Leadership Quotes
+18A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
- Anonymous
+2If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
- Katharine Hepburn
+2The best example of leadership, is leadership by example.
- Jerry McClain
+2The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
- Lucretius
+2We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership.
- Bill Clinton
+1When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
+1The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell.
- Andrew Carnegie
+1Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them!
- Alexandre Auguste Ledru
+1The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
- Woodrow Wilson
+1A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
- John C. Maxwell
+1The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.
- Henry Miller
+1I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
- Bishop Desmond Tutu
+1The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.
- Andre Maurois
+1The cynic says, One man can’t do anything. I say Only one man can do anything.
- John W Gardner
+1It’s amazing how many cares disappear when you decide not to be something, but to be someone.
- Coco Chanel
+1The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.
- Don Coryell
+1When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
- Lao Tse
+1Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.
- Peter Drucker
+1Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
- Steve Jobs
+1Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done.
- Peter Drucker
+1Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
- Winston Churchill
+1A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don’t inflict pain. They bear pain.
- Max DePree
+1I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader
+1If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Admiral Grace Hopper
+1Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
- George S. Patton
+1Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
- Oscar Wilde
+1Leadership in today’s world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
- Hubert H. Humphrey
+1The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
- Peter Drucker
+1Leaders can be moral and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
- Geraldine Ferraro
+1Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.
- George Van Valkenburg
0Lead from wherever you are.
- Anonymous
0Leaders are Readers.
- Charles Jones
0Popularity is not leadership.
- Richard Marcinko
0The true leader is always led.
- Carl Gustav Jung
0Entitlement and privilege corrupt.
- James B. Stockdale
0He that cannot obey, cannot command.
- Benjamin Franklin
0To lead the people, walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
0If you cannot serve, you cannot rule.
- Bulgarian Proverb
