Quotes About Leadership

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Leadership

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

 

 

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

 

~Eric Hoffer

 

 

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

 

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

 

 

To lead the people, walk behind them.

 

~Lao-Tzu

 

 

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system. That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.
~ Marie Lu, Legend

 

 

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

 

~Lee Iacocca

 

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgement.
Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgement.

 

 

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

 

 

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.  He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

 

~Ralph Nader

 

 

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

 

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

 

 

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

 

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

~Tony Blair

 

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

 

 

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
~ Dolly Parton

 

 

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.

 

~Vince Lombardi

 

 

Power isn’t control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
~ Beth Revis, Across the Universe

 

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

 

 

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

 

 

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men — the other 999 follow women.
~ Groucho Marx

 

The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

 

 

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

 

~Golda Meir

 

 

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.

 

 

A leader leads by example not by Force.

 

~Sun Tzu

 

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve

 

 

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
~ Lao Tzu

 

 

Leaders need to be optimists.  Their vision is beyond the present.

 

~Rudy Giuliani

 

Your job is to get your audience to care about you obsessions.
Your job is to get your audience to care about you obsessions.

 

 

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
~ Peter F. Drucker

 

 

I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people.

 

~Indira Gandhi

 

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.
The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.

 

 

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

 

~ John F. Kennedy

 

 

A leader is best
When people barely know that he exists.
~Witter Bynner

 

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

 

 

A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.
~ Brandon Sanderson

 

 

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

 

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.

 

 

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
~ Aristotle

 

 

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.

 

~Dennis A. Peer

 

Tell me and Ill forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
Tell me and Ill forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.

 

 

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

 

 

Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

 

~Thomas J. Watson

 

He that would have the fruit must climb the tree
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree

 

 

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

 

 

You do not lead by hitting people over the head.  That’s assault, not leadership.

 

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.

 

 

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

 

 

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

 

~ Albert Schweitzer

 

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

 

 

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

 

 

Leadership is action, not position.

 

~ Donald H. McGannon

 

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

 

 

The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
~ Colin Powell

 

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says “Go!” – a leader says “Let’s go!”

 

~ E.M. Kelly