1. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

2. “Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people.

3. “The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.” – Albert Einstein, physicist

4. “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

5. “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness,

6. Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.

7. Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

8. “If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.”

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

10. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." - Warren Bennis

11. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

12. “Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.” - Dave Weinbaum

13. “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

14. “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

15. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. - Kenneth Blanchard

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

17. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” —Muriel Strode, poet

18. “Are leaders born or made? This is a false dichotomy – leaders are neither born nor made. Leaders choose to be leaders.” – Stephen R. Covey

19. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” -Mohandas K. Gandhi

20. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” George Patton

21. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” - John F. Kennedy

22. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must

23. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”- Thomas Edison

24. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” ― Henry Kissinger

25. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say." - Stephen Covey

26. “The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.”

27. A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.” - Hans Finzel

28. “The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower

29. “Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.”

30. 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.

31. “A manager says “go”, a leader says “let’s go”.” — John Maxwell

32. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” –Margaret Fuller

33. “Make people feel like the hero of their journey and they will do more.”- Maxime Lagacé

34. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.” –Peter F. Drucker

35. “Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.” – Winston Churchill

36. “People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.” —Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue

37. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”

38. “The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the

39. “Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality.” Warren G. Bennis

40. “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

41. “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

42. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” —William Arthur Ward, writer

43. “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” – John Maxwell

44. “Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people.

45. “I study how to make work not suck.”

46. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” -Warren Buffett

47. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein, physicist

48. The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang. - Mary Kay Ash

49. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” - Margaret Fuller

50. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” –Abraham Lincoln

51. “It’s never too late to become original.”

52. Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

53. “The function of leadership is to produce

54. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” –Bill Bradley

55. “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

56. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

57. “Leaders don’t force people to follow – they invite them on a journey.” - Charles S. Lauer

58. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

59. Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. - Tom Landry

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

61. “A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.” —Stephen King, author

62. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” – Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister

63. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right

64. “Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.” - John Naisbitt

65. “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”

66. A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

67. “Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.” - Margaret Wheatley

68. “It’s not about you. It’s about them.”

69. “A boss has the title, a leader has the people.” - Simon Sinek

70. “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

71. “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

72. “Elicit” vs. “Illicit”: What’s the Difference?

73. “Without being willing to fail and continually get back up again, I would never have been able to find the right market and establish my product within it."

74. “It’s not about money or connections — it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.” -Mark Cuban

75. You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. - Sam Rayburn

76. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin

77. “The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee.” - Robert K. Greenleaf, Founder of the Modern Servant Leadership Movement

78. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” - Seth Godin

79. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” - Mother Teresa

80. “The price of greatness is responsibility.”- Winston Churchill

81. “Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.”

82. “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.”

83. Management works in the system; leadership works on the system. - Stephen Covey

84. “To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.”

85. “Leadership distilled down to 3 words: Make a difference.” – Robin Sharma

86. “Leadership never ascends from the pew to the pulpit, but invariably descends from the pulpit to the pew.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

87. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.” –Peter F. Drucker

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

89. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way” — John C Maxwell

90. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others”- Bill Gates

91. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”- Eleanor Roosevelt

92. Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

93. “If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.”

94. “The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.” — Barbara Sher

95. “Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.” – Tom Peters

96. “Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.” –Lyndon B Johnson

97. “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

98. Leadership is intentional influence. - Michael McKinney

99. “You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.”

100. “The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.”

101. “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”

102. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.” –Dianne Feinstein

103. “You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

104. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.”- Walt Disney

105. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence, and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.”

106. “The effective leader recognizes that they are more dependent on their people than they are on them. Walk softly.” Brian Tracy

107. A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

108. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” - Seth Godin

109. “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” - Amelia Earhart

110. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.” –Brian Tracy

111. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” –Arnold Glasow

112. “I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?”

113. “The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity… out of discord, harmony… and out of difficulty, opportunity.” -Albert Einstein

114. “Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” -Rumi

115. “If you don’t believe in yourself, why is anyone else going to believe in you.” – Tom Brady, New England Patriots quarterback

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

117. “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.” - Alexander the Great

118. “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

119. One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

120. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” Brian Tracy

121. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

122. “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”- J.K. Rowling

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

124. “Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determinations.” - John Seaman Garns

125. “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

126. “Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.” - Peter F. Drucker

127. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

128. “A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” - John C. Maxwell

129. “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

130. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and

131. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” Bill Gates

132. “A good leader must hate the wrong thing more than they hate the pain of doing the right thing.” —Angela Jiang, product manager

133. “Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.”– Nelson Mandela

134. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” — Stephen Covey, author, businessman and speaker

135. “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.”

