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900 Best Inspiring Leadership And Management Quotes (2023)

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


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


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


4. “In my position, you have to read when you want to write, and talk when you would like to read.”


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


6. “Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.” ― DaShanne Stokes


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


8. “Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.”


9. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders. —Sheryl Sandberg, American business executive, billionaire, and philanthropist


10. “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


11. Innovation distinguishes from a leader and a follower. —Steve Jobs


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


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


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


15. “Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That’s what management is all about.”


16. “A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn’t like the tune.”


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


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


19. If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer. - Author: James M. Kouzes


20. “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


21. “If you’re a leader and not a learner, you’re going to have a real short shelf-life.” –Todd Adkins


22. “He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly."


23. ‘If at first you don’t succeed, try management.’ – Unknown


24. “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


25. 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


26. “The ethical leader we are at home will matter more in the eternities than the false glow of platitudes attached to title.” Jim Woods


27. I am a leader; I don’t follow like a sheep.


28. “Thank you for your spiritual guidance and leadership.” — Unknown


29. If we buy into our culture's lies about manhood and leadership, we will never place our trust in God alone. - Author: Bill Mills


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


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


32. Fairness is a leader’s moral obligation.


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


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


35. “Your words and deeds must match if you expect employees to trust in your leadership. ” – KEVIN KRUSE Twitter-Bird Small


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


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


38. “A strong secure leader accepts blame and gives credit. A weak insecure leader gives blame and takes credit.” - John Wooden, Basketball Coach


39. “Good leaders don’t tell people what to do; they give them capability and inspiration” -Jeffrey Immelt.


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


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


42. You don’t need a title to be a leader. — Multiple Attributions


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


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


45. “Never expect than anyone remembers anything you said in the last meeting or conversation.Put it all in writing and make checklists your friend.”


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


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


48. “A leader’s role is to define reality and then give hope.” —Napoleon Bonaparte


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


50. “Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.” – Deepak Chopra


51. “good managers execute as well as motivate. Not all leaders need to be managers, but all managers need to be good leaders. While managing is an art; leadership is a skill that needs to be inculcated, imbibed and enforced while executing assignments through subordinates”


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


53. “Being a leader means helping those in your circle of influence.”


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55. “I’m not bossy. I have leadership skills.” – Unknown


56. “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


57. Great kings, queens, and leaders from around the globe took the throne with a bold attitude.


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


59. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” Nelson Mandela


60. 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


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


62. “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 C. Maxwell


63. “The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.”


64. You always lead people with a happy heart. Thank you for being a phenomenal, exceptional, and excellent leader.


65. “When you delegate work to a member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.” Steven Sinofsky


66. “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


67. “Success is not for the leaders only; it is for the members as well who made it come true.”


68. “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” — Phil Jackson


69. “People follow leaders by choice. Without trust, at best you get compliance.” – Jesse Lyn Stoner


70. “Be the leader you wish you had.”


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


72. “Success isn't about how much money you make; it's about the difference you make in people's lives.” — Michelle Obama


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


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


75. 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


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


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


78. “There are no bad teams, only bad leaders.” -Leif Babin.


79. “A bad leader can take a good staff and destroy it, causing the best employees to flee and the remainder to lose all motivation.”


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


81. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.' – Tom Peters


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


83. “Aunt: A cherished friend and personal cheerleader who will always see you through rose-colored glasses.” —Unknown


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


85. “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


86. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. —Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Independence Movement leader


87. Read them every day to stay inspired and achieve your goals. These Tony Robbins quotes on leadership will help you become everything you're meant to be.


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


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


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


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


92. “All true leaders have learned to say no to the good in order to say yes to the best.” John C. Maxwell


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


94. Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.' – Paul Hawken


95. “You are the best leader in my life. happy father’s day, big brother.”


96. “Developing leaders in a pipeline is developing them for all arenas of life.” – Eric Geiger


97. “True greatness, true leadership, is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.” – J. Oswald Sanders


98. “A leader is great, not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others.” John C. Maxwell


99. Good leaders are willing to take advice.


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


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


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


103. “Bad leaders believe their team works for them. Great leaders believe they work for their team.” - Alexander den Heijer, Motivational Speaker


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


105. “Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.”


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


107. “Genuine leaders lead by encouraging, not instilling fear in their fellow workers.”


