1,000 Inspiring Leadership Quotes To Motivate Your Team (2023)
1. “In teamwork, silence isn’t golden. It’s deadly.” ~ Mark Sanborn
2. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.” – Andrew Carnegie
3. “When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.”
4. “A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.” ~ Zig Ziglar
5. “When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.”
6. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln
7. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” – Peter F. Drucker
8. “Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
9. “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
10. “Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” – John D. Rockefeller
11. “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.”
12. “When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
13. “Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.” – Rudy Giuliani
14. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” ~ Stephen Covey
15. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” ~ Albert Einstein
16. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” —George Addair
17. “A strong leader avoids becoming over-confident to the point of impaired judgment.” – Daniel Lubetzky
18. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people.” ~ Mohandas Gandhi
19. “Where there is no guidance the people fall, But in abundance of counselors there is victory.” – Proverbs 11:14
20. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”Harold R. McAlindon
21. “Followers think and talk about their problems....Leaders think and talk about the solutions.” - Brian Tracy
22. “Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”
23. “You were created by God, hard wired with talents and personality traits that are unique to just you.”
24. “A quiet conscience makes one strong!” – Anne Frank
25. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” ~ Margaret Fuller
26. When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter. - Winston Churchill
27. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” - Steve Jobs
28. “Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.” – Proverbs 3:27
29. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” ~ George S. Patton
30. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” – Winston Churchill
31. Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. – Peter Drucker
33. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.” – Peter F. Drucker
34. “You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.” ~ Henry Ford
35. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” ~ Henry Ford
36. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” ~ Arnold Glasow
37. “A leader is a dealer in hope.”
38. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” —George Patton
39. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. – Eleanor Roosevelt
40. “Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone’s following you.” ~ Henry Gilmer
41. “A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.” – Sam Houston
42. Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. – Dianne Feinstein
43. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
44. “To add value to others, one must first value others.” ~ John Maxwell
45. “Leaders never stop learning.” Christine Caine
46. “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” – George Washington Carver
47. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
48. “Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.” – James 3:1
49. “There are no office hours for leaders.” – Cardinal J. Gibbons
50. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. - Bill Gates
51. “In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.”
52. “Leadership is the key to 99 per cent of all successful efforts.” – Erskine Bowles
53. “Character matters; leadership descends from character.” – Rush Limbaugh
54. “Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.” – Dale Canegie
55. “Some people want it to happen. Some wish it would happen. Others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
56. “Earn your leadership every day.”
57. “Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction is stupid.” – Proverbs 12:1
58. “Leading people is the most challenging and, therefore, the most gratifying undertaking of all human endeavors.” – Jocko Willink
59. The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
60. “No on else in the world has the same strengths you do because God created all of us individually.”
61. “The x-factor of great leadership is not personality, it’s humility.” Jim Collins
62. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”
63. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” ~ Michael Jordan
64. “We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.” – John C. Maxwell
65. Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. - Donald Rumsfeld
66. “The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.”
67. “A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. ”
68. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” ~ Aristotle
69. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” – Mahatma Gandhi
70. Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.
71. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” ― Margaret Thatcher
72. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” –Brian Tracy
73. “Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
74. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. - Harvey Firestone
75. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
76. “You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.” – Nelson Mandela
77. “People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.” –Michelle Obama
78. “Leadership never ascends from the pew to the pulpit, but invariably descends from the pulpit to the pew.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
79. “One measure of leadership is the calibre of people who choose to follow you.” – Dennis A. Peer
80. “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
81. “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
82. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves. - Eleanor Roosevelt
83. “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.” – Theodore Roosevelt
84. Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.
85. “Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.” – Jim Rohn
86. “A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.” ~ Polybius
87. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” Max Lucado
88. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.
89. “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill
90. “It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.” – Henry A. Kissinger
91. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” ~ Brian Tracy
92. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” Ray Kroc
93. “If you want to build something great, you should focus on what the change is that you want to make in the world.” – Mark Zuckerberg
94. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates
95. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. - Peter F. Drucker
96. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – Abraham Lincoln
97. “I don’t go by the rule book. I lead from the heart, not the head.” — Princess Diana
98. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” – John C. Maxwell
99. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams
100. “Be the leader you wish you had.”
101. “Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works too.”
102. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.” – Brian Tracy
103. “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”
104. “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” – Earl Nightingale
105. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you'll be criticised anyway.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
106. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” - Henry Kissinger
107. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
108. “To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
109. “A leader is admired, a boss is feared.” ~ Vicente Del Bosque
110. “There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.” – Norman Vincent Peale
111. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a moulder of consensus.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
112. A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
113. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” ~ John C. Maxwell
114. “The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” ~ Harvey S. Firestone
115. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” ~ Max Lucado
116. “Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.” – Harold S. Green
117. “The highest of distinctions is service to others.” – King George VI
118. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” – Stephen R. Covey
119. “Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.” – Rev. Jesse Jackson
120. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt
121. “Education is the mother of leadership” - Wendell Willkie
122. “High expectations are the key to everything.” – Sam Walton
123. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” ~ Van Gogh
124. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.” ~ John C. Maxwell
125. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” –John Quincy Adams
126. “You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership.” ―Dwight Eisenhower
127. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” Ralph Nader
128. “A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.” – Joe DiMaggio
129. Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
130. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” – Thomas Jefferson
131. “Leadership is about being of service to others, not being served by others. Be a mentor, not a boss.” Anonymous
132. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” ~ Gloria Steinem
133. “Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
134. “Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t!”
135. High expectations are the key to absolutely everything.
136. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” ~ Vince Lombardi
137. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” – Zig Ziglar
138. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. —John F. Kennedy
139. ‘Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you see can inspire you.’ – Grace Coddington
140. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” –Bill Gates
141. “I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules..”
142. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” ~ Dale Carnegie
143. To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
144. Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. - Brian Tracy
145. “I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”
146. “Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.” – Bill Owens
147. “I think leadership is something you earn, more through actions than words.” – Ander Crenshaw
148. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. - Mahatma Gandhi
149. “To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.” – Pat Riley
150. “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” – Laurence J. Peter
151. “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 Maxwell
152. “The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.” — Padmasree Warrior
153. “Taking responsibility of failure and giving credit of success to others is biggest quality of leaders.” ~ Invajy
154. Make the right decision even when no one is watching, especially when no one is watching, and you will always turn out okay. – Kim Kaupe
155. 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.
156. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” – Oprah Winfrey
157. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” ~ Bill Gates
158. To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
159. 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.
160. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
161. Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating. – Simon Sinek
162. “Business leaders cannot be bystanders.” - Howard Schultz
163. “You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
164. “Leadership is action, not position.” – Donald H. McGannon
165. A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.
166. Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
167. “A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” - John C. Maxwell
168. “De Flander has added another chapter to the emerging science of strategy execution.”
169. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” ~ Tony Blair
170. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. - Kenneth Blanchard
171. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
172. “He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, And he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.” – Proverbs 16:32
173. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
174. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
175. “Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
176. “The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.” – Henry Miller
177. “I’m a leader not a follower. Unless it’s a dark place, then you are going first.”
178. Leaders establish trust with candor, transparency, and credit.
179. “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.” – Aristotle
180. Fail often so you can succeed sooner.
181. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” ~ Beverly Sills
182. “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” – William Shakespeare
183. The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. - Ken Blanchard
184. “Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.” – Andy Stanley
185. Earn your leadership every day. - Michael Jordan
186. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” - Henry Adams
187. “The problem with being a leader is that you’re never sure if you’re being followed or chased.”
188. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.”
189. You don’t need a title to be a leader.
190. Leadership is not just about giving energy, it’s unleashing other people’s energy.
191. “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” – Matthew 6:21
192. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” —Albert Einstein
193. “The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader’s true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.”
194. Trust is the essence of Leadership. - Colin Powell
195. ‘We Need Leaders Who Are Global Citizens’: Former UN Head Ban Ki-moon on Building an Inclusive World
196. “Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.”
197. “Implementing They Ask, You Answer with IMPACT’s help has transformed my business.”
198. “When you were made a leader you weren’t given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.”
199. “Earn your leadership every day.” Michael Jordan
200. “Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.” ~ Bo Bennett
201. 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 Maxwell
202. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” ~ Kenneth Blanchard
203. “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
204. “Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determinations.” - John Seaman Garns
205. The real leader has no need to lead — he is content to point the way. - Henry Miller
206. “Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.” ~ Max Depree
207. “Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.” ~ Douglas MacArthur
208. “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
209. “Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.” – Vince Lombardi
210. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” —Jack Welch
211. “Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.” – Russel Honore
212. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” – Stephen R. Covey
213. Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. - John D. Rockefeller
214. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
215. Leadership is an action, not a position. - Donald McGannon
216. “It takes a great man to be a good listener.” – Calvin Coolidge
217. “Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way” Ronald Reagan
218. “When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.”
219. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ―Harold McAlindon
220. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” ~ Edith Wharton
221. “Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.” – Seth Berkley
222. “It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.”
223. ‘Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.’ – Steve Jobs
224. “At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.” – Chip Conley
225. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
226. “When people talk, listen completely.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
227. “The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” Harvey S. Firestone
228. 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.
