Leadership Quotes

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.

I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

The only thing that counts is your dedication to the game. You run on your own fuel; it comes from within you.

Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.

All you can do is all you can do, but all you can do is enough.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

God may not allow you to touch thousands but He may allow you to touch one who will touch thousands.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.

Unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency results.

If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people.

Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.

Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

It's true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.

Creativity is the depth of the honesty you express towards your possibility.

Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Trust is the essence of Leadership.

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can't be achieved alone.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

What is the next thing you need for leadership? It is the ability to make up your mind to make a decision and accept full responsibility for that decision.

The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.

Until you start thinking right, you will never start behaving right. Repentance always deals with the changing of the mind.

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

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.