950 Motivational Leadership Encouragement Quotes To Inspire

1. The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. —Ken Blanchard

2. “Leadership is an active role; ‘lead’ is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.” – Bill Owens

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

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

5. A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. —Ovid

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

7. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.” — Peter F. Drucker

8. “To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.” Pat Riley

9. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” —Dalai Lama

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

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

12. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.”

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

14. Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts. —Erskine Bowles

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

16. “Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. John F. Kennedy

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

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

19. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

20. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”

21. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” ~ Beverly Sills

22. “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

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

24. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” ~ Stephen Covey

25. “Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.” – Chester W. Nimitz

26. “A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.” – Henry A. Kissinger

27. “Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That’s what makes me feel good.” Laetitia Casta

28. Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.

29. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

30. “Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.” – Peter Drucker

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

32. “Beauty isn’t about having a pretty face. It is about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and most importantly a beautiful soul.” Anonymous

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

34. “Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence, and inspiration.” ~ Robin S. Sharma

35. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” —Albert Einstein

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

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

38. Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal. – Walt Disney

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

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

41. “As a leader your every action has a consequence, make sure it is one you intend.” Kathrine Bryant

42. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” ~ Steve Jobs

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

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

45. “Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.” David Hume

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

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

48. “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

49. You don’t need a title to be a leader. –Multiple Attributions

50. “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

51. “Your outer beauty will capture the eyes, your inner beauty will capture the heart.” Steven Aitchison

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

53. “Do or do not. There is no try.” —Yoda

54. “I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.” Terry Pratchett

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

56. “Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.” – Tom Landry

57. “Beauty is not caused. It is.” Emily Dickinson

58. “Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.”

59. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” ~ Albert Einstein

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

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

62. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

63. “Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world.”

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

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

66. “In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.” Christopher Morley

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

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

69. “A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.” Anne Roiphe

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

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

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

73. “Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.” ~ Richard Branson

74. “A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.” ~ Joel Barker

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

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

77. “Be the kind of leader that you would follow.” Anonymous

78. 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.

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

80. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. —Peter Drucker

81. Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. —Brian Tracy

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

83. “Imperfection is beauty. Anonymous

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

85. We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity. —Marco Rubio

86. “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

87. “Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way” Ronald Reagan

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

89. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” ~ Sheryl Sanberg

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

91. “Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.”

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

93. “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.

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

95. “The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.”– Seneca

96. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

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

98. Never give an order that can't be obeyed. —General Douglas MacArthur

99. R. Buckminster Fuller on Affirmation.

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

101. “He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.” – Niccolo Machiavelli

102. “Management is doing the right thing; leadership is doing the right things.” ~ Peter F. Drucker

103. “A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.” – Joe DiMaggio

104. “To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.” – Aristotle Onassis

105. Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway. —Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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

109. “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

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

111. “A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.” Simon Sinek

112. Scott McNealy on Getting the Best People.

113. “If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.” – Thomas Fuller

114. “I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, ‘Where am I needed most?'” – Mike Pence

115. “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.”

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

117. “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

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

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

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

121. You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

122. “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

123. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” —Henry Ford

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

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

126. “What helps people, helps business.” – Leo Burnett

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

128. “I have broken many glass ceilings - so I know it can be done.”

129. “We should be encouraging — not penalizing — folks who want to pursue higher education.” Sharice Davids

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

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

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

133. “I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” Henry David Thoreau

134. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. —Margaret Mead

135. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” ~ Andy Warhol

136. “The sharp employ the sharp.” – Douglas William Jerrold

137. “Do what is right, not what is easy.” Anonymous

138. “Nothing will work unless you do.” —Maya Angelou

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

140. James Buchanan on the Test of Leadership.

141. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

142. Ike Eisenhower on the Art of Motivation.

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

144. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” ~ Napoleon

145. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” —Napoleon Hill

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

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

148. “Leadership is action, not position.” Donald H. McGannon

149. “Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.” – Omar N. Bradley

150. “Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

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

152. 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

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

154. “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

155. “The three ‘C’s’ of leadership are consideration, caring, and courtesy. Be polite to everyone.” Brian Tracy

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

157. “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

158. Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.