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


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


110. I like and appreciate how you made us all work “with you,” not “for you.” Thank you for being an incredible leader.


111. Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong. — Abraham Lincoln


112. We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.' – John C. Maxwell


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


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


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


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


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


118. A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men. —Stephen King, author


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


120. “True mistake is when you don't learn from your mistake”


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


122. “Self Care is the secret ingredient to Soldier care in a recipe that yields many servings of effective leadership.”


123. Unity is a common goal both leaders and followers should strive for.


124. “A genuine leader is not a searcher of consensus but a molder of consensus.[Tweet this]christian-leadership-quotes1-580x391


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


126. “Conviction, commitment, credibility: the three pillars of morally courageous leadership. ” – GENERAL JOHN MICHEL Twitter-Bird Small


127. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the USA.


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


129. “The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.” – Tony Dungy


130. “A brave leader is someone who says I see you. I hear you. I don’t have all the answers. but I’m going to keep listening and asking questions.”


131. Generous and authentic leadership will always defeat the selfish efforts of someone doing it just because she can. How - Author: Seth Godin


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


133. “A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.” – Orrin Woodward


134. “None of us is as smart as all of us.” — Ken Blanchard


135. When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.” – Warren Buffett


136. “Bad leaders care about who is right. Good leaders care about what is right.”


137. “Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.”


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


139. “The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee.” - Robert K. Greenleaf, Founder of the Modern Servant Leadership Movement


140. “I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect.”


141. Thank you for accepting the baton of leadership. May you never regret the day you sat on your throne. Happy born day to my honourable king.


142. The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.' – George Orwell


143. “My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.”


144. “So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”


145. “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.’”


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


147. “If you delegate tasks, you create followers. If you delegate authority, you create leaders.” — Craig Groeschel


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


149. “Trust starts with trustworthy leadership. It must be built into the corporate culture.” – BARBARA BROOKS KIMMEL Twitter-Bird Small


150. “Authenticity and knowing who you are is fundamental to being an effective and long-standing leader. ” – ANN FUDGE Twitter-Bird Small


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


152. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”- Arnold H. Glasgow


153. “Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.” — Simon Sinek, Author and inspirational speaker.


154. You get the best efforts from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within. - Bob Nelson


155. “The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”


156. “Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.”


157. “The first law of leadership is that your foundation is built through integrity, character, and trust.”


158. “When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.” Craig Groeschel


159. Thank you for your spiritual leadership and guidance. Our congregation is more blessed for it.


160. You are a leader when your actions encourage someone to reveal himself with hope, courage, confidence and trust. - Author: Debasish Mridha


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


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


163. Nelson Mandela, political leader: “It always seems impossible until it is done.”


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


165. “We’ve traded the leadership pipeline of Jesus for the constructs of cultural Christianity.” – Will Mancini


166. Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.' – Winston Churchill


167. “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


168. “Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery, and self-control more than anything else.”


169. “The glue that holds all relationships together–including the relationship between the leader and the led–is trust, and trust is based on integrity.” Brian Tracy


170. The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. — Dwight Eisenhower


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


172. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.' – Harvey S. Firestone


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


174. “In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.” Warren Buffet


175. “Conviction, commitment, credibility: the three pillars of morally courageous leadership.” – GENERAL JOHN MICHEL Twitter-Bird Small


176. “No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.”- W. H. Auden


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


178. The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. — Theodore Hesburgh


179. “You are the most inspirational leader we have seen in our career who motivates us all to perform better and better…. Happy Father’s Day to you boss.”


180. Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day. — Patrick Ness


181. Persevering leaders are rewarded.


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


183. “But it is not this way with you, but the one who is the greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the servant.”


184. “The real test of leadership is to be as authentic at home as we pretend to be at work.” Jim Woods


185. Authentic leadership is the full expression of "me" for the benefit of "we". - Author: Henna Inam


186. “Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference.”


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


188. “Above all, the blue-collar woman is a leader, setting an example and inspiring those around her to strive for excellence.” – Nikki Haley


189. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Martin Luther King, Jr.


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


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


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


193. “The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.”


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


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


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


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


198. A leader is a dealer in hope. -Napoleon Bonaparte


199. Honest leaders are rewarded.


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


201. “A leader’s role is to define reality and then give hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte


202. “The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision."


