Powerful leadership quotes

Powerful leadership quotes

1. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. —the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
2. A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them. M.D. Arnold
3. 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
4. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. —John C. Maxwell
5. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. —Max Lucado
6. Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. James Freeman Clark
7. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. —Eleanor Roosevelt
9. Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. George Patton
10. Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. —Donald Rumsfeld
11. Earn your leadership every day. —Michael Jordan
12. Education is the mother of leadership. —Wendell Willkie
13. Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. Albert Schweitzer
14. Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they’re doing it. Marillyn Hewson
15. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people. —Mahatma Gandhi
16. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. —Maya Angelou
17. If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. Jim Rohn
18. If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
19. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. —John Quincy Adams
20. In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock. —Thomas Jefferson
21. 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
22. Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else—through hard work. —Vince Lombardi
23. Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. —John C. Maxwell
24. Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. —Warren Bennis
25. Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. —Brian Tracy
26. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. —John F. Kennedy
27. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. —Woodrow Wilson
28. Leadership is an action, not a position. —Donald McGannon
29. Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another. John C. Maxwell
30. Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. —Harold S. Geneen
31. Leadership is the capacity to translate a vision into reality. —Warren Bennis
32. Leadership is the key to 99% of all successful efforts. —Erskine Bowles
33. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. —Bill Bradley
34. Learning is not a one-time event or a periodic luxury. Great leaders in great companies recognize that the ability to constantly learn, innovate, and improve is vital to their success. Amy Edmondson
35. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. —Tom Peters
36. Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things. —Peter Drucker
37. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success. Leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. —Stephen Covey
38. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. —Bernard Baruch
39. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. —Abraham Lincoln
40. 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
41. One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. —Arnold H. Glasow
42. Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. —Theodore Roosevelt
44. People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. —Thomas Sowell
45. The art of communication is the language of leadership. —James Humes
46. The art of leadership is saying ‘no,’ not saying ‘yes.’ It is very easy to say ‘yes.’ —Tony Blair
47. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. —Max DePree
48. The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful. —Jon Taffer
49. The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. —Ken Blanchard
50. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. —Harvey S. Firestone
51. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. —Ken Blanchard
52. The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. —Sir Winston Churchill
53. The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. —Ray Kroc
54. The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. —Henry Kissinger
55. The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. —James Buchanan
56. 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. —Theodore Hesburgh
57. There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage. —Chan Master Fuchan Yuan
58. There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust. Klaus Balkenhol
59. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. —David Joseph Schwartz
60. To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult. —Friedrich Nietzsche
61. Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. —Margaret Fuller
62. Where there is no vision, there is no hope. —George Washington Carver
63. You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. William Falkner
64. You don’t manage people, you manage things. You lead people. —Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
65. You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart. —An Wang