159. “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

160. “Leaders don’t force people to follow – they invite them on a journey.” —Charles S. Lauer, author and businessman

161. “Beauty is the opposite of perfection – it’s about confidence, charisma, and character.” Anonymous

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

163. People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. – Thomas Sowell

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

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

166. 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

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

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

169. Arnold H. Glasow on Tests and Problems.

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

171. “You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” ~ Doug Floyd

172. 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.

173. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” John Keats

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

175. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” ~ John Maxwell

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

177. “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” Khalil Gibran

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

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

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

181. “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.”

182. “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.”

183. What you do has far greater impact than what you say. —Stephen Covey

184. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill

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

186. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” ~ Jamie Paolinetti

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

188. “Leadership is about being of service to others, not being served by others. Be a mentor, not a boss.” Anonymous

189. You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership. –Dwight Eisenhower

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

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

192. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” ~ Kenneth Blanchard

193. “Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” Patrick Lencioni

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

195. Management Versus Leadership According to Tom Peters.

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

197. Leadership is influence. —John C. Maxwell

198. 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

199. “The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.” ~ Linus Pauling

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

201. “A true leader is one who is humble enough to admit their mistakes.” Anonymous

202. “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.” – John Zenger

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

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

205. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas A. Edison, American inventor

206. Whatever you are, be a good one. —Abraham Lincoln

207. “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

208. “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

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

210. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”

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

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

213. “You can’t teach leadership, but it can be learned.” – Lloyd J. Edwards Jr.

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

215. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” ~ Dalai Lama

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

217. I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. —Dee Dee Myers

218. A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

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

220. The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. —Eric Hoffer

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

222. “I have always supported measures and principles and not men.” – Davy Crockett

223. “Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.” - Tom Peters

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

225. “You’re only as good as the people you hire.” – Ray Kroc

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

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

228. “Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men–the other 999 follow women.” Groucho Marx

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

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

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

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

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

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

235. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Aristotle

236. “I’m always friendly and encouraging on set. I want people to be at their best creatively.” Mark Wahlberg

237. “A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.” — Joel Barker

238. “Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.” – James Cash Penney

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

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

241. “Great leaders delegate and nurture future leaders.” ~ Invajy

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

243. To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

244. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. – Peter Drucker

245. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”

246. “Integrity, insight, and inclusiveness are the three essential qualities of leadership.” ~ Sadhguru

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

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

249. Theodore Hesburg on the Essense of Leadership.

250. “Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else."

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

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

253. “Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.” – Harold S. Green

254. “An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.”

255. “Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.” John Ray

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

257. “Great leaders don’t set out to be a leader, they set out to make a difference. It’s never about the role, always about the goal.” Anonymous

258. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” ~ Winston Churchill

259. “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

260. Where there is no vision, the people perish. —Proverbs 29:18

261. “Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.” Confucius

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

263. “Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.” – Tom Peters

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

265. “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” – George Washington Carver

266. “Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, ‘I could have done three things better yesterday.'” – Jeffrey R. Immelt

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

268. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ~ Peter Drucker

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

270. “Encouraging words are good medicine for the soul.” Lailah Gifty Akita

271. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

272. “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.”

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

274. He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. —Solon

275. “Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.” Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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

277. Harold S. Green on Leadership in Motion.

278. “I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: try to please everybody.” ~ Herbert Bayard Swope

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

280. 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

281. Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. —Stephen Covey

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

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

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

285. “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” ~ Woodrow Wilson

286. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”

287. “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.”

288. “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

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

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

291. “In teamwork, silence isn’t golden. It’s deadly.” ~ Mark Sanborn

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

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

294. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein

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

296. “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.” Edgar Allan Poe

297. “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

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

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

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

301. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” – Henry Ford

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

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

304. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” Confucius

305. “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

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

307. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people.” ~ Mohandas Gandhi

308. “All leaders are readers.” —Jim Rohn, American entrepreneur

309. “When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” ~ Henry J. Kaiser

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

311. “Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are.” Thomas John Carlisle

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

313. “Get the best people and train them well.” – Scott McNealy

314. “As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.” —Toni Morrison, author

315. My responsibility is getting all my players playing for the name on the front of the jersey, not the one on the back. –Unknown

316. “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.”

