950 Best Leadership Quotes To Inspire Your Success (2023)
1. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
2. “Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people.
3. “The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.” – Albert Einstein, physicist
4. “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
5. “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness,
6. Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.
7. Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
8. “If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.”
9. “The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.” –Ken Blanchard
10. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." - Warren Bennis
11. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” - Napoleon Bonaparte
12. “Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.” - Dave Weinbaum
13. “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
14. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” Ronald Reagan
15. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. - Kenneth Blanchard
16. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”
17. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” —Muriel Strode, poet
18. “Are leaders born or made? This is a false dichotomy – leaders are neither born nor made. Leaders choose to be leaders.” – Stephen R. Covey
19. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” -Mohandas K. Gandhi
20. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” George Patton
21. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” - John F. Kennedy
22. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must
23. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”- Thomas Edison
24. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” ― Henry Kissinger
25. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say." - Stephen Covey
26. “The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.”
27. A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.” - Hans Finzel
28. “The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower
29. “Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.”
30. 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.
31. “A manager says “go”, a leader says “let’s go”.” — John Maxwell
32. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” –Margaret Fuller
33. “Make people feel like the hero of their journey and they will do more.”- Maxime Lagacé
34. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.” –Peter F. Drucker
35. “Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.” – Winston Churchill
36. “People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.” —Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue
37. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”
38. “The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the
39. “Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality.” Warren G. Bennis
40. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be.” - Rosalynn Carter
41. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”- Henry David Thoreau
42. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” —William Arthur Ward, writer
43. “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” – John Maxwell
44. “Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people.
45. “I study how to make work not suck.”
46. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” -Warren Buffett
47. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein, physicist
48. The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang. - Mary Kay Ash
49. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” - Margaret Fuller
50. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” –Abraham Lincoln
51. “It’s never too late to become original.”
52. Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
53. “The function of leadership is to produce
54. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” –Bill Bradley
55. “The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.” Oprah Winfrey
56. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
57. “Leaders don’t force people to follow – they invite them on a journey.” - Charles S. Lauer
58. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
59. Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. - Tom Landry
60. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
61. “A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.” —Stephen King, author
62. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” – Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister
63. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right
64. “Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.” - John Naisbitt
65. “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
66. A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
67. “Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.” - Margaret Wheatley
68. “It’s not about you. It’s about them.”
69. “A boss has the title, a leader has the people.” - Simon Sinek
70. “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.” ― Dolly Parton
71. “A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.” –Jim Rohn
72. “Elicit” vs. “Illicit”: What’s the Difference?
73. “Without being willing to fail and continually get back up again, I would never have been able to find the right market and establish my product within it."
74. “It’s not about money or connections — it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.” -Mark Cuban
75. You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. - Sam Rayburn
76. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
77. “The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee.” - Robert K. Greenleaf, Founder of the Modern Servant Leadership Movement
78. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” - Seth Godin
79. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” - Mother Teresa
80. “The price of greatness is responsibility.”- Winston Churchill
81. “Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.”
82. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
83. Management works in the system; leadership works on the system. - Stephen Covey
84. “To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.”
85. “Leadership distilled down to 3 words: Make a difference.” – Robin Sharma
86. “Leadership never ascends from the pew to the pulpit, but invariably descends from the pulpit to the pew.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
87. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.” –Peter F. Drucker
88. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” –Arnold Glasow
89. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way” — John C Maxwell
90. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others”- Bill Gates
91. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”- Eleanor Roosevelt
92. Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
93. “If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.”
94. “The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.” — Barbara Sher
95. “Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.” – Tom Peters
96. “Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.” –Lyndon B Johnson
97. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” –Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State
98. Leadership is intentional influence. - Michael McKinney
99. “You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.”
100. “The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.”
101. “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”
102. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.” –Dianne Feinstein
103. “You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
104. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.”- Walt Disney
105. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence, and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.”
106. “The effective leader recognizes that they are more dependent on their people than they are on them. Walk softly.” Brian Tracy
107. A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
108. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” - Seth Godin
109. “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” - Amelia Earhart
110. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.” –Brian Tracy
111. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” –Arnold Glasow
112. “I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?”
