LEADERSHIP QUOTES
quotations about leadership
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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, as quoted in The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time
Great leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself. Leadership without love degenerates into self-serving manipulation.
RICK WARREN, Ladies' Home Journal, Oct. 2008
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, attributed, Stars: A Study in Military Character and Leadership
To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
When we think we lead, we are most led.
LORD BYRON, The Two Foscari
Those who command themselves, command others.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
Great leaders inspire. They maintain a hopeful attitude, even in the face of discouraging setbacks, constant criticism and abundant opposition. People don't follow discouraged leaders. They follow those who persist with hope.
RICK WARREN, Ladies' Home Journal, Oct. 2008
Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.
S. M. STIRLING, The Sunrise Lands
Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who ... have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.
DAN SIMMONS, The Fall of Hyperion
The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher — a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, This Side of Paradise
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, attributed, The Paradox of Power
When one sheep leads the way all the rest follow.
There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.
WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
That's what leadership is all about, identifying quality people, giving them the opportunity and experience to create and develop to continue to make the company successful. The best leaders identify and mentor potential leaders. A leader's most important legacy is the leaders he or she develops.
KENNETH E. STRONG & JOHN A. DICICCO, Leadership Is a Choice
Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk.
JOHN C. MAXWELL, Leadership Gold
Leadership is not just the province of people at the top. Leadership can occur at all levels and by any individual. In fact, we see that it is important for leaders to develop leadership in those below them.
BERNARD M. BASS & RONALD E. RIGGIO, Transformational Leadership
Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.
JOHN C. MAXWELL, Leadership Gold
The first act of leadership is coming to grips with yourself, who you are, where you are, and what is of value to you, and shaping yourself by acts of conscious will into what you want to become.
FENWICK W. ENGLISH, The Art of Educational Leadership
Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations.
JOHN C. MAXWELL, Leadership Gold
Leadership is not the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It is a process ordinary people use when they are bringing forth the best from themselves and others. When the leader in everyone is liberated extraordinary things happen.
JAMES M. KOUZES & BARRY Z. POSNER, The Leadership Challenge
Leadership is the readiness to stand out in a crowd.
JOHN C. MAXWELL, Leadership Gold
Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.
ALAN KEITH, attributed, The Leadership Challenge
Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.
JOHN C. MAXWELL, Leadership Gold
At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.
DAVID GERGAN, Eyewitness to Power
Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many.
JOHN C. MAXWELL, Leadership Gold
Life is the leader's laboratory, and exemplary leaders use it to conduct as many experiments as possible. Try, fail, learn. Try, fail, learn. Try, fail, learn. That's the leader's mantra. Leaders are learners. They learn from their failures as well as their successes, and they make it possible for others to do the same.
JAMES M. KOUZES & BARRY Z. POSNER, The Leadership Challenge
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
PETER F. DRUCKER, attributed, The Fundamentals of Leadership
Leadership is the dream made reality.
JOHN C. MAXWELL, Leadership Gold
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