203. “Developing leaders in a pipeline is developing them for all arenas of life.” – Eric Geiger, Senior Vice President of Lifeway


204. “The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, but then guide the horse with loose reins and seldom use the spurs.” Sandra Day O’Connor


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


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


207. “Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualise someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do.”


208. “Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.” Oprah Winfrey


209. Earn your leadership every day. –Michael Jordan


210. “There must be millions of people all over the world who never get any love letters… I could be their leader.” —Charles M. Schulz


211. Dad, we love you with all of our hearts! As a father, you’re a leader, a teacher, and a friend. Have a wonderful Father’s Day!


212. “If you’re working on something you care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobsleadershipquote


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


214. A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see. — Leroy Eimes


215. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker


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


217. “Adaptive collective action is superior to bureaucracy.”


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


219. 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


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


221. “There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.”


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


223. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ~Steve Jobs


224. “Trust starts with trustworthy leadership. It must be built into the corporate culture. ” – BARBARA BROOKS KIMMEL Twitter-Bird Small


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


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


227. “Time management was never designed to give people time, but to control others.”


228. “As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person I should try to change is me.” John C. Maxwell


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


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


231. A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example. — Joe DiMaggio


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


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


234. “Goals are dreams with deadlines.”


235. “There are no working hours for leaders.”


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


237. “Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.” Ronald Reagan


238. “A follower who does not submit to the authority of a leader should not expect loyalty from others. Life is a seed. You harvest whatever you sow. ”


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


240. “Becoming a leader does not entitle you to disrespect others or require them to follow your lead.”


241. “As believers, we were given positions of tremendous authority and leadership.”


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


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


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


245. “To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.”


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


247. “A spiritual leader will first and foremost, have a calling from God. His work will not be his profession, but his calling.” – Zac Poonen


248. It’s an honor to work under your leadership. Happy birthday, boss!


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


250. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practised that way, it's a magnificent profession.' – Clayton M. Christensen


251. “Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.”


252. “I am definitely going to take a course on time management — just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.”


253. “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”


254. “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” –Alan Kay


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


256. To be a good manager, a manager tries to constantly fight to reduce waste.' – Eliyahu Goldratt


257. “Always wear an internal crown and have a queendom mindset. A queen is a leader and role model.” – Janna Cachola


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


259. “ANYONE can be on a team, but NOT just anyone can be a loyal leader who people look to and who rises above all the negativity and drama.”


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


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


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


263. The goal of management is to remove obstacles.' – Paul Orfalea


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


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


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


267. “Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet.”


268. “Good leaders must first become good followers.”


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


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


271. God is so gracious to give us a leader like you. Thank you, Sir, for providing all of us with so many opportunities to grow and become successful.


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


273. “Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”


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


275. “Authenticity and knowing who you are is fundamental to being an effective and long-standing leader.” – ANN FUDGE Twitter-Bird Small


276. “We fail when we deem leadership at work to be more important than leadership at home.” Jim Woods


277. Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths' – John Zegner


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


279. “Spiritual leadership is not a rank to be achieved or a title to be earned. It is a mantle to be taken up in service to others.” –Henry T. Blackaby


280. “Great leaders inspire incredible loyalty in their followers and subordinates. ” – Joe Lonsdale


281. “Work hard and become a leader, be lazy and become a slave. ” Anonymous


282. “Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” Bill Bradley


283. “A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice.”


284. “Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.”


285. “‘Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I’ll spend the first 4 sharpening the axe.’ Abraham Lincoln”free christian leadership training


286. “Trust happens when leaders are transparent.” – Jack Welch


287. “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.”


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


289. “I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect.” – Tupac Shakur


290. “Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.” — Cicely Tyson


291. Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. — Peter Drucker


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


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


294. “If you’re a leader and not a learner, you’re going to have a really short shelf-life.” –Todd Adkins, Director of Leadership at Lifeway


295. “You can manage a hotel, you can manage a business, but you don't manage people, you treat them like family.”


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


297. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.' – J. R. R. Tolkien


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


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


300. “Leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates, American businessman, co-founder of Microsoft.


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


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


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


304. “She was not truly a cheerleader. but Stargirl dressed like one.”


305. 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


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


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


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


309. “Great leaders do not desire to lead but to serve.” — Myles Munroe


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


311. ”Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader. ” – Carrie Underwood


312. “Build a team so strong that someone from the outside doesn't know who the boss is!”


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


314. “But for Jesus, leadership isn’t about coercion and control; it’s about example and invitation.”


