Memorable Leading Quotes

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"Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about taking care of those in your charge."
Simon Sinek
"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
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it."
Andrew Carnegie
"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
"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
"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
"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
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"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."
Albert Schweitzer
"In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
Max DePree
"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."
Douglas MacArthur
"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."
John C. Maxwell
"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
"Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence."
Sheryl Sandberg
"Your legacy is what you have done for others. Your influence is what you have done for yourself."
Unknown
"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
"Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by a passion, generated by a vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose."
Myles Munroe
"You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory."
Alan Greenspan
"Great leaders are willing to sacrifice their own needs for the good of the group."
John Wooden
"Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems."
Brian Tracy
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."
Colin Powell
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"Success is not about how high you can build your fence, but how many doors you can open."
Beverly Sills
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Steve Jobs
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
William Arthur Ward
"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
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
Peter Drucker
"The art of communication is the language of leadership."
James Humes
"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another."
John C. Maxwell
"Earn your leadership every day."
Michael Jordan
"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better."
Bill Bradley
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
Steve Jobs
"Leadership is the capacity to develop and communicate a vision."
Warren Bennis
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"The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes."
Tony Blair
"True leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders."
Tom Peters
"You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out."
Steve Jobs
"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
"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
"Great leaders are willing to sacrifice their own interests for the good of the group."
John Wooden
"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
"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Leadership is not about being the best. It is about making everyone else better."
Sheryl Sandberg
"You manage things; you lead people."
Grace Hopper
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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 leader is a dealer in hope."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"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 is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts."
Erskine Bowles
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
Woodrow Wilson
"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."
Peter Drucker
"The best way to lead is by example."
Roy Bennett
"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
"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
"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
"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
Ralph Nader
"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."
Warren Bennis
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
C.S. Lewis
"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision."
John C. Maxwell
"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."
Reverend Theodore Hesburgh
"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."
Albert Einstein
"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. They are the one that gets the people to do the greatest things."
Ronald Reagan
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
"Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing."
Thomas J. Peters
"Great leaders are willing to sacrifice their own interests for the good of their team."
John Wooden
"Leadership is not about being the best. It's about making everyone else better."
Unknown
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people."
Brian Tracy
"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority."
Ken Blanchard
"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
John F. Kennedy
"Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you."
Margaret Thatcher
"Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example."
Cory Booker
"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."
Zig Ziglar
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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