The Power of Leadership Quotes: Inspiring and Motivating Your Journey
Leadership quotes have the remarkable ability to inspire, motivate, and guide individuals on their journey towards becoming effective leaders. These concise and thought-provoking statements offer nuggets of wisdom from renowned leaders and thinkers, encapsulating valuable insights and lessons learned from their experiences. Incorporating leadership quotes into your personal or professional life can yield numerous benefits and foster growth in various ways.
- Inspiration and Motivation: Leadership quotes have the power to ignite a fire within individuals, inspiring them to reach for greatness and push beyond their limits. When faced with challenges or setbacks, reading or reflecting on impactful leadership quotes can provide the necessary motivation to persevere and stay focused on their goals.
- Insight and Perspective: Leadership quotes often distill complex leadership principles into simple yet profound statements. They offer unique perspectives on leadership qualities, styles, and strategies. By internalizing these insights, individuals can broaden their understanding of effective leadership, gain fresh perspectives, and expand their leadership toolkit.
- Learning from Role Models: Many leadership quotes come from accomplished leaders who have made significant contributions in various fields. By studying their quotes, individuals can learn from the experiences and wisdom of these role models. These quotes encapsulate the essence of their leadership philosophies, providing valuable guidance on how to navigate challenges, inspire teams, and drive positive change.
- Communication and Influence: Effective leaders possess strong communication skills and the ability to inspire and influence others. Incorporating relevant leadership quotes into speeches, presentations, or written materials can enhance communication effectiveness. Quotes serve as powerful tools to convey messages concisely, capture attention, and reinforce key points, making a lasting impact on the audience.
- Personal Growth and Reflection: Leadership quotes encourage introspection and self-reflection. By pondering the meaning behind these quotes and relating them to personal experiences, individuals can gain deeper insights into their own leadership style, strengths, and areas for improvement. This self-awareness facilitates personal growth and empowers individuals to become more effective and authentic leaders.
- Shared Wisdom and Connection: Leadership quotes are often shared and discussed among individuals aspiring to grow as leaders. Engaging in conversations about these quotes creates a sense of community, allowing individuals to exchange perspectives, share experiences, and learn from one another. This shared wisdom fosters connection, collaboration, and the development of a supportive network.
Incorporating leadership quotes into daily life can be as simple as reading a quote each morning, writing them in a journal, or sharing them with colleagues and team members. By harnessing the power of these quotes, individuals can unlock their leadership potential, inspire others, and make a positive impact in their personal and professional spheres.
A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see and who sees before others see.
– Leroy Eimes
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Alexander the Great
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
Don’t follow the crowd. Let the crowd follow you.
Margaret Thatcher
The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
Padmasree Warrior
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.
Brian Tracy
It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.
Roy T. Bennett
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
Benjamin Disraeli
A leader should be visionary and have more foresight than an employee.
Jack Ma
It’s okay to admit what you don’t know. It’s okay to ask for help. And it’s more than okay to listen to the people you lead – in fact, it’s essential.
Mary Barra
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy T. Bennett
You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Ken Kesey
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
Ronald Reagan
You manage things; you lead people.
Grace Murray Hopper
Great leaders do not desire to lead but to serve.
Myles Munroe
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration — of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.
Lance Secretan
Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
Roy T. Bennett
If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.
All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Gen
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
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
I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job.
Darwin E. Smith
You don’t need a title to be a leader.
Unknown
It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.
J.K. Rowling
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
Henry Ford
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren Bennis
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John Maxwell
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
General Dwight Eisenhower
You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Roy T. Bennett
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
President John
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Thomas Aquinas
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
General George Patton
If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.
Jim Rohn
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence, and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
Sheryl Sandberg
Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led.
Ross Perot
Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.
Roy T. Bennett
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Dr. Seuss
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
Jack Welch
A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will all say: We did it ourselves.
Lao-Tzu
Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.
Mary D. Poole
Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.
Roy T. Bennett
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes.
John Erskine
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
My own definition of leadership is this: the capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.
General Montgomery
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
John C. Maxwell
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.
Michelangelo
The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
George Orwell
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.
J. P. Morgan
Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. ‘Here, open it, it’s perfect. You’ll love it.’ Opportunities – the good ones – are messy, confusing and hard to recognize. They’re risky. They challenge you.
Susan Wojcicki
Earn your leadership every day.
Michael Jordan
Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don’t forget to lift someone up.
Roy T. Bennett
President Ronald Reagan
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
Thomas Sowell
A person who is happy is not because everything is right in his life, He is happy because his attitude towards everything in his life is right.
Sundar Pichai
One of the criticisms I’ve faced over the years is that I’m not aggressive enough or assertive enough or maybe somehow, because I’m empathetic, it means I’m weak. I totally rebel against that. I refuse to believe that you cannot be both compassionate and strong.
Jacinda Ardern
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
William Arthur Ward
I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.
John Hume
My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.
General Montgomery
Integrity, insight, and inclusiveness are the three essential qualities of leadership.
Sadhguru
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born—that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Warren Bennis
Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.
John C. Maxwell
If you have a strong purpose in life, you don’t have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.