315. “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


316. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” -Nelson Mandela, world leader


317. “A great leader should be replaceable when it comes to their tasks and actions. And irreplaceable when it comes to their thoughts and visions.”


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


319. Be the leader of your pack in the Puma Ignite Limitless Knit


320. Unjust leaders never succeed.


321. “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


322. “[I]n all my research. the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.”


323. A leader is a dealer of hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte


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


325. “Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.”


326. “Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.” — Thomas Carlyle


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


328. “Daring leaders work to make sure people can be themselves and feel a sense of belonging.”


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


330. Thanks for never failing to be an upstanding leader of integrity in the church of God and the community. I wish you the best in all of your endeavors!


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


332. “A spiritual leader is one who knows the heart of God and communicates it to His people.” –Bill Johnson


333. “Thank you for your spiritual guidance and leadership.” — Unknown Author


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


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


336. I appreciate you, Pastor, for all your efforts that you are always making for the management and progress of this church.


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


338. “Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.” –Peter Drucker


339. “Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.” –Oprah Winfrey


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


341. “God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom.” – Chuck Colson


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


343. "You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training."— Tom Hopkins, sales leader


344. 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


345. “A boss has the title, the leader has the people.” — Simon Sinek


346. “Many who aspire to leadership fail because they have never learned to follow.” – Anonymous


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


348. Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.' – Steve Jobs


349. Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.' – Rajeev Suri


350. “When I teach and mentor leaders, I remind them that if they stop learning, they stop leading.” John C. Maxwell


351. “You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.”


352. Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.' – Alan Mulally


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


354. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.' – Jack Welch


355. “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


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


357. My sister is my best friend, my confidante, my cheerleader, and my partner in crime. I couldn’t ask for anything more in a soul sister.” – Unknown


358. The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.' – Henry Kissinger


359. Education is the mother of leadership. —Wendell Willkie, lawyer


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


361. “Try not to leave your work for someone else to do. If possible, carry the work of someone and add it to yours. That's a trait of leaders!”


362. “The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life.” – BRENDA BARNES Twitter-Bird Small


363. Leadership is intentional influence. - Michael McKinney


364. “The supreme quality for leadership is integrity.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower


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


366. Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity. - Reed Markham


367. “Daring leaders work to make sure people can be themselves and feel a sense of belonging.” – Brené Brown


368. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.' – Stephen Hawking


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


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


371. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things.” –Ronald Reagan


372. “Authentic leadership is seen when the followers are loyal to the leader, not because of their fondness but due to the impact made by that leader.”


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


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


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


376. Authentic leadership is at the root of cultures of great innovation, engagement, outstanding client experiences, and growth. - Author: Henna Inam


377. “Unity is strength ... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” — Mattie Stepanek


378. Great leaders are promoted.


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


380. It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because, with perfection, we would not exist.' – Stephen Hawking


381. Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. —Margaret Fuller, American journalist and editor


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


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


384. 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


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


386. “It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.” – ZIG ZIGLAR Twitter-Bird Small


387. “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


388. You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. - Sam Rayburn


389. Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.' – Oprah Winfrey


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


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


392. “The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life. ” – BRENDA BARNES Twitter-Bird Small


393. Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.


394. “Self-care is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation.” —Audre Lorde, feminist and civil rights leader


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


396. “To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes.”


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


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


399. In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.' – Rosalind Franklin


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


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


402. “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


403. There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage.' – Fuchan Yuan


404. “A team is successful only when they have a common goal. Not only does this goal need to be set, but it also has to be communicated to each team member.”


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


406. “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


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


408. “The success and failure of an agreement is a result of how expectations, conditions, benefits, and consequences are understood and managed.”


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


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


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


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


413. The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.”– John Buchan


414. Work hard and become a leader, be lazy, and become a slave.


415. “Our primary purpose is the help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” Dalai Lama, Tibetan leader


416. “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


417. "Remember this: anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate."


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


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


420. Cheers to the greatest king ever lived. It pleases my heart to see my father’s exemplary leadership. Happy birthday to my king.


421. The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.' – William Beveridge


422. “You can only accomplish things with the cooperation of other people. This is the most valuable thing I’ve learned over the years.”


423. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. - John C. Maxwell


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


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


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


428. 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


429. “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


430. Correction is part of good leadership.


431. To me I think leadership is activism. It's giving back to your community, it's investing in oneself, and you know women and children.” ― Black Thought


432. “Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.” – Charles Edison


433. “Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.” – Thomas Rainer


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


435. “Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.”


