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900 Best Leader Inspirational Quotes (2023)

1. Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another


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


3. “Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences.” Brian Tracy


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


5. 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


6. “I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist. ” —Ginni Rometty, Executive Chairman of IBM


7. “Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like


8. There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage


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


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


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


12.  In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock


13. “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”


14. “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.”


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


16. “Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people.


17.  The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity


18.  “Anyone, anywhere can make a positive difference. ” - Mark Sanborn


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


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


21. “Lead, follow, or get out of the way. ”


22. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.”


23. “The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.”


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


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


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


27. “I have broken many glass ceilings - so I know it can be done. ”


28. “A leader doesn't demand respect; a leader earns it. ”


29. “Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led.” — Ross Perot. 50. “The ...


30. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ” —Steve Jobs, chairman of Apple


31. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality


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


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


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


35.  Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. —Warren Bennis


36.  A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs


37. It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. —Latin Proverb


38. “If you cannot allow people to do their jobs … nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.”


39. “Rise, lead, and inspire. ”


40. I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. —Dee Dee Myers


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


42. “The three ‘C’s’ of leadership are consideration, caring, and courtesy. Be polite to everyone.” Brian Tracy


43. A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. —John Maxwell


44. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”


45. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple


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


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


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


49. A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men. —Stephen King


50. “The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.”


51. 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


52. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” —Henry Ford


53. “Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. ” —E. Joseph Cossman, inventor and businessman


54. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective


55. “Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led.” Ross Perot


56. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”


57. Eleanor Roosevelt; The mediocre teacher tells


58. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”


59. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” - Theodore Roosevelt


60. “Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about


61. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?”


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


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


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


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


66. “Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world.”


67. “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.”


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


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


70. “What you do has a far greater impact than what you say.” - Stephen Covey


71. The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. –Dwight Eisenhower


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


73. Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results


74. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.”


75. Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths


76. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ” —Muriel Strode, poet 


77. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin


78.  "Leadership is an action, not a position. ” - Donald McGannon


79. “Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. ”


80. “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. ” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German poet, playwright, and novelist


81. “Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” - Rosa Parks


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


83. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. —John Maxwell


84. You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership. –Dwight Eisenhower


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


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


87. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right


88. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”


89. “When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.” Winston Churchill


90.  Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts. —Erskine Bowles


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


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


93. The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on. —Walter Lippman


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


95. The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist


96.  “Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. ” - Tom Peters


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


98.  Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better. —Bill Bradley


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


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


101. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.”


102. “The best leaders bring out the best in others. ”


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


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


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


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


107. 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


108. Leaders live by choice, not by accident


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


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


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


112. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”


113. “Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.”


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


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


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


117. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. —Kenneth Blanchard


118. I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? —Benjamin Disraeli


119. “The price of greatness is responsibility.”


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


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


122. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. — General George Patton


123. “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


124.  "Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about others. - Jack Welch


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


126. “As a leader, it’s a major responsibility on your shoulders to practice the behavior you want others to follow.”


127. Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand


128. “Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character.


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


130. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other


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


132. “Leading by example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means. ” – Albert Einstein


133. “Leaders are innovative, entrepreneurial, and future-oriented. They focus on getting the job done.” Brian Tracy


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


135. 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


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


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


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


139. “The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. ” —Warren Bennis, American scholar, organizational consultant, and author


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


141. “If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.” Jim Rohn


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


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


144.  A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week


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


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


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


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


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


150. “You manage things; you lead people.”


151. “Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.” - Walt Disney


152. “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” – Gen. George S. Patton


153. “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


154. “Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge


155. “You don’t have to hold a position to be a leader.” - Henry Ford


156. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ” —Warren Buffett, investor


157. “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


158. “The greatest leaders build organizations that in the end, don’t need them.”


159. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ” —Margaret Fuller, American journalist and editor


160. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ” —Thomas A. Edison, American inventor


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


162. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. ” —Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister


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


164. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”


165. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”


166. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”


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


168.  “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus. ” - Martin Luther King


169. “Leaders walk a fine line between self-confidence and humility. ” —Stanley McChrystal, retired United States Army General


170. “Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.”