229. “Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” – E. Joseph Cossman
230. “A leader is someone who demonstrates what’s possible.” Mark Yarnell
231. “My best successes came on the heels of failures.” — Barbara Corcoran
232. “Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.” – Andrew Carnegie
233. “If your situation – be it your family, your team, your church, or your friends – required a leader, would you step up and be one?”
234. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” ~ Sheryl Sandberg
235. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” ~ Peter Drucker
236. “It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.” George Washington
237. “The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.” – Ken Blanchard
238. “Self trust is the first secret of success.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
239. “Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.” ~ Warren Bennis
240. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” ~ Albert Einstein
241. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
242. “Focusing is about saying No.” – Steve Jobs
243. ‘Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.’ – Brian Tracy
244. “If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”
245. There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
246. “A true leader is one who is humble enough to admit their mistakes.” Anonymous
247. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” ~ Aristotle
248. “Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life, no matter what the project.” – Bill Owens
249. “You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” ~ Doug Floyd
250. “The first key to leadership is self-control.” - Jack Weatherford
251. You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that’s assault, not leadership. Dwight D. Eisenhower
252. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” Robert Louis Stevenson
253. Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
254. “Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.” Andy Stanley
255. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” —Abraham Lincoln
256. “To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”
257. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” ~ Ray Kroc
258. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”
259. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” ―John C. Maxwell
260. Management works in the system; leadership works on the system. - Stephen Covey
261. “To add value to others, one must first value others.” - John C. Maxwell
262. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
263. “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.”
264. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
265. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”—Eleanor Roosevelt
266. “A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.”
267. “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.” Steve Jobs
268. “If you act enthusiastic, you will be enthusiastic!” – Dale Carnegie
269. “Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.” – Confucius
270. “The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.” — Barbara Sher
271. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
272. “The art of leadership is in saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”
273. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” John F. Kennedy
274. “Well, I think that – I think leadership’s always been about two main things: imagination and courage.” – Paul Keating
275. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” —Bill Bradley
276. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
277. “Chance only favors the prepared mind.”
278. Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. - Tom Landry
279. “The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry Kissinger
280. “Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.” – Proverbs 23:9
281. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” Henry Kissinger
282. “You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.” – Ted Turner
283. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”- John C. Maxwell
284. “The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.” – Henry Kissinger
285. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” ~ John F. Kennedy
286. “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.” – John Zenger
287. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” - John Q. Adams
288. “Leadership does not depend on being right.” – Ivan Illich
289. “All leaders are readers.” – Jim Rohn
290. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
291. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” -– John C. Maxwell
292. “You have to think anyway, so why not think big?” – Donald Trump
293. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
294. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy
295. “Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.” - Simon Sinek
296. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” – Tony Blair
297. “Leadership distilled down to 3 words: Make a difference.” – Robin Sharma
298. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” – Ken Blanchard
299. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
300. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” George Patton
301. “Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.” – Robin Sharma
302. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” Warren Bennis
303. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”
304. Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.
305. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
306. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” – Arnold H. Glasow
307. “Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.” ~ Diogenes of Sinope
308. “The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.” – Meryl Streep
309. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let’s go! - E.M. Kelly
310. Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts. - Erskine Bowles
311. “Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.” — General George Patton
312. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” – Peter Drucker
313. “I don’t know any other way to lead but by example.” – Don Shula
314. “Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.” – Marian Anderson
315. “If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” – Henry David Thoreau
316. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
317. “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
318. “To lead people, walk behind them.” - Lao Tzu
319. “Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.”– Nelson Mandela
320. “Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.” ― Roy T. Bennett
321. Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way. - Ronald Reagan
322. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
323. “No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
324. “Example is leadership.” – Albert Schweitzer
325. A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them. - M.D. Arnold
326. “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” ― Harry S. Truman
327. “Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.” – Thomas J. Watson
328. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
329. “A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
330. “Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.”
331. “Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men — the other 999 follow women.”
332. “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” – Proverbs 4:23
333. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.”– Sheryl Sandberg
334. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” Peter F. Drucker
335. Leadership is intentional influence. - Michael McKinney
336. ‘Anyone who has ever made anything of importance was disciplined.’ – Andrew Hendrixson
337. “Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.” – Tom Landry
338. “Leaders come in two flavours, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.” – Barbara Corcoran
339. “The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.” — Mary Kay Ash
340. “It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.” – Daniel Defoe
341. “My jobs is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.” – Steve Jobs
342. “The king establishes the land by justice, But he who receives bribes overthrows it.” – Proverbs 29:4
343. “In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” Max De Pree
344. “Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.” – Harold Geneen
345. “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
346. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” Publilius Syrus
347. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
348. “A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all wise judgment.” – Proverbs 18:1
349. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” – Tony Blair
350. “Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.” – Peter Drucker
351. “A boss has the title, a leader has the people.” – Simon Sinek
352. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”
353. Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion. - Oprah Winfrey
354. ‘It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.’ – Confucius
355. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
356. You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. - Nancy D. Solomon
357. “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.” ~ John Zenger
358. “The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.”
359. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa
360. 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.
361. “Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.”~ Lyndon B. Johnson
362. “Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”~ Harold Geneen
363. Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. —Warren Bennis
364. “When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.” - Richard Branson
365. “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” – Epictetus
366. “Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture!” declares the Lord. – Jeremiah 23:1
367. Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
368. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.” —John C. Maxwell
369. Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. - Robert L. Stevenson
370. Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
371. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” Tony Blair
372. A leader is a dealer in hope.
373. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren G. Bennis
374. “Only be you strong, and very courageous, then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” – Joshua 1:7-8
375. “…..from everyone who has been given much shall much be required……” – Luke 12:48
376. “Always drink upstream from the herd.”
377. “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
378. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.” – Dianne Feinstein
379. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” - Napoleon Bonaparte
380. Leading people is the most challenging and, therefore, the most gratifying undertaking of all human endeavours.
381. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
382. “The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.” – Seth Godin
383. “Treat others the same way you want them to treat you.” – Luke 6:31
384. “Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.” – Winston Churchill
385. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein
386. I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. Robert E. Lee
387. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” Fred Wilson
388. “A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.” - Stephen King
389. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” Albert Schweitzer
390. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
391. “It is an abomination for kings to commit wicked acts, For a throne is established on righteousness.” – Proverbs 16:12
392. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want to be done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
393. “A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.” – George M. Moore Jr.
394. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle
395. A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.
396. “A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.” - Herb Kelleher
397. “Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” ~ Pete Hoekstra
398. Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. - John C. Maxwell
399. “You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” – Mary Tyler Moore
400. “Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”
401. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. [Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22, 1963]” ― John F. Kennedy
402. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” – Stephen Covey
403. “As a leader your every action has a consequence, make sure it is one you intend.” Kathrine Bryant
404. “The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower
405. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” ~ Bill Bradley
406. “Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.” – Max De Pree
407. “Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men–the other 999 follow women.” Groucho Marx
408. “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
409. Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.
410. “When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” ~ Henry J. Kaiser
411. “Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.” – Viktor Frankl
412. “Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.” – 1 Timothy 5:17
413. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.” – Peter F. Drucker
414. “People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
415. “Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.” – Bo Bennett
416. “He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.” – Niccolò Machiavelli
417. “An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.”
418. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” - Max Lucado
419. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” ~ John C. Maxwell
420. Leaders don't force people to follow—they invite them on a journey. - Charles S. Lauer
421. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
422. To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. - Friedrich Nietzsche
423. “When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.” – William James
424. “I don’t want yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.” ~ Samuel Goldwyn
425. “Leadership is a choice you make, not a place you sit.” ―Robert F. Tucker
426. “Be the chief but never the lord.” – Lao Tzu
427. Leaders don’t force people to follow – they invite them on a journey.
428. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. – Martin Luther King Jr
429. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” – Plato
430. “Nothing will work unless you do.” —Maya Angelou
431. “To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
432. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.” ~ Peter F. Drucker
433. “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
434. “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” ~ Chinese Proverb
435. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” Napoleon
436. “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” – Matthew 7:12
437. “I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: try to please everybody.”
438. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” ~ Publilius Syrus
439. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” – Bill Bradley
440. “The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” – Tony Blair
441. “A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.” J.P. Morgan
442. “True power is service. The Pope must serve all people, especially the poor, the weak, the vulnerable.”
443. “You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement.”
444. “Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.” – Pythagoras
445. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~ Christopher Columbus
446. ‘Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.’ – St Jerome
447. Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. - Simon Sinek
448. “I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, ‘Where am I needed most?'” – Mike Pence
449. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
450. Management Versus Leadership According to Peter Drucker.
451. “If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.”– Jim Rohn
452. “To lead people, walk behind them.” ―Lao Tzu
453. “You can’t fake listening. It shows.” – Raquel Welch
454. “If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.”
455. “The ability to learm is the most important quality a leader can have.” – Sheryl Sandberg
456. “When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, But when a wicked man rules, people groan.” – Proverbs 29:2
457. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
458. “When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.” – Theodore Roosevelt
459. A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
460. “If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. If you really make them think, they’ll hate you.”
461. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
462. I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. -Warren Bennis
463. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
464. “Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.” – James Humes
465. “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.” —John Zenger
466. “Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.” ~ Michelle Obama
467. “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” – Ernest Hemingway
468. “A good leader takes care of those in their charge. A bad leader takes charge of those in their care. – Simon Sinek
469. People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. – Thomas Sowell
470. “Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.”