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

318. “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

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

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

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

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

323. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” Maya Angelou

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

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

326. “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

327. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. —John Maxwell

328. “The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.” – Casey Stengel

329. “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

330. “When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.” – Roy E. Disney

331. “Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.” ~ Bo Bennett

332. Stephen R. Covey on the Meaning of Leadership.

333. “Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.” Jane Seymour

334. “Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse."

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

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

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

338. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” — John C. Maxwell

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

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

341. “Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” — John Wooden

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

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

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

345. Ike Eisenhower on Hitting People Over the Head.

346. “Example is leadership.” – Albert Schweitzer

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

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

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

350. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” —Bill Bradley, American politician and former professional basketball player

351. The problem with being a leader is that you’re never sure if you're being followed or chased. – Claire A. Murray

352. “Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.” – George W. Bush

353. “We never noticed the beauty because we were too busy trying to create it.” Anonymous

354. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” – Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

357. “Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.” Andy Stanley

358. “Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.” ~ Max Depree

359. Thomas Aquinas on Preserving the Ship.

360. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” —George Addair

361. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

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

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

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

365. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. —Norman Schwarzkopf

366. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” — Steve Jobs

367. “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

368. 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

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

370. “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

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

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

373. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” Robert Louis Stevenson

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

375. “When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.” Winston Churchill

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

377. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” ~ Van Gogh

378. Alexander the Great on Sheep and Lions.

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

380. Henry Kissinger on Operating the Familiar.

381. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. Oprah Winfrey

382. “Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you’ll never sit.” ~ Jennifer Granholm

383. One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. —Arnold Glasow

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

385. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

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

387. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.” ~ Andrew Carnegie

388. “Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.” ~ Charles Swindoll

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

390. “When people talk, listen completely.”

391. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” - Ayn Rand

392. “If you want a quality, act as if you already have it.” – William James

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

394. “To me, beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.” Ellen Degeneres

395. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” — Publilius Syrus

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

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

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

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

400. Leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory.

401. A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men. —Stephen King

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

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

404. Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. —Donald Rumsfeld

405. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

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

407. “The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you.” Brian Tracy

408. Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

409. Ralph Nader on the Function of Leadership.

410. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. — General George Patton

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

412. “Leadership does not depend on being right.” – Ivan Illich

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

414. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

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

416. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” ~ Gloria Steinem

417. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” —Helen Keller, author, activist, and lecturer

418. “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

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

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

421. “You can only accomplish things with the cooperation of other people. This is the most valuable thing I’ve learned over the years.”

422. “To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

423. Casey Stengel on Keeping them Separated.

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

425. “Great leaders inspire greatness in others.” Anonymous

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

427. “No one can pull you down if you raise your awareness to your own inner strength and beauty.” Anonymous

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

429. “God gave us eyes to see the beauty in nature and hearts to see the beauty in each other.” Anonymous

430. “You manage things; you lead people. “

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

432. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” ~ Publilius Syrus

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

434. 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

435. “Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.”

436. 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

437. “If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.” – William James

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

439. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” ~ Henry Ford

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

441. “You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.” – Phil Crosby

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

443. “I’m passionate about encouraging girls to be confident in their own skin.” Sadie Sink

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

445. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”

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

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

448. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” ~ John Maxwell

449. A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t.

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

451. “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

452. The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.

453. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. —Tom Peters

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

455. “Anyone, anywhere can make a positive difference.” - Mark Sanborn

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

457. “The things we fear most in organizations — fluctuations, distubances, imbalances — are the primary sources of creativity.” — Margaret Wheatley

458. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” ~ Woody Allen

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

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

461. The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on. —Walter Lippman

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

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

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

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

466. “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.” – Joe Namath

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

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

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

470. “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

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

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

473. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

474. “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

475. “I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

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

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

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

481. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” ~ Joshua J. Marine

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

483. Earn your leadership every day. –Michael Jordan

484. “It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.”