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


172. 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


173. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”


174. “People respond well to those that are sure of what they want. ” —Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue


175. Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership. · 2. Be a yardstick of quality. · 3. Whether you think 


176. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut


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


178. The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. —Eric Hoffer


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


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


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


182. 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


183.  “Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. ” - Stephen Covey


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


185. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. ”


186. “Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality.” Warren G. Bennis


187. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you


188. · 1. “A leader is best when people barely 


189. “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


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


191. “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men


192.  Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck


193. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked;


194. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you


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


196. “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 


197. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done."


198. “Who you are surrounded by often determines who you become. ” 


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


200. What you do has far greater impact than what you say. —Stephen Covey


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


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


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


204. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, poet and philosopher


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


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


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


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


209. “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.”


210.  “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others. ” - Robert Louis Stevenson


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


212. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”


213. “Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.”


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


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


216. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. ” —Stephen R. Covey, American educator


217. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” ~ Winston Churchill


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


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


220.  Never give an order that can't be obeyed. —General Douglas MacArthur


221. “It’s not about you. It’s about them.”


222. “The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.”


223. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others


224. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft


225. “Be the change you want to see. ” – Mahatma Gandhi


226. “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


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


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


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


230. “If you want to become a stronger leader, you must be willing to step up, show up, and put in the time!” 


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


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


233. “If you really want to grow as an entrepreneur, you’ve got to learn to delegate.” Richard Branson


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


235. “No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.” Andrew Carnegie


236.  “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ” - William Arthur Ward


237. “A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men. ” —Stephen King, author


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


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


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


241. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” Ralph Waldo Emerson


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


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


244. “It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.”


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


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


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


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


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


250. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way


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


252. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” — Stephen Covey, author, businessman and speaker


253. “I’m a maniacal perfectionist. And if I weren’t, I wouldn’t have this company. ”


254. “I’m all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself.


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


256. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that count."


257. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” — William Arthur Ward


258.  Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing


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


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


261. ”Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. ” Harry S. Truman


262. “Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.” Jessica Jackley


263. Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. —Publilius Syrus


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


265. “Whatever you are, be a good one.”


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


267. “Leadership Is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people” ~ Brian Tracy


268. “A good leader must hate the wrong thing more than they hate the pain of doing the right thing. ” —Angela Jiang, product manager


269. “No man is good enough to govern another man


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


271.  Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out


272. “Do or do not, there is no try. ” – Yoda (from Star Wars)


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


274. “Leadership can’t be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed,


275. “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” Carl Jung


276. Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it


277. “Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.” General Colin Powell


278.  Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected


279. “The growth and development of people is the


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


281. When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. —Napoleon Bonaparte


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


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


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


285. “If you’re not making some notable mistakes along the way, you’re certainly not taking enough business and career chances


286. “A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”


287. “He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious."


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


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


290. To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. —Friedrich Nietzsche


291. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together


292. “What we do today will echo in eternity. ”


293.  “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


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


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


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


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


298. “A leader is someone who holds herself or himself accountable for finding the potential in people and processes.” ~ Brene Brown


299. “Power isn’t control at all – power is strength, and giving that strength


300. A leader is a dealer in hope. —Napoleon Bonaparte


301. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. ” —John Maxwell, author, speaker, and pastor


302. “Education is the mother of leadership. ” —Wendell Willkie, lawyer


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


304. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. —Aristotle


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


306. “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.”


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


308. “Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness


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


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


311. “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.”


312. “Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.”


313. “A leader never stands still. ”


314. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. ” —Dianne Feinstein, Senior United States Senator


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


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


317. “As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. ” —Toni Morrison, author


318. “A leader is a dealer in hope. ” —Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader and emperor


319.  The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them


320. “True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but


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


322.  Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. —Brian Tracy


323. “Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain, author


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


325. “Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.” Brian Tracy


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


327. Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. —Donald Rumsfeld


328. “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”


329. “One person with commitment accomplishes more than


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


331. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. —Maya Angelou


332. “Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.”


