800 Inspirational Leaders Lead by Example Quotes (2023)
1. “An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.” — Mahatma Gandhi
2. “If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” —Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher
3. “It’s amazing how many cares disappear when you decide not to be something, but to be someone.” — Coco Chanel
4. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” Bill Bradley
5. “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
6. “Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.” — Paul Wellstone
7. “People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.” – Lewis Cass
8. “The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.” — Charles Schwab
9. “The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change.”
10. “The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.” – Charles “Swede” Momsen
11. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” Rosalynn Carter
12. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” — Warren G. Bennis
13. “You don’t lead by lip service, you lead by example.”
14. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” Bill George
15. “The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in
16. “A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.” — John Maxwell
17. “Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.” — Jim Rohn
18. “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” —Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State
19. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer
20. “All Leadership is influence.” — John C. Maxwell
21. “As a leader, it’s a major responsibility on your shoulders to practice the behavior you want others to follow.” —Himanshu Bhatia, CEO of Chesterfield
22. “A highly credible leader under-promises and over-delivers.” – John Maxwell
23. “Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.” Diogenes of Sinope
24. “A boss says, “you do it”, a leader says, “Let’s do it.” “
25. Be inventive, and daring
26. “A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him.” — Mark Brouwer
27. “A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he
28. “Leaders don’t force people to follow – they invite them on a journey.” —Charles S. Lauer, author and businessman
29. “Leadership is an art expressed by the demonstration of characters worthy of immitation, emulation and inspiration. It is neither a title nor a postion.”
30. Be honest and straight forward
31. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” —Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Independence Movement leader
32. “Not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.” – 1 Peter 5:3
33. “True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not to enrich the leader.” — John Maxwell
34. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” —Warren Buffett, investor
35. “Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.” Orrin Woodward
36. “Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.”
37. “Parents must lead by example. Don’t use the cliché; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children’s first and most important role models.” – Lee Haney
38. “A person who is worthy of being a leader wants power not for himself, but in order to be of service.” — J. Ervin, Jr.
39. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” —Helen Keller, author, activist, and lecturer
40. “One person with commitment accomplishes more than
41. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” — Winston Churchill
42. “People imitate their leader. Lead by example.”
43. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell
44. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou
45. “People may teach what they know, but they reproduce what they are.”
46. “Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.” — Ross Perot
47. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” — Indira Gandhi
48. “Lead by Example,not by showing samples”
49. “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” – Gen. George S. Patton
50. 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
51. “It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.”- Latin Proverb
52. “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” – Goethe
53. “Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led.” Ross Perot
54. “Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.” — Stewart Stafford
55. “People may teach what they know, but they reproduce what they are.”- John C. Maxwell
56. “Leadership is an action, not a position.” —Donald McGannon, broadcasting executive
57. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” —Muriel Strode, poet
58. “A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn’t like the tune.” – Anonymous
59. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you
60. “Be the light and source of inspiration that others see”
61. “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
62. “The greatest leaders build organizations that in the end, don’t need them.”
63. “The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision."
64. “Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.” Brian Tracy
65. “Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
66. “People don’t mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart.” — Ken Blanchard
67. “If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
68. “If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.” Harvey Mackay
69. “The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders
70. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
71. “People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don’t act on life, they only react to it.” — Stedman Graham
72. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
73. “I think that my leadership style is to get people to
74. “The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.” Oprah Winfrey
75. “You manage things; you lead people.” – Grace Murray Hopper, U.S. Navy rear admiral
76. “The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change.” Matshona Dhliwayo
77. “The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own example.”- John Wooden
78. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” — Max Lucado
79. “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
80. “If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.”- Indra Nooyi
81. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally
82. “Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.” Brian Tracy
83. “A competent leader can get efficient service from poor
84. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” Arnold Glasow
85. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” —Max Lucado, author and pastor
86. “If you cannot allow people to do their jobs … nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.”
87. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” —Stephen R. Covey, American educator
88. “Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.”
89. “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
90. “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
91. They’re flexible
92. “The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change.” — Matshona Dhliwayo
93. “Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences.” Brian Tracy
94. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” —Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary
95. “What you are speaks so loudly, I can’t hear what you are saying.”
96. “Earn your leadership every day.”- Michael Jordan
97. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
98. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has."
99. “You can’t be successful with other people if you haven’t paid the price of success with yourself.”
100. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” — Ray Kroc
101. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” —Malala Yousafzai, activist
102. “Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.”- Harold S. Green
103. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”- Robert Louis Stevenson
104. “Life is never going to be perfect, as much as we want it to be, and I have to lead by example.” — Patsy Kensit
105. “Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.”
