Leadership Quotes

Leadership comes by the example you set through your work. It begins from the way you are perceived as a worker and the respect that comes with it.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life

There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees

Your job gives you authority. Your behavior gives you respect

Leaders don't rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits; they make every day a masterpiece.

30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.

It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.

Ancient wisdom offers . . . a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.'

It's never crowded along the extra mile.

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

This is the only leadership life I get, my one and only shot at following God the way I feel him prompting me to do so. This isn't some pre-game warm-up. It's the game, and the clock is ticking!

There's all kind of vision in this Book. Just open it up and your people will follow.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain.

Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Leadership is about coping with change

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

I don't think that I'm embracing any kind of leadership for transparency or trans advocacy.

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.

I came out to beat everybody in sight, and that's just what I'm going to do.

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.

What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of the many unsung Women Sheroes of past and present.

The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.

Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.

Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.

The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.

A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!