900 Inspiring Qualities Of A Good Leader Quotes (2023)
1. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.”
2. “Leading people is the most challenging and, therefore, the most gratifying undertaking of all human endeavors.” —Jocko Willink, American author, podcaster, and retired United States Navy Officer
3. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” Ralph Nader
4. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” –Stephen Covey
5. “Two of the most significant things aspiring leaders can do are find self-love and discover truths about what makes your journey fascinating.”
6. “In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” – Harry S. Truman
7. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” - Abraham Lincoln
8. “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
9. “The outward expression of empathy is courtesy.” Stewart Butterfield
10. “The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the
11. “I never saw myself as an individual who had
12. Strong people don’t put others down, they lift them up — Michael P Watson
13. “Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.” Jessica Jackley
14. “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
15. “A boss has the title, a leader has the people.” - Simon Sinek
16. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates, Co-Founder, Microsoft
17. “A competent leader can get efficient service from poor
18. “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” - Jack Welch
19. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.” –Brian Tracy
20. “Leadership distilled down to 3 words: Make a difference.”- Robin Sharma
21. “Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” Pete Hoekstra
22. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” – Gen. Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State
23. “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” John Maxwell
24. “Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” –David Star Jordan
25. “Leadership distilled down to 3 words: Make a difference.” —Robin Sharma, Canadian writer
26. A great leader simplifies things
27. “The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders
28. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” John C. Maxwell
29. “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.”
30. Great leaders grow others
31. “Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” –Peter F. Drucker
32. “Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in
33. He who has great power should use it lightly. —Seneca
34. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
35. A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. —John J Pershing
36. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
37. “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.”
38. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again,
39. The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. —Sir Winston Churchill
40. “Conscious leadership is about having an interest in serving those you are leading rather than serving yourself first.”
41. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” —William Arthur Ward
42. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. —Woodrow Wilson
43. “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
44. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” —Steve Jobs, chairman of Apple
45. Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. —Donald Rumsfeld
46. “Education is the mother of leadership.” —Wendell Willkie, lawyer
47. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
48. “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”- John F. Kennedy
49. “The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been.” –Henry Kissinger
50. “People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.” - Thomas Sowell
51. “The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.”
52. Leaders help you to reach your potential
53. Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts. —Erskine Bowles
54. “In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes.” – John Erskine, author
55. “Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”
56. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” – President Theodore Roosevelt
57. “Leadership can’t be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed,
58. “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, former first lady of the United States
59. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.” —Brian Tracy, Canadian-American motivational public speaker
60. “No man is good enough to govern another man
61. “A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see and who sees before others see.” – Leroy Eimes, author and leadership expert
62. “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
63. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”
64. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. —Harvey Firestone
65. “Leadership is not wielding authority — it’s empowering people” — Becky Brodin
66. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ” – Margaret Fuller
67. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” Albert Schweitzer
68. “If COVID has shown us anything it is the need to be more empathetic leaders”
69. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” - Mother Teresa
70. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”- Dianne Feinstein
71. Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. —Publilius Syrus
72. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”- Eleanor Roosevelt
73. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. —John Quincy Adams
74. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold Glasow
75. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. —Norman Schwarzkopf
76. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.”
77. “Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse."
78. “Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.” – Oscar Wilde, writer and poet
79. “To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
80. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King Jr.
81. “When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.”
82. You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership. –Dwight Eisenhower
83. “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
84. “The best leaders have a high consideration factor. They really care about their people” Brian Tracy
85. “Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people.
86. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”
87. “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.” —Steve Jobs, chairman of Apple
88. “A leader operating in enemy territory should always project positivity and optimism.”- Naval Ravikant
89. “Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.”
90. “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.
91. “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
92. “A manager says “go”, a leader says “let’s go”.” — John Maxwell
93. When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. —Napoleon Bonaparte
94. “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
95. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
96. “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
97. “A good leader takes a little more share of the blame, a little less than his share of credit.” Arnold Glasow
98. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold Glasow, humorist and author
99. “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, American businessman and writer
100. “There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.”
101. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
102. You can’t lead if you don’t love your team
103. “Leaders shouldn’t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can’t compromise.” - Peter F. Drucker
104. “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.
105. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough
106. “Set and maintain high standards. If you have to be hard on people, do it with love and a genuine wish for them to improve. Praise people when they hit the standard. Sam Altman
107. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”
108. “When you delegate work to a member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.” Steven Sinofsky
109. “You are judged in this world by how well you bring things to an end. A messy or incomplete conclusion can reverberate for years to come.” - Robert Greene
110. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” —Muriel Strode, poet
111. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader — John Quincy Adams
112. True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well. —Bill Owens
113. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
114. “He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious."
115. “Successful leaders are truthful about what they do because they know they can never succeed if they take shortcuts by lying to their followers.”
116. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”
117. “In order to remain relevant, you must establish yourself as a thought leader in your industry.”- Marc Benioff
118. “A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.” —Joe DiMaggio, former New York Yankees outfielder & Hall of Fame baseball player
119. “The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.” –Ken Blanchard
120. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”
121. “Hire character. Train skill.” —Peter Schutz, former president and CEO of Porsche
122. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you
123. “You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.” –Jeanette Rankin
124. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
125. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. —Abraham Lincoln
126. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” - Napoleon Bonaparte
127. “There are no office hours for leaders.” –Cardinal J. Gibbons
128. “A good leader must hate the wrong thing more than they hate the pain of doing the right thing.” —Angela Jiang, product manager
129. “Leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory.” - Jocko Willink
130. “Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.” Diogenes of Sinope
131. “People ask the difference between the leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives” — Theodore Roosevelt
132. “You only see the light of the sun, not its combustion agony.”
133. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” –John F. Kennedy
134. Great leaders are also role models in life
135. “A good leader 'serves', mentors, builds and achieves the target as a team.”
136. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” - Tony Blair
137. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” —Jack Welch, American business executive, chemical engineer, and writer
138. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
139. A leader is the most important aspect of an organization
140. “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
141. “Earn your leadership every day.” –Michael Jordan
142. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.” —Ben Carson, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
143. “You can be a leader in your workplace, your neighborhood, or your family, all without having a title.” - Travis Bradberry
144. “I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.”
145. “The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.” Brian Tracy
146. “Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.” - Tom Peters
147. “Good leaders must first become good servants.” – Robert Greenleaf
148. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
149. “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.” –John Zenger
150. “My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.” - Thomas Paine
151. “I THINK ONE OF THE KEYS TO LEADERSHIP IS RECOGNIZING THAT EVERYBODY HAS GIFTS AND TALENTS. A GOOD LEADER WILL LEARN HOW TO HARNESS THOSE GIFTS TOWARD THE SAME GOAL.”
152. There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage. —Fuchan Yuan
153. “Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?” Brain Tracy
154. “All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting.
155. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked;
156. “You are never too small to make a difference.” —Greta Thunberg, environmental activist
157. “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”
158. “Earn your leadership every day.” - Michael Jordan
159. A great leader knows you better than you
160. “As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.” —Toni Morrison, author
161. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” —Gen. Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State
162. “If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.” — Jeff Bezos, Founder, Amazon
163. “Leaders don’t force people to follow – they invite them on a journey.” —Charles S. Lauer, author and businessman
164. “A leader is a dealer in hope.”
165. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” –Abraham Lincoln
166. “Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality.” – Warren G. Bennis, founding chairman of the Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California
167. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” —Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader and emperor
168. “One person with commitment accomplishes more than
169. “To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.”
170. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”
171. “The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in
172. “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
173. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” –Winston Churchill
174. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” — Michael Jordan, professional basketball player and Owner, Charlotte Hornets
175. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams
176. “The greatest leaders build organizations that in the end, don’t need them.”
177. A leader is a molder of consensus.
178. “The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” —Faye Wattleton, American reproductive rights activist
179. “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German poet, playwright, and novelist
180. “You are never too small to make a difference.” — Greta Thunberg, environmental activist
181. Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do, and let them surprise you with their results. - George Patton
182. “When people talk, listen completely.”
183. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
184. “Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.” Brian Tracy
185. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.”
186. “You don't need a title to be a leader.” - Mark Sanborn
187. “Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality.” Warren G. Bennis
188. “I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?”
189. “Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.” - Lyndon B Johnson
190. “I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.” - John Hume
191. “Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character.
192. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of
193. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”
194. “Sometimes leadership is planting trees under
195. Managing and Communicating Change During a Commercial Move
196. “Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.” - Margaret Wheatley
197. “People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.” —Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue
198. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. —Kenneth Blanchard
199. “If you really want to grow as an entrepreneur, you’ve got to learn to delegate.” Richard Branson
200. “Leaders don't inflict pain, they share pain.”
201. “When people talk, listen completely.” –Ernest Hemingway
202. “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” –John Buchan
203. “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” W. Clement Stone
204. “Make people feel like the hero of their journey and they will do more.”- Maxime Lagacé
205. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” — Stephen Covey, author, businessman and speaker
206. “A successful leadership can steer the vehicle of social and economic systems into a success machine.”
207. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” –John Maxwell
208. “Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility - toughness for accountability - flexibility to adapt changes with a compassionate & caring heart for self and others.”
209. “Success in today's competitive marketplace favors leaders who are transparent and forward thinking, those who promote and celebrate diversity, and individuals who maintain a commitment to inclusion.”
210. “Leadership is about helping other people to be better.”
211. If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing. —Benjamin Franklin
212. A great leader must be a great learner
213. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. —Theodore Roosevelt
214. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done."
215. “It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.”
216. “The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”
217. A leader lead from the heart
218. “Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like
219. “Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.” –Harold Geneen
220. “Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.” - Diogenes
221. It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. —Latin Proverb
222. “If you do every job like you’re going to do it for the rest of your life, that’s when you get noticed.” - Mary Barra
223. “A year from now you will wish you had started today.” —Karen Lamb, author
224. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” –Mahatma Gandhi
225. “Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership
226. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
227. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” Brian Tracy
228. “Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness
229. “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.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
230. “True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that
231. “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
232. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
233. “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men
234. “Leaders walk a fine line between self-confidence and humility.” —Stanley McChrystal, retired United States Army General
235. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.” Brian Tracy
236. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” —Warren Buffett, investor
237. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. —Stephen Covey
238. “Do not wait; the time will never be “just right.” Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” Napoleon Hill
239. “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, author and entrepreneur
240. “A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.” –Robert Townsend
241. “If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.” – Benjamin Hooks, former director of the NAACP
242. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn, American entrepreneur
243. “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain
244. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” John D. Rockefeller
245. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus — Martin Luther King Jr.
246. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” — Aristotle, Greek philosopher
247. I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. —Dee Dee Myers
248. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” - John F. Kennedy
249. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” — Mother Teresa, Catholic Church Saint of Calcutta
250. “Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences.” Brian Tracy
251. “Earn your leadership every day.” – Michael Jordan, former NBA basketball player
252. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
253. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower
254. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
255. “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
256. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. —Bill Gates
257. “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem
258. “A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”
259. “Leadership should be focused on extending the ladder of opportunity for everyone.” - Justin Trudeau
260. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.” John C. Maxwell
261. “He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.”
262. “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
263. “Leadership is an action, not a position.” –Donald McGannon
264. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and
265. “For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.” - Arnold Schwarzenegger
266. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” - Mother Teresa
267. “The growth and development of people is the
268. Anyone, anywhere can make a positive difference. - Mark Sanborn
269. “The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.” - Seth Godin
270. “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
271. “People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.” Brian Tracy
272. I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. —Warren Bennis
273. “Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.”
274. One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. —Arnold Glasow
275. “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.”
276. “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.”
277. “You manage things; you lead people.”
278. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch, former GE chairman and CEO
279. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” –Nancy D. Solomon
280. “Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership” — Dee Hock
281. “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
282. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”
283. 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
284. Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. —Jesse Jackson
285. Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. —John Zenger
286. Earn your leadership every day. –Michael Jordan
287. “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
288. “You can’t move up in the staircase of leadership unless you are emotionally intelligent.”
289. To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. —Andre Malraux
290. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.” —Dianne Feinstein, Senior United States Senator
291. “If you don’t believe in yourself, why is anyone else going to believe in you.”
292. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
293. Leader’s vision is one of the most important things
294. “You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.”
295. “To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It’s about stimulating them. It’s about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve – and to do that with a purpose”- Christine Lagarde
296. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” Jack Welch
297. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
298. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” —Kurt Vonnegut
299. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.”
300. “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, philosopher and writer
301. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” –Publilius Syrus
302. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. —Max Lucado
303. “Find the smartest people you can and surround yourself with them.” - Marissa Meyer
304. “The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.” – Walter Lippmann, writer, reporter and political commentator
305. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” — William Arthur Ward, American motivational writer.
306. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”
307. “The leader has the mandate to communicate his priorities and at the same time provide an environment to achieve them.”
308. “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.”– President Ronald Reagan
309. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
310. “My own definition of leadership is this: the capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.” —General Montgomery, British Army Officer
311. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut
312. “Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.”
313. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – President John Quincy Adams
314. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. —John F. Kennedy
315. Peoples need to lead
316. “To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
317. “Earn your leadership every day.” Michael Jordan
318. “The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.” Brian Tracy
319. “I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.”
320. “Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.” – U.S. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
321. “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
322. “Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.” Brian Tracy
323. “The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.” – Albert Einstein, physicist
324. “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
325. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”- John C. Maxwell
326. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”
327. A leader is a dealer in hope. —Napoleon Bonaparte
328. “Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.” - Warren Bennis
329. “You manage things; you lead people.” - Grace Hopper
330. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” —Peter F. Drucker, Austrian-American management consultant, educator, and author
331. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
332. Leader’s courage become the team’s courage
333. “He who has great power should use it lightly.”
334. “A leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding the potential in people and processes.”
335. “The good leader repeats the good news, keeps the worst to himself.”
336. “It’s okay to admit what you don’t know. It’s okay to ask for help. And it’s more than okay to listen to the people you lead – in fact, it’s essential.” —Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors
337. “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
338. A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. - Lao Tzu
339. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”- Warren Buffett
340. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —Barack Obama, former U.S. President
341. “Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.”
342. “Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.” - Oprah Winfrey
343. “A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.” –Joel Barker
344. A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. — Russel Ewing
345. “Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.”
346. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
347. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” –Martin Luther King Jr.
348. “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”
349. “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<
350. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground”.
351. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
352. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” - Colin Powell
353. Leadership is a learning process
354. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. —Tom Peters
355. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
356. “I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through.” –Edward Rickenbacker
357. “True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but
358. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. —Peter Drucker
359. Leaders are a problem-solvers
360. “A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.” — Leroy Eimes
361. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
362. “To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.” — Pat Riley, former professional basketball head coach
363. “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.”
364. “True leadership lies in guiding others to success–in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.” –Bill Owens
365. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. —Peter Drucker
366. Leadership is influence. —John C. Maxwell
367. “Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.”
368. “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
369. “Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better.”
370. “Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone’s following you.” –Henry Gilmer
371. People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. —John Maxwell
372. “You don't lead by pointing and telling people someplace to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.” — Ken Kesey, American novelist and essayist
373. “Hence, leadership has to swim in the currents that breed issue after issue to transform the organisation into a care cathedral.”
374. “Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.”- Winston Churchill
375. “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, author, speaker, and pastor
376. Leader set the standard
377. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally
378. “A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.” - Nelson Mandela
379. “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
380. “Leadership isn't about having all the answers, it's about knowing which questions to ask and inspiring your whole team to reach their full potential.”
381. 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
382. Essentials of Leadership
383. “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
384. My responsibility is getting all my players playing for the name on the front of the jersey, not the one on the back. –Unknown
385. “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
386. “Time will dig my heart deep to drain the shallow streams of grief.”
