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.” ~ Winston Churchill

846. “Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” – Henry J. Kaiser

847. “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

848. “A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.” ~ Joel Barker

849. “I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.” John Hume

850. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

851. “Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.” – Numbers 12:3

852. “Courageous leaders learn to live a consistent life of constant devotion to God in all circumstances.”

853. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” ― Henry Kissinger

854. A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example. – Joe DiMaggio

855. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people."

856. “A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.” ― Leroy Eimes

857. “I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.” – Michael Phelps

858. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”

859. “A goal properly set is halfway reached.” – Zig Ziglar

860. “The task of the leader is to get people from where they are to where they have not been. ”

861. “There’s plenty of room at the top, but there’s no room to sit down” ―Helen Downey

862. “A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.” – J. P. Morgan

863. “How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.” – David Joseph Schwartz

864. “Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions.” – Tony Robbins

865. “The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.”

866. “The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” – Harvey S. Firestone

867. “To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”

868. “Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.” – Tom Peters

869. “A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemy.” – William Wrigley, Jr.

870. “If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.” Tom Rath

871. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

872. “Get the best people and train them well.” – Scott McNealy

873. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” — Estée Lauder

874. More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.

875. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” – John C. Maxwell

876. “Leadership is being the first egg in the omelet.”

877. “Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.” – Edgar Allan Poe

878. “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

879. “Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.”

880. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

881. You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. - Sam Rayburn

882. “When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”

883. Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. - Chinese Proverb

884. I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

885. “Before you are a leader, success is about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” Jack Welch

886. “One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.” – Stefan Zweig

887. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. - Maya Angelou

888. “Integrity, insight, and inclusiveness are the three essential qualities of leadership.” ~ Sadhguru

889. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” ~ Dalai Lama

890. Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. - Jesse Jackson

891. “Do what is right, not what is easy.” Anonymous

892. Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.

893. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”

894. “To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.” – Edward R. Murrow

895. “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” – Steve Jobs

896. “Leadership Is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people” ~ Brian Tracy

897. “Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.” – LL Cool J

898. “A fool vents all his feelings, But a wise man holds them back.” – Proverbs 29:11

899. “The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” – Faye Wattleton

900. “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.” —Steve Jobs

901. “Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.” – Nelson Mandela

902. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” – Seth Godin

903. “Find the right people, not the best people.”

904. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

905. “Do or do not. There is no try.” —Yoda

906. “A leader leads by example not by Force.” – Sun Tzu

907. “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”

908. “You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.” – Phil Crosby

909. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.”

910. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.” - Brian Tracy

911. “The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.”

912. “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.” ~ Steve Jobs

913. “Leadership is action, not position.” Donald H. McGannon

914. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” ~ Sheryl Sanberg

915. “Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.” – Max Depree

916. ‘Persistence prevails when all else fails.’ – Unknown

917. “Leadership can change its mind; leadership can open its eye. Leadership can even be replaced.” – Ehud Barak

918. “I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

919. “Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.” - Cicely Tyson

920. “Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.”

921. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. - John C. Maxwell

922. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold H. Glasow

923. “Don’t follow the crowd. Let the crowd follow you.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

924. “What helps people, helps business.” – Leo Burnett

925. “Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.” – Yousef Munayyer

926. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.” – Andrew Carnegie

927. “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” – John Maxwell

928. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” —John Maxwell

929. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.” ~ Andrew Carnegie

930. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

931. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry A. Kissinger

932. “Great leaders inspire greatness in others.” Anonymous

933. “Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.”

934. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” – Stephen Covey

935. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

936. “The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” — Faye Wattleton

937. Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

938. “A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.” ―John C. Maxwell

939. “Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.” ~ Brian Tracy

940. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

941. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” – Theodore M. Hesburgh

942. The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

943. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.” Brian Tracy

944. “Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” – Samuel Butler

945. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” - Tony Blair

946. “If a king judges the poor with truth, His throne will be established forever.” – Proverbs 29:14

947. Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

948. “Self-awareness and self-love matter. Who we are is how we lead.” - Brene Brown

949. “A good leader must hate the wrong thing more than they hate the pain of doing the right thing.” ― Angela Jiang

950. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” ~ Napoleon