Leadership Quotes

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

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.

Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Who then is the greatest leader? The one who has served the most.

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.

But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is.

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

He who thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk. Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated.

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.

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

The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build nations.

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.

What helps people, helps business.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Dedicate yourself to a core set of values. Without them, you will never be able to find personal fulfillment, and you will never be able to lead effectively.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.

As much as 80% of adult "success" comes from EQ.

Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.

We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.

I know I am only one, but I am one, and just because I'm one should not stop me from

We had the opposition of virtually the entire Democratic leadership in every state in this country.

Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

Earn your leadership every day.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk.

I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.

The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

Satan will try to use our troubles to worry and weaken us. But God uses them to strengthen us.

No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more inspiring role model than a man who respects and cherishes women and champions their leadership.

In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.

Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.