Leadership Quotes

160. God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

^{Charles Stanley}

161. There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

^{Bertolt Brecht}

162. Empowerment isn’t a buzzword among leadership gurus. It’s a proven technique where leaders give their teams the appropriate training, tools, resources, and guidance to succeed.

^{John Rampton}

163. Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

^{Robert Kiyosaki}

164. Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

^{Tom Landry}

165. 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.

^{Ben Carson}

166. Education is the mother of leadership.

^{Wendell Willkie}

167. Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

^{Andy Dunn}

168. The highest calling of leadership is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others. We need a leader who will lead the resurgence of this great nation and unlock its potential once again.

^{Carly Fiorina}

169. The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.

^{Jack Ma}

170. Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

^{Omar N. Bradley}

171. The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.

^{Theodore Hesburgh}

172. Leadership contains certain elements of good management, but it requires that you inspire, that you build durable trust. For an organization to be not just good but to win, leadership means evoking participation larger than the job description, commitment deeper than any job contract’s wording.

^{Stanley A. McChrystal}

173. The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

^{Mao Zedong}

174. Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

^{Russel Honore}

175. Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

^{J. Donald Walters}

176. Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

^{Lewis H. Lapham}

177. Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

^{Jeff Bezos}

178. No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better – because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

^{Jim Yong Kim}

179. Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners – language, behavior, and actions – are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

^{Frances Hesselbein}

180. As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

^{Mark McKinnon}

181. Character matters; leadership descends from character.

^{Rush Limbaugh}

182. A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

^{John Updike}

183. It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

^{Jackie Stewart}

184. I’ve always maintained – a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

^{Gautam Gambhir}

185. The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

^{Faye Wattleton}

186. Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you’ll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I’m gone. But I know that the steps we’re taking are the right steps.

^{Jennifer Granholm}

187. Leadership is not a popularity contest; it’s about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.

^{Robin S. Sharma}

188. The tradition that I come from has a great influence on Karnataka. Not just politically – it’s also my social and moral responsibility to draw citizens facing bad governance and lawlessness to a leadership that is capable of delivering good governance and development.

^{Yogi Adityanath}

189. A good cult delivers on its promises. A good cult nourishes the needs of its members, has transparency and integrity, and creates provisions for challenging its leadership openly. A good cult expands the freedoms and well-being of its members rather than limits them.

^{Philip Zimbardo}

190. The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

^{Kobe Bryant}

191. Grades don’t measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A’s in school.

^{Thomas J. Stanley}

192. Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.

^{Andy Stanley}

193. 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}

194. It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

^{William Pollard}

195. I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You’ve got to be truthful. I don’t think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you’ve got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.

^{Howard Schultz}

196. Taking on a leadership role doesn’t mean that you only have to be personally ambitious.

^{Jacinda Ardern}

197. We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leadership skills. They understand teamwork, and they’re adaptable. Bottom line, hiring veterans is good for business.

^{Randall L. Stephenson}

198. I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

^{Lee Iacocca}

199. Arthur Scargill’s leadership of the miners’ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed the N.U.M. as an effective fighting force within British trade unionism for the next 20 years. If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union, Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader.

^{Jimmy Reid}

200. The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we’re gunning for leadership.

^{Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.}

201. If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

^{Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie}

202. I won the leadership of the Conservative Party as a pro-choice Conservative MP, one with a strong mandate.

^{Erin O’Toole}

203. Everything rises and falls on leadership.

^{John C. Maxwell}

204. I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.

^{Ron Kind}

205. Leadership can’t be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can’t fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

^{Junior Seau}

206. In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

^{Jim Mattis}

207. Leadership is hard. It’s a skill. It’s a technique.

^{Jocko Willink}

208. As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women’s issues, in bringing down the population growth rate… as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension – that of a mother.

^{Benazir Bhutto}

209. There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

^{Shiv Khera}

210. The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, andthe determination of its direction into their own hands.

^{Rosa Luxemburg}