333. “We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw 


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


335. The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. —Ken Blanchard


336. ” –John Quincy Adams. Related: Everything 


337. “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


338.  "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


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


340. “Leadership is not a position, it’s an action. ”


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


342. “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success;


343.  There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage


344. . . “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there 


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


346. “As a leader, you should always start with where people are before you try to take them where you want them to go.” Jim Rohn


347. “If you don’t believe in yourself, why is anyone else going to believe in you.” - Tom Brady


348. “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. ”


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


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


351. “Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader.”


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


353. “I think that my leadership style is to get people to


354. “Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.” ~ Richard Branson


355.  A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new


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


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


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


359. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again,


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


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


362. Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. —Stephen Covey


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


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


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


366. 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


367. “Integrity, insight, and inclusiveness are the three essential qualities of leadership.” ~ Sadhguru


368. “You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results."


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


370. “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


371. Where there is no vision, the people perish. —Proverbs 29:18


372. “Leaders set high standards. refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.” Brian Tracy


373.  “If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it. ” - Jack Weatherford


374. A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men


375. “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


376. 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


377. “You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.”


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


379.  Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. —Jesse Jackson


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


381. “Leaders don’t force people to follow – they invite them on a journey. ” —Charles S. Lauer, author and businessman


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


383. “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.”


384. “I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues. ” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt


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


386. “Don’t follow the crowd. Let the crowd follow you.” ~ Margaret Thatcher


387. “Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down.”


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


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


390. “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”


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


392. “Leaders must be dreamers with their eyes wide open. – Harry S Truman


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


394. “People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.”


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


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


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


398. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. ” —Peter F. Drucker, author and educator


399. The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision


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


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


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


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


404. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."


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


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


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


408. People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. —John Maxwell


409. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”


410. “An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”


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


412. “Leading people is like cooking. Don’t stir too much. It annoys the


413. “Success is an exception, so be exceptional. ”


414. “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.”


415. “Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse."


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


417. “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem


418. “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


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


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


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


422. “The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.” Brian Tracy


423. Do or do not. There is no try


424. “The only safe ship in a storm is leadership. ” —Faye Wattleton, American reproductive rights activist


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


426. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” - Amelia Earhart


427. “A leader is a dealer in hope. ” —Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader


428. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” ~ Stephen Covey


429. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” Ralph Waldo Emerson


430. “Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.”


431. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience


432. “Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?” Brain Tracy


433. “Remember, feedback is meant to address the problem, not the person.”


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


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


436. “The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you?” —Mark Sanborn, author, professional speaker, and entrepreneur


437. “Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else


438. A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. —Ovid


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


440. “It takes courage to lead change". – John F Kennedy


441. “What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” —Bob Dylan


442. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."


443. “When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.”


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


445. “When people talk, listen completely.”


446. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. ” —Martin Luther King Jr. , civil rights activist


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


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


449. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” William Falkner


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


451. “You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. ” – William J. Clinton


452.  If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced


453. You don’t need a title to be a leader. –Multiple Attributions


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


455. “I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist


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


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


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


459. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”


460. So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. —Peter Drucker


461. The supreme quality of leadership is integrity


462. “Leaders don't inflict pain, they share pain.”


463. “All leaders are readers. ” —Jim Rohn, American entrepreneur


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


465. “Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes. ” —Margaret Wheatley, writer, teacher, and speaker


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


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


468. “To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership,


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


470. “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


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


472. “The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have. ” —Padmasree Warrior, CEO & founder of Fable


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


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


475.  "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams


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


477. “Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. John F. Kennedy


478. “Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


479.  Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. —Tom Peters


480.  “Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. ” - Peter F. Drucker


481.  No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. —Abraham Lincoln


482. “Lead from the front, follow from behind. ”


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


484. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”


485. “Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.” ~ Brian Tracy


486. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte, military leader


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


488.  “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


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


490. “He who has great power should use it lightly.”


491. “Do or do not. There is no try.” —Yoda


492. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”


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


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


495. “People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.”


496. · A leader should be visionary and have more foresight than an employee. · Great leaders do not desire to lead but to 


497. They reflect a lifetime of successes and failures that have 


498. “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


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


500. “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


501. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. ” ~ Joshua J. Marine


502. “In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes.” – John Erskine, author


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


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


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


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


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


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


509. The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. —Tony Blair


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


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


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


513. “Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.”


