Leadership Quotes

Leadership Quotes

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. Publilius Syrus

 

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.  Warren Bennis

 

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” John F. Kennedy

 

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”  Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder

 

 The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. Kenneth Blanchard

 

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. Max Lucado

 

 Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. Chinese Proverb

 

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

 

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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

Leadership Quotes

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. Arnold Glasow

 

If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.  Jim Rohn

 

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

 

“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”  John Maxwell

 

 Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. —Jack Welch

 

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

 

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

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“Leaders instill in their people a hope for success and a belief in themselves. Positive leaders empower people to accomplish their goals.” Unknown

 

 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

 

“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

 

 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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

“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

 

“The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action — an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign — even as the rest of the world wonders why you’re not marching in step with the status quo. In other words, real leaders are happy to zig while others zag. They understand that in an era of hyper-competition and non-stop disruption, the only way to stand out from the crowd is to stand for something special.”
Bill Taylor

 

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