471. “Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.” Jim Rohn
472. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John C. Maxwell
473. “You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.”
474. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. – Steve Jobs
475. “Whoever guards his mouth and tongue, Keeps his soul from troubles.” – Proverbs 21:23
476. Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.
477. “Leadership is action, not position.” ―Donald H. McGannon
478. “Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.” – George W. Bush
479. “It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead — and find no one there.”
480. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.” – Herbert Swope
481. “If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.” ~ Indra Nooyi
482. My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.
483. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
484. “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
485. A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
486. “If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.” – William James
487. “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
488. “If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.” – Thomas Fuller
489. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” – Jesus Christ
490. “Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It’s time to start thinking.”
491. “Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.” - Erskine Bowles
492. You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
493. “Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.” – Eric Hoffer
494. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”
495. “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” – Albert Einstein
496. “The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.” – Ken Olsen
497. “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
498. “Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.” – J. P. Morgan
499. “Some people say, ‘Never let them see you cry.’ I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”
500. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
501. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell
502. “A leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding the potential in people and processes.” –Brené Brown
503. “I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions, and into actions which bring results.”
504. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” ~ John Maxwell
505. “No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.” - Abraham Lincoln
506. “Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.” – Robert Jarvik
507. “You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.” - Jeanette Rankin
508. “Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.” – John Naisbitt
509. “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
510. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
511. “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
512. “Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you’ll never sit.” ~ Jennifer Granholm
513. ‘Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.’ – Francis of Assisi
514. Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.
515. “You’re short on ears and long on mouth.” – John Wayne
516. “You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.” – Gene Mauch
517. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” ~ Seth Godin
518. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” -Mohandas K. Gandhi
519. One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
520. “Look for your choices, pick the best one, and then go for it!” – Pat Riley
521. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” —Stephen Covey
522. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams
523. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill
524. “The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself.” – Tony Robbins
525. Leadership is an action, not a position.
526. “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. “Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
527. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
528. “Leadership is not about top down decisions, but it’s about caring for people and their dreams.”
529. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
530. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ~ Peter Drucker
531. “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” ~ George S. Patton
532. “If you want a quality, act as if you already have it.” – William James
533. “Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone’s following you.” – Henry Gilmer
534. “The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
535. “A leader should be visionary and have more foresight than an employee.” ~ Jack Ma
536. “The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.” – J. Paul Getty
537. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others” ― Bill Gates
538. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
539. “You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.”
540. “I praise loudly, I blame softly. – Catherine the Great
541. “The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.” ~ Linus Pauling
542. “To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.” Pat Riley
543. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
544. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” ~ Theodore M. Hesburgh
545. “If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.” ~ Jim Rohn
546. “To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.” - Andre Malraux
547. “Leadership is an action, not a position”
548. “If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.” Brad Szollose
549. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." - Warren Bennis
550. “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!” – Psalms 133:1
551. “The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.” – Carlos Ghosn
552. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
553. “There are no office hours for leaders.”
554. “Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.”
555. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” John C. Maxwell
556. “Don’t follow the crowd; let the crowd follow you.” – Margaret Thatcher
557. “I think leadership is not something you learn; it’s something you discover.” – Myles Munroe
558. “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” –John C. Maxwell
559. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.” – John C. Maxwell
560. “The question, ‘Who ought to be boss?’, is like asking, ‘Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?’ Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.”
561. ‘Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do it.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
562. I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.
563. “In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.”– Sheryl Sandberg
564. “Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
565. “Nobody rises to low expectations.” ―Calvin Lloyd
566. “The test of organization is not genius. It is its capacity to make common people achieve uncommon performance.” – Peter F. Drucker
567. A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t.
568. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” ~ Woody Allen
569. Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders. - Steve Ballmer
570. “Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.” – Simon Sinek
571. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
572. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” Ralph Nader
573. “If you don’t do the best with what you have, you could never have done better with what you could have had.”
574. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” —Napoleon Hill
575. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
576. “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” – W. Clement Stone
577. “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
578. “To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.” – Aristotle Onassis
579. Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
580. “The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.” – Jack Ma
581. “Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.” – Vince Lombardi
582. The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you?
583. “The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.” – Mary Kay Ash
584. A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
585. “Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.” – Mwai Kibaki
586. “I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through – then follow through.” – Edward Rickenbacker
587. “Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.” John Maxwell
588. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” ~ Steve Jobs
589. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” —Mother Teresa
590. “A leader is someone who creates infectious enthusiasm.” - Ted Turner
591. “A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.” Hans Finzel
592. “You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.” – An Wang
593. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
594. “The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.” – Casey Stengel
595. “A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.” – Joel Barker
596. Take action and believe in yourself. Dreams do come true.
597. “Leadership is influence.” - John C. Maxwell
598. “There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. – G.K. Chesterton
599. 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.
