Best Leadership Quotes

1. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

2. 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

3. 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. – Warren Bennis

4. 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

5. 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

6. Don’t find fault, find a remedy. – Henry Ford

7. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. – Albert Einstein

8. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. – Amelia Earhart

9. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. – Charles Swindoll

10. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Christopher Columbus

11. 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

12. 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

13. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. – General George Patton

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

15. A leader is a dealer in hope. – Napoleon Bonaparte

16. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John Maxwell

17. 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

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

19.  The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. – Kenneth Blanchard

20. Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. – Brian Tracy

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

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

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

24. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. – Woodrow Wilson

25. Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts. – Erskine Bowles

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

27. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. – Bill Bradley

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

29. What you do has far greater impact than what you say. – Stephen Covey

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

31. 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

32. The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. – Ken Blanchard

33. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. – Harvey Firestone

34. We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity. – Marco Rubio

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

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

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

38. Earn your leadership every day. – Michael Jordan

39. The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet. – Theodore M. Hesbu
40. 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
41. I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? – Benjamin Disraeli
42. You manage things; you lead people. – Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
43. 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
44. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. – Warren Bennis
45. A leader is a dealer in hope. – Napoleon Bonaparte
46. You don’t need a title to be a leader. – Multiple Attributions
47. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John Maxwell
48. 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
49. 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
50. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead
51. The ability to turn a vision into reality is what leadership is all about. – International Corporate Association of Professionals (InCAP)
    
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