106. “To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership,
107. “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” — John Welch
108. “You manage things; you lead people.” – Grace Hopper
109. “A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.” – John C. Maxwell
110. “A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.” – Jim Rohn
111. “Coaching isn’t an addition to a leader’s job, it’s an integral part of it.” –– George S. Odiorne
112. “Hire character. Train skill.” —Peter Schutz, former president and CEO of Porsche
113. Be better than those you despise."
114. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or to be the mirror that reflects it.” — Edith Wharton
115. “A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.” — Confucius
116. “The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.” - Seth Godin
117. “A good leader walks the talk, takes responsibility and inspires others to also walk the talk and take responsibility.”- Sri Sri Ravishankar
118. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis
119. “With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.” — Jim Rohn
120. “Example is the best lesson there is.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
121. “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
122. “Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example.” – Vivek Wadhwa
123. “The children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.”
124. “No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.” — Abraham Lincoln
125. “Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.” — Harold S. Green
126. “Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.” — Roy T. Bennett
127. “If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.” – Benjamin Hooks, former director of the NAACP
128. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” —Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister
129. “The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.” — Robert M. Pirsig
130. “One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” — Arnold H. Glasgow
131. “If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.” John C. Maxwell
132. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” - Jack Welch
133. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
134. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that count."
135. “The reality is that the only way change comes is when you LEAD by example.” – Anne Wojcicki
136. “The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.” — Publius Syrus
137. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” George Patton
138. “Seven Ways To Get Ahead in Business:
139. “Leaders walk a fine line between self-confidence and humility.” —Stanley McChrystal, retired United States Army General
140. “The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.” — Warren G. Bennis
141. “We will either find a way or make one.” – Hannibal
142. “People naturally follow leaders stronger than themselves.”
143. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” —Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader and emperor
144. “The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.”
145. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” General Dwight Eisenhower
146. “A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.” Jim Rohn
147. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” - John Quincy Adams
148. “Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.”— Edmund Spenser
149. “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
150. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” — Stephen Covey
151. “The ability to summon positive emotions during periods of intense stress lies at the heart of effective leadership.” — Jim Loehr
152. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”- John Quincy Adams
153. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.” – Andrew Carnegie
154. “As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.” — Jim Rohn
155. Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do, and let them surprise you with their results. - George Patton
156. “If you want to serve as an example — it’s easier done than said.”
157. “Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.” — Bill Owens
158. “We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.” —Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat
159. “Leadership can’t be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed,
160. “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
161. “It’s easy to ask other people to open up and to judge them if they don’t, but it’s always difficult to lead by example.” — Chris Harrison
162. “Lead by example, not by showing samples.” – Seyi Ayooola
163. “People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.”
164. “Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.” Tom Peters
165. “Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others stiffen.”- Billy Graham
166. “Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune.” — Sam Walton
167. “Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.” -Epictetus
168. “He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.”
169. “Example is leadership.”- Albert Schweitzer
170. “Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to let them know that you trust them.” — Booker T. Washington
171. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” —Margaret Fuller, American journalist and editor
172. “Success is something you attract by the person you become.” – Jim Rohn
173. “Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence.” – John Maxwell
174. “Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” Bill Bradley
175. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
176. “I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?”
177. “Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.” – John Maxwell
178. “I don’t know any other way to lead but by example.”- Don Shula
179. Johnson Quotes from Inner Work To Convince You Dreams Aren’t Arbitrary
180. “People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.” — Lewis Cass
181. “Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.”
182. “The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.” – St Francis of Assisi
183. “A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.” Simon Sinek
184. “Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality.” Warren G. Bennis
185. “A good leader must hate the wrong thing more than they hate the pain of doing the right thing.” —Angela Jiang, product manager
186. “Lead not by the example of power, but by the power of example.”
187. “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
188. “Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.”
189. “Wronging someone doesn’t right them. Leave vengeance. Don’t become what you hate. Instead, lead by example.” — Akiroq Brost
190. “People change when they hurt enough that they have to, learn enough that they want to, or receive enough that they are able to.” – John Maxwell
191. “Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
192. “Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek
193. “Change the world by your example not your opinion.” Paul Coelho
194. “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.” — John Buchan
195. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte, military leader
196. “The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.” Ken Blanchard
197. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes
198. “I hate every minute of training. But I said, don’t quit.
199. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” — Steve Jobs
200. “They may forget what you said, they may forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” — Carl W. Buecher
201. “He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.” – Solon
202. “Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.” Oprah Winfrey
203. “There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple, and useful life.” — Booker T. Washington
204. “The best leaders are servant leaders; they serve those they lead.” – Tony Hsieh
205. “In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people … they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.” — Ken Blanchard
206. “One cannot consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.” — Helen Keller
207. “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
208. “Consensus is the negation of leadership.” — Margaret Thatcher
209. “Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality.” – Warren G. Bennis, founding chairman of the Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California
210. “A year from now you will wish you had started today.” —Karen Lamb, author
211. “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.” — Isaac Newton
212. “Leadership is no longer about your position. It’s now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference. You can lead without a title.” — Robin Sharma
213. “I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.”- Tony Robbins
214. “Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people.
215. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” —John Maxwell, author, speaker, and pastor
216. “The three most important ways to lead people are:… by example… by example… by example.” — Albert Schweitzer
217. Lead by example”
218. “Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it.”- Thomas Friedman
219. “Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.” - Peter F. Drucker
220. “To possess effective natural leadership abilities is one of life's greatest assets.”
221. “Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people.
222. “True leaders always practice the three R’s: Respect for self, Respect for others, Responsibility for all their actions.” — Anonymous
223. “The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.” — Walter J. Lippmann
224. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
225. “Those who lead by example and demonstrate passion for what they do make it much easier for their followers to do the same.” – Marshall Goldsmith
226. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” - Ronald Reagan
227. “He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious."
228. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple
229. “Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership
230. “It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.” -Barack Obama
231. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” - Napoleon Bonaparte
232. They listen to understand
233. “Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.”- Roy T. Bennett
234. “Leadership is an action, not a position.” - Donald McGannon
235. “You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.”
236. “Leaders don’t rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits; they make every day a masterpiece.” – John Maxwell
237. “The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example.” – John Wooden
238. “If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.” — Mahatma Gandhi
239. “In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.” —Sheryl Sandberg, American business executive, billionaire, and philanthropist
240. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” — General Colin Powel
241. “Sometimes leadership is planting trees under
242. “Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”- Mark Twain
243. “Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.” — Rudy Giuliani
244. “I light my candle from their torches.” — Robert Burton
245. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” —Bill Bradley, American politician and former professional basketball player
246. “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” Carl Jung
247. “The growth and development of people is the
248. “I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered
249. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”– President Ronald Reagan
250. Leadership is an action, not a position.” - Donald McGannon
251. “What you are speaks so loudly, I can’t hear what you are saying.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
252. “You can’t be successful with other people if you haven’t paid the price of success with yourself.”- Stephen Covey
253. Be willing to change, to learn, to grow
254. “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men
255. “Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.” — Tom Landry
256. “You are never too small to make a difference.” —Greta Thunberg, environmental activist
257. “Leadership is not just about giving energy… it’s unleashing other people’s energy.” —Paul Polman, Dutch businessman
258. “A good leader can’t get too far ahead of his followers.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
259. “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” – John Buchan, novelist, historian and politician
260. “If you aren’t leading by example. Then quite simply, you aren’t leading.” — Stephen Luke Fitness
261. “If your behavior is contagious, what will people catch?”
262. “The three most important ways to lead people are:… by example… walk the talk, and by example… by example.” Albert Schweitzer
263. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” John C. Maxwell
264. “Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.” – Proverb
265. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” — Kenneth Blanchard
266. “As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.” —Toni Morrison, author
267. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”- Ray Kroc
268. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
269. “Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.” – John 17:17
270. “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, American editor and journalist
271. “Earn your leadership every day.” – Michael Jordan, former NBA basketball player
272. “Instruction is good for a child; but example is worth more.”
273. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” John F. Kennedy
274. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough
275. “As a leader, it’s a major responsibility on your shoulders to practice the behavior you want others to follow.”- Himanshu Bhatia
276. “If you really want to grow as an entrepreneur, you’ve got to learn to delegate.” Richard Branson
277. “You don't need a title to be a leader.” - Mark Sanborn
278. “Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” - George Patton
279. “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.”- Tom Landry
280. “I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than
281. “One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.” — Dennis A. Peer
282. “If I have the belief that I can do it, I will surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning.” — Mahatma Gandhi
283. “Be the change you want to see in the world.”- Mahatma Gandhi
284. “If you do not lead by example, you cannot expect your team to follow.”
285. “We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw
286. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again,
287. “As we look ahead into the next century,
288. “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
289. “What makes leadership is the ability to get people to do what they don’t want to do and like it.” — Harry Truman
290. “I lead and the internet follows.”
291. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.” Brian Tracy
292. “You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.” — Sam Rayburn
293. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams
294. “The function of leadership is to produce
295. “Kids pick up and absorb a lot more than you think they do. I try to do what I think is right, and I try to lead by example.” — Mark Martin
296. “Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.” — Harold Geneen
297. “Leaders never outgrow the need to change.” — John Maxwell
298. “Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity.” — Warren Bennis
299. “Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.”
300. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
301. “Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down.”
302. “Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.” — Harold S. Geneen
303. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” — John C. Maxwell
304. “Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example.”
305. “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
306. “Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.” Jessica Jackley
307. “Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.” — Woodrow Wilson
308. “Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.”
309. “If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
310. “Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.” —Mary D. Poole, author
311. “Earn your leadership every day.” — Michael Jordan
312. “Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they’ve learned.”
313. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” — Bill Gates
314. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” - Steve Jobs
315. “An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.” – Mahatma Gandhi
316. Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. - Peter F. Drucker
317. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” —Peter F. Drucker, Austrian-American management consultant, educator, and author
318. “Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.” Paul Wellstone
319. “Respect is the key determinant of high-performance leadership. how much people respect you determines how well they perform.” Brian Tracy
320. “Confront issues and challenges – not each Other.” — Suzanne Mayo Frindt
321. “When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.” — Lao Tzu
322. “A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.” – George S. Patton
323. “You can only lead by example.”
324. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” — Warren Bennis
325. “Change the world by your example not your opinion.”- Paulo Coelho
326. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?” —Ayn Rand, author
327. “A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.” —Stephen King, author
328. “There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being to help someone succeed.” — Alan Loy McGinnis
329. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” Bill Gates
330. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
331. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
332. “A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.” — David R. Gergen
333. “Leadership is influence.” — John Maxwell
334. “A boss says, “you do it”, a leader says, “Let’s do it.” – Amit Kalantri
335. Lead by example.
336. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and
337. “Education is the mother of leadership.” — Wendell Lewis Wilkie
338. “A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” — John Maxwell
339. “Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.”- Jim Rohn
340. “The three C’s of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone.” — Brian Tracy
341. “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”
342. “To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.” — Harry Truman
343. “The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you?” —Mark Sanborn, author, professional speaker, and entrepreneur
344. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
345. “Serving is the best kind of Leading.”
346. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward
347. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward.
348. “All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting.
349. “Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.” — David J. Schwartz
350. “Great leaders are willing to sacrifice their own personal interests for the good of the team.” – John C. Maxwell
351. “In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.” — Tony Robbins
352. “Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain, author
353. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. Oprah Winfrey
354. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”- Theodore Roosevelt
355. “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness,
356. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” – Aristotle
357. “Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.”- Paul Wellstone
358. “No man is good enough to govern another man
359. “Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others, as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”
360. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done."
361. “Orders come from customers, not from leaders.” — Joyce Rachelle
362. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” Brian Tracy
363. “The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.”
364. “The price of greatness is responsibility.”
365. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut
366. “I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.” —Ginni Rometty, Executive Chairman of IBM
367. “The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.” — Woodrow Wilson
368. “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
369. “The best leaders are the best learners.” – Warren Bennis
370. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.”
371. “Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says “Go!” a leader says “let’s go.” — E. M. Kelly
372. “The price of greatness is responsibility.”- Winston Churchill
373. “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem
374. “The three most important ways to lead people are:… by example… by example… by example.”- Albert Schweitzer
375. “Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.” —Margaret Wheatley, writer, teacher, and speaker
376. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch, former GE chairman and CEO
377. “All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.” — Orison Swett Marden
378. “A leader leads by example not by force.” — Sun Tzu
379. “Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.”- Margaret J. Wheatley
380. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you
381. “Practice what you preach and let people learn from you”
382. “True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that
383. “To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.” — Charles de Montesquieu
384. “Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” Billy Graham
385. “To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”
386. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.” —Brian Tracy, Canadian-American motivational public speaker
387. “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
388. “You don’t need a title to be a leader.” —Unknown
389. “Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.” – Bill Bradley
390. “Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.” — John Maxwell
391. “Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.”-
392. “In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served” Bangambiki Habyarimana
393. “Leaders don’t create followers. They create more leaders.”
394. “A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” — William Shedo
395. “No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.” Andrew Carnegie
396. “The effective leader recognizes that they are more dependent on their people than they are on them. Walk softly.” Brian Tracy
397. “A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.” — Leroy Eimes
398. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
399. “Credibility is a leader’s currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.” – John Maxell
400. “Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.” – Anonymous
401. “’Failing forward’ is the ability to get back up after you’ve been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.” – John Maxwell
402. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” Albert Schweitzer
403. “The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.” — Harriet Rubin
404. “A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.”
405. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” —Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activist
406. “Men are governed only by serving them; the rule is without exception.” — V. Cousin
407. “Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.” General Colin Powell
408. “We lead not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.” — Joe Biden
409. “A leader leads by example, not by force.”
410. “It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.” – Seneca
411. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King Jr.
412. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” Stephen Covey
413. “A good example is the best gift you can offer to your children. In your absence, your example is present, which means you are present always.” — Israelmore Ayivor
414. “Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” Pete Hoekstra
415. “Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?” Brain Tracy
416. “Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.” — Samuel Johnson
417. “In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.” — Henry W. Longfellow
418. “Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.” — Brian Tracy
419. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” William Falkner
420. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must
421. “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success;
422. “Don’t buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can’t be.” – John Maxwell
423. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan
424. “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, author, speaker, and pastor
425. “Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone’s following you.” — Henry Gilmer
426. Work hard and be yourself
427. “The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.” — Cornelius Nepos
428. “Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character.
429. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
430. “Great leadership usually starts with a willing heart, a positive attitude, and a desire to make a difference.” — Mac Anderson
431. “All leaders are readers.” —Jim Rohn, American entrepreneur
432. “You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership.” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower
433. “As a leader, you should always start with where people are before you try to take them where you want them to go.” Jim Rohn
434. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch
435. “Coming together is a beginning, and staying together is progress, but only when teams sweat together do they find success.” – John Maxwell
436. “Good leaders must first become good servants.”
437. “People imitate their leader. Lead by example.” – Barbara Corcoran
438. “Lead by Example, not by showing samples.” — Seyi Ayoola
439. “You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.” – Sam Rayburn, former speaker of the House
440. “Leadership is not a position or a title; it’s action and example.” – Cory Booker
441. “Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved,
442. “Every relationship in your organization will affect you one way or another. Those who do not increase you will inevitably decrease you. “ – John Maxwell
443. “Lead by example, it's not about your position and authority, it's about the positive impact you have on a set of persons who lack motivation.”
444. “We lead by example. Children learn to model what we we do, not what we say. Always remember when you are a teacher, eyes are on you!”
445. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” —Maya Angelou, civil rights activist and poet
446. Why we can't be kind to one another”
447. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry Kissinger
448. “You can be a leader in your workplace, your neighborhood, or your family, all without having a title.” —Travis Bradberry, author
449. “Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge
450. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
451. “Good leaders must first become good servants.”- Robert K. Greenleaf
452. - Andrew Carnegie
453. “The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you.” Brian Tracy
454. “Nobody rises to low expectations.” — Calvin Lloyd
455. They get involved
456. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” — Theodore M. Hesburgh
457. “Every time I get on the court, I want to push my teammates to be better as a leader and lead by example.” — Joel Embiid
458. “You manage things; you lead people.”
459. “Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they’re doing it.” Marillyn Hewson
460. “Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse."
461. “Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It’s the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.” – John Maxwell
462. “The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today” Francis of Assisi
463. “Always do everything you ask of those you command.”- General George S. Patton
464. “The hallmark of a well-managed organization is not the absence of problems, but whether or not problems are effectively resolved.” — Steve Ventura
465. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, poet and philosopher
466. “Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness!” — George Jacques Danton
467. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
468. “Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.” — Jim Rohn
469. Anyone, anywhere can make a positive difference. - Mark Sanborn
470. “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” — George Patton
471. “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German poet, playwright, and novelist
472. “If you are going to help people reach their potential, they need to be recognized and rewarded. Everyone needs that.” — Jacqueline Norcel
473. “I hate every minute of training. But I said, don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” -Mohammad Ali
474. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” - Ralph Nader
475. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” —Peter F. Drucker, author and educator
476. “Lead by example.”
477. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” — John Quincy Adams
478. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
479. “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”- Steve Jobs
480. “The outward expression of empathy is courtesy.” Stewart Butterfield
481. “When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.”
482. “Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.” - Margaret Wheatley
483. “Lead by example. Be better than those you despise.” – Varg Vikernes
484. “Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. “ — Robert Jarvik
485. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. - Tom Peters
486. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”
487. “People naturally follow leaders stronger than themselves.”- John C. Maxwell
488. “Leading By Example: Say it, do it, coach it! Live it!” – Rick Conlow
489. “If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.” Jim Rohn
490. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John Maxwell
491. Do the right thing
492. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” — Stephen Covey, author, businessman and speaker
493. “By loving them for more than their abilities, we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.”
494. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."
495. “The reality is that the only way change comes is when you lead by example.” — Anne Wojcicki
496. The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow. - Seth Godin
497. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” —Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader
498. “A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.” — Duane Ludwig
499. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” —Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady
500. “The three most important ways to lead people are:… by example… by example… by example.”
501. “A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.” — Daisaku Ikeda
502. “Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness
503. “The best leaders have a high consideration factor. They really care about their people.” – Brian Tracy
504. “Leadership is an action, not a position.”- Donald McGannon
505. “He that cannot obey, cannot command.” — Benjamin Franklin
506. They put people first
507. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” —Warren Buffett, investor
508. “He who has great power should use it lightly.”