387. “The key to success is action.” Brian Tracy
388. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” —George Patton, general in the United States Army
389. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”- Henry David Thoreau
390. “Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.”
391. Leader raises a hand when it is needed the most
392. The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. —Eric Hoffer
393. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” - William Arthur Ward
394. “The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
395. “The three ‘C’s’ of leadership are consideration, caring, and courtesy. Be polite to everyone.” Brian Tracy
396. “A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.” - J.P. Morgan
397. “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” — General George Patton, United States Army
398. “The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.” - Sheryl Sandberg
399. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” - Margaret Thatcher
400. “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” - Amelia Earhart
401. “The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.”
402. “A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t.” - Jack Ma
403. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”
404. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.”
405. “The price of greatness is responsibility.”
406. We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity. —Marco Rubio
407. “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” - Mahatma Gandhi
408. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” - Ralph Nader
409. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” —Ralph Nader, American political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney
410. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. - Tom Peters
411. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.” — Peter Drucker, Austrian writer and management consultant
412. “To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
413. “Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.”
414. “Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.” - Max De Pree
415. “Leadership is not just about giving energy… it’s unleashing other people’s energy.” - Paul Polman
416. 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
417. “One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
418. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” –John D. Rockefeller
419. “Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
420. “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
421. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” - Elon Musk
422. “If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” —Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher
423. “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.” – Aristotle
424. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” –Edith Wharton
425. “Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.” - Stephen Covey
426. “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
427. “Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.” - Robin Sharma
428. “Leaders don’t force people to follow – they invite them on a journey.” - Charles S. Lauer
429. “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” — Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher and writer
430. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” - Max Lucado
431. “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.
432. “Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.”
433. Never give an order that can't be obeyed. —General Douglas MacArthur
434. Leaders sacrifice too
435. “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” – John Buchan, novelist, historian and politician
436. “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
437. “True leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed… Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.”
438. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” —John Maxwell, author, speaker, and pastor
439. “If you delegate tasks, you create followers. If you delegate authority, you create leaders”.
440. “All leaders are readers.” - Jim Rohn
441. “It doesn’t matter how great your original product or idea is, if you can’t build a great company, then your product will not endure.”- Brian Chesky
442. “You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership.” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower
443. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.” –Peter F. Drucker
444. “Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” —E. Joseph Cossman, inventor and businessman
445. Leaders empower other
446. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”
447. “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.” —Sara Blakely, founder & CEO of Spanx
448. “Rather than focusing just on the "right answer," leadership is created by asking the "right questions.”
449. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” - Margaret Fuller
450. “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.” —Isaac Newton, English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer
451. “Remember, feedback is meant to address the problem, not the person.”
452. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” —Malala Yousafzai, activist
453. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” —Stephen R. Covey, American educator
454. “I’m all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself.
455. “The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.” –Carlos Ghosn
456. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better. —Bill Bradley
457. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” —William Arthur Ward, writer
458. “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.”
459. “Power isn’t control at all – power is strength, and giving that strength
460. A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. —Ovid
461. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” - Seth Godin
462. You don’t need a title to be a leader. –Multiple Attributions
463. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward, author
464. “The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” - Faye Wattleton
465. “Leadership is an action, not a position.” - Donald McGannon
466. Whatever you are, be a good one. —Abraham Lincoln
467. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. —Eleanor Roosevelt
468. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
469. “The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.” – Ken Blanchard
470. “No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.”- Pope Francis
471. A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. —John Maxwell
472. He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. —Solon
473. Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. —Stephen Covey
474. “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” - Dalai Lama
475. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way” — John C Maxwell
476. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State
477. “You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.”
478. “Learning is not a one-time event or a periodic luxury. Great leaders in great companies recognize that the ability to constantly learn, innovate, and improve is vital to their success.” Amy Edmondson
479. “Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.” –Diogenes of Sinope
480. “A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves. ” – Unknown
481. “The organisations are passing through a vale of tears, and for once, it is not entirely the fault of leadership. So where do we go from here?”