136. “If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.”

137. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” —Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Independence Movement leader

138. “Leadership is not just about giving energy… it’s unleashing other people’s energy.” —Paul Polman, Dutch businessman

139. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked;

140. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” ― Peter Drucker

141. “Money is just a consequence. I always say to my team, ‘Don’t worry too much about profitability. If you do your job well, the profitability will come.’”

142. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”- Dr. Seuss

143. “A strong secure leader accepts blame and gives credit. A weak insecure leader gives blame and takes credit.” - John Wooden, Basketball Coach

144. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”

145. “People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.” –Michelle Obama

146. “The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.” —Padmasree Warrior, CEO & founder of Fable

147. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams

148. A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

149. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”- Coco Chanel

150. “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” ― Harry S. Truman

151. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

152. “In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.” - Sheryl Sandberg

153. “See the good in people and help them.” — Mahatma Gandhi

154. “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.”

155. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.” —Dianne Feinstein, Senior United States Senator

156. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”

157. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective

158. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.

159. “Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.” -Barbara Corcoran

160. Leadership is an action, not a position.

161. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” -Steve Jobs

162. You get the best efforts from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within. - Bob Nelson

163. A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

164. “There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.” —Charles F. Kettering

165. “A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.” – Sam Houston

166. “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

167. “Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.” - Robin Sharma

168. “Education is the mother of leadership” - Wendell Willkie

169. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft

170. “Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.”- Buddha

171. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte, military leader

172. “There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.”

173. “A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he

174. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” - Publilius Syrus

175. “Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.” ― L. David Marquet

176. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” —William Arthur Ward

177. The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

178. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”–Abraham Lincoln

179. “Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.” – Nelson Mandela

180. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan

181. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” ― Margaret Thatcher

182. “My jobs is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.” -Steve Jobs

183. “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

184. “Leaders are innovative, entrepreneurial, and future-oriented. They focus on getting the job done.” Brian Tracy

185. “A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.” –M.D. Arnold

186. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln

187. “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

188. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."

189. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan, Hall of Fame basketball superstar

190. “Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.” –Max Depree

191. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” – Warren Buffett, investor

192. “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”

193. “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.”

194. “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain, writer

195. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”- Henry Ford

196. “The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”

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198. “Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.”

199. “Abundance is not about providing everyone on this planet with a life of luxury—rather it’s about providing all with a life of possibility.”- Peter Diamandis

200. There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage.

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

202. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. - Woodrow Wilson

203. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”

204. To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

205. “Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.” Reed Markham

206. “Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership” — Dee Hock

207. “Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.” - Oprah Winfrey

208. “I’m all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself.

209. “You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.”

210. A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them. - M.D. Arnold

211. “You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.” – Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company

212. “Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain, author

213. “A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be.” - Jack Welch

214. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” - Steve Jobs

215. “A year from now you will wish you had started today.” —Karen Lamb, author

216. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, poet and philosopher

217. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience

218. “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

219. “One person with commitment accomplishes more than

220. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground”. – Theodore Roosevelt, former U.S. President

221. “Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.” - Max De Pree

222. “Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

223. “Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.”

224. “Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.” -Abraham Joshua Herschel

225. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. - Tom Peters

226. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.” John C. Maxwell

227. “All leaders are readers.” – Jim Rohn

228. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill

229. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. - Peter F. Drucker

230. The last is to say ’Thank You.’ In between, the leader is a servant.

231. “It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.” - Adlai Stevenson

232. “Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.” –James Humes

233. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” Jack Welch

234. “The growth and development of people is the

235. “You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.”

236. “You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.” - Jeanette Rankin

237. “The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision."

238. “The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.” Brian Tracy

239. “If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.”– Jim Rohn

240. “Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.” - Stephen Covey

241. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” —Malala Yousafzai, activist

242. Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. - Simon Sinek

243. A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.

244. “Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.” –Diogenes of Sinope

245. “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” – Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State

246. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.”