113. “The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity… out of discord, harmony… and out of difficulty, opportunity.” -Albert Einstein
114. “Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” -Rumi
115. “If you don’t believe in yourself, why is anyone else going to believe in you.” – Tom Brady, New England Patriots quarterback
116. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” –John Maxwell
117. “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
118. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” –Margaret Mead
119. One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
120. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” Brian Tracy
121. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” - Napoleon Bonaparte
122. “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”- J.K. Rowling
123. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
124. “Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determinations.” - John Seaman Garns
125. “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
126. “Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.” - Peter F. Drucker
127. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
128. “A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” - John C. Maxwell
129. “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” - Mahatma Gandhi
130. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and
131. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” Bill Gates
132. “A good leader must hate the wrong thing more than they hate the pain of doing the right thing.” —Angela Jiang, product manager
133. “Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.”– Nelson Mandela
134. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” — Stephen Covey, author, businessman and speaker
135. “Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”
136. “If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.”
137. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” —Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Independence Movement leader
138. “Leadership is not just about giving energy… it’s unleashing other people’s energy.” —Paul Polman, Dutch businessman
139. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked;
140. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” ― Peter Drucker
141. “Money is just a consequence. I always say to my team, ‘Don’t worry too much about profitability. If you do your job well, the profitability will come.’”
142. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”- Dr. Seuss
143. “A strong secure leader accepts blame and gives credit. A weak insecure leader gives blame and takes credit.” - John Wooden, Basketball Coach
144. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
145. “People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.” –Michelle Obama
146. “The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.” —Padmasree Warrior, CEO & founder of Fable
147. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams
148. A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
149. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”- Coco Chanel
150. “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” ― Harry S. Truman
151. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
152. “In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.” - Sheryl Sandberg
153. “See the good in people and help them.” — Mahatma Gandhi
154. “It’s okay to admit what you don’t know. It’s okay to ask for help. And it’s more than okay to listen to the people you lead – in fact, it’s essential.”
155. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.” —Dianne Feinstein, Senior United States Senator
156. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”
157. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective
158. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.
159. “Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.” -Barbara Corcoran
160. Leadership is an action, not a position.
161. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” -Steve Jobs
162. You get the best efforts from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within. - Bob Nelson
163. A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.
164. “There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.” —Charles F. Kettering
165. “A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.” – Sam Houston
166. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” – Rosalynn Carter
167. “Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.” - Robin Sharma
168. “Education is the mother of leadership” - Wendell Willkie
169. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft
170. “Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.”- Buddha
171. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte, military leader
172. “There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.”
173. “A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he
174. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” - Publilius Syrus
175. “Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.” ― L. David Marquet
176. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” —William Arthur Ward
177. The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.
178. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”–Abraham Lincoln
179. “Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.” – Nelson Mandela
180. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
181. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” ― Margaret Thatcher
182. “My jobs is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.” -Steve Jobs
183. “If you do every job like you’re going to do it for the rest of your life, that’s when you get noticed.” - Mary Barra
184. “Leaders are innovative, entrepreneurial, and future-oriented. They focus on getting the job done.” Brian Tracy
185. “A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.” –M.D. Arnold
186. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln
187. “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
188. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."
189. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan, Hall of Fame basketball superstar
190. “Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.” –Max Depree
191. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” – Warren Buffett, investor
192. “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”
193. “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.”
194. “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain, writer
195. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”- Henry Ford
196. “The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”
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198. “Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.”
199. “Abundance is not about providing everyone on this planet with a life of luxury—rather it’s about providing all with a life of possibility.”- Peter Diamandis
200. There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage.
201. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” –Bill Gates
202. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. - Woodrow Wilson
203. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”
204. To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
205. “Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.” Reed Markham
206. “Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership” — Dee Hock
207. “Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.” - Oprah Winfrey
208. “I’m all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself.
209. “You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.”
210. A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them. - M.D. Arnold
211. “You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.” – Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company
212. “Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain, author
213. “A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be.” - Jack Welch
214. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” - Steve Jobs
215. “A year from now you will wish you had started today.” —Karen Lamb, author
216. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, poet and philosopher
217. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
218. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” –Rosalynn Carter
219. “One person with commitment accomplishes more than
220. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground”. – Theodore Roosevelt, former U.S. President
221. “Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.” - Max De Pree
222. “Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
223. “Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.”
224. “Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.” -Abraham Joshua Herschel
225. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. - Tom Peters
226. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.” John C. Maxwell
227. “All leaders are readers.” – Jim Rohn
228. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill
229. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. - Peter F. Drucker
230. The last is to say ’Thank You.’ In between, the leader is a servant.
231. “It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.” - Adlai Stevenson
232. “Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.” –James Humes
233. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” Jack Welch
234. “The growth and development of people is the
235. “You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.”
236. “You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.” - Jeanette Rankin
237. “The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision."
