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Leadership Quotes – Part 5

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

“I think leadership comes from integrity – that you do whatever you ask others to do. I think there are non-obvious ways to lead. Just by providing a good example as a parent, a friend, a neighbor makes it possible for other people to see better ways to do things. Leadership does not need to be a dramatic, fist in the air and trumpets blaring, activity.”
Scott Berkun

“Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”
Vince Lombardi

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. it’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.”
Margaret Thatcher

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

Leadership Quotes – Part 4

“We must become the change we want to see.”
Mahatma Gandhi

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

“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

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Albert Einstein

” Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
Sir Winston Churchill

“The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.”
Cornelius Nepos

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

“No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.”
Philip Armour

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

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

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

“A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.”
David R Gergen

“It’s amazing how many cares disappear when you decide not to be something, but to be someone.”
Coco Chanel

“Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it – short-term pain for long-term gain.”
George Will

 

Leadership Quotes – Part 3

“There go the people.
I must follow them for I am their leader.”
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

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

“Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”
Publilius Syrus

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

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

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

“The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.”
Andrew Carnegie

“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong”
Arthur C. Clarke

“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right”
Confucius

“In today’s economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge”
Peter Drucker

“Leadership is not a magnetic personality – that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people’ – that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”
Peter Drucker

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict”
William Ellery Channing

“I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught”
Winston Churchill

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes”
Winston Churchill

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

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”
Benjamin Franklin

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do”
Henry Ford

Leadership Quotes – Part 2

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

“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”
Abraham Lincoln

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

“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

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

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

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. ”
Theodore Roosevelt

“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”
Winston Churchill

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

“We know not where our dreams will take us, but we can probably see quite clearly where we’ll go without them.”
Marilyn Grey

“Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.”
Nolan Bushnell

“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.”
Paul Hawken

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are so confident while the intelligent are full of doubt”
Bertrand Russell

“The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.”
R. Shannon

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”
Peter Drucker

“The 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

Leadership Quotes – Part 1

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

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

“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.”
Harry S. Truman

“Example is leadership.”
Albert Schweitzer

“Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.”
Woodrow Wilson

“There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.”
Bertolt Brecht

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

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

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

“Education is the mother of leadership.”
Wendell Willkie

“Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.”
Ferdinand Marcos

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

“Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.”
Alan Autry

“No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.”
Peter Drucker