247. “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

248. “Earn your leadership every day.” – Michael Jordan, former NBA basketball player

249. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” —Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady

250. “Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.” - George Patton

251. “Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” Pete Hoekstra

252. “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, author

253. “He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.” – Niccolò Machiavelli, philosopher and writer

254. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” Bill Bradley

255. A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

256. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that count."

257. “Don’t ever diminish the power of words. Words move hearts and hearts move limbs.” -Hamza Yusuf

258. “Every great leader can take you back to a defining moment when they decided to lead.” ― John Paul Warren

259. “Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.” ― Roy T. Bennett

260. “The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.” - Seth Godin

261. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. - Max De Pree

262. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” - Steve Jobs

263. “Earn your leadership every day.” – Michael Jordan

264. “A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.” -M.D. Arnold

265. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. - Maya Angelou

266. “Who you are surrounded by often determines who you become.”

267. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower

268. 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.

269. “True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that

270. "There’s a wealth of evidence that people want to do meaningful work."

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

272. “You can be a leader in your workplace, your neighborhood, or your family, all without having a title.” - Travis Bradberry

273. “Bad leaders believe their team works for them. Great leaders believe they work for their team.” - Alexander den Heijer, Motivational Speaker

274. “Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” Bill Bradley

275. “Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.” – Robin Sharma

276. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” - Ralph Nader

277. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

278. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

279. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” –Seth Godin

280. “Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualise someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do.”

281. “Strategic leaders must not get consumed by the operational and tactical side of their work.” — Stephanie S. Mead

282. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” – Tony Blair

283. “Whatever you are, be a good one.”

284. Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. - Colin Powell

285. “Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved,

286. “Sometimes leadership is planting trees under

287. “I think of productivity as using your time to accomplish things of value to you and others.”

288. “Leadership is an action, not a position.” –Donald McGannon

289. “Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” —E. Joseph Cossman, inventor and businessman

290. “I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through.” –Edward Rickenbacker

291. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou

292. “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”

293. More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.

294. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.

295. “A leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding the potential in people and processes.” –Brené Brown

296. “Talented people are attracted to those who care about them.”

297. “A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.” –Leroy Eimes

298. “Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.”

299. “The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.” —Warren Bennis, American scholar, organizational consultant, and author

300. When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter. - Winston Churchill

301. “Complex problems like pandemics, climate change, and political polarisation call on us to stay mentally flexible."

302. Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

303. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” – Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activist

304. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” - Steve Jobs

305. “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

306. “If you’re not making some notable mistakes along the way, you’re certainly not taking enough business and career chances."

307. “Leaders shouldn’t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can’t compromise.” - Peter F. Drucker

308. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” —Margaret Fuller, American journalist and editor

309. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt, former first lady of the United States

310. “I’m a maniacal perfectionist. And if I weren’t, I wouldn’t have this company.”

311. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” —Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and former U.S. President

312. “In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes.” – John Erskine, author

313. “Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.”

314. Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

315. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves. - Eleanor Roosevelt

316. “I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist."

317. “Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down.”

318. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

319. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” –Martin Luther King Jr.

320. True leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed. Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

321. “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”

322. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” - Bill Bradley

323. “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

324. “In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.”– Sheryl Sandberg

325. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10000 ways that won’t work.” - Thomas A. Edison

326. Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

327. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – President Abraham Lincoln, former U.S. President

328. “Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.

329. “If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.” - Michelangelo

330. “Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences.” Brian Tracy

331. “In order to remain relevant, you must establish yourself as a thought leader in your industry.”- Marc Benioff

332. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.”

333. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” —Kurt Vonnegut

334. Leading people is the most challenging and, therefore, the most gratifying undertaking of all human endeavours.

335. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” John C. Maxwell

336. “Leadership distilled down to 3 words: Make a difference.” —Robin Sharma, Canadian writer

337. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” — Margaret Fuller

338. “Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.” Brian Tracy

339. “Blowing out someone else’s candle won’t make yours shine brighter.” – Anonymous

340. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” Ralph Nader

341. “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

342. You don’t need a title to be a leader.

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

344. “Leaders walk a fine line between self-confidence and humility.” —Stanley McChrystal, retired United States Army General

345. “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men

346. “Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.” - Erskine Bowles

347. “Don't criticize yourself while you're creating.”

348. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. - John C. Maxwell

349. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader and emperor

350. Trust is the essence of Leadership. - Colin Powell

351. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter F. Drucker, author and educator

352. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

353. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” –John C. Maxwell

354. “You are never too small to make a difference.” —Greta Thunberg, environmental activist

355. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” -Mother Teres

356. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” –Warren G. Bennis

357. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” -Abraham Lincoln

358. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”- Warren Buffett

359. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” - Max Lucado

360. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

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

362. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” —Warren Buffett, investor

363. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”- John C. Maxwell

364. “Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.” - Lyndon B Johnson

365. “Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.”

366. “One kind word can change someone’s entire day.” -Unknown

367. “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”– Woodrow Wilson, former U.S. President

368. “I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than

369. Leaders live by choice, not by accident.

370. 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.

371. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you

372. The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow. - Seth Godin

373. Leadership is not just about giving energy, it’s unleashing other people’s energy.

374. Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.

375. “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.” - Isaac Newton

376. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” —Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader and emperor

377. “Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” - E. Joseph Cossman

378. “The test of organization is not genius. It is its capacity to make common people achieve uncommon performance.” – Peter F. Drucker

379. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” Warren Bennis

380. “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

381. “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.”- Buddha

382. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

383. Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.

384. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” Albert Schweitzer

385. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” – Stephen Covey, author and educator

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

387. “To lead people, walk behind them.” - Lao Tzu

388. “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”

389. “Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.” -Pearl Strachan Hurd

390. “Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.” – Mike Krzyzewski, Duke basketball coach

391. “To add value to others, one must first value others.” –John Maxwell

392. A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

393. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” -Les Brown

394. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” —Steve Jobs, chairman of Apple

395. “The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you?” —Mark Sanborn, author, professional speaker, and entrepreneur

396. “One voice can change a room.” -Barack Obama

397. “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

398. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.”– Sheryl Sandberg

399. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” -Brian Tracy

400. “If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.” – Indra Nooyi, Pepsi CEO

401. “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” —Chuck Swindoll, Christian pastor and radio preacher

402. “In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.” —Sheryl Sandberg, American business executive, billionaire, and philanthropist

403. “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

404. “You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow too” — Sam Rayburn

405. “The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” —Tony Blair, British politician

406. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. - Tom Peters

407. “Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.” –Harold Geneen

408. “If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” —Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher

409. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

410. “Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.” - Sheryl Sandberg

411. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions.

412. “Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” - George Patton

413. “You can be a leader in your workplace, your neighborhood, or your family, all without having a title.” —Travis Bradberry, author

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

415. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut

416. “Leadership is hard to define, and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.”

417. “Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.”

418. “Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness

419. “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

420. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” —Maya Angelou, civil rights activist and poet

421. “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

422. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”

423. “The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders

424. “Leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory.” - Jocko Willink

425. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” —John Quincy Adams, former U.S. President

426. “You don’t need a title to be a leader.” —Unknown

427. “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” – Mother Teresa, Catholic nun and saint

428. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” —Max Lucado, author and pastor

429. “Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.”

430. “A real leader faces the music even when he doesn't like the tune.” - Arnold H. Glasgow

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

432. “My best successes came on the heels of failures.” — Barbara Corcoran

433. “Leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory.” – Jocko Willink

434. “Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things.”- Peter F. Drucker

435. “If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.” Harvey Mackay

436. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

437. “Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone’s following you.” –Henry Gilmer

438. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?” —Ayn Rand, author

439. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. - Mahatma Gandhi

440. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” Bill George

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

442. Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

443. “The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.” - Kenneth H. Blanchard

444. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it” — Dwight D Eisenhower

445. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” –Publilius Syrus

446. “Leadership is an action, not a position.” - Donald McGannon

447. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren G. Bennis

448. “The art of communication is the language of leadership.” -James Humes

449. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” – President Theodore Roosevelt

450. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian independence movement leader

451. “Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”

452. “As a leader, it’s a major responsibility on your shoulders to practice the behavior you want others to follow.” —Himanshu Bhatia, CEO of Chesterfield

453. “If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.” - Jack Weatherford

454. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. - Booker T. Washington

455. “Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” –Pete Hoekstra

456. 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.

457. “Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are

458. The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you?

459. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

460. “A good leader must hate the wrong thing more than they hate the pain of doing the right thing.” - Angela Jiang

461. “You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.” —Sam Rayburn

462. “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

463. “Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in

464. Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders. - Steve Ballmer

465. “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

466. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou

467. “You are never too small to make a difference.”

