950 Motivational Leadership Encouragement Quotes To Inspire
1. The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. —Ken Blanchard
2. “Leadership is an active role; ‘lead’ is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.” – Bill Owens
3. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John C. Maxwell
4. “You are never too small to make a difference.” —Greta Thunberg, environmental activist
5. A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. —Ovid
6. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
7. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.” — Peter F. Drucker
8. “To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.” Pat Riley
9. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” —Dalai Lama
10. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” ~ William Arthur Ward
11. “I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?”
12. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.”
13. “Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.”
14. Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts. —Erskine Bowles
15. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” — William Arthur Ward
16. “Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. John F. Kennedy
17. “Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
18. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
19. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
20. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”
21. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” ~ Beverly Sills
22. “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
23. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” Max Lucado
24. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” ~ Stephen Covey
25. “Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.” – Chester W. Nimitz
26. “A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.” – Henry A. Kissinger
27. “Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That’s what makes me feel good.” Laetitia Casta
28. Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.
29. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”
30. “Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.” – Peter Drucker
31. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” – Stephen R. Covey
32. “Beauty isn’t about having a pretty face. It is about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and most importantly a beautiful soul.” Anonymous
33. “I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.” John Hume
34. “Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence, and inspiration.” ~ Robin S. Sharma
35. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” —Albert Einstein
36. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” – Peter Drucker
37. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” Bill Gates
38. 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
39. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” –John Quincy Adams
40. “The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.” – Carlos Ghosn
41. “As a leader your every action has a consequence, make sure it is one you intend.” Kathrine Bryant
42. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” ~ Steve Jobs
43. “A leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding the potential in people and processes.”
44. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."
45. “Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.” David Hume
46. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.” John C. Maxwell
47. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” –Bill Gates
48. “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
49. You don’t need a title to be a leader. –Multiple Attributions
50. “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
51. “Your outer beauty will capture the eyes, your inner beauty will capture the heart.” Steven Aitchison
52. “Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.” Reed Markham
53. “Do or do not. There is no try.” —Yoda
54. “I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.” Terry Pratchett
55. “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain
56. “Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.” – Tom Landry
57. “Beauty is not caused. It is.” Emily Dickinson
58. “Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.”
59. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” ~ Albert Einstein
60. “The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.” — Carlos Ghosn
61. “Hire character. Train skill.” —Peter Schutz, former president and CEO of Porsche
62. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
63. “Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world.”
64. “Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone’s following you.” ~ Henry Gilmer
65. I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. —Ralph Nader
66. “In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.” Christopher Morley
67. “Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.” ~ Diogenes of Sinope
68. Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
69. “A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.” Anne Roiphe
70. “Success is an exception, so be exceptional.”
71. “Leadership is not just about giving energy… it’s unleashing other people’s energy.” —Paul Polman, Dutch businessman
72. “The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.” - Seth Godin
73. “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
74. “A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.” ~ Joel Barker
75. “A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.” ~ M.D. Arnold
76. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
77. “Be the kind of leader that you would follow.” Anonymous
78. 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.
79. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill
80. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. —Peter Drucker
81. Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. —Brian Tracy
82. True leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed. Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
83. “Imperfection is beauty. Anonymous
84. “If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.” Brad Szollose
85. We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity. —Marco Rubio
86. “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
87. “Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way” Ronald Reagan
88. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
89. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” ~ Sheryl Sanberg
90. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” – Nancy D. Solomon
91. “Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.”
92. A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible. —Polybius
93. “Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” — George S. Patton Jr.
94. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
95. “The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.”– Seneca
96. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
97. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
98. Never give an order that can't be obeyed. —General Douglas MacArthur
99. R. Buckminster Fuller on Affirmation.
100. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” — Jack Welch
101. “He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.” – Niccolo Machiavelli
102. “Management is doing the right thing; leadership is doing the right things.” ~ Peter F. Drucker
103. “A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.” – Joe DiMaggio
104. “To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.” – Aristotle Onassis
105. Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway. —Eleanor Roosevelt
106. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
107. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” — Abraham Lincoln
108. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams
109. “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
110. The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
111. “A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.” Simon Sinek
112. Scott McNealy on Getting the Best People.
113. “If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.” – Thomas Fuller
114. “I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, ‘Where am I needed most?'” – Mike Pence
115. “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.”