600. The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang. - Mary Kay Ash
601. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
602. “Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”
603. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. - Alice Walker
604. “It can be read in an afternoon, but you’ll be re-reading it for the rest of your life.”
605. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” — Margaret Fuller
606. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” —Henry Ford
607. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”
608. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. – John F. Kennedy
609. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.” - Dianne Feinstein
610. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” ―John C. Maxwell
611. “Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.” ~ Colin Powell
612. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
613. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
614. “Let us endeavor to live so that when we die, even the undertaker will be sorry.” – Mark Twain
615. “Great leaders delegate and nurture future leaders.” ~ Invajy
616. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” ~ Warren Bennis
617. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” – Brian Tracy
618. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” – Theodore Roosevelt
619. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”
620. “Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.” — Margaret Wheatley
621. 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
622. I think that when we fight ethically, and build ethical politics, that we are all in it together.
623. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. - Abraham Lincoln
624. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis
625. “Management is doing the right thing; leadership is doing the right things.” ~ Peter F. Drucker
626. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. —Max DePree
627. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” ~ Jim Rohn
628. He who has great power should use it lightly. - Seneca
629. “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
630. “An appreciative listener is always stimulating.” – Agatha Christie
631. Leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory.
632. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. - Woodrow Wilson
633. “I have always supported measures and principles and not men.” – Davy Crockett
634. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt
635. “A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.”
636. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” – Henry Ford
637. “Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are.” Thomas John Carlisle
638. “So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them with his skillful hands.” – Psalms 78:72
639. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” —Albert Einstein
640. Leadership has been defined as the ability to hide your panic from others. – Lao Tzu
641. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” Peter F. Drucker
642. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” ~ John C. Maxwell
643. “Leadership is not a popularity contest; it’s about leaving your ego at the door.” – Robin S. Sharma
644. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laserlike focus.” – Bruce Lee
645. “A real leader faces the music even when he doesn't like the tune.” - Arnold H. Glasgow
646. “Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.” – J. Donald Walters
647. The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
648. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
649. “When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.” – Ronald Reagan
650. There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage. - Fuchan Yuan
651. “Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, And attend to your herds;” – Proverbs 27:23
652. “Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.” ~ Harold S. Geneen
653. “Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” – Samuel Johnson
654. “Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” Patrick Lencioni
655. “People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.” ~ Michelle Obama
656. “People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.” – Thomas Sowell
657. “The last of human freedoms – the ability to choose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances. – Viktor Frankl
658. “I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.”
659. A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.” - Hans Finzel
660. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” —Dalai Lama
661. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
662. “Be the kind of leader that you would follow.” Anonymous
663. A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. - George Patton
664. You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
665. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” – Henry Ward Beecher
666. “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
667. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” ―Max Lucado
668. “Every great leader can take you back to a defining moment when they decided to lead.” ― John Paul Warren
669. “Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.”
670. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” Father Theodore M. Hesburgh
671. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
672. “Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mid-action.” – Simon Sinek
673. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” ~ Andy Warhol
674. “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
675. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
676. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
677. “Strategic leaders must not get consumed by the operational and tactical side of their work.” — Stephanie S. Mead
678. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Aristotle
679. “Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”
680. “And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:14
681. A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
682. “Never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that.”
683. “It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.” Adlai E. Stevenson II
684. “Real leadership is leaders recognising that they serve the people that they lead.” – Pete Hoekstra
685. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
686. “He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.” – Horace
687. “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” – Galatians 6:9
688. “You’re only as good as the people you hire.” – Ray Kroc
689. If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything. - Tom Rath
690. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” —Ray Kroc
691. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say." - Stephen Covey
692. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” —Arnold Glasow
693. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”– John C. Maxwell
694. “Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.”
695. “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
696. If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. If you really make them think, they’ll hate you.
697. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.
698. “The sharp employ the sharp.” – Douglas William Jerrold
699. “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
700. If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing. - Brad Szollose
701. “A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.” – Leroy Eimes
702. “Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.” – Colin Powell
703. “Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.”
704. “There is little success where there is little laughter.” ~ Andrew Carnegie
705. “Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves.” – Philippians 2:3
706. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” - Margaret Thatcher
707. “A leader should be able to foresee crisis situations and be proactive” ~ Invajy
708. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
709. “But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant.” – Matthew 20:26
710. Management Versus Leadership According to Tom Peters.
711. ‘Every life is a story. Make yours a best-seller.’ – Unknown
712. A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.
713. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and follower.” Steve Jobs
714. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. - Bill Bradley
715. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” –Margaret Thatcher
716. “If you faint in the day of adversity, Your strength is small.” – Proverbs 24:10
717. “Leadership is an ever-evolving position.” – Mike Krzyzewski
718. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
719. “A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.” ~ M.D. Arnold
720. “He also told them this parable: “Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into a pit?” – Luke 6:39
721. “Earn your leadership every day.” ~ Michael Jordan
722. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. - Tom Peters
723. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” ― Peter Drucker
724. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
725. “You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
726. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence, and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” Anonymous
727. “A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.” – Ralph Nader
728. The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
729. “There is a significant difference between a leader and a cheerleader.”
730. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” ~ Stephen Covey
731. “You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.” – Henry Ford
732. “The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people.” – Simon Sinek
733. The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. - Ray Kroc
734. “Leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory.” – Jocko Willink
735. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
736. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” - Seth Godin
737. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
738. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognise a problem before it becomes an emergency.” – Arnold Glasow
739. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”
740. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” – Theodore Hesburg
741. “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.
742. If we win the hearts and minds of employees, we're going to have better business success.
743. “A known enemy is already half disarmed.”
744. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” – Margaret Fuller
745. “Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.” - Sheryl Sandberg
746. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” ~ Jimmy Dean
747. “Earn your leadership every day.” – Michael Jordan
748. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” —Les Brown
749. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
750. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” ~ Ralph Nader
751. “Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.” – Andy Grove
752. “Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.” Jaachynma N.E. Agu
753. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” —Henry Ford
754. A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
755. Leaders live by choice, not by accident.
756. “Leadership is inspiring extraordinary people to step up and serve their country.” – Justin Trudeau
757. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”
758. “There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.” – Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
759. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” John Maxwell
760. “When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.” – Roy E. Disney
761. “A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” ~ John Maxwell
762. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
763. “The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.” – Elaine Agather
764. “Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence, and inspiration.” ~ Robin S. Sharma
765. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” – Ray Kroc
766. Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses. - Mitt Romney
767. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” —Plutarch
768. “A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him.” – Mark Brouwer
769. “A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.” M.D. Arnold
770. “People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.” –Anna Wintour
771. “If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” – Thomas Aquinas
772. “You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can’t sit on it for long.”
773. “In leadership, staying connected to God is key. If we lose our connection, we lose our foundation.”
774. “Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.” – Mike Krzyzewski
775. “The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.” ~ Knute Rockne
776. Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. —John C. Maxwell
777. A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
778. “Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.” ~ General George Patton
779. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people.” – Mahatma Gandhi
780. The last is to say ’Thank You.’ In between, the leader is a servant.
781. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” ~ Ralph Nader
782. “It is better to have one person working with you, than three working for you.” ―Unknown
783. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” – Stephen R. Covey
784. Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. - Colin Powell
785. “Great leaders develop other great leaders rather than complete great projects.”
786. Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. - Jesse Jackson
787. “Management is nothing more than motivating other people.” – Lee Iacocca
788. “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”~ John Buchan
789. “Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.” – Tennessee Williams
790. “Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.” ~ Charles Swindoll
791. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” ~ John Maxwell
792. “Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.” – Omar N. Bradley
793. A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.
794. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” - John F. Kennedy
795. “There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” – Michael Phelps
796. “No guts, no story.” Chris Brady
797. “Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.” - Dave Weinbaum
798. “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.”
799. “Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.” – Russel Honore
800. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold Glasow
801. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. - Max De Pree
802. “Communication is the most important skill any leader can possess.” – Richard Branson
803. “If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.” – Indra Nooyi
804. “Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence.”
805. “To lead the people, walk behind them.” – Lao-Tzu
806. “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” – Warren Buffett
807. ‘Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.’ – Theodore Roosevelt
808. “Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.” – Harold S. Green
809. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill
810. Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
811. “It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
812. “Leadership is influence.” – John C. Maxwell
813. “Leadership is an action, not a position.” Donald McGannon
814. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” Nancy D. Solomon
815. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.” ~ Brian Tracy
816. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” ~ Jamie Paolinetti
817. “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” ~ Ancient Indian Proverb
818. “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” George Patton
819. “Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.” – Martin O’Malley
820. “When I talk to managers, I get the feeling that they are important. When I talk to leaders, I get the feeling that I am important.”
821. “First rule of leadership: everything is your fault.”
822. “First rule of leadership: everything is your fault.” A Bug’s Life
823. “Leadership is influence.”
824. “Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.” – P. T. Barnum
825. “Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.” – Conrad Hilton
826. “Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.” – Matthew 5:37
827. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. - Eleanor Roosevelt
828. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King Jr
829. “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.”
830. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” ~ Stephen Covey
831. “Leadership to me means duty, honour, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.” – George W. Bush
832. “The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.” – Lolly Daskal
833. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
834. “Leadership is service to others.” – Denise Morrison
835. “Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” – Aristotle
836. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
837. “I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.” Robert E. Lee
838. “Management is the art of making problems so interesting that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. – Paul Hawken
839. “Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, ‘I could have done three things better yesterday.'” – Jeffrey R. Immelt
840. “Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.”
841. “Great leaders do not desire to lead but to serve.” ~ Myles Munroe
842. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
843. The problem with being a leader is that you’re never sure if you're being followed or chased. – Claire A. Murray
844. “When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.” Winston Churchill
845. “The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.” ~ Winston Churchill
846. “Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” – Henry J. Kaiser
847. “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
848. “A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.” ~ Joel Barker
849. “I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.” John Hume
850. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
851. “Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.” – Numbers 12:3
852. “Courageous leaders learn to live a consistent life of constant devotion to God in all circumstances.”
853. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” ― Henry Kissinger
854. A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example. – Joe DiMaggio
855. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people."
856. “A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.” ― Leroy Eimes
857. “I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.” – Michael Phelps
858. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
859. “A goal properly set is halfway reached.” – Zig Ziglar
860. “The task of the leader is to get people from where they are to where they have not been. ”
861. “There’s plenty of room at the top, but there’s no room to sit down” ―Helen Downey
862. “A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.” – J. P. Morgan
863. “How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.” – David Joseph Schwartz
864. “Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions.” – Tony Robbins
865. “The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.”
866. “The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” – Harvey S. Firestone
867. “To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”
868. “Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.” – Tom Peters
869. “A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemy.” – William Wrigley, Jr.
870. “If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.” Tom Rath
871. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
872. “Get the best people and train them well.” – Scott McNealy
873. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” — Estée Lauder
874. More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.
875. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” – John C. Maxwell
876. “Leadership is being the first egg in the omelet.”
877. “Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.” – Edgar Allan Poe
878. “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.”
879. “Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.”
880. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
881. You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. - Sam Rayburn
882. “When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”
883. Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. - Chinese Proverb
884. 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.
885. “Before you are a leader, success is about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” Jack Welch
886. “One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.” – Stefan Zweig
887. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. - Maya Angelou
888. “Integrity, insight, and inclusiveness are the three essential qualities of leadership.” ~ Sadhguru
889. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” ~ Dalai Lama
890. Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. - Jesse Jackson
891. “Do what is right, not what is easy.” Anonymous
892. Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.
893. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”
894. “To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.” – Edward R. Murrow
895. “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” – Steve Jobs
896. “Leadership Is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people” ~ Brian Tracy
897. “Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.” – LL Cool J
898. “A fool vents all his feelings, But a wise man holds them back.” – Proverbs 29:11
899. “The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” – Faye Wattleton
900. “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.” —Steve Jobs
901. “Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.” – Nelson Mandela
902. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” – Seth Godin
903. “Find the right people, not the best people.”
904. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
905. “Do or do not. There is no try.” —Yoda
906. “A leader leads by example not by Force.” – Sun Tzu
907. “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”
908. “You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.” – Phil Crosby
909. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.”
910. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.” - Brian Tracy
911. “The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.”
912. “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.” ~ Steve Jobs
913. “Leadership is action, not position.” Donald H. McGannon
914. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” ~ Sheryl Sanberg
915. “Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.” – Max Depree
916. ‘Persistence prevails when all else fails.’ – Unknown
917. “Leadership can change its mind; leadership can open its eye. Leadership can even be replaced.” – Ehud Barak
918. “I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
919. “Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.” - Cicely Tyson
920. “Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.”
921. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. - John C. Maxwell
922. “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
923. “Don’t follow the crowd. Let the crowd follow you.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
924. “What helps people, helps business.” – Leo Burnett
925. “Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.” – Yousef Munayyer
926. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.” – Andrew Carnegie
927. “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” – John Maxwell
928. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” —John Maxwell
929. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.” ~ Andrew Carnegie
930. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
931. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry A. Kissinger
932. “Great leaders inspire greatness in others.” Anonymous
933. “Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.”
934. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” – Stephen Covey
935. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
936. “The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” — Faye Wattleton
937. Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.
938. “A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.” ―John C. Maxwell
939. “Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.” ~ Brian Tracy
940. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
941. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” – Theodore M. Hesburgh
942. The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
943. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.” Brian Tracy
944. “Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” – Samuel Butler
945. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” - Tony Blair
946. “If a king judges the poor with truth, His throne will be established forever.” – Proverbs 29:14
947. Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
948. “Self-awareness and self-love matter. Who we are is how we lead.” - Brene Brown
949. “A good leader must hate the wrong thing more than they hate the pain of doing the right thing.” ― Angela Jiang
950. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” ~ Napoleon
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