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469. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself,

470. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” —Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister

471. “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.

472. “If you delegate tasks, you create followers. If you delegate authority, you create leaders”.

473. “Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.” –Warren Bennis

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

475. “Business leaders cannot be bystanders.” - Howard Schultz

476. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of

477. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” - Sheryl Sandberg

478. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.” – John C. Maxwell

479. “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”

480. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. - Bill Bradley

481. “Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.” Diogenes of Sinope

482. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

483. “A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

484. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” Stephen Covey

485. “Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.” – U.S. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

486. “If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.” - Brad Szollose

487. Leadership is an action, not a position. - Donald McGannon

488. Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. - Jesse Jackson

489. The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team, to be solution focused and not problem focused. — Unknown

490. “Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.” - Bill Clinton

491. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” - Tony Blair

492. “Be careful what you say. You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten years later, the wounds are still there.” -Joel Osteen

493. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” – Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

494. “A strong leader avoids becoming overconfident to the point of impaired judgment.” -Daniel Lubetzky

495. “Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream.”- Peter McWilliams

496. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. - Harvey Firestone

497. 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.

498. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” –Nancy D. Solomon

499. I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. -Warren Bennis

500. “We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw

501. “The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been.” –Henry Kissinger

502. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” —John Maxwell, author, speaker, and pastor

503. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” - John F. Kennedy

504. “If you cannot allow people to do their jobs … nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.”

505. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” – Peter Drucker

506. “It takes bravery to lead people, but the will to learn from others to succeed in it.” -Ellie Hubbard

507. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.” Brian Tracy

508. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. [Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22, 1963]” ― John F. Kennedy

509. “You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results."

510. “Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.” Brian Tracy

511. “Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.”

512. “Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” –David Star Jordan

513. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” - John Quincy Adams

514. “The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.” — Mary Kay Ash

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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

517. “No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.”- Pope Francis

518. “Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate, and to humble.” -Yehuda Berg

519. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” - Henry Kissinger

520. “Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can be only forgiven, not forgotten.” -Unknown

521. “Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.” General Colin Powell

522. “Leadership can’t be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed,

523. “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” John Maxwell

524. “Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership

525. “The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.” — Padmasree Warrior

526. “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.”

527. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others” ― Bill Gates

528. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

529. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

530. “A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.” M.D. Arnold

531. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” —Margaret Thatcher

532. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

533. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” —Stephen R. Covey, American educator

534. “What do you want to be when you grow up? As a kid, that was my least favourite question.”

535. “Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge

536. “Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.”

537. “Leaders walk a fine line between self-confidence and humility.” - Stanley McChrystal

538. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” Brian Tracy

539. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again,

540. “The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people.” – Simon Sinek

541. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” - Abraham Lincoln

542. “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

543. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” –Ray Kroc

544. “Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.”

545. “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” -Zig Ziglar

546. “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” -John Keating

547. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower

548. “Hire character. Train skill.” —Peter Schutz, former president and CEO of Porsche

549. “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

550. “People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.” –Anna Wintour

551. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” – Max Lucado, Christian author and preacher

552. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes

553. “The greatest leaders build organizations that in the end, don’t need them.”

554. “Wolves don’t lose sleep over the opinions of sheep.” -Anonymous

555. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” –Winston Churchill

556. “True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but

557. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” - Theodore Roosevelt

558. “A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.” - Nelson Mandela

559. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” —Warren Buffett, investor

560. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

561. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”

562. “He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly."

563. “The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” —Faye Wattleton, American reproductive rights activist

564. “Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.” - Diogenes

565. “Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?” Brain Tracy

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

567. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader — John Quincy Adams

568. “Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.” -Thomas Jefferson

569. “If it’s to be, it’s up to me. Therefore, if it’s up to me, it’s to be” -Anonymous

570. “People who succeed at the highest level are not lucky; they’re doing something differently than everyone else.” -Tony Robbins

571. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

572. “Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.” —Margaret Wheatley, writer, teacher, and speaker

573. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."

574. The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

575. “You manage things; you lead people.”

576. 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.

577. He who has great power should use it lightly. - Seneca

578. “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

579. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” –Ralph Nader

580. “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

581. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”

582. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally

583. “You manage things; you lead people.” –Grace Murray Hopper

584. 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

585. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” –Margaret Thatcher

586. “He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious."

587. Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses. - Mitt Romney

588. Strong people don’t put others down, they lift them up — Michael P Watson

589. Leaders don't force people to follow—they invite them on a journey. - Charles S. Lauer

590. “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

591. To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. - Friedrich Nietzsche

592. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

593. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”- John C. Maxwell

594. “It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially

595. “When you can’t control what’s happening, challenge yourself to control how you respond to what’s happening. That’s where your power is.” -Anonymous

596. “Earn your leadership every day.” –Michael Jordan

597. “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.” – Aristotle

598. “My favourite bias is the ‘I’m not biased’ bias, in which people believe they’re more objective than others.”

599. 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

600. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams

601. The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. - Ray Kroc

602. “Earn your leadership every day.” -Michael Jordan

603. “Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.”

604. “Words are free. It’s how you use them that may cost you.” -KushandWizdom

605. “As we look ahead into the next century,

606. “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

607. “The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been.” - Henry Kissinger

608. “When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.” - Richard Branson

609. “People ask the difference between the leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives” — Theodore Roosevelt

610. “I don’t go by the rule book. I lead from the heart, not the head.” — Princess Diana

611. “A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.” - Leroy Eimes

612. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”– John C. Maxwell

613. “Your circle should want to see you win. Your circle should clap loudly when you have good news. If not, get a new circle.” -Anonymous

614. “Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don’t forget to lift someone up.”

615. Leaders don’t force people to follow – they invite them on a journey.

616. “Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.” - Warren Bennis

617. “A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.” - J.P. Morgan

618. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you

619. “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” –John Buchan

620. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” - Martin Luther King Jr

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

622. “A competent leader can get efficient service from poor

623. “Good words are worth much, and cost little.” -George Herbert

624. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” -Stephen Covey

625. “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

626. “Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.”- Winston Churchill

627. The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. - Ken Blanchard

628. “When people talk, listen completely.” –Ernest Hemingway

629. “Leading people is like cooking. Don’t stir too much. It annoys the

630. “As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.” - Toni Morrison

631. “Leadership is not about you. It's about investing in the growth of others.'” - Ken Blanchard, Author and Business Consultant

632. “A good leader must hate the wrong thing more than they hate the pain of doing the right thing.” ― Angela Jiang

633. “Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers.” - John Gardner

634. Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

635. Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. - John D. Rockefeller

636. “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” - Jack Welch

637. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” - Mother Teresa

638. “Leadership is not wielding authority — it’s empowering people” — Becky Brodin

639. “My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.” - Thomas Paine

640. “Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character.

641. “To lead people, walk behind them.” - Lao Tzu

642. “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success;

643. “The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” - Faye Wattleton

644. You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that’s assault, not leadership. Dwight D. Eisenhower

645. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” — President Theodore Roosevelt

646. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” -Publilius Syrus

647. “There are no office hours for leaders.” –Cardinal J. Gibbons

648. Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. - Peter F. Drucker

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

650. “Originality brings more bumps in the road, yet it leaves us with more happiness and a greater sense of meaning.”

651. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle, Greek philosopher

652. “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem

653. “To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

654. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams

655. “The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” –Tony Blair

656. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” -Abraham Lincoln

657. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” –Brian Tracy

658. “Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

659. “The tongue has no bones, but is strong enough to break a heart. So be careful with your words.” -Unknown

660. “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

661. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus — Martin Luther King Jr.

662. Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. - Albert Schweitzer

663. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

664. “Power isn’t control at all – power is strength, and giving that strength

665. “The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.” –Carlos Ghosn

666. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” John F. Kennedy

667. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” -Margaret Thatcher

668. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” William Falkner

669. “Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.” — Margaret Wheatley

670. “Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”

671. “Greatness is consistency driven by a deep love of the work.”- Maria Popova

672. “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.” – Alexander the Great, former king of Macedonia

673. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

674. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart, American aviation pioneer

675. “Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like

676. “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.”

677. “All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

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

679. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?”

680. “Find the smartest people you can and surround yourself with them.” - Marissa Meyer

681. “Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.” - Mary D. Poole

682. “All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting.

683. Complete my “30 Day Accountability Challenge”

684. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” - Oprah Winfrey

685. “A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.” ― Leroy Eimes

686. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

687. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.”