238. “The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.” Brian Tracy
239. “If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.”– Jim Rohn
240. “Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.” - Stephen Covey
241. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” —Malala Yousafzai, activist
242. Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. - Simon Sinek
243. A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.
244. “Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.” –Diogenes of Sinope
245. “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” – Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State
246. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.”
247. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” Mary Tyler Moore
248. “Earn your leadership every day.” – Michael Jordan, former NBA basketball player
249. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” —Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady
250. “Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.” - George Patton
251. “Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” Pete Hoekstra
252. “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, author
253. “He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.” – Niccolò Machiavelli, philosopher and writer
254. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” Bill Bradley
255. A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
256. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that count."
257. “Don’t ever diminish the power of words. Words move hearts and hearts move limbs.” -Hamza Yusuf
258. “Every great leader can take you back to a defining moment when they decided to lead.” ― John Paul Warren
259. “Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.” ― Roy T. Bennett
260. “The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.” - Seth Godin
261. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. - Max De Pree
262. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” - Steve Jobs
263. “Earn your leadership every day.” – Michael Jordan
264. “A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.” -M.D. Arnold
265. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. - Maya Angelou
266. “Who you are surrounded by often determines who you become.”
267. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower
268. 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.
269. “True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that
270. "There’s a wealth of evidence that people want to do meaningful work."
271. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”
272. “You can be a leader in your workplace, your neighborhood, or your family, all without having a title.” - Travis Bradberry
273. “Bad leaders believe their team works for them. Great leaders believe they work for their team.” - Alexander den Heijer, Motivational Speaker
274. “Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” Bill Bradley
275. “Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.” – Robin Sharma
276. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” - Ralph Nader
277. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
278. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
279. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” –Seth Godin
280. “Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualise someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do.”
281. “Strategic leaders must not get consumed by the operational and tactical side of their work.” — Stephanie S. Mead
282. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” – Tony Blair
283. “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
284. Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. - Colin Powell
285. “Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved,
286. “Sometimes leadership is planting trees under
287. “I think of productivity as using your time to accomplish things of value to you and others.”
288. “Leadership is an action, not a position.” –Donald McGannon
289. “Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” —E. Joseph Cossman, inventor and businessman
290. “I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through.” –Edward Rickenbacker
291. “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.” - Maya Angelou
292. “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”
293. More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.
294. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.
295. “A leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding the potential in people and processes.” –Brené Brown
296. “Talented people are attracted to those who care about them.”
297. “A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.” –Leroy Eimes
298. “Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.”
299. “The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.” —Warren Bennis, American scholar, organizational consultant, and author
300. When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter. - Winston Churchill
301. “Complex problems like pandemics, climate change, and political polarisation call on us to stay mentally flexible."
302. Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.
303. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” – Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activist
304. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” - Steve Jobs
305. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.” —Andrew Carnegie
306. “If you’re not making some notable mistakes along the way, you’re certainly not taking enough business and career chances."
307. “Leaders shouldn’t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can’t compromise.” - Peter F. Drucker
308. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” —Margaret Fuller, American journalist and editor
309. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt, former first lady of the United States
310. “I’m a maniacal perfectionist. And if I weren’t, I wouldn’t have this company.”
311. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” —Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and former U.S. President
312. “In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes.” – John Erskine, author
313. “Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.”
314. Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.
315. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves. - Eleanor Roosevelt
316. “I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist."
317. “Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down.”
318. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
319. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” –Martin Luther King Jr.
320. True leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed. Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
321. “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
322. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” - Bill Bradley
323. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret Mead
324. “In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.”– Sheryl Sandberg
325. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10000 ways that won’t work.” - Thomas A. Edison
326. Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
327. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – President Abraham Lincoln, former U.S. President
328. “Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
329. “If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.” - Michelangelo
330. “Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences.” Brian Tracy
331. “In order to remain relevant, you must establish yourself as a thought leader in your industry.”- Marc Benioff
332. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.”
333. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” —Kurt Vonnegut
334. Leading people is the most challenging and, therefore, the most gratifying undertaking of all human endeavours.
335. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” John C. Maxwell
336. “Leadership distilled down to 3 words: Make a difference.” —Robin Sharma, Canadian writer
337. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” — Margaret Fuller
338. “Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.” Brian Tracy
339. “Blowing out someone else’s candle won’t make yours shine brighter.” – Anonymous
340. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” Ralph Nader
341. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” —George Patton, general in the United States Army
342. You don’t need a title to be a leader.
343. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. - Eleanor Roosevelt
344. “Leaders walk a fine line between self-confidence and humility.” —Stanley McChrystal, retired United States Army General
345. “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men
346. “Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.” - Erskine Bowles
347. “Don't criticize yourself while you're creating.”
348. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. - John C. Maxwell
349. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader and emperor
350. Trust is the essence of Leadership. - Colin Powell
351. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter F. Drucker, author and educator
352. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
353. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” –John C. Maxwell
354. “You are never too small to make a difference.” —Greta Thunberg, environmental activist
355. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” -Mother Teres
356. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” –Warren G. Bennis
357. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” -Abraham Lincoln
358. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”- Warren Buffett
359. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” - Max Lucado
360. “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.” – Maya Angelou
361. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” –Jack Welch
362. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” —Warren Buffett, investor
363. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”- John C. Maxwell
364. “Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.” - Lyndon B Johnson
365. “Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.”
366. “One kind word can change someone’s entire day.” -Unknown
367. “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”– Woodrow Wilson, former U.S. President
368. “I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than
369. Leaders live by choice, not by accident.
370. Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self -esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.
371. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you
372. The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow. - Seth Godin
373. Leadership is not just about giving energy, it’s unleashing other people’s energy.
374. Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
375. “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.” - Isaac Newton
376. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” —Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader and emperor
377. “Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” - E. Joseph Cossman
378. “The test of organization is not genius. It is its capacity to make common people achieve uncommon performance.” – Peter F. Drucker
379. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” Warren Bennis
380. “A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.” Jim Rohn
381. “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.”- Buddha
382. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
383. Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.
384. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” Albert Schweitzer
385. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” – Stephen Covey, author and educator
386. A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. - George Patton
387. “To lead people, walk behind them.” - Lao Tzu
388. “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”
389. “Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.” -Pearl Strachan Hurd
390. “Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.” – Mike Krzyzewski, Duke basketball coach
391. “To add value to others, one must first value others.” –John Maxwell
392. A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
393. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” -Les Brown
394. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” —Steve Jobs, chairman of Apple
395. “The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you?” —Mark Sanborn, author, professional speaker, and entrepreneur
396. “One voice can change a room.” -Barack Obama
397. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” - Ronald Reagan
398. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.”– Sheryl Sandberg
399. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” -Brian Tracy
400. “If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.” – Indra Nooyi, Pepsi CEO
401. “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” —Chuck Swindoll, Christian pastor and radio preacher
402. “In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.” —Sheryl Sandberg, American business executive, billionaire, and philanthropist
403. “If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.” – Benjamin Hooks, former director of the NAACP
404. “You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow too” — Sam Rayburn
405. “The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” —Tony Blair, British politician
406. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. - Tom Peters
407. “Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.” –Harold Geneen
408. “If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” —Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher
409. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
410. “Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.” - Sheryl Sandberg
411. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions.
412. “Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” - George Patton
413. “You can be a leader in your workplace, your neighborhood, or your family, all without having a title.” —Travis Bradberry, author
414. A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
415. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut
416. “Leadership is hard to define, and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.”
417. “Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.”
418. “Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness
419. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”- Ronald Reagan
420. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” —Maya Angelou, civil rights activist and poet
421. “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
422. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
423. “The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders
424. “Leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory.” - Jocko Willink
425. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” —John Quincy Adams, former U.S. President
426. “You don’t need a title to be a leader.” —Unknown
427. “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” – Mother Teresa, Catholic nun and saint
428. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” —Max Lucado, author and pastor
429. “Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.”
430. “A real leader faces the music even when he doesn't like the tune.” - Arnold H. Glasgow
431. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about others. - Jack Welch
432. “My best successes came on the heels of failures.” — Barbara Corcoran
433. “Leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory.” – Jocko Willink
434. “Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things.”- Peter F. Drucker
435. “If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.” Harvey Mackay
436. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
437. “Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone’s following you.” –Henry Gilmer
438. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?” —Ayn Rand, author
439. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. - Mahatma Gandhi
440. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” Bill George
441. The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
442. Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
443. “The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.” - Kenneth H. Blanchard
444. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it” — Dwight D Eisenhower
445. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” –Publilius Syrus
446. “Leadership is an action, not a position.” - Donald McGannon
447. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren G. Bennis
448. “The art of communication is the language of leadership.” -James Humes
449. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” – President Theodore Roosevelt
450. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian independence movement leader
451. “Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”
452. “As a leader, it’s a major responsibility on your shoulders to practice the behavior you want others to follow.” —Himanshu Bhatia, CEO of Chesterfield
453. “If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.” - Jack Weatherford
454. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. - Booker T. Washington
455. “Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” –Pete Hoekstra
456. 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.
