Memorable Leadership Quotes

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"Leadership is the ability to guide others without force into a direction or decision that leaves them still feeling empowered and accomplished."
Lisa Cash Hanson
"A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them."
M. D. Arnold
"A genuine leader is someone who is not necessarily liked but is respected."
Margaret Thatcher
"Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity."
Reed Markham
"Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge."
Simon Sinek
"Leadership is not about being the best. It is about making everyone else better."
Bill Gates
"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
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"Leadership is the capacity to care, to serve, and to empower others."
Brené Brown
"The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents."
Amos Parrish
"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
"Great leaders are willing to sacrifice their own self-interest for the good of the team."
John Wooden
"A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind."
Nelson Mandela
"The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow."
Seth Godin
"True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well."
Bill Owens
"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent."
Douglas MacArthur
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
Winston Churchill
"Leadership is not about being the best. It's about making everyone else better."
Sheryl Sandberg
"Leadership is not a position or a title; it is action and example."
Cory Booker
"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for."
Nancy D. Solomon
"A leader is someone who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."
John C. Maxwell
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."
Jim Rohn
"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
John F. Kennedy
"True leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed. Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection."
Sheryl Sandberg
"Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."
Seth Godin
"Great leaders are willing to sacrifice their own interests for the good of the group."
John Wooden
"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."
Henry Kissinger
"Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration, generated by a passion, motivated by a vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose."
Myles Munroe
"Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems."
Brian Tracy
"The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes."
Tony Blair
"It's not about being the best. It's about being better than you were yesterday."
Unknown
"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."
Jim Rohn
"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent."
Douglas MacArthur
"Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence."
Sheryl Sandberg
"Great leaders are willing to sacrifice their own interests for the good of others."
John Wooden
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"Leadership is not about being the best, it's about making everyone else better."
Bill Bradley
"The art of communication is the language of leadership."
James Humes
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader."
John Quincy Adams
"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves."
Ray Kroc
"Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another."
John C. Maxwell
"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better."
Bill Bradley
"Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example."
Cory Booker
"The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself."
Blaine Lee
"Great leaders are willing to follow in the footsteps of their followers."
Lao Tzu
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."
John C. Maxwell
"Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge."
Simon Sinek
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes."
Tony Blair
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
John Quincy Adams
"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."
Warren Bennis
"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things."
Ronald Reagan
"Leadership is the art to of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"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
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
Peter Drucker
"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
"Great leaders are willing to sacrifice their own interests for the good of the team."
John Wooden
"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
Ralph Nader
"Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
Steve Jobs
"Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality."
Warren Bennis
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
Peter Drucker
"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
"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."
Jack Welch
"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born."
Warren Bennis
"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
"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority."
Ken Blanchard
"A leader is a dealer in hope."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"You manage things; you lead people."
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand."
General Colin Powell
"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."
Peter Drucker
"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant."
Jim Rohn
"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."
Norman Schwarzkopf
"Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position."
Brian Tracy
"Earn your leadership every day."
Michael Jordan
"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision."
John C. Maxwell
"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.
"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them."
John C. Maxwell
"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."
Sam Walton
"A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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