485. “A leader should be able to foresee crisis situations and be proactive” ~ Invajy

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

487. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. —Woodrow Wilson

488. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” Peter F. Drucker

489. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

493. “Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself on the inside and out.” Anonymous

494. “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.” ~ John Zenger

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

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

497. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. —John F. Kennedy

498. “The x-factor of great leadership is not personality, it’s humility.” Jim Collins

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

500. “Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” – Henry J. Kaiser

501. “Be your own kind of beautiful.” Anonymous

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

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

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

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

506. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” —Stephen Covey

507. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~ Christopher Columbus

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

509. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

510. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” Peter F. Drucker

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

512. “Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.” Colin Powell

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

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

515. “The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.” – Ken Olsen

516. “Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.” Shannon Alder

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

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

519. By contrast, only 0.4% had no male directors.

520. Laurence J. Peter Gives You a Choice.

521. A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. —John Maxwell

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

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

524. “Leadership is influence.” – John C. Maxwell

525. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” —Henry Ford

526. “When people talk, listen completely.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

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

528. “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

529. “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

530. “Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.” ~ Douglas MacArthur

531. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” —Albert Einstein

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

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

534. “The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.” – J. Paul Getty

535. “An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”

536. Stephen R. Covey on Climbing the Ladder.

537. J. Paul Getty on Getting Just Desserts.

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

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

540. “You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

541. When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. —Napoleon Bonaparte

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

543. Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. —Publilius Syrus

544. “Courage is not staying quiet about things that make us uncomfortable.” -Brene Brown

545. “Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.” ~ Colin Powell

546. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” — Henry Ford

547. “A leader should be visionary and have more foresight than an employee.” ~ Jack Ma

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

549. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

552. “Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” – John D. Rockefeller

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

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

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

556. 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.

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

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

559. 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

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

561. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” Father Theodore M. Hesburgh

562. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.” —Ben Carson, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

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

564. “Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.” – Yousef Munayyer

565. “Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.” – Harold S. Green

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

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

568. Henry Ward Beecher on Higher Standards.

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

570. “The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” Harvey S. Firestone

571. In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. – Tina Fey

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

573. John Quincy Adams on Leading by Doing.

574. “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

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

576. “Leaders never stop learning.” Christine Caine

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

578. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” ~ Peter Drucker

579. The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

580. “The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.” ~ Winston Churchill

581. “Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.” John Maxwell

582. “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

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

584. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” — Winston Churchill

585. “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

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

587. “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”

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

589. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” ~ Vince Lombardi

590. “Earn your leadership every day.” ~ Michael Jordan

591. “Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.” ~ Harold S. Geneen

592. “High expectations are the key to everything.” – Sam Walton

593. Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. —John Zenger

594. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. —Harvey Firestone

595. “Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

598. Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. —John C. Maxwell

599. Davy Crockett on Supporting Principles.

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

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

602. Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. —Warren Bennis

603. “The price of greatness is responsibility.”

604. “Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader.”

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

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

607. “The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.”

608. The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

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

610. “The role of a great leader is not to give greatness to human beings, but to help them extract the greatness they already have inside them.” J. Buchan

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

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

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

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

615. Phil Crosby Pushes People, but Gently.

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

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

618. “Clarity affords focus.” – Thomas Leonard

619. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” ~ Sheryl Sandberg

620. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

623. The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. –Dwight Eisenhower

624. “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.” – Theodore Roosevelt

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

626. “To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.” ~ Andre Malraux

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

628. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

630. “For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.” Billy Porter

631. “Leadership Is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people” ~ Brian Tracy

632. “Be the chief but never the lord.” – Lao Tzu

633. There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage. —Fuchan Yuan

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

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

636. “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” – Steve Jobs

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

638. “No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.” Andrew Carnegie

639. You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

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

641. “The best leaders have a high consideration factor. They really care about their people” Brian Tracy

642. Management Versus Leadership According to Peter Drucker.

643. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

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

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

646. The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. —Tony Blair

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

648. “Helping others, encouraging others, are often acts of kindness that have more meaning than you may realize.” Catherine Pulsifer

649. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. —Max Lucado

650. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. – Steve Jobs

651. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”

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

653. “To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.” – Edward Murrow

654. “There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.” John Kenneth Galbraith

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

656. “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

657. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. —Kenneth Blanchard

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

659. “It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.” George Washington

660. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. —Warren Bennis

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

662. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” ~ Theodore M. Hesburgh

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

664. “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” – Laurence J. Peter

665. “When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

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

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

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

671. “Leaders set high standards. refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.” Brian Tracy

672. “Remember, feedback is meant to address the problem, not the person.”