436. 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


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


438. “True greatness, true leadership, is found in in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.” – J. Oswald Sanders


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


440. Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity. — Reed Markham


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


442. May your strength never fail you, my king. You shall never lack all the good qualities of a leader. Happy birthday to my able king.


443. “The true underlying obstacle to brave leadership is how we respond to our fear.”


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


445. 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


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


447. “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


448. “Good leaders don’t make excuses. Instead, they find a way to get it done.” -Leif Babin.


449. “The labor of our past leaders should not be in vain. Jai Hind!”


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


451. “A well-written script means it has already been directed”


452. “A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.” Simon Sinek


453. “Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.”


454. The only safe ship in a storm is leadership. — Faye Wattleton


455. Great leaders are celebrated.


456. Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.' – Sheryl Sanberg


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


458. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” — Ken Blanchard, American author and motivational speaker.


459. “Earn your leadership every day.” – MICHAEL JORDAN Twitter-Bird Small


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


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


462. “If aging was a competition, bro, you would be getting pretty high up on the leaderboard right about now! Happy birthday, old man!”


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


464. “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


465. “When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.”


466. “If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.”


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


468. “We’ve traded the leadership pipeline of Jesus for the constructs of cultural Christianity.” —Will Mancini (auxano.com and LifeYounique.com)


469. “I don’t believe in pain management anymore, I believe in trying to cure persistent pain.”—Dr. Moskowitz


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


471. “The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” – Faye Wattleton


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


473. “Christ did not use His leadership to gain power, position, or popularity. Instead, He used His leadership to help those in His circle of influence.”


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


475. “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


476. To my wonderful boss, I wish to thank you for teaching me perseverance, leadership, and how to keep a dream alive. Happy father’s day!


477. “If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


487. I respect your leadership and wisdom. Thank you for opening my eyes to the right path.


488. “An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands.” - John Wooden


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


490. You’re not just a pastor but a great leader. Your hard work and sacrifices are highly appreciated. Thank you for all you do.


491. “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”– Mahatma Gandhi. Indian civil rights leader


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


493. The power for authentic leadership is found not in external arrangements, but in the human heart. - Author: Parker J. Palmer


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


495. Boundaries and risk management are very important parts of living a healthy and positive life.


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


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


498. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”


499. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. -Steve Jobs


500. “Effective leaders are not problem-minded; they’re opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.” -Stephen Covey.


501. “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


502. “Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.” — Paul Hawken


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


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


505. “Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.” – Neil Gaiman, Good Omens


506. “The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.”


507. “A leader doesn’t need any credit…. He’s getting more credit than he deserves anyway. —ROBERT TOWNSEND, FORMER CEO, AVIS”


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


509. Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. - Albert Schweitzer


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


511. “You are never too small to make a difference.” — Greta Thunberg


512. Tony Robbins has said a lot of inspirational things about leadership.


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


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


515. 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


516. A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all. – Michael LeBoeuf, Business author and former management professor


517. “The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?”


518. “Great leaders don’t see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.”


519. You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training. — Tom Hopkins, sales leader


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


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


522. “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


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


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


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


526. Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.' – Kim Rohn


527. “Brave leaders are never silent around hard things.”


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


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


530. “Don’t follow the crowd, but let the crowd follow you. You are the leader of your own life. That’s my advice for you at this special age.”


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


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


533. “I’ve always believed leaders don’t ask others to do what they’re unwilling to do.” – Mike Huckabee


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


535. The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you? — Mark Sanborn


536. “To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes.” – Brené Brown


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


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


539. “I am definitely going to take a course on time management … just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.” —Louis E. Boone


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


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


542. “Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it … Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.” David Ogilvy


543. "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” —Steve Jobs"


544. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. - Booker T. Washington


545. “Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich.”


546. BMW has always been a leader in the world of sports cars. And we’re definitely not done yet.


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


548. “People will trust their leaders when their leaders do the things that make them feel psychologically safe.”


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


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


551. If you want to be like a lion, then be the leader, not a follower.


552. “Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.” – Thom Rainer, President of Lifeway


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


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


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


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


557. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. —Steve Jobs, chairman of Apple


558. Good leaders are careful of their actions.


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


560. “The supreme quality of leadership is unquestionably integrity. ” – DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Twitter-Bird Small


561. Earn your leadership every day. - Michael Jordan


562. There’s no other ruler in my heart, no other leader in my world save you. Happy birthday, my king. I give you all my prayers and love forever.


