Collection of famous leadership quotes.

"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." - Jim Rohn

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. - Warren G. Bennis

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. - Vince Lombardi

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. - James Callaghan

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out - Stephen R. Covey

Leading is the result of using one's role and leadership ability to influence others in some way. - Robert Dilts

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. - Harold S. Geneen

You manage things; you lead people. - Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

Real leaders forever need bigger and more irresistible challenges. - Mark Victor Hansen

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. - Sam Walton

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward

Leadership is often about going first and influencing others as much by one's actions as by one's word. - Robert Dilt

Fundamental to putting things first in our lives is leadership before management. - Stephen R. Covey

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. - Harvey S. Firestone

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. - Rosalynn Carter

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. - Marian Anderson

The behavior of a leader is a critical factor in determining overall leadership effectiveness. - Stephen P. Robbins

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. - Ray Kroc

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. - Ralph Nader

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out - Stephen R. Covey

Education is the mother of leadership. - Wendell L. Willkie

Catching people doing things right is a powerful management concept. - Ken Blanchard

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams

I've made the points that leaders under pressure must keep themselves absolutely clean morally (the relativism of the social sciences will never do). They must lead by example, must be able to implant high-mindedness in their followers, must have competence beyond status, and must have earned their followers respect by demonstrating integrity. - Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale

A leader has the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold Glasow

Delegation of authority is one of the most important functions of a leader, and he should delegate authority to the maximum degree possible with regard to the capabilities of his people. Once he has established policy, goals, and priorities, the leader accomplishes his objectives by pushing authority right down to the bottom. Doing so trains people to use their initiative; not doing so stifles creativity and lowers moral. - Admiral Thomas H. Moorer

Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away. - Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale

People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing, A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential. - John Porter

There are two kinds of courage, physical and moral, and he who would be a true leader must have both. Both are the products of the character-forming process, of the development of self-control, self-discipline, physical endurance, of knowledge of one's job and, therefore, of confidence. These qualities minimize fear and maximize sound judgment under pressure and - with some of that indispensable stuff called luck - often bring success from seemingly hopeless situations. - General Matthew B. Ridgway

Issuing orders is worth about 10 percent. The remaining 90 percent consists in assuring proper and vigorous execution of the order. - General George S. Patton Jr

If a manager is really willing to listen, he or she will find that the average employee is loaded with ideas, most of which the manager can allow the person to try. So the first step toward innovation is getting into the habit of listening. The second is getting into the habit of letting your employees try to do their work in slightly different ways. - Tom Peters

Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter. - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles. - Scott Raymond Adams

Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves. - Herman Cain

An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager. - Bob Nelson

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. - Lee Iacocca

Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. - George Van Valkenburg.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. - Tom Landry

Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things. - Stephen Covey

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. - Henry A. Kissinger

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. - Russell H. Ewing

You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else. - Zig Ziglar

Leadership is about magnetic communication. Leaders have a way of communicating that draws people toward the vision, and the horizon. - Doug Firebaugh

A leader cannot raise a people's self esteem by placing himself above them - Author Unknown

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. - Jim Rohn

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. - Arnold H. Glasgow

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. - Christian Nevell Bovee

People don't follow leaders, they follow courage. - Braveheart

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there. - John Kotter

I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a "transformer" in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader. - Stephen R. Covey

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