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