Best leadership & greatest-leadership Quotes

“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”

“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.”

“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.”

“Leaders are not born, they're made.”

“The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.”

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success”

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

Source: The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“Power isn't control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.”

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Book:Across the Universe

Source: Across the Universe

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.”

“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.”

“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”

Source: Chronicles of the Cross Collection

“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.”

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”

Source: Developing the Leader Within You

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

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Author:John Quincy Adams

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

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Author:Ralph Nader

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

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Author:George S. Patton

“Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.”

“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.”

Source: My American Journey

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

“Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.”

Source: Managing People is Like Herding Cats

“To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”

“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

“A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.”

“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

Book:Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr

Source: Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.”

“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.”

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.”

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Author:John Steinbeck

“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”

Source: Managing the Non-Profit Organization

“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

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Author:John C. Maxwell

“The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.”

Source: My American Journey

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.”

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