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

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

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

676. “Leadership is an action, not a position.” —Donald McGannon, broadcasting executive

677. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.” – Andrew Carnegie

678. “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

679. Tom Landry on Getting People to Achieve.

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

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

682. John C. Maxwell on Relating and Motivating.

683. “When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.” – Ronald Reagan

684. “Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.” Jim Rohn

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

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

687. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” — Warren G. Bennis

688. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.”

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

690. Aristotle Onassis on Succeeding in Business.

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

692. “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

693. Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating. – Simon Sinek

694. “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German poet, playwright, and novelist

695. “Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.” Junichiro Tanizaki

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

697. “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.”

698. “The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.” – Mary Kay Ash

699. “A leader is admired, a boss is feared.” ~ Vicente Del Bosque

700. “I think realizing that you’re not alone, that you are standing with millions of your sisters around the world is vital.” -Malala Yousafzai

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

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

703. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

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

705. If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. If you really make them think, they’ll hate you.

706. “As a leader, it’s a major responsibility on your shoulders to practice the behavior you want others to follow.”

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

708. “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

709. “Leaders don't inflict pain, they share pain.”

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

711. “A leader is someone who demonstrates what’s possible.” Mark Yarnell

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

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

714. “Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.” — Max Depree

715. “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.” Rosalyn Carter

716. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” ~ Aristotle

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

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

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

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

721. “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

722. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. —General Dwight Eisenhower

723. “Beauty is about enhancing what you have. Let yourself shine through.” Janelle Monae

724. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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

728. Robin S. Sharma on Leadership Culture.

729. “Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.” – Donald Rumsfield

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

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

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

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

734. “Beauty is an attitude.” Anonymous

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

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

737. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” — Aristotle

738. In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. —Thomas Jefferson

739. “Great leaders do not desire to lead but to serve.” ~ Myles Munroe

740. Leadership has been defined as the ability to hide your panic from others. – Lao Tzu

741. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

742. “Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.” – J. P. Morgan

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

744. To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. —Friedrich Nietzsche

745. “No guts, no story.” Chris Brady

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

747. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” – John Maxwell

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

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

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

751. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” ~ Jim Rohn

752. No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. —Andrew Carnegie

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

754. “Taking responsibility of failure and giving credit of success to others is biggest quality of leaders.” ~ Invajy

755. “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” ~ George S. Patton

756. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

757. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

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

759. David Schwartz on Thoughts and Actions.

760. “It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur.” – Nelson Mandela

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

762. “Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.” ~ General George Patton

763. Warren Bennis on Making Dreams Come True.

764. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground”.

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

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

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

768. “A leader is someone who holds herself or himself accountable for finding the potential in people and processes.” ~ Brene Brown

769. “You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.”

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

771. “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.”

772. “You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.” Tom Hopkins

773. “I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.” —Ginni Rometty, Executive Chairman of IBM

774. “You manage things; you lead people.” ~ Grace Murray Hopper

775. “I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.” Robert E. Lee

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

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

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

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

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

781. “The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

783. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.”

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

785. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” ~ Albert Einstein

786. “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” ~ Chinese Proverb

787. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.“

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

789. “Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one’s self.” Priscilla Presley

790. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. —General George Patton

791. “Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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

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

795. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

796. Carlos Ghosn on the Role of Leadership.

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

798. “Take care of your inner spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.” Dolores del Rio

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

800. “It can be read in an afternoon, but you’ll be re-reading it for the rest of your life.”

801. “I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.”

802. “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

803. 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

804. “The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” ~ Harvey S. Firestone

805. “Life isn’t always really glamorous and fabulous. It’s about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.” Zoe Foster Blake

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

807. “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

808. “Beauty is the radiance of your soul.” Asad Meah

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

810. “I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: try to please everybody.” Herbert Bayard Swope

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

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

813. Take action and believe in yourself. Dreams do come true.

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

815. I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? —Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

818. You manage things; you lead people. —Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

819. “Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.” ~ Alan Mulally

820. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” – Stephen R. Covey

821. He who has great power should use it lightly. —Seneca

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

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

824. “A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.”