482. “You manage things; you lead people.” –Grace Murray Hopper
483. “As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership.”
484. You can’t force to lead someone
485. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”
486. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it” — Dwight D Eisenhower
487. “You either run with lions or walk with sheep.” - Matshona Dhliwayo
488. “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
489. “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, anthropologist
490. “If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.” Harvey Mackay
491. “Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.” —Mary D. Poole, author
492. Lead from the front in danger
493. Leadership is an action, not a position.” - Donald McGannon
494. “If you’re afraid of failure, you don’t deserve to be successful.” — Charles Barkley, former professional basketball player and current NBA analyst
495. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” - Plato
496. “Leadership is an action, not a position.” - Donald McGannon
497. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” - Sheryl Sandberg
498. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”
499. A Great leader always boosts your confidence
500. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” - Martin Luther King Jr
501. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” — Winston Churchill
502. “To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”
503. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” –Seth Godin
504. “You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.” – Sam Rayburn, former speaker of the House
505. “Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.”
506. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” - Barack Obama
507. “You can be a leader in your workplace, your neighborhood, or your family, all without having a title.” —Travis Bradberry, author
508. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” —Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister
509. “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” —Chuck Swindoll, Christian pastor and radio preacher
510. “Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?”
511. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” - Oprah Winfrey
512. “Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.” - George Patton
513. “In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.”
514. “No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.” Andrew Carnegie
515. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” Bill George
516. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” —Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady, American writer, and activist
517. “Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.” - Mary D. Poole
518. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. —Aristotle
519. “He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.” – Niccolo Machiavelli
520. “The function of leadership is to produce
521. “Leadership is not about gender, race, color etc. it is all about having strong values, a balanced mind, ability to deliver, and an attitude to serve.”
522. “A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.” Simon Sinek
523. Where there is no vision, the people perish. —Proverbs 29:18
524. You manage things; you lead people. —Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
525. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
526. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.”
527. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
528. “A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.” –M.D. Arnold
529. “The price of greatness is responsibility.”- Winston Churchill
530. “It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.” - Queen Elizabeth II
531. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” —Peter F. Drucker, author and educator
532. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right
533. “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.” —Tom Landry, former Dallas Cowboys coach
534. “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
535. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” –John C. Maxwell
536. “Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.”
537. Leaders provide a platform
538. Great leaders know their team strength
539. “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, American editor and journalist
540. “I don’t want yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.” — Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-American film producer
541. “Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led.” Ross Perot
542. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple
543. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.”
544. “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
545. “The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” —Tony Blair, British politician
546. “To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.”
547. “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
548. “The core of leadership is serving in humility, for humility is the aroma that inspires people to follow and be motivated to make a difference in excellence.”
549. “A MAN WHO WANTS TO LEAD THE ORCHESTRA MUST TURN HIS BACK ON THE CROWD.”
550. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. — General George Patton
551. “Strong leadership means treating others with respect and kindness, and building up everyone around you to be the best version of themselves.” — Monica Eaton, Co-Founder and COO, Chargebacks911
552. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy
553. “Leadership is not just some empty formulas but establishing deep connection at soul levels through service, integrity, passion, perseverance and equanimity.”
554. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. —Jack Welch
555. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”- Henry Ford
556. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
557. “We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw
558. “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
559. Types of Leadership
560. “To add value to others, one must first value others.” –John Maxwell
561. “Strong teams won’t be told what to do. They work together to figure out what to do.” — Elon Musk, CEO, Tesla
562. “The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” — Fay Wattleton, reproductive rights activist
563. “Leaders need to deliberately build inclusive cultures where those ideas and talents can flourish.”
564. “The little things matter as much, if not more, than the bigger things.” — Adrian Swinscoe, customer experience consultant
565. 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
566. “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?”
567. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” - John Quincy Adams
568. “The important thing is this: to be able to give up in any given moment all that we are for what we can become.” –DeSeaux
569. “A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.”
570. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte, military leader
571. “You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.”