509. “You don't lead people by what you say to them; you lead them by what they see you do. True leaders are self-leaders.”
510. “Leaders set high standards. refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.” Brian Tracy
511. “Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.”- Bill Owens
512. “Wronging someone doesn't right them. Leave vengeance. Don't become what you hate. Instead, lead by example.”
513. “There is a difference between listening and
514. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” John C. Maxwell
515. “You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.” – John Maxwell
516. “People imitate their leader. Lead by example.” — Barbara Corcoran
517. “When you delegate work to a member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.” Steven Sinofsky
518. “Leaders lead by example. No leader asks more than he is prepared to give himself.” – David Amerland
519. “The key to success is action.” Brian Tracy
520. “Education is the mother of leadership.” —Wendell Willkie, lawyer
521. “I don’t know any other way to lead but by example.”
522. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
523. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” — John F. Kennedy
524. “Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.” — Winston Churchill
525. “The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.” —Warren Bennis, American scholar, organizational consultant, and author
526. “The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.” — Elaine Agather
527. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas A. Edison, American inventor
528. “Leaders lead by example, whether one intends to or not.”
529. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” Jack Welch
530. “Lead by example, not by showing samples.”
531. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold Glasow, humorist and author
532. “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” — Stephen R. Covey
533. “A leader leads by example not by force.”- Sun Tzu
534. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.” — Herbert B. Swope
535. “A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.” – Ovid
536. “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.” — Theodore Roosevelt
537. “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, philosopher and writer
538. “Change the world by your example, not your opinion.”
539. “Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person’s mood and attitude.” – John Maxwell
540. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” —Steve Jobs, chairman of Apple
541. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” — Tony Blair
542. “Leadership is not position or a title; it’s action and example.” Cory Booker
543. “The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change.”- Matshona Dhliwayo
544. “Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.” Ronald Reagan
545. “Leadership is not position or a title; it’s action and example.” — Cory Booker
546. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” —John Quincy Adams, former U.S. President
547. “It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially
548. “Leadership is getting people to help you when they are not obligated to do so.” — John Maxwell
549. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” — Publilius Syrus
550. “In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes.” – John Erskine, author
551. “Leaders are innovative, entrepreneurial, and future-oriented. They focus on getting the job done.” Brian Tracy
552. “The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” —Tony Blair, British politician
553. “A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.” M.D. Arnold
554. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” — Babe Ruth
555. “Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.” — John Maxwell
556. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” – Mother Teresa
557. “The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.” Brian Tracy
558. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln
559. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” Brian Tracy
560. “The leader’s job is to show the way. The bottom line is that you can’t tell anything about the condition of the way if you've not traveled on it yourself!”
561. “We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” Peter Drucker
562. “As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.” – Madeleine Albright
563. “Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.”- Peter F. Drucker
564. “Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
565. “If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
566. “What you cannot enforce, do not command.” – Sophocles
567. “Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.”
568. “An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”
569. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
570. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.”
571. Without it...it dies."
572. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.” - Martin Luther King
573. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
574. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” —William Arthur Ward, writer
575. “People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.” — John Maxwell
576. “People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.” —Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue
577. “A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.” —Joe DiMaggio, former New York Yankees outfielder & Hall of Fame baseball player
578. “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” – Lao Tzu
579. They avoid micromanaging
580. “‘Restore connection’ is not just for devices, it is for people too. If we cannot disconnect, we cannot lead.” —Arianna Huffington, founder & CEO, Thrive Global
581. “Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” - Pete Hoekstra
582. “Earn your leadership every day.” Michael Jordan
583. “Effective leaders lead by example….with honesty…confidence and compassion….intelligence and humor!”
584. “Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.”
585. “Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.” — Ross Perot
586. “Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.” — Oscar Wilde
587. “When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.” Craig Groeschel
588. “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
589. “The greatest leader is not the one who does the greatest things, but the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan
590. “A true leader always leads by example, by demonstrating to others how the work is done. “
591. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.” — Albert Schweitzer
592. “As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.” — Germany Kent
593. “A leader is one who leads others on the right path with his vision, skills, and experience.”
594. “You don’t lead people by what you say to them; you lead them by what they see you do. True leaders are self-leaders.” — Israelmore Ayivor
595. “Seek advice, but make sure it’s from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities.” – John Maxwell
596. “Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.” — Norman Schwarzkopf
597. “The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.” — Francis of Assisi
598. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” —George Patton, general in the United States Army
599. “You can only lead by example.” – Frank Langella
600. “If you want more kindness in the world, put some there.”
