Best leadership & true-leadership Quotes

“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.”

Source: The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success

“A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.”

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Author:Charles de Gaulle

“True leadership strengthens the followers. It is a process of teaching, setting an example, and empowering others. If you seek to lead, your ability will ultimately be measured in the successes of those around you.”

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Book:Simple secrets of success: what scientists have learned and how you can use it

Source: Simple secrets of success: what scientists have learned and how you can use it

“True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Governor Sanders showed true leadership and character by supporting civil rights for all during a time when many were not, His lasting positive impact on our state will be felt by many future generations of Georgians.”

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Author:Nathan Deal

“The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.”

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Book:The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“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.”

“That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”

Source: The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success

“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.”

“Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.”

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Author:Jesse Jackson

“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.”

“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 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

“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

“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”

“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.”

“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

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

“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.”

“Jesus said several times, “Come, follow me.” His was a program of “do what I do,” rather than “do what I say.” His innate brilliance would have permitted him to put on a dazzling display, but that would have left his followers far behind. He walked and worked with those he was to serve. His was not a long-distance leadership. He was not afraid of close friendships; he was not afraid that proximity to him would disappoint his followers. The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.”

Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“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.”

“True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.”

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Author:Sheri L. Dew

“A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”

Source: The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow

“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.”

“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”

“You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.”

“Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

“The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.”

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Book:The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.”

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Author:Andre Malraux

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

Source: Politics

“When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.”

“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.”

“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”

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Author:Ovid

“Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.”

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Book:Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings

Source: Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings

“Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.”

“What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”

“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”

“Leadership is defined by results not attributes.”

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