L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Leadership can't be claimed like luggage at the airport. Leadership can't be inherited, even though you may inherit a leadership position. And leadership can't be given as a gift - even if you've been blessed with an abundance of leadership skills to share with someone else. Leadership must be earned by mastering a defined set of skills and by working with others to achieve common goals.”
“Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.”
“Leadership can't be forced or contrived. It has to be your personality.”
“Leadership cannot be entrusted to those who fear accountability. It requires a lot of responsibility.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.”
“Leadership comes by the example you set through your work. It begins from the way you are perceived as a worker and the respect that comes with it.”
“Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.”
“Leadership comes with consistency.”
“Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.”
Source: High Technology and Human Freedom
“Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.”
Source: High Technology and Human Freedom
“Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.”
“Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.”
“Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.”
“Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.”
“Leadership crisis erupt when people who have not learnt how to obey instructions are given the privilege to give commands. Leaders are experienced servants.”
“Leadership deals with people and their dynamics, which are continually changing. The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.”
“Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.”
Source: Tools to Change Your Organization: The Change Leadership Collection (2 Books)
“Leadership demands that we make tough choices.”
“Leadership development is a lifetime journey, not a quick trip.”
“Leadership development is about helping people grow, and if I can get people as individuals growing, then I've got a company that grows.”
“Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.”
Source: Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings
“Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.”
“Leadership does not begin when one is elected for a leadership role. It begins way before. It is not an instant event. It requires intense preparation.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“Leadership does not depend on being right.”
“Leadership does not exist to make individuals shine throughout. It is also required when things go well and when they do not.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“Leadership does not know gender. Gender knows leadership.”
“Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders lead by example, not by decree.”
Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
“Leadership does not mean domination.”
“Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.”
“Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.”
“Leadership doesn’t come from titles, it comes from tending to your own wounds and still choosing to lift others.”
“Leadership doesn't come from age.”
“Leadership doesn't mean giving marching orders that others must follow blindly. Rather, it means causing others to want to follow. Successful leadership is personal.”
“Leadership embodies a spirit of encouragement. It is difficult to lead people where they are not enthusiastically encouraged to go.”
“Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful pursuit of goals.”
“Leadership entails the ability to inspire others to reach their full potential, fostering a collective vision, and empowering them to create a better tomorrow.”
“Leadership excellence means that you must be accepted as a leader, not forcing yourself upon those you lead. Outside of formal authority, it takes trust for people to accept your leadership. Proven consistent leadership choices and results will earn you invaluable points of trust.”
Source: Making Success Deliberate
“Leadership exists when people are no longer victims of circumstances but participate in creating new circumstances. Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding of the world. Ultimately, leadership is about creating new realities.”
“Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.”
“Leadership for me is more about doing. Not in our talk, but in our actions, we demonstrate leadership.”
“Leadership from the Oval Office - and sustained, effective use of the bully pulpit - is essential to getting the American people off their too-pampered butts and into meeting successfully the long-haul challenges of fixing major problems in the very fabric of our republic's life, both domestically and in our international relations.”
“Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.”
“Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility - toughness for accountability - flexibility to adapt changes with a compassionate & caring heart for self and others.”
Source: Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
“Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility.”
“Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.”
“Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.”
“Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.”
Source: Developing The Leader Within You Lunch & Learn
“Leadership has never been an exact science. But it has always found itself particularly challenged when tasked with elevating one segment of a society onto a level more politically, socially, and economically equitable with another.”
Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
“Leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions.”
“Leadership has two legs, integrity of heart and the skillfulness of hands”