Leadership Quotes

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.

I became the leader because of my father's leadership and I was considered as powerful as same as my own father.

The price of LEADERSHIP is RESPONSIBILITY....and part of that responsibility is to STAY POSITIVE whether you feel like it or not.

The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows.

Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it.

Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.

Some leaders are born women.

In a climate of uncertainty and fear, without strong and visionary leadership, people panic.

Less isn't more; just enough is more.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved

But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict

The best leaders don’t know just one style of leadership—they’re skilled at several, and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the circumstances dictate.

Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.

One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.

The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child's world.

Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.

If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.

To succeed in life, we must stay within our strength zone but continually move outside our comfort zone.

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.

We can grow economically and restore America's leadership in the world, so that everybody has a chance to rise up.

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

True #leadership isn't the bastion of a few who sit at the top ... We all need to step up, take the risk and put our interests second-not always-but when it counts.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy; forceful execution of even a poor plan can often bring victory.

I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.

Appearances matter — and remember to smile.

There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

True leadership is when you are willing to risk your power and voice so that all of ours can be heard.

Leadership means realizing potential-in yourself and in the people you lead.... The leader and followers cocreate their identities and performance.

Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.