514.  Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs


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


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


517.  The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership


518.  Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right


519. “The key to success is action.” Brian Tracy


520. “I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.” Robert E. Lee


521. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say ’Thank You. ’ In between, the leader is a servant


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


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


524.  Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value


525. Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led. —Ross Perot


526.  A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men


527. “Successful leadership requires you to have a positive attitude and to stay focused on the goal. ” – Brian Tracy


528. “Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.” James Freeman Clark


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


530. “The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.” – Albert Einstein, physicist


531.  The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves


532. “Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live. ”


533. He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. —Solon


534. “The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.”


535. “You manage things; you lead people.” ~ Grace Murray Hopper


536. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes


537.  Don’t find fault, find a remedy


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


539. “Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. ” —Mary D. Poole, author


540. — Aristotle · No man will make a great leader who 


541. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ” —Helen Keller, author, activist, and lecturer


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


543. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” - John Maxwell


544. Whatever you are, be a good one. —Abraham Lincoln


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


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


547.  “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. ” - Jack Welch


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


549. “I never saw myself as an individual who had


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


551. “Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved,


552. “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


553. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. —Margaret Mead


554. “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


555. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of


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


557. “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


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


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


560. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” ~ Sheryl Sanberg


561. “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. ” ~ Ancient Indian Proverb


562. “There is a difference between listening and


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


564. “Knowing what must be done does away with fear.”


565. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. ”


566. “Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.” – U.S. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf


567. “The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in


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


569. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”


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


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


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


573. “I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.”


574. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others." - Jack Welch


575. “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


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


577. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. ” —Malala Yousafzai, activist


578. “I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: try to please everybody. ” ~ Herbert Bayard Swope


579. “Teamwork makes the dream work. ”


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


581. “Leadership distilled down to 3 words: Make a difference. ” —Robin Sharma, Canadian writer


582. “Leadership is not just about giving energy… it’s unleashing other people’s energy. ” —Paul Polman, Dutch businessman


583. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions.


584. “Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.” Brian Tracy


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


586. The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. —Sir Winston Churchill


587.  "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward


588. “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. ”


589. “I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?”


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


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


592.  Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand


593. No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. - Andrew Carnegie


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


595. “True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that


596. “He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.” - Niccolò Machiavelli


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


598. “I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered


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


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


601. “You can be a leader in your workplace, your neighborhood, or your family, all without having a title. ” —Travis Bradberry, author


602. A leader is a dealer in hope


603. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. —Harvey Firestone


604.  "The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow. - Seth Godin


605. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” Brian Tracy


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


607. “No guts, no story.” Chris Brady


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


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


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


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


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


613. “As we look ahead into the next century,


614.  Earn your leadership every day


615. “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.”


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


617.  Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. —General Dwight Eisenhower


618. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”


619. “Do not be afraid to make decisions. Do not be afraid to make mistakes. ”


620. “If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.” Harvey Mackay


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


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


623. “He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.”


624. Earn your leadership every day. –Michael Jordan


625. “The function of leadership is to produce


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


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


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


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


630. 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


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


632. “You don’t need a title to be a leader. ” —Unknown


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


634. “Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.” Tom Peters


635. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” Bill George


636.  I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do


637.  “You don't need a title to be a leader. ” - Mark Sanborn


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


639. More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together


640.  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


641. “The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. ” - Kenneth H. Blanchard


642. “If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.” Tom Rath


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


644. · “Leadership is a combination 


645. “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


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


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


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


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


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


651. Leadership is an action, not a position


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


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


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


655. There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage. —Fuchan Yuan


656. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. ”


657. My responsibility is getting all my players playing for the name on the front of the jersey, not the one on the back. –Unknown


658.  Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. —Woodrow Wilson


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


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


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


662. “You manage things; you lead people.” – Grace Murray Hopper, U.S. Navy rear admiral


663. “You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go.


664. “The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders


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


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


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


668. “Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.”