825. 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.

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

827. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”

828. “Butterflies can’t see their wings. They can’t see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well.” Anonymous

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

830. “If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.” Tom Rath

831. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” Coco Chanel

832. Stephen R. Covey on Effective Leadership.

833. Jeffrey Immelt on the Intense Journey.

834. “A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

835. Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. —Chinese Proverb

836. Harold S. Green on Teaching and Learning.

837. “Beautiful has nothing to do with looks. It’s how you are as a person and how you make others feel about themselves.” Anonymous

838. A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example. – Joe DiMaggio

839. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie

840. “You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.” – Nelson Mandela

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

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

843. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

844. “The best way to leapfrog in your career is to get advice from someone who’s done what you’re trying to accomplish. It helps clear all the doubt.”

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

846. “Knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

847. “Real beauty is to be true to oneself.” Laetitia Casta

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

849. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” ~ Margaret Fuller

850. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. you need to accept yourself.” Thich Nhat Hanh

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

852. Education is the mother of leadership. —Wendell Willkie

853. “Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.” – Mwai Kibaki

854. The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. —Sir Winston Churchill

855. “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

856. “Stay connected to feel empathy, compassion, and understanding for yourself and others.” Vanessa Tucker

857. “The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.”

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

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

860. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” John Maxwell

861. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. —Aristotle

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

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

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

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

866. “Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.” Alice Walker

867. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”

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

869. “True beauty comes from within.” ATGW

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

871. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” ~ Dale Carnegie

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

873. “The happier you are the more beautiful you become.” Anonymous

874. “If only our eyes saw souls instead of bodies, how very different our ideals of beauty would be.” Anonymous

875. “The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.” – Henry Miller

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

877. “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” ~ Ancient Indian Proverb

878. Seuss Quotes That Can Change the World

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

880. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. —Abraham Lincoln

881. “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

882. “There is little success where there is little laughter.” ~ Andrew Carnegie

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

884. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”

885. “A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.” ~ Polybius

886. “A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”

887. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” Napoleon

888. “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

889. “Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It’s about being self-aware.” – Jeffrey R. Immelt

890. Leaders live by choice, not by accident.

891. “The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.”

892. “Leadership is not a popularity contest; it’s about leaving your ego at the door.” – Robin S. Sharma

893. A leader is a dealer in hope. —Napoleon Bonaparte

894. “Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word.” John C. Maxwell

895. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” – Theodore Hesburg

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

897. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” ~ Aristotle

898. “To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.” – Pat Riley

899. “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

900. “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

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

902. “How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.” – David Joseph Schwartz

903. “Through simplicity comes great beauty.” Anonymous

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

905. “In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

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

907. “Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.” – Rev. Jesse Jackson

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

909. “Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.” Audrey Hepburn

910. “If you really want to grow as an entrepreneur, you’ve got to learn to delegate.” Richard Branson

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

912. “Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”~ Harold Geneen

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

914. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better. —Bill Bradley

915. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker

916. “Do not be afraid to make decisions. Do not be afraid to make mistakes.”

917. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” Fred Wilson

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

919. So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. —Peter Drucker

920. “You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.” J. Paul Getty

921. “You manage things; you lead people.” — Grace Murray Hopper

922. “True beauty in an individual is reflected in their soul.” Audrey Hepburn

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

924. “The outward expression of empathy is courtesy.” Stewart Butterfield

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

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

927. To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. —Andre Malraux

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

929. 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

930. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

931. Leadership is an action, not a position.

932. “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

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

934. “If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.” ~ Indra Nooyi

935. “A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.” ~ Zig Ziglar

936. “Think little goals and expect little achievements. Thing big goals and win big success.” —David Joseph Schwartz

937. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” —Plutarch

938. 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.

939. “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

940. “Don’t follow the crowd. Let the crowd follow you.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

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

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

943. “There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.” H. R. Giger

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

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

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

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

948. “I don’t want yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.” ~ Samuel Goldwyn

949. “The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.” — Walter Lippman

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