601. “Leading By Example: Say it, do it, coach it! Live it!”
602. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
603. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions.
604. “A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.” – Douglas MacArthur
605. “The led must not be compelled, they must be able to choose their own leader.” — Albert Einstein
606. “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
607. “Great leaders don’t tell you what to do, they show you how it’s done.”
608. “I think in life you should work on yourself until the day you die.” – Serena Williams
609. “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
610. “A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”
611. “No amount of awards will give you character.”
612. “Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” —E. Joseph Cossman, inventor and businessman
613. “Leaders make decisions that create the future they desire.” — Mike Murdock
614. “Practice Golden Rule Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.” Brian Tracy
615. “To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where they are going.” – Joe Namath
616. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” Ronald Reagan
617. “Let him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.” — Thomas Carlyle
618. “Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”- Billy Graham
619. “True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but
620. “Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led.”- Ross Perot
621. “The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today” Francis of Assisi
622. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."
623. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” — John C. Maxwell
624. “It’s not only children who grow. Parents do, too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours.
625. “The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.” – Albert Einstein, physicist
626. But I said, don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
627. “Serving is the best kind of Leading.” — Todd Stocker
628. “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” - Jack Welch
629. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft
630. “A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.”– Robert Townsend
631. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” Ralph Nader
632. “The people who are lifting the world onward and upward are those who encourage more than they criticize.” — Elizabeth Harrison
633. “I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people, who live what they teach, who walk their talk.” — Tony Robbins
634. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” – Colin Powell
635. “You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results."
636. “An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.” Mahatma Gandhi
637. “Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.” - Stephen Covey
638. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State
639. “I’m not super outgoing, but I think the biggest thing I can do is lead by example.” — Christian Pulisic
640. “The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.”
641. “Orders come from customers, not from leaders.”
642. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams
643. “The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.” — François de la Rochefoucauld
644. You have to be the calmest person in the room. You have to be very open. I think the qualities of a director are to enable and to find the best in everybody."
645. “People may teach what they know, but they reproduce what they are.” — John C. Maxwell
646. “I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.”
647. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward, author
648. “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.” —Isaac Newton, English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer
649. “Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.” — Tom Peters
650. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” Stephen Covey
651. “A leader’s job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be.” — Jack Welch
652. “The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the
653. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” — Ralph Nader
654. Followers think and talk about the problems."
655. “He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly."
656. “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.” Bob Marley
657. “Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others stiffen.” Billy Graham
658. “Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.”
659. “He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.” — Henry Ward Beecher
660. “The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.” – John C. Maxwell
661. “To lead the people, walk behind them.” — Lao-Tzu
662. “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” John Maxwell
663. “Lead not by the example of power but by the power of example.”
664. “You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go.
665. “The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.” – Drew Barrymore
666. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.” John C. Maxwell
667. “Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.” Brian Tracy
668. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of
669. “Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.” Reed Markham
670. “Leadership is not a position or a title;
671. “If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.”
672. “I’m all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself.
673. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective
674. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be.” — Rosalynn Carter
675. “Leadership is action, not position.” — Donald H. McGannon
676. “Leaders show examples. They have something to offer and they’ll offer it by the process of how they got it. Anyone who has no examples to show may not lead better.”
677. “Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.” — Albert Einstein
678. “Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.” – Stewart Stafford
679. “As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.” — Marianne Williamson
680. “Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like
681. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself,
682. “The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change.” Matshona Dhliwayo
683. Then they need to lead by example."
684. “I never saw myself as an individual who had
685. “My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change—whether they thanked me or cursed me.” – John Maxwell
686. “The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” — Faye Wattleton
687. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” — Theodore Roosevelt
688. “The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.” — John Maxwell
689. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” Mary Tyler Moore
690. “Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in
691. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right
692. “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.”
693. Be forward thinking
694. “No matter how old I get I will never understand two things:
695. “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” —Chuck Swindoll, Christian pastor and radio preacher
696. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – President John Quincy Adams
697. “The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.” —Brandon Sanderson, author
698. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
699. “The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.” — Andrew Carnegie
700. “Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
701. “If you want to lead, first learn how to follow.” — Rick Beneteau
702. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” - William Arthur Ward
703. “Lead by example with hope, never fear, and know that I will be with you, rooting for you and working to support you for the rest of my life.” — Michelle Obama
704. “Instruction is good for a child; but example is worth more.” — Alexandre Dumas
705. “A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.”- Joe DiMaggio
706. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” – President Theodore Roosevelt
707. “Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.”
708. “People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.”- Michelle Obama
709. “He who has great power should use it lightly.” – Seneca
710. “Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.”
711. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence, and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” —Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook
712. “The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.” —Padmasree Warrior, CEO & founder of Fable
713. “Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.” — John Maxwell
714. “There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you’d be, the parent you always wished you had.
715. Why we all just can't get along
716. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked;
717. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
718. “In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served.”- Bangambiki Habyarimana
719. “The glue that holds all relationships together–including the relationship between the leader and the led–is trust, and trust is based on integrity.” Brian Tracy
720. “I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.” — Angelina Jolie
721. “Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about
722. “The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” —Faye Wattleton, American reproductive rights activist
723. “Leading people is like cooking. Don’t stir too much. It annoys the
724. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
725. “Stay connected to feel empathy, compassion, and understanding for yourself and others.” Vanessa Tucker
726. “A leader is a dealer in hope.”
727. “Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.” – Oscar Wilde, writer and poet
728. “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.” Sam Walton
729. “Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says ‘Go!’ … a leader says ‘Let’s go!’ — E.M. Kelly
730. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” - John F. Kennedy
731. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
732. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about others. - Jack Welch
733. “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
734. “It’s true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.” — John Maxwell
735. “What you are speaks so loudly, I can’t hear what you are saying.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
736. “Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.” - Tom Peters
737. “Being an example to others is a requirement of following Jesus, even though none of us will ever be a perfect example.”
738. “Power isn’t control at all – power is strength, and giving that strength
739. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
740. “A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.” — John C. Maxwell
741. “The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.” – Brian Tracy
742. “Parents must lead by example. Don’t use the cliché; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children’s first and most important role models.“
743. “Leadership is about magnetic communication. Leaders have a way of communicating that draws people toward the vision and the horizon.” — Doug Firebaugh
744. “Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.”
745. “If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.” —Dolly Parton, musician
746. “The three ‘C’s’ of leadership are consideration, caring, and courtesy. Be polite to everyone.” Brian Tracy
747. “What you are speaks so loudly, I can’t hear what you are saying.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
748. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” — Abraham Lincoln
749. “If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.” - Jack Weatherford
750. “The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.” — Jim Rohn
751. “Communication to a relationship is like oxygen to life. Without it…it dies.” – Tony A. Gaskins Jr.
752. Lead by example."
753. “You don’t lead by lip service, you lead by example.” – Jim Leyland
754. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” – Theodore Roosevelt
755. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” Warren Bennis
756. “Change the world by your example, not your opinion.” — Paulo Coelho
757. “The best leaders have a high consideration factor. They really care about their people” Brian Tracy
758. “It’s not about you. It’s about them.”
759. “A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see and who sees before others see.” – Leroy Eimes, author and leadership expert
760. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.” —Dianne Feinstein, Senior United States Senator
761. “The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.” – John Maxwell
762. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” – Ray Kroc
763. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.” – Peter Drucker
764. “It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.” — Joe Klock
765. “Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.” – U.S. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
766. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.” — Brian Tracy
767. “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
768. “If behavior is contagious, is yours worth catching?”
769. “Earn your leadership every day.”
770. “Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.” James Freeman Clark
771. “The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.” — Eric Hoffer
772. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” —Margaret Mead, anthropologist
773. “Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are
774. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” – Rosalynn Carter
775. “A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”- Confucius
776. “You don’t lead by hitting people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
777. “To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
778. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” — John Maxwell
779. “Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.”- Chinese Proverb
780. “Leadership distilled down to 3 words: Make a difference.” —Robin Sharma, Canadian writer
781. “Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.”- Albert Einstein
782. “The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.” —Iyanla Vanzant, American inspirational speaker, author, and lawyer
783. “Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.” – Horace
784. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence, and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.”- Sheryl Sandberg
785. “As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.”
786. “A leader leads by example, not by force.” — Sun Tzu
787. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
788. “Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.”
789. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.” —Ben Carson, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
790. “Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.” — John Maxwell
791. “Don’t just tell your kids to be active and to get outside and play. Lead by example.” -Summer Sanders
792. “If you don’t practice, you don’t deserve to win.”
793. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
794. “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”- Marcus Aurelius
795. “Don’t just tell your kids to be active and to get outside and play. Lead by example.” — Summer Sanders
796. “Leadership crisis erupt when people who have not learnt how to obey instructions are given the privilege to give commands. Leaders are experienced servants.”
797. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” -Brian Tracy
798. “Anyone, anywhere can make a positive difference.” - Mark Sanborn
799. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.”
800. “Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.” — General George Patton
801. “The real leader has no need to lead — he is content to point the way.” — Henry Miller
802. “Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.” — Vince Lombardi
803. “Message to leaders: The first person you lead is You! You earn the right to lead others when they see you lead your own life well.”
804. “The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.” - Kenneth H. Blanchard
805. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – President Abraham Lincoln
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