457. “Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are
458. The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you?
459. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
460. “A good leader must hate the wrong thing more than they hate the pain of doing the right thing.” - Angela Jiang
461. “You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.” —Sam Rayburn
462. “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
463. “Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in
464. Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders. - Steve Ballmer
465. “Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.” Orrin Woodward
466. “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.” Maya Angelou
467. “You are never too small to make a difference.”
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469. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself,
470. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” —Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister
471. “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.
472. “If you delegate tasks, you create followers. If you delegate authority, you create leaders”.
473. “Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.” –Warren Bennis
474. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
475. “Business leaders cannot be bystanders.” - Howard Schultz
476. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of
477. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” - Sheryl Sandberg
478. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.” – John C. Maxwell
479. “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”
480. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. - Bill Bradley
481. “Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.” Diogenes of Sinope
482. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
483. “A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
484. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” Stephen Covey
485. “Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.” – U.S. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
486. “If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.” - Brad Szollose
487. Leadership is an action, not a position. - Donald McGannon
488. Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. - Jesse Jackson
489. The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team, to be solution focused and not problem focused. — Unknown
490. “Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.” - Bill Clinton
491. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” - Tony Blair
492. “Be careful what you say. You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten years later, the wounds are still there.” -Joel Osteen
493. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” – Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
494. “A strong leader avoids becoming overconfident to the point of impaired judgment.” -Daniel Lubetzky
495. “Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream.”- Peter McWilliams
496. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. - Harvey Firestone
497. My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.
498. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” –Nancy D. Solomon
499. I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. -Warren Bennis
500. “We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw
501. “The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been.” –Henry Kissinger
502. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” —John Maxwell, author, speaker, and pastor
503. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” - John F. Kennedy
504. “If you cannot allow people to do their jobs … nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.”
505. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” – Peter Drucker
506. “It takes bravery to lead people, but the will to learn from others to succeed in it.” -Ellie Hubbard
507. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.” Brian Tracy
508. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. [Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22, 1963]” ― John F. Kennedy
509. “You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results."
510. “Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.” Brian Tracy
511. “Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.”
512. “Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” –David Star Jordan
513. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” - John Quincy Adams
514. “The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.” — Mary Kay Ash
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516. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” -Rosalynn Carter
517. “No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.”- Pope Francis
518. “Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate, and to humble.” -Yehuda Berg
519. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” - Henry Kissinger
520. “Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can be only forgiven, not forgotten.” -Unknown
521. “Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.” General Colin Powell
522. “Leadership can’t be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed,
523. “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” John Maxwell
524. “Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership
525. “The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.” — Padmasree Warrior
526. “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.”
527. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others” ― Bill Gates
528. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
529. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
530. “A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.” M.D. Arnold
531. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” —Margaret Thatcher
532. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
533. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” —Stephen R. Covey, American educator
534. “What do you want to be when you grow up? As a kid, that was my least favourite question.”
535. “Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge
536. “Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.”
537. “Leaders walk a fine line between self-confidence and humility.” - Stanley McChrystal
538. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” Brian Tracy
539. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again,
540. “The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people.” – Simon Sinek
541. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” - Abraham Lincoln
542. “We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.” —Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat
543. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” –Ray Kroc
544. “Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.”
545. “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” -Zig Ziglar
546. “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” -John Keating
547. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
548. “Hire character. Train skill.” —Peter Schutz, former president and CEO of Porsche
549. “Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.” - Orrin Woodward
550. “People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.” –Anna Wintour
551. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” – Max Lucado, Christian author and preacher
552. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes
553. “The greatest leaders build organizations that in the end, don’t need them.”
554. “Wolves don’t lose sleep over the opinions of sheep.” -Anonymous
555. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” –Winston Churchill
556. “True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but
557. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” - Theodore Roosevelt
558. “A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.” - Nelson Mandela
559. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” —Warren Buffett, investor
560. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
561. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”
562. “He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly."
563. “The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” —Faye Wattleton, American reproductive rights activist
564. “Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.” - Diogenes
565. “Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?” Brain Tracy
566. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch
567. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader — John Quincy Adams
568. “Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.” -Thomas Jefferson
569. “If it’s to be, it’s up to me. Therefore, if it’s up to me, it’s to be” -Anonymous
570. “People who succeed at the highest level are not lucky; they’re doing something differently than everyone else.” -Tony Robbins
571. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
572. “Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.” —Margaret Wheatley, writer, teacher, and speaker
573. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."
574. The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
575. “You manage things; you lead people.”
576. 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.
577. He who has great power should use it lightly. - Seneca