Roy T. Bennett
Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
Margaret Thatcher
Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
George Washington Carver
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.
Peter Drucker
It doesn’t matter when we start.
Simon Sinek
It doesn’t matter where we start.
All that matters is that we start.Simon Sinek
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.
Brian Tracy
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
If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.
Marie Lu
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.
Ronald Reagan
In fair weather prepare for foul.
Thomas Fuller
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
As we look ahead to the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.
M.D. Arnold
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
Thomas Jefferson
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
Sir Winston Churchill
Leadership is not a popularity contest; it’s about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.
Robin S. Sharma
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Muriel Strode
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
I don’t care if you’re black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you. Simple as that.
Robert Michaels MD
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment and it comes with plenty of failure along the way.
Barack Obama
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Warren Bennis
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie
A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius
What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
Stephen Covey
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Arnold H. Glasow
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux
If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself, and the organization gets pulled up with you.
Indra Nooyi
Leadership is the ability to guide others without force into a direction or decision that leaves them still feeling empowered and accomplished.
Lisa Cash Hanson
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Peter Drucker
It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
Adlai E
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality.
Warren G. Bennis
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
Roy E. Disney
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
Aristotle
For the success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organizations as well as industries.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Leadership is not a person or a position. It is a complex moral relationship between people based on trust, obligation, commitment, emotion, and a shared vision of the good.
Joanne Ciulla
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Thomas Paine
To lead people, walk beside them. As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence … When the best leader’s work is done, the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!
Lao Tzu
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
George W. Bush
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.
Brian Tracy
Leadership is a choice, not a position.
Stephen Covey
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Maya Angelou
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
Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
Margaret Thatcher
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes
Peter Drucker
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
J. Donald Walters
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
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
Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.
Roy T. Bennett
In order to remain relevant, you must establish yourself as a thought leader in your industry.
Marc Benioff
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger
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.
Sam Walton
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus
A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate, we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.
Nelson Mandela
You have to look at your career and personal life at the big-picture level: it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Doing that helps me feel OK during the weeks when one part of my life overwhelms the other.
Joanna Horsnail
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.
― Steve Jobs
Leadership should be focused on extending the ladder of opportunity for everyone.
Justin Trudeau
Earn your leadership every day.
Michael Jordan
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Ray Kroc
A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves and lead them to their highest potential they don’t even know.
Roy T. Bennett
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.
Jim Rohn
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
Ronald Reagan
A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t.
Jack Ma
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
John Buchan
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
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 conclude you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell
Education is the mother of leadership.
Wendell Willkie
Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George Patton
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
― John Maxwell
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
Dalai Lama
Make sure you’re not just waiting for someone else to fix things, or hoping that things will improve … Figure out what’s going on and make a plan to improve things.
Kenneth W. Thomas
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
Tom Peters
Leadership is influence
John C. Maxwell
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.
Peter F. Drucker
You are never too small to make a difference.
Greta Thunberg
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention, and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
Edward de Bono
If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.
Dr Roopleen
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
Bill Clinton
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Gen. George S. Patton
Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
Bo Bennett
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?
Ayn Rand
Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.
Brian Tracy
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.
Bernard Branson
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
Oscar Wilde
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
James Cash Penney
Men make history and not the other way around. 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
Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.
Brian Tracy.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Swope
The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders, and continually develops them.
John Maxwell
Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.
Orrin Woodward
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
It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
Queen Elizabeth II
The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.
Albert Einstein
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
James Cash Penney
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
John Maxwell
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.
Dolly Parton
People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.
Anna Wintour
Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth.
Bill Bradley
It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is you get up one more time than you were knocked down.
Roy T. Bennett
Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.
Oprah Winfrey
If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.
Benjamin Hooks
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucker
Leaders are made; they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price that all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Vince Lombardi
Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.
Sara Blakely
A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.
Simon Sinek
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.
Dolly Parton
Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
Melinda Gates
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
Sam Rayburn
Example is leadership.
Albert Schweitzer
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.
Reverend Theodore Hesburgh
You need a commitment that is long-term and a commitment to leadership because that’s the only way you build excellence.
Azim Premji
Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
Bill Bradley
If you always put a limit on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Bruce Lee
What you stay focused on will grow.
Roy T. Bennett
Find the smartest people you can and surround yourself with them.
Marissa Meyer
You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership.
D. Eisenhower
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
E. Joseph Cossman
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Kenneth Blanchard
Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.
Oprah Winfrey
Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.
Margaret Wheatley
As a leader, you should always start with where people are before you try to take them where you want them to go.
Jim Rohn
Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.
Tina Fey
If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.
Brad Szollose
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher
A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
Polybius
Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.
Steve Jobs
As a leader, it’s a major responsibility on your shoulders to practice the behavior you want others to follow.
Himanshu Bhatia
Leaders set high standards. refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.
Brian Tracy
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.
Beth Revis
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
John C. Maxwell
A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
John Maxwell
You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
Jeff Bezos
A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.
Stephen King
Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.
Brian Tracy
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
Douglas MacArthur
Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.
Richard Branson