116. A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
117. “It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.” – Daniel Defoe
118. Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do, and let them surprise you with their results. - George Patton
119. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward
120. “Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.” - Peter F. Drucker
121. You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
122. “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
123. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” —Henry Ford
124. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” ~ Ray Kroc
125. “People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.” —Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue
126. “What helps people, helps business.” – Leo Burnett
127. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” ~ Tony Blair
128. “I have broken many glass ceilings - so I know it can be done.”
129. “We should be encouraging — not penalizing — folks who want to pursue higher education.” Sharice Davids
130. “If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” – Thomas Aquinas
131. “Earn your leadership every day.” Michael Jordan
132. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” - Steve Jobs
133. “I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” Henry David Thoreau
134. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. —Margaret Mead
135. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” ~ Andy Warhol
136. “The sharp employ the sharp.” – Douglas William Jerrold
137. “Do what is right, not what is easy.” Anonymous
138. “Nothing will work unless you do.” —Maya Angelou
139. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. - Tom Peters
140. James Buchanan on the Test of Leadership.
141. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
142. Ike Eisenhower on the Art of Motivation.
143. Leadership is an action, not a position.” - Donald McGannon
144. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” ~ Napoleon
145. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” —Napoleon Hill
146. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” Ralph Nader
147. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” —Margaret Fuller, American journalist and editor
148. “Leadership is action, not position.” Donald H. McGannon
149. “Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.” – Omar N. Bradley
150. “Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
151. You don’t need a title to be a leader.
152. 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
153. Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. —Jesse Jackson
154. “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
155. “The three ‘C’s’ of leadership are consideration, caring, and courtesy. Be polite to everyone.” Brian Tracy
156. A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
157. “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
158. Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.
159. “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
160. “Leaders don’t force people to follow – they invite them on a journey.” —Charles S. Lauer, author and businessman
161. “Beauty is the opposite of perfection – it’s about confidence, charisma, and character.” Anonymous
162. “Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” – Pete Hoekstra
163. People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. – Thomas Sowell
164. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.
165. “You are never too small to make a difference.”
166. 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
167. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt
168. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?”
169. Arnold H. Glasow on Tests and Problems.
170. To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. —Pat Riley
171. “You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” ~ Doug Floyd
172. 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.
173. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” John Keats
174. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” Bill Bradley
175. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” ~ John Maxwell
176. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” Warren Bennis
177. “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” Khalil Gibran
178. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. —Bill Gates
179. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” Stephen Covey
180. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” — Seth Godin
181. “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.”
182. “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.”
183. What you do has far greater impact than what you say. —Stephen Covey
184. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill
185. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. – Martin Luther King Jr
186. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” ~ Jamie Paolinetti
187. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” -Ralph Nader
188. “Leadership is about being of service to others, not being served by others. Be a mentor, not a boss.” Anonymous
189. You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership. –Dwight Eisenhower
190. “Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.” Brian Tracy
191. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.” Brian Tracy
192. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” ~ Kenneth Blanchard
193. “Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” Patrick Lencioni
194. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence, and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.”
195. Management Versus Leadership According to Tom Peters.
196. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
197. Leadership is influence. —John C. Maxwell
198. 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
199. “The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.” ~ Linus Pauling
200. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”
201. “A true leader is one who is humble enough to admit their mistakes.” Anonymous
202. “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.” – John Zenger
203. Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. – Dianne Feinstein
204. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
205. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas A. Edison, American inventor
206. Whatever you are, be a good one. —Abraham Lincoln
207. “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
208. “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
209. “You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.” — Sam Rayburn
210. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”
211. “A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.” —Stephen King, author
212. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” Bill George
213. “You can’t teach leadership, but it can be learned.” – Lloyd J. Edwards Jr.
214. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” ~ Stephen Covey
215. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” ~ Dalai Lama
216. “Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.”
217. I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. —Dee Dee Myers
218. A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.
219. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
220. The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. —Eric Hoffer
221. “The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.”
222. “I have always supported measures and principles and not men.” – Davy Crockett
223. “Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.” - Tom Peters
224. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.”
225. “You’re only as good as the people you hire.” – Ray Kroc
226. “People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.” –Anna Wintour
227. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” Stephen Covey
228. “Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men–the other 999 follow women.” Groucho Marx
229. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Harold R. McAlindon
230. “Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.”
231. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” ~ Jimmy Dean
232. “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”~ John Buchan
233. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
234. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
235. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Aristotle
236. “I’m always friendly and encouraging on set. I want people to be at their best creatively.” Mark Wahlberg
237. “A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.” — Joel Barker
238. “Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.” – James Cash Penney
239. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” - John F. Kennedy
240. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.” — Brian Tracy
241. “Great leaders delegate and nurture future leaders.” ~ Invajy
242. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done."
243. To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
244. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. – Peter Drucker
245. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”
246. “Integrity, insight, and inclusiveness are the three essential qualities of leadership.” ~ Sadhguru
247. “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.”
248. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” – Bill Bradley
249. Theodore Hesburg on the Essense of Leadership.
250. “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."
251. “Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” - George Patton
252. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” ~ Jack Welch
253. “Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.” – Harold S. Green
254. “An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.”
255. “Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.” John Ray
256. A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
257. “Great leaders don’t set out to be a leader, they set out to make a difference. It’s never about the role, always about the goal.” Anonymous
258. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” ~ Winston Churchill
259. “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
260. Where there is no vision, the people perish. —Proverbs 29:18
261. “Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.” Confucius
262. “To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
263. “Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.” – Tom Peters
264. “Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?” Brain Tracy
265. “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” – George Washington Carver
266. “Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, ‘I could have done three things better yesterday.'” – Jeffrey R. Immelt
267. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
268. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ~ Peter Drucker
269. “Who you are surrounded by often determines who you become.”
270. “Encouraging words are good medicine for the soul.” Lailah Gifty Akita
271. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
272. “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.”
273. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
274. He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. —Solon
275. “Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.” Jaachynma N.E. Agu
276. “Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.” —Margaret Wheatley, writer, teacher, and speaker
277. Harold S. Green on Leadership in Motion.
278. “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
279. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” —Steve Jobs, chairman of Apple
280. 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
281. Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. —Stephen Covey
282. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” —Les Brown
283. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” — Nancy D. Solomon
284. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” — Arnold Glasow
285. “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
286. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”
287. “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.”
288. “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
289. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” ~ George S. Patton
290. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell
291. “In teamwork, silence isn’t golden. It’s deadly.” ~ Mark Sanborn
292. The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you?
293. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” —William Arthur Ward, writer
294. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein
295. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
296. “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.” Edgar Allan Poe
297. “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
298. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
299. “The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” —Faye Wattleton, American reproductive rights activist
300. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
301. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” – Henry Ford
302. “If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” —Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher
303. “Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.” ~ James Humes
304. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” Confucius
305. “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
306. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” ~ Arnold Glasow
307. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people.” ~ Mohandas Gandhi
308. “All leaders are readers.” —Jim Rohn, American entrepreneur
309. “When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” ~ Henry J. Kaiser
310. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” –Margaret Thatcher
311. “Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are.” Thomas John Carlisle
312. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” Eleanor Roosevelt
313. “Get the best people and train them well.” – Scott McNealy
314. “As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.” —Toni Morrison, author
315. My responsibility is getting all my players playing for the name on the front of the jersey, not the one on the back. –Unknown
316. “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.”
317. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”
318. “The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.” —Brandon Sanderson, author
319. “You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.” ~ Henry Ford
320. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
321. “Leaders walk a fine line between self-confidence and humility.” —Stanley McChrystal, retired United States Army General
322. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”
323. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” Maya Angelou
324. The last is to say ’Thank You.’ In between, the leader is a servant.
325. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
326. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
327. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. —John Maxwell
328. “The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.” – Casey Stengel
329. “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
330. “When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.” – Roy E. Disney
331. “Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.” ~ Bo Bennett
332. Stephen R. Covey on the Meaning of Leadership.
333. “Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.” Jane Seymour
334. “Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse."