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


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


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


672. “Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.” – Oscar Wilde, writer and poet


673. “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


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


675. “None of us is as smart as all of us. ”


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


677. Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway. —Eleanor Roosevelt


678.  Leadership is influence. —John C. Maxwell


679.  Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant


680.  Control your own destiny or someone else will


681. The only safe ship in a storm is leadership


682. “Think little goals and expect little achievements. Thing big goals and win big success.” —David Joseph Schwartz


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


684. “The effective leader recognizes that they are more dependent on their people than they are on them. Walk softly.” Brian Tracy


685.  "Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do, and let them surprise you with their results. - George Patton


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


687. “In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”


688. 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. · 2. Where 


689. “A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he


690. “Hire character. Train skill. ” —Peter Schutz, former president and CEO of Porsche


691. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must


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


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


694. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.“


695. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground”.


696. “Knowing your value, speaking up, and not flying under the radar—this is what fearless leadership is about.” 


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


698. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. —General George Patton


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


700. 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


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


702. “Stay connected to feel empathy, compassion, and understanding for yourself and others.” Vanessa Tucker


703. “The best leaders have a high consideration factor. They really care about their people” Brian Tracy


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


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


706. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”


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


708. 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


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


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


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


712. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”


713. “Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.” Brian Tracy


714. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd


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


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


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


718. “Earn your leadership every day.”


719. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus


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


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


722. “Earn your leadership every day.” – Michael Jordan, former NBA basketball player


723. “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness,


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


725.  “The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. ” - Kenneth H. Blanchard


726.  "Anyone, anywhere can make a positive difference. - Mark Sanborn


727. “You are never too small to make a difference. ” —Greta Thunberg, environmental activist


728.  Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it


729. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward


730. “Emotional intelligence is the ability to use emotion to increase your own and others’ success. ”


731.  Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. —Norman Schwarzkopf


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


733. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” —Ayn Rand


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


735. “Practice Golden Rule Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.” Brian Tracy


736. 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


737. “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


738. “A year from now you will wish you had started today. ” —Karen Lamb, author


739. “The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.”


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


741. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut


742. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward.


743. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. Oprah Winfrey


744.  To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult


745. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally


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


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


748. “You manage things; you lead people. “


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


750. “Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.” Reed Markham


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


752. In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. —Thomas Jefferson


753. “Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in


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


755. “Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.”


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


757. “The outward expression of empathy is courtesy.” Stewart Butterfield


758. “A competent leader can get efficient service from poor


759.  Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others


760. “People respond well to those that are sure of what they want. ”


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


762. “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


763. “I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than


764. “Great leaders do not desire to lead but to serve.” ~ Myles Munroe


765. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. ” —Bill Bradley, American politician and former professional basketball player


766. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. ” —Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady


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


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


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


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


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


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


773. You manage things; you lead people. —Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper


774. “Sometimes leadership is planting trees under


775. “The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have. ”


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


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


778. “A leader is a dealer in hope.”


779. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. —Max Lucado


780. “Some people want it to happen; some wish it would happen; others make it happen.” - Michael Jordan


781. “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. ”


782.  "Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. - Peter F. Drucker


783. “Trust, respect, inspire. ”


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


785.  Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership


786. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be criticized anyway. ”


787. “Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership


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


789. “Leadership isn't about a title or a designation, it's about impact, influence, and inspiration. – Robin Sharma


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


791. “Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders. ” – Tom Peters


792. “Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are


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


794. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. ” —Max Lucado, author and pastor


795.  Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things


796. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself,


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


798. “Success starts with you. ”


799. “Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.”


800. “Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.”


801.  To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart


802. “Good leaders think about the next generation and create legacies that last. ” - Simon Sinek


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


804.  “You are never too small to make a difference. ”


805. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?” —Ayn Rand, author


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


807. 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


808. “The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you.” Brian Tracy


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


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


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


812. “A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.”


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


814. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ” ~ William Arthur Ward


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


816. “Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.”


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


818. “The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.” - Hesiod


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


820. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” 


821. “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.”


822.  Education is the mother of leadership. —Wendell Willkie


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


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


825. “Leadership is an action, not a position. ” —Donald McGannon, broadcasting executive