Leadership Quotes

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Leadership is something you earn, something you're chosen for. You can't come in yelling, 'I'm your leader!' If it happens, it's because the other guys respect you.

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for

Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization.

And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.

What should a brand leader advertise?Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.

Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.

As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves

Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.

We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.

Doing the right thing isn't always easy - in fact, sometimes it's real hard - but just remember that doing the right thing is always right.

Men die the way they lived.

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

Ronald Reagan?wasn't without leadership ability, but he lacked most of the management skills that a President needs. But let me give him his due: he would have made a hell of a king.

True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

The race for excellence has no finish line.

A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.

Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited!

Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.

You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.

We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.

You don't have to be rich to be generous. You have to be generous to be generous.

A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.

Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples.

Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way.

To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.

Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don’t know where you are going, your leadership doesn’t matter.

Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.