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


564. “Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.” – Marcus Buckingham


565. We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood


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


567. “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”


568. “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.”


569. “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


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


571. Authentic leadership is a whole body experience. Our bodies have a lot more to teach us about ourselves than our thoughts. - Author: Henna Inam


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


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


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


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


576. “When bosses trying to control and manage their team, leaders try harvesting more leaders within team while developing themselves constantly!”


577. “Business success depends on management decision-making from hindsight and insight for razor focused foresight without which careful oversight would be difficult at best.”


578. “One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role – some people can do it, and some people can’t.” – Kyrie Irving


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


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


581. “Boundary-setting is really a huge part of time management.” — Jim Loehr


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


583. “A brave leader is someone who says I see you. I hear you. I don’t have all the answers, but I’m going to keep listening and asking questions.”


584. “Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.”


585. "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” —Ralph Nader"


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


587. “If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings — and put compensation as a carrier behind it — you almost don’t have to manage them.” Jack Welch


588. “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


589. “It's not the position that makes the leader; it's the leader that makes the position.” John C. Maxwell


590. Thank you for the example you set and for your leadership in our family. I love you, dad!


591. “Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader.”


592. “You can observe the results of your leadership daily… Such satisfaction cannot be purchased at any price; it must be earned.” — Ezra Taft Benson


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


594. “I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.”


595. “You can tell a bully from a leader by how they treat people who disagree with them.” - Miles K. Davis, President of Linfield College


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


597. “If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings—and put compensation as a carrier behind it—you almost don't have to manage them.”


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


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


600. “It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity, you will never be one.” – Zig Ziglar


601. A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader. A great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.' – Eleanor Roosevelt


602. “Our ability to be daring leaders will never be greater than our capacity for vulnerability.”


603. “You could be the leader for someone behind you”


604. “Management’s job is to convey leadership’s message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.”


605. Time management is really personal management, life management. and management of yourself.' – Brian Tracy


606. A leader is a dealer in hope.' – Napoleon Bonaparte


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


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


609. “Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.”


610. Trust happens when leaders are transparent.


611. It is hard to give up on my dreams when my unbiological sister is my cheerleader. Thanks for all you do girl.”


612. “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.” Bob Marley


613. Age is irrelevant to good leadership.


614. “We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.“ – Bill Gates.


615. “There's a difference between managing a business and leading a business. They require two different skill sets.”


616. “The supreme quality of leadership is unquestionably integrity.” – DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Twitter-Bird Small


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


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


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


620. “Great leaders check their ego at the door and empower others to excel” – DEBORAH GILLIS Twitter-Bird Small


621. Be the best version of you. Be an innovator, not a follower. Be a leader in your field and a pioneer in your industry.


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


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


624. “Amber is a huge asset as far as leadership and talking. She’s got the most positive attitude of any of the kids I’ve coached.”


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


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


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


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


629. “The true leader serves.”- Rudolph Giuliani


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


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


632. “It’s not about better time management. It’s about better life management” — Alexandra of The Productivity Zone


633. “Remember There’s No Such Thing As An Unrealistic Goal – Just Unrealistic Time Frames”


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


635. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.” —Ben Carson, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development


636. True power is living the realization that you are your own healer, hero and leader


637. Changing our attitude about change is one of our best management tools. Look for opportunities in every change in your life.


638. "A good king is a leader, and sets an example for his people to follow."


639. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.' – Stephen R. Covey


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


641. “Your role as a leader is to bring out the best in others, even when they know more than you.


642. “Managers should truly care about the people they manage. When people feel cared for, they perform better.”


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


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


645. “It is hard to think of many things that do more damage to an organization than leaders who have no plan for how they will hand over power.” – Anonymous


646. Becoming is better than being.' – Carol Dweck


647. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” —Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Independence Movement leader


648. “We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” Peter Drucker


649. “Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.” – George Foreman


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


651. “It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.” – ZIG ZIGLAR


652. “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” -Dalai Lama, spiritual leader


653. “I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist." — Ginni Rometty


654. “If you want to lift the performance of the organisation, you have to lift yourself … my message to my team was always meet my bar, and that bar would constantly be moved up.”


