Leadership Quotes

4. When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

^{Ronald Reagan}

5. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

^{Warren Bennis}

6. Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It’s about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others’ success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

^{Chris Hadfield}

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

^{Dwight D. Eisenhower}

8. It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

^{Nelson Mandela}

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

^{Colin Powell}

10. Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

^{John D. Rockefeller}

11. If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

^{Henry Ford}

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

^{Martin Luther King, Jr.}

13. Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

^{Theodore Roosevelt}

14. 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}

15. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

^{Steve Jobs}

16. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.

^{Bill Bradley}

17. People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

^{Thomas Sowell}

18. If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

^{Thomas Aquinas}

19. Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.

^{J. P. Morgan}

20. 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}

21. A leader is a dealer in hope.

^{Napoleon Bonaparte}

22. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

^{John F. Kennedy}

23. Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

^{Jean-Paul Sartre}

24. If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.

^{Tom Peters}

25. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

^{Max Lucado}

26. Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

^{George Washington Carver}

27. When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

^{Roy E. Disney}

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

^{Mahatma Gandhi}

29. The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

^{Ray Kroc}

30. Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

^{George W. Bush}

31. Leadership – leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

^{Mitt Romney}

32. No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

^{Andrew Carnegie}

33. The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

^{Henry Kissinger}

34. Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

^{Jim Rohn}

35. The cautious seldom err.

^Confucius

36. Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

^{Henry Ward Beecher}

37. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

^{Bernard Baruch}

38. Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

^{W. Clement Stone}

39. In fair weather prepare for foul.

^{Thomas Fuller}

40. Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

^{Deepak Chopra}

41. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

^{Peter Drucker}

42. Clarity affords focus.

^{Thomas Leonard}

43. Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

^{Margaret Fuller}

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

^{Paul Hawken}

45. Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

^{Harold S. Geneen}

46. How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

^{David Joseph Schwartz}

47. The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

^{Mary Kay Ash}

48. Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

^{James Cash Penney}

49. Example is leadership.

^{Albert Schweitzer}

50. Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

^{Henry J. Kaiser}

51. Strong convictions precede great actions.

^{James Freeman Clarke}

52. Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

^{Chester W. Nimitz}