688. “We live in a rapidly changing world, where we need to spend as much time rethinking as we do thinking."

689. “Earn your leadership every day.” - Michael Jordan

690. “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

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

692. “The key to success is action.” Brian Tracy

693. There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage. - Fuchan Yuan

694. “You manage things; you lead people.” – Grace Murray Hopper, U.S. Navy rear admiral

695. Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

696. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” –Edith Wharton

697. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” - Margaret Thatcher

698. “It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.” - Queen Elizabeth II

699. “You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.” -Jeanette Rankin

700. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done."

701. “The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in

702. “In my position, you have to read when you want to write, and talk when you would like to read.”

703. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” –Stephen Covey

704. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.” – Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senator

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

706. “Followers think and talk about their problems....Leaders think and talk about the solutions.” - Brian Tracy

707. “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

708. “Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.” – Oscar Wilde, writer and poet

709. “Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.” Brian Tracy

710. “Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.” Jessica Jackley

711. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward, author

712. If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything. - Tom Rath

713. Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.

714. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” – Seth Godin

715. Earn your leadership every day. - Michael Jordan

716. “He who has great power should use it lightly.”

717. “The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.” – Zig Ziglar

718. “You manage things; you lead people.” -Grace Murray Hopper

719. “You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.” – Henry Ford

720. “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” —Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State

721. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

723. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

724. “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” Carl Jung

725. “When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.” Craig Groeschel

726. “Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.”- Warren Bennis

727. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” –Harold R. McAlindon

728. Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. - Jesse Jackson

729. “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” - Confucius

730. “All leaders are readers.” - Jim Rohn

731. “The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” — Faye Wattleton

732. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” –John F. Kennedy

733. “Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.” —Mary D. Poole, author

734. “Leadership should be focused on extending the ladder of opportunity for everyone.” - Justin Trudeau

735. “Leadership distilled down to 3 words: Make a difference.”- Robin Sharma

736. “Attract what you expect, reflect what you desire. Become what you respect, mirror what you admire.” – Anonymous

737. “To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”

738. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” - Henry Adams

739. “Implementing They Ask, You Answer with IMPACT’s help has transformed my business.”

740. A leader is a dealer in hope.

741. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” — Estée Lauder

742. “Leading people is the most challenging and, therefore, the most gratifying undertaking of all human endeavors.” – Jocko Willink

743. “Leadership is an ever-evolving position.” –Mike Krzyzewski

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

745. Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. - Donald Rumsfeld

746. “Leadership is self-made. People who have deliberately decided to become problem solvers lead better.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

747. Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. - Robert L. Stevenson

748. Anyone, anywhere can make a positive difference. - Mark Sanborn

749. “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

750. “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

751. “People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.” - Thomas Sowell

752. “Education is the mother of leadership.” —Wendell Willkie, lawyer

753. “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” -Edgar Allan Poe

754. “A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.” - Stephen King

755. “Emotional intelligence is the ability to use emotion to increase your own and others’ success.”

756. “I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.” - John Hume

757. “The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.”

758. “I think that my leadership style is to get people to

759. “Earn your leadership every day.” Michael Jordan

760. “Practice Golden Rule Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.” Brian Tracy

761. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi, legendary Green Bay Packers coach

762. “The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.” - Sheryl Sandberg

763. “Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.” James Freeman Clark

764. “Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.”

765. “People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.”

766. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – President Abraham Lincoln

767. Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

768. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

769. “If I won’t be myself, who will?” -Alfred Hitchcock

770. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.” - John C. Maxwell

771. “Success is an exception, so be exceptional.”

772. Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.

773. “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

774. “A leader operating in enemy territory should always project positivity and optimism.”- Naval Ravikant

775. The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

776. “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.”

777. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” - Helen Keller

778. “You manage things; you lead people.” - Grace Hopper

779. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy, former U.S. President

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

781. “Do what is right, not what is easy.” - Unknown

782. “Respect is the key determinant of high-performance leadership. how much people respect you determines how well they perform.” Brian Tracy

783. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.“— John Quincy Adams

784. People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision — John C Maxwell

785. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” - Steve Jobs

786. “A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t.” - Jack Ma

787. “Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.”

788. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” - Jack Welch

789. “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

790. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” -Jimmy Dean

791. “When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.”

792. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple

793. The real leader has no need to lead — he is content to point the way. - Henry Miller