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


656. “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


657. To all the talented, smart, beautiful, and wonderful people having their birthdays today, I am your leader for the next 24 hours of celebrations.


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


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


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


661. “Women. in general. are not part of the corruption of the past. so they can give a new kind of leadership. a new image for mankind.” - Coretta Scott King


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


663. “When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.”


664. “If you are paying someone to motivate you (seriously), you should rather pay to a psychiatrist.”


665. ”People follow leaders by choice. Without trust, at best you get compliance. ” –Jesse Lyn Stoner, author of Full Steam Ahead


666. “Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.” Marcus Buckingham


667. “Respect is the key determinant of high-performance leadership. how much people respect you determines how well they perform.” Brian Tracy


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


669. “We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.”


670. “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


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


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


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


674. “A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader. A great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.” — Eleanor Roosevelt


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


676. “Living in a good neighbourhood but alone. - On Leadership”


677. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” -Martin Luther King, Jr, civil rights leader


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


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


680. “Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness. ” —Edwin Louis Cole, religious leader


681. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.' – Stephen Covey


682. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.' – Peter F. Drucker


683. “Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.”


684. “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”


685. Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.' – John D. Rockefeller


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


687. “A leader who produces other leaders multiplies their influences.” John C. Maxwell


688. Good teams are committed to the team mission and to each other personally. Good leaders inspire and build this commitment and trust. - Author: Lee Ellis


689. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”


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


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


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


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


694. “‘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”


695. “Resumes are spam filled with action verbs which are exaggeration only”


696. My business is booming because of your leadership and entrepreneurial skill. I’m thankful for the way the Lord has gifted you to us.


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


698. Leadership is the ability to guide others without force into a direction or decision that leaves them still feeling empowered and accomplished.' – Lisa Cash Hanson


699. Great leaders are tactful.


700. You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader. — Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company


701. “Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.” – Peter Drucker


702. “Many who aspire to leadership fail because they have never learned to follow.” —J. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Leadership


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


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


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


706. “Earn your leadership every day. ” – MICHAEL JORDAN Twitter-Bird Small


707. “The only thing of real importance that leaders do is create and manage culture.” -Edgar Schein, professor and organizational expert


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


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


710. “The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion.


711. For a leader, getting results is more important than getting credit. – Bob Burg


712. Today is a blessed day because my king husband is a year older. May you never fall as a leader and as a husband. Happy birthday, my dearest king.


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


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


715. 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


716. “A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.”


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


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


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


720. Great leaders delegate.


721. “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” –Amelia Earhart


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


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


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


725. “Studying leadership is way easier than leading.”


726. 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


727. …not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.


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


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


730. “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


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


732. “Choose your leaders


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


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


735. “A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.” — J. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Leadership


736. “It is hard to give up on my dreams when my unbiological sister is my cheerleader. Thanks for all you do girl.”


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


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


739. You don’t need a title to be a leader. —Unknown


740. “Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.”


741. “A good manager is more easier to compliment peoples strengths than they are to criticize their weaknesses.”


742. “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.” Sam Walton


743. “Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it . . . ; Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.”


744. “All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.” -John Maxwell, author


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


746. If you're alive, you're a creative person.' – Elizabeth Gilbert


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


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


749. “Mindful leadership keeps you cool and energetic in any situation, so that you can make the best possible decisions.” – Amit Ray


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


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


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


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


754. The goal of leadership is not to be likable or loved but to be proven trustworthy and respected. - Author: Miles Anthony Smith


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


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


757. “If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.” John C. Maxwell


758. Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing - Author: John Paul Warren


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


760. I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.' – Margaret Thatcher


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


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


763. “Brave leaders are never silent around hard things.” – Brené Brown


764. Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus


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


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


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


768. Work hard and become a leader, be lazy and become a slave. - Anonymous


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


770. “I’m not bossy. I’ve got leadership skills.”


771. “Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they’re doing it.” Marillyn Hewson


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


773. “Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.”


774. Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. — Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senator


775. 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


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


777. “Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.”


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


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


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


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


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


783. “Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.” – DaShanne Stokes


784. “A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.”


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


786. “Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.”


787. 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


788. “Trust starts with trustworthy leadership. It must be built into the corporate culture.” – Barbara Kimmel Brooks


789. A real leader faces the music, even when he doesnt like the tune. Treat your w