335. “I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through — then follow through.” — Edward Rickenbacker
336. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” ~ John F. Kennedy
337. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” ~ Bill Gates
338. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” — John C. Maxwell
339. “The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.” —Warren Bennis, American scholar, organizational consultant, and author
340. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” —Bill Bradley
341. “Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” — John Wooden
342. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
343. “The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” – Tony Blair
344. Leaders don’t force people to follow – they invite them on a journey.
345. Ike Eisenhower on Hitting People Over the Head.
346. “Example is leadership.” – Albert Schweitzer
347. Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. - Peter F. Drucker
348. “Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” - Pete Hoekstra
349. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” Tony Blair
350. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” —Bill Bradley, American politician and former professional basketball player
351. The problem with being a leader is that you’re never sure if you're being followed or chased. – Claire A. Murray
352. “Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.” – George W. Bush
353. “We never noticed the beauty because we were too busy trying to create it.” Anonymous
354. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” – Henry Ward Beecher
355. “People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.” ~ Michelle Obama
356. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” Henry Kissinger
357. “Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.” Andy Stanley
358. “Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.” ~ Max Depree
359. Thomas Aquinas on Preserving the Ship.
360. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” —George Addair
361. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
362. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.” ~ John C. Maxwell
363. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” —Malala Yousafzai, activist
364. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
365. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. —Norman Schwarzkopf
366. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” — Steve Jobs
367. “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
368. 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
369. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” Brian Tracy
370. “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
371. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” — Arnold Glasow
372. Leading people is the most challenging and, therefore, the most gratifying undertaking of all human endeavours.
373. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” Robert Louis Stevenson
374. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis
375. “When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.” Winston Churchill
376. “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” - Jack Welch
377. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” ~ Van Gogh
378. Alexander the Great on Sheep and Lions.
379. “The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.” —Padmasree Warrior, CEO & founder of Fable
380. Henry Kissinger on Operating the Familiar.
381. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. Oprah Winfrey
382. “Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you’ll never sit.” ~ Jennifer Granholm
383. One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. —Arnold Glasow
384. “People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.” – Thomas Sowell
385. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
386. Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
387. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.” ~ Andrew Carnegie
388. “Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.” ~ Charles Swindoll
389. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
390. “When people talk, listen completely.”
391. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” - Ayn Rand
392. “If you want a quality, act as if you already have it.” – William James
393. “Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” – E. Joseph Cossman
394. “To me, beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.” Ellen Degeneres
395. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” — Publilius Syrus
396. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
397. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” John C. Maxwell
398. “Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality.” Warren G. Bennis
399. Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. —Brian Tracy
400. Leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory.
401. A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men. —Stephen King
402. “If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.” Harvey Mackay
403. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”
404. Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. —Donald Rumsfeld
405. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
406. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
407. “The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you.” Brian Tracy
408. Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.
409. Ralph Nader on the Function of Leadership.
410. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. — General George Patton
411. “A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.” — Leroy Eimes
412. “Leadership does not depend on being right.” – Ivan Illich
413. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."
414. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
415. “Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led.” Ross Perot
416. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” ~ Gloria Steinem
417. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” —Helen Keller, author, activist, and lecturer
418. “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
419. “The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.” - Kenneth H. Blanchard
420. “I’m a maniacal perfectionist. And if I weren’t, I wouldn’t have this company.”
421. “You can only accomplish things with the cooperation of other people. This is the most valuable thing I’ve learned over the years.”
422. “To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
423. Casey Stengel on Keeping them Separated.
424. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” —John Maxwell, author, speaker, and pastor
425. “Great leaders inspire greatness in others.” Anonymous
426. “Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualise someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do.”
427. “No one can pull you down if you raise your awareness to your own inner strength and beauty.” Anonymous
428. “Leadership is an action, not a position.” Donald McGannon
429. “God gave us eyes to see the beauty in nature and hearts to see the beauty in each other.” Anonymous
430. “You manage things; you lead people. “
431. “Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” —E. Joseph Cossman, inventor and businessman
432. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” ~ Publilius Syrus
433. “Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” ~ Pete Hoekstra
434. 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
435. “Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.”
436. Make the right decision even when no one is watching, especially when no one is watching, and you will always turn out okay. – Kim Kaupe
437. “If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.” – William James
438. “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”
439. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” ~ Henry Ford
440. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” Nancy D. Solomon
441. “You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.” – Phil Crosby
442. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” ~ Edith Wharton
443. “I’m passionate about encouraging girls to be confident in their own skin.” Sadie Sink
444. “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
445. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
446. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”
447. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” —Henry Ford
448. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” ~ John Maxwell
449. A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t.
450. Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
451. “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
452. The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.
453. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. —Tom Peters
454. “You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results."
455. “Anyone, anywhere can make a positive difference.” - Mark Sanborn
456. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” ~ Stephen Covey
457. “The things we fear most in organizations — fluctuations, distubances, imbalances — are the primary sources of creativity.” — Margaret Wheatley
458. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” ~ Woody Allen
459. Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.
460. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.” —Dianne Feinstein, Senior United States Senator
461. 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
462. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” ~ Warren Bennis
463. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” Jack Welch
464. “Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” — Pete Hoekstra
465. “When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.” Craig Groeschel
466. “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.” – Joe Namath
467. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
468. “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” John Maxwell
469. “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” Carl Jung
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. More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.
472. “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.”
473. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
474. “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
475. “I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
476. “Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.”
477. “Leadership is an action, not a position.” - Donald McGannon
478. Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
479. “The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.” Brian Tracy
480. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
481. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” ~ Joshua J. Marine
482. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” —Peter F. Drucker, author and educator
483. Earn your leadership every day. –Michael Jordan
484. “It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.”
485. “A leader should be able to foresee crisis situations and be proactive” ~ Invajy
486. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” General Dwight Eisenhower
487. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. —Woodrow Wilson
488. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” Peter F. Drucker
489. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
490. “Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
491. I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. —Warren Bennis
492. Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
493. “Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself on the inside and out.” Anonymous
494. “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.” ~ John Zenger
495. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
496. “Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.”~ Lyndon B. Johnson
497. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. —John F. Kennedy
498. “The x-factor of great leadership is not personality, it’s humility.” Jim Collins
499. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”
500. “Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” – Henry J. Kaiser
501. “Be your own kind of beautiful.” Anonymous
502. “Practice Golden Rule Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.” Brian Tracy
503. “Leaders are innovative, entrepreneurial, and future-oriented. They focus on getting the job done.” Brian Tracy
504. “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” –John C. Maxwell
505. “The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower
506. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” —Stephen Covey
507. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~ Christopher Columbus
508. The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow. - Seth Godin
509. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
510. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” Peter F. Drucker
511. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” —Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activist
512. “Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.” Colin Powell
513. “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. “Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
514. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” —Ray Kroc
515. “The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.” – Ken Olsen
516. “Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.” Shannon Alder
517. “In my position, you have to read when you want to write, and talk when you would like to read.”
518. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
519. By contrast, only 0.4% had no male directors.
520. Laurence J. Peter Gives You a Choice.
521. A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. —John Maxwell
522. “You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.”
523. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” Arnold Glasow
524. “Leadership is influence.” – John C. Maxwell
525. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” —Henry Ford
526. “When people talk, listen completely.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
527. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” – Arnold H. Glasow
528. “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
529. “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
530. “Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.” ~ Douglas MacArthur
531. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” —Albert Einstein
532. “Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.” ~ Warren Bennis
533. “Respect is the key determinant of high-performance leadership. how much people respect you determines how well they perform.” Brian Tracy
534. “The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.” – J. Paul Getty
535. “An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”
536. Stephen R. Covey on Climbing the Ladder.
537. J. Paul Getty on Getting Just Desserts.
538. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
539. “Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.” - Stephen Covey
540. “You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
541. When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. —Napoleon Bonaparte
542. There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage.
543. Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. —Publilius Syrus
544. “Courage is not staying quiet about things that make us uncomfortable.” -Brene Brown
545. “Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.” ~ Colin Powell
546. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” — Henry Ford
547. “A leader should be visionary and have more foresight than an employee.” ~ Jack Ma
548. “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.”
549. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt
550. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” —Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader and emperor
551. “A year from now you will wish you had started today.” —Karen Lamb, author
552. “Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” – John D. Rockefeller
553. “The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision."
554. “You don’t need a title to be a leader.” —Unknown
555. Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
556. 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.
557. “Leadership distilled down to 3 words: Make a difference.” —Robin Sharma, Canadian writer
558. “A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.” Hans Finzel
559. 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
560. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” —Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady
561. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” Father Theodore M. Hesburgh
562. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.” —Ben Carson, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
563. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that count."
564. “Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.” – Yousef Munayyer
565. “Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.” – Harold S. Green
566. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and follower.” Steve Jobs
567. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
568. Henry Ward Beecher on Higher Standards.
569. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” ~ Max Lucado
570. “The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” Harvey S. Firestone
571. In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. – Tina Fey
572. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry A. Kissinger
573. John Quincy Adams on Leading by Doing.
574. “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
575. “A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.” J.P. Morgan
576. “Leaders never stop learning.” Christine Caine